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Thieu’s Victory
President Thieu of South Vietnam was recently
elected to a second four year term of office. Over 8512
per cent of the voting population cast their ballots and 91
per cent of the ballots cast were for Thieu. On the sur
face it would appear that Thieu had received a
tremendous mandate from his people in what was truly
as Thieu said, “a victory for democracy.” But in
essence the election was both a sham and a slap in the
face to the U. S. government and the thousands of
Americans who have died in Vietnam.
President Thieu was the only candidate on the ballot
— two other leaders had expressed interest in running
but were scared away by Thieu and his army. Secondly,
U. S. ambassador Bunker and other officials have
worked dilligently to assure that the elections would be
free and that there would be a choice of candidates on
the ballot. But there was no choice, people were forced
to vote, and there are widespread rumors of ballot box
tampering.
I wonder how long it will take the U. S. to read the
handwriting on the wall: President Thieu never was a
democratic leader and never will be a democratic
leader. So if we are to “save” South Vietnam from
“Communism” then we must merely rid South Vietnam
of President Thieu. Until we do that, then South Vietnam
is not worth another American life or dollar.
JCA
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A Woman Justice?
The two recent vacancies on the Supreme Court afford
President Nixon the opportunity to affect the history and
course of this nation for a long time to come. This is an
opportunity I hope Mr. Nixon will not take lightly. In
considering potential nominees for the high court, I wish
Nixon would give consideration to the possibility of
appointing a female justice. I do not advocate ap
pointing a woman merely for political or token reasons
however I do feel a qualified woman would add a breath
of fresh air to that group of seven old men. JCA
The Right To Education
Now, Mr. President, you will see to it that those bells are
ringing on time!!
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By LEE P.ARKER
Many people feel education is
bad and most of them are right,
for what has passed for
education is anything but
education. The memorization of
worthless trivia and slanted
facts in preparation for
regurgiation back to the
professor in the form of a test is
nothing but prostitution of the
intellect. Man is reputed as
being a higher animal because of
his thinking ability and
rationality. If so, why are
students plagued with exercises
in memorization; rather than
enlightened with the opportunity
to learn to think and create?
Some professors here at A. C. C.
strive unceasingly to achieve
true education by allowing and
encouraging free and creative
thinking but most of their efforts
By ROBERT DAWSO.N
people, all people have within
them a creative ability that sets
them aside from other people,
thus we get the word individual.
This column entitled “Those
Peculiar BP” will seek to reveal
what is known as the beautiful
people. Beuatiful people are for
real, not plastic, wood, or
imitation. The character
described below is real and
beautful.
I entered a grocery store of
small goods in effort to satisfy
my hunger. The owner took my
order of cookies and a soda. As
he counted the cookies, I got the
soft drink myself and lighted a
cigarette. He said to me, “1
suppose you didn’t read the
sign.” I panicked. Is gasoline in
here, is it a self service place, or
somebody’s allergic to smoke
even, I thought to myself.
I apologized for whatever I did
wrong, saying it was my first
time in his store. He instantly
filled with the sins of cigarettes
and liquor. ‘‘It’s bad,’’ he said. I
listened to him more and soon
caught notice of the signs in this
store, which literally hung over
every product he had. “Saved
folks do not suck cigarettes and
lick snuff.” In another place, “If
habits of life or lust of the flesh
hinder you, receive Jesus.”
I could not for the sensitivity in
me, inhale another puff of
smoke. This is to be no ordinary
man. Beneath his seemingly
undisciplined management, I
felt the presence of an in
tellectual. He interested me and
for curiosity, I asked of his
background.
He attended Shaw University.
Poetry and art are among his
exceptional talents. His entire
life, even now at the age of
eighty-six, is an effort to rise
from poverty and help restore
the losers of smoke and alcohol.
A reverned in reality, but he
calls himself, Servant F. F.
Battle.
Servant F. F. Battle has
publications and a church
opened to anyone who is willing
to enter. He has pamphlets
describing his works.
Perhaps, by chance, you too
will meet Servant F. F. Battle.
He will probably inform you that
he is alive because he doesn’t
drink liquor, he doesn’t smoke as
some fellow reverns, and for
fifteen years, he hasn't touched
coffee.
I threw my cigarettes away
upon departure from the small
squeaky place that now seemed
a philosophy book. He allowed
me to keep his poetry book
temporarily. The beautiful black
man of eighty-six, wrote in one
of his poems, “It has taken years
to reach this spot, To call back
things I once forgot. And whilst I
write here all alone, I think of
friends, long years gone.”
Servant F. F. Battle, he’s for
real.
are stifled by other professors
who discourage thinking by
rewarding memorization of test
and notes and the condemning of
intellectual curiousity.
Memorized facts are quickly
forgotten after a class is passed
but the ability to think can be
possessed for a hfetime. This I
feel is what Dr. C. H. Hamlin had
in mind when he said,
"Education is what we are, after
we have forgotten everything we
learned.” Students at A. C. C.
have a right to true education
and should not hesitate to
publicly complain about any
professor who attempts to th
wart thinking. Furthermore
steps should be taken to insure
students of adequate safeguards
and protection from such
professors by requiring student
evaluation of faculty members
to be used as an addition to the
present requirements for con
tract renewal.
Recycling Students_
The list of Relevant Issues, as
they are called, seems over
whelming: prison reform,
women’s liberation, crime,
drugs, nuclear weapons,
pollution, the Vietnam war,
feeding the poor, the population
bomb, the job market, 1972
elections, minority rights, the
student vote, educational
reform, consumer information,
the legal system, voter
registration, foreign relations...
That’s a lot of problems for
only 8.4 million U.S. college
students to solve. And since
education almostalways has
meant fighting for causes as well
as — or instead of — grades, it’s
no wonder that in-depth
disillusionment has draped itself
over unsuspecting college
students.
The above problems all are
maladies that students them
selves didn’t even create. The
philosophy in recent years has
been that the world has been
bent, folded mutilated. And
stapled. For about the last ten
years, students thought it was
their responsibility to un-fold,
un-mutilate, and re-staple the
parts back together again.
Now it’s the dawning of a new
era. Evolution of revolution. Sit-
ins, teach-ins, riots, con
frontations, bombings,
moratoriums, rallies and strikes
now are mere memories of the
Sixties.
After seven years of
disoriented student disruptions,
the Seventies breezed in. And
with them, the war continued
and we demonstrated.
...and we continued to
demonstrate vehemently for and
against what we did and didn’t
believe in. And the nation
listened. Not to the message of
the student protests, but only to
the message of the medium —
the screaming headline, the loud
newscast, the acrimonious
editorial about the student
protests.
And then along came Now. A
feeling of futility has set in, bred
out of frustration and confusion.
Last academic year was a
prophetic indication of this:
campuses were calmer. An
occasional rally. An occasional
march. But quieter.
Why the change?
by Rick Mitz
The problems still are there,
but our tactics have changed, if
not vanished, according to Drew
Olim, a National Student
Association senior staff mem
ber. Olim said he sees definite
symptoms of “withdrawl,
defeatism, lack of direction and
dropping out.” He said he sees
two possible reasons for all this.
“Money is getting tighter.
Prices are going up and parents
are complaining. Students now
are understanding the plight of
the working-class man, and so
they are dropping out and trying
to find jobs,” he said.
The Attica incident, and the
continuing war are a few of the
on-going frustrations that, Olim
said, “have produced feelings of
major disillusionment among
students.” Olim said he sees
these as feelings brought on by a
national student feeling of in-
nefectuality.
Students have retreated within
themselves in a quiet-dissent,
self-exploratory way. And the
result is a new individuality, a
new problem-orientation that
might yet solve the problems
that violent protest couldn’t.
Individualism skips rampant
through the student life-style.
Give Peace A Chance chants
have evolved into a new soft
music, a new gentle sound of
manifesting itself in quiet love
stories in song. Small shops and
co-ops have opened, selling
hand-made, back-to-earth
clothing and organic goods, a
reaction against depersonalized
mass-produced culture.
Do-it-yourself attitudes ac
company the do-your-own-thing
philosophy. We grow our own
organic food, make our own
clothes, build our own furniture,
plan our own curricula, ride our
own bikes instead of driving a
car...and the list is as long as the
list of problems.
But our newly-discovered
Student Age of Individualism
isn’t beneficial if it isn’t chan
neled in positive directions.
Hopefully, it isn’t self-indulgent,
isolated individualism.
Hopefully, in developing our
selves as individuals, we 1
create the impetus to get bac
together and then get it a
together.
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