Show WVIVMIMVI rage 4 A § w EDITORIAL PAGE And here we all are Ford's fantasyland August 9 of 1974 the United States inherited a new president with the resignation of Richard Nixon and the coronation of Mr Gerald Ford formerly of Grand Rapids Michigan When Mr his reign he promised his fellow Americans that he would do his best to bring the executive branch of the government back to respectability after the Watergate fiasco He also said that he to the office that had no intentions of seeking 10 in As fell his months earlier just you remember lap House Minority Leader just a from Grand Rapids But this past summer Ford renigged on his word and announced however informally that he fully intends to seek his first election to the presidency with a campaign committee soliciting funds and organizing campaignjunkets for him across the US So have ambitions-wil- l travel And travel he has As is common knowledge it was bn one of these trips that Lynnette Fromme attempted futily to assassinate him in Sacramento and an attempt was made on his life in San Francisco If either of these attempts would have been successful or if the is the country n would be with it's second consecutive president Nelson Rockefeller But all of this could have been avoided and still could be for one thing-ou- r chief executive would have kept his word in the first place to the American people and stayed in Washington doing the everyday ordinary and uneventful duties of the President of the United States But instead he goes running around the country campaigning for himself and every other Republican that's laying his political life on the line Remember the day he spent the week following Fromme's misfire campaigning for republican senatorial candidate Louis Wyman? Well Ford could just as well spent that day wasting his time mulling over some trivial domestic problem because Wyman lost to John Durkin rather handily So why doesn't Ford just do his job he was chosen for? Affer all nobody with the exception of one soul asked him to do it I'm sure his aides could find enough work for him to do right at home On Ford-assume- re-electi- on he-wa-s mild-mannere- d full-tim- e For some reason as I returned to campus this year it seemed that craziness is rampant Hous- ing registration parking classes and all the same old problems seemed to have exploded showering us with tons of pucka As I wandered about the campus I heard stories of increased book prices and apartments that are out of sight Things like Pauline Summers locking herself out of her room by unbunking her beds and putting a chest of draws in the room Not to mention the large number of people who are sleeping in the park or up the canyon It seems that the most unlikely people are living in the wildest places in fact I heard that Bill Gentry and Danye Goodwin are trying to talk Frank Coates into letting them move in with him You can also be assured that the rumor that President Taggart was renting out his basement was Jittle more than a freshman razzing But the joke did get our of hand when juniors and seniors started showing up and demanding seniority rights The fact that many of the Student Life staff is sleeping in their offices is not due to loyality I would go into more details but I have to get back to my apartment to put a chainlink fence around my bed So all I can do is wish you luck with your books (that you can never seem to sell back) and your classes (That you never seem to be able to get) and parking ) and last but not (which well least of our own b mggling bunch of boobies the “Adi frustration”? Well you can always pray Lovingly Frank Coats nexi-perso- non-electe- d Doug McCulloch Managing Editor FRANKLY SPEAKING by phil frank Editorial Editor Pauline Summers Managing Editor Doug McCulloch News Editor Kent Perry Sports Editor Steve Stout Entertainment Editor KirrvDopp Features Editor Lea Cottam Reporters: Sue Hodgson Lila Cooley Dave Howell Frank Coats Cindy Ford Linda Perry Photographers: Sue Hodgson Business: Business Manager Steve Leggett Secretary Kimi Eyre Salesman Cheri Powers File Clerk Maggie Leicht ’'WERE GOES ' MO THESE PATTY HEARTS QJEZ ©COLLEGE MEDIA SERVICES BOX 941 1 BERKELEY CA 947C9 it I n V ” f t ’ |