Show Pjgn 4 Te Utih Statesman Fridav February 29 1 960 j Iranian debate gets low score Iranian students staged another takeover Thursday It was not on the scale of the US Embassy siege in Tehran but it had local consequences The Convocation lecture of Ferevdoun Hoveyda was taken by storm I'SU's Iranian students captured the public exert as a forum for their own political purposes Hoxexda delivered an uninteresting prepared lecture that lacked the insight we should expect from a man who held the postion of former United Nations Ambassador for Iran One wonders whether Hoveyda was merely reiv ing on a inpredictable reaction from the Iranian students like the in Texas month this earlier encountered he cident Whether planned or not he was not required to speak very long Our Iranians lived up to the prediction with their attempts to commandetr attention by screaming chanting and shouting Aside from depriving everv one of the chance to listen to ths informed man the students alienated others from their caue— one that many have grown tired of Paying the price three Iranians were arrested Roughly a third of the audience left after a laughable false bomb threat and the outdated mode of protest Most people probably left because of boredom at the speech and anger at the vocal minority for disrupting the production financed by student fees Few if any left because of fear for their lives Although the rude protesters were wrong to monopolize the session admittedly they addl'd the only life to a dead speech Hoveyda did a fair job of dealing with the hecklers by rejecting their questions Too bad he did such a poor job of explaining the problems of Iran Overall neither the protestors nor Hoveyda did a commendable job Hut to evaluate both Hoveyda won the Convocation debate The score: Hoveyda 0 USU’s vocal Iranians 3 That’s one point for each Iranian arrested -- E very human heart is human To Che editor — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Wave music Punk Rock etc depending on which journalistic Editor Conrad Walters in his term you prefer) Statesman article on Feb 22 19H0 He describes only the faddist seg has helped encourage ment of our society "To be a true there are requisites misunderstanding about Sew- punk THE UTAH TATESMAN uW Jen Sue "ling aflitar Conrad Aaiterj associate editor Ron Hendricks design editor Aane Adarf university editor 0 L Vabery entertainment editor Tom Kornegay co soorts editor Date BuEnitz co soorts editor Dave Cornwell wire editor Greg Hugnes on campus editor THE UTAH Newswriter blows music critique Gus gets belated support 41? 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