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Show 14 A Sit The Pulitzer Winner at USU Rituals 4. 1972 Laic Tribune, Serin? , C miiiiuu-- I rom rae One Taggart spk . . . But Let Him Speak ' i KsA I- .'w - . t pt ' " ' T i ,;: - ? - ef Mr rr , i-- h, " ; .1 f ' 7- ? 2" m V m JC & TV; --W1J X V? :P 1 Laugh at him, debac him, dery him but let him speak, for if you don't, you open the veins of your own Dr. Stegner said. freedom, He told the students that the aims of their lives is conduct which involves a personal code of peisonal ethics and an obligation of personal integrity. There are things that are too cheap, oi too for a good dishonest, or too man to do. Know what they are, he said. V.ere Built Like an Atom We are built like an atom, as a matof fact, and we bnmbaid oui selves with a constant election strear of questioning and dissent. An elder can suggest ! $'. v i"v 7'j47r2 tV V M rtT'T"'', -- r.Stv.-r.ia 7V V 'rinrHL --&- & & J 4 M f C. 7 Ii rvr f . f4 , f &0 J j& '7 " ' $&&, '' 4 " eAjssgss. I'tah State Universitys 2,Gt graduating students listen as Wallace E. Stegner, author and ;,. W- - ,1. d3P aw , to you what the nucleus contains, and tell you somewhat reluctantly that even the nucleus is open to bombardment. Go ahead and bombard it, and see what particles you can knock off, but understand that you bomuard the nucleus at your own risk. That is where, if lies our unity as a people, and our hope, and it is not to be attacked any-whei- e, ... ... the as examples the Civil Wj draft riots, nineteenth century religious revivals and of tlie Young activities 1930s. the League r; Communist lews the Drug Scene He said the drug scene reproduces many o. the confrontations and even experiments that the Prohibition yeais produced. Just to comfort contemporary part me confess that m Salt Lake ents, City in the 1920s I knew bovs who tried a mixture of gasoline and milk because they beard it was intoxicating, and others who Habitually put ether in home brew because the knew it was intoxicating. Some of them survived to be parents, he said. Dr. Stegner is a graduate of the University of Utah. He iecalled prior to the ceremonies Saturday that during his student days at the university i was a sports writer for The Salt Lake Tribune. Nixon to Announce Connally Trip ter - of s. In concluding his address Dr. Stegner again reminded the graduates of the nucleus of aw that guarantees Americans the right to express them wills. vim Ek president, members ld ... rr-- USU USU Institutional Council, representatives cf the Utah $ta,e Board of riigtet the Education and university faculty foi the who students 2,06 procession were to leceive their degrees. During the program the university awarded five honorary doctoral degrees. They v me presented to Mr. Stegner, Lee S. Bickmore, chairman and chief executive officer of National Siscuit Co. ; Samuel A. Goudsmit, winner of the Max Planck PiedM of the German Physical Society; X. D. Salisbury, r" tired Logan b nker, mid Janies M. Stone, vice president of Thiokol Chemical Corp. and manager of its Wasatch Division. In developing his theme. Dr. Stegner noted that America has a history of dissent fads and counter-fadA lot of tilings the lauiCaL of 1972 think they invented are as historical and as American as the profit motive or the Congregational Church, he said, ciung .ii pm. e, even iiip most body o repulsive demagogue, is mote ptecious man your right r.ot to be olfendcd. If he the fre marketplace of is wrorg ideas will repudiate h.m lightly, he said. Dr. Stegners address was preceded by procession from USUs Old Main to th Spectrum auditorium. Dr. Glen L. - KEY BISCAYNE, FLA. (AP) President Xixon is planning to announce shortly a traveling mission for former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally that will include stops in Latin America, it was learned Saturday. One of the places Connally will visit is Brazil, sources indicated. No details were available yet, but the trip seemed to be what Xixon had in mind when he announced Connailys departure from his Cabinet last month with the hint that there would be another assignment for the highly regal ded Texan after the Moscow summit trip. Connally has been vague about hts plans since he resigned from the post as Treasury secretary, amid rumors that he planned to engage in some election campaign politics nationally or in his home state. It was expected that the White House would soon make the announcement of Conaliys newest assignment from the President. educator, states lifes aim is not behaior but conduct based on code of ethics and integrity. Respect Other Points of Vieyv, U. Graduates Told By Former U.S. Aide at Commencement Rites field they put sue. She said, though, that ttie day of mass movement in America is rapidly drawing to a close. I wonder if the time for the mass movement apptouch to social change isnt past, she muse. Can it be that we have leached an era of mote seaich-in- g and lasting change in which all of us as individuals participate tn the struggle for human tights?' She urged the graduates to live lives Healthy in Long Run of usefulness to themeves and society. 7 hue decry ing U.S. invoh enient in Involvement is exhilarating, she said. Vietnam, Mrs, Petetson, nevertheless, She spoke of her philosophy which had hoied disillusionment with the experiguided her thiough her experiences; ence would be healthy m the long run. Adhere to pt inciple tempered with a has made us question out selves realization that the use of compromise she viid our values as never befote, may in the long run permit greater progsaid. At the same time, we ate ques- ress, a desire to get involved and a politioning our sacred institutions religion, cy of flexibility. bUsiness. even the family." Ligtng the graduates to keep flexible. Mrs. Peters spoke against tose who Thiow youtseif Petetson added, Mis as ajlack the system by violent means, wotk at hand, but be leady to the into well as those who drop out of society. change if you outgiow it or if you find "Attacking the system or withdrawing another soil of put suit will use your that of the from it iitent these two sides abilities mote fully. same coin? slip said. Fiankly, I see no She said tins is a day of personal individual the between difference gpaat of fulfilling the potential of huhope who refuses to throw himself into the of better understandman relationships, his of for fear heritage losrng process of pleasute in how children grow, ing n w selfish his to ou one ho it uses and the the work, the end cf sliatp distinctions bemakes eitds one's withdiawaf tween work and play. others acts possible. Most important, She told the graduates to expect great perhaps we can move towaid a society in which each lippe and opportunity, no matter what Continued From Page One Ml s. Peterson, now consumer adviser for Giant Food, Inc., a Washington, D C. tplsed supermarket chain, said. We were forced to see the Jilentnm experienced by black Amei leans, she uQitinued. We began to realize that poverty is largely inherited. (But) what hurt mjst of all. in the eatlv G(ls we stumbled into the war in Vietnam. 'It human being feels needed and useful in some way, she said. Mrs. Peterson quoted from Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3, which says, To eveiy thing theie is a season, and a time to eveiy purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to weep, and a time to heal a time to love, d time to laugh and a time to hate; a time of war and a time of peace. persons, selected by the University Institutional Council, were given honorary degrees during the 103rd commencement services. The recipients wsie, in addition to Six erffi FREE! CUSTOM MADE DRAPERIES Mrs. Peterson, Dr. Obert C. Tanner, University professor of philosophy and local business, and civic leader; Mrs. Belle Smith Spafford, general president of the Relief Society, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints; Dr. Leo T. Samuels, piofessor emeritus of biological chemistry: Dr. Wendell Phillips, scholar, auand, thor, archaeologist Shotaro Kamiya, piesident of the Nagoya (Japan) Boadcasting Co., and president of Toyota Motor Sales Company Ltd. Distinguished teaching and research professorship awards also were given. Selections were based upon the advice of a student-facult- y and recommendations relations committee. The six men cited Were Dr. Harold Bauman, associate professor of history; Dr. Gerasim Tikoff, associate professor of internal medicine; Dr. Robert K. Vickery Jr., professor of biology; D. Jack H. Adamson, professor of English ; Dr John D. Spikes, professor of biology, and Dr. Milton E. Wadsworth, professor of metallurgy and metallurgical engineering. with your purctaM of 35 sq. yds. of carpet or more, wo will custom drape your window up to 7 foot wide, fREE. Pay only 3.95 per yard for additional yardage if reeded. All Labor f mol FREE! FREE! Las Vegas Vacation a 3 days and 3 nights for 3 persons in luxurious Las Vegas given with each purchase of 35 sq. yds. or more of carpeting! y Largest Class Speaking briefly to the audience. Dr., Alfred C. Emety, university president, noted that the 1972 class is the largest We aie giving graduating class ever. 3.26-- t degrees, molding 784 masters and He noted, too, that the women receiving postThis graduate degtees has increased. year theie are 211 women receiving masters 121 in 1971; and 40 receiving doetorals. as complied to 17 in 1971. He noled that the graduates came ftom 28 Utah counties, 47 states and 24 foreign countries. Following the commencement rites, the graduates attended one of 15 college convocations. doetorals. of number 420 Dock Union Says Contract or Else Hawaii's dock HONOLULU (UPI) workers Saturday threatened to stnke if they don't have r new contract by Mon- L r- - - pS yi Vo? i?i .'0 . - V a V L day, TJune 12. Some 900 dock workers represented bv the Intel national Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union (1LVU) have been without, a contract since June 1, 1971. The contract in Hawaii wa indefinitely extended in December on the condition either side could break off the 4?$1. r-- rU' UCSJXP' Graduates should be flexible, uililng to take risk, Mts. Estii- - - f cr Peterson said at UnivcrsUy of Utah eommenccmc.it rites. notice. agreement op. The regional ILWU said the three-day'- s notice will be served on June 12 J all difference between shippers and dock workers are not cleared up oy then. A strike in Hawaii would shut off the state's main supply of commercial goods. The stnke on the West Coast last summer sent prices soaring and caused shortages of goods sucti us todet papei and salt. The official sposeanm for the longshore negotiations here federal mediator Reynold Hagist. Saturday refused to on the po'sibility of a snhe 00011001)1 Im not privy to the union's ino.vh ternal wot kings This is riot a cist situation, hut it could lead to one." ' -- M - - a i H Uf.n j a "L I 1 yOasn UniH 9 ! IMWW.'U'C, .bWMi ygoi USE Wall Bsni. liililiWIiwii ArV.; JllililFjitb'yvpii?' a |