Vol. 4, No. 2
North Carolina School of the Arts
October 13, 1969
Pressures Mount On Nixon
VIETNAM; A SHARP- AND SWELLING DEBATE
Performing at his sardonic best
Senator J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas
arose before a virtually empty
Senate chamber last Wednesday to ob
serve that it had been nine months -
the normal period of gestation for
humans to bring forth their issue -
since Richard M. Nixon had entered
the White House. But, he continued
tartly, the President was not making
"progress in delivering on his cam-‘
paign promises to give birth to his ,
plan to end the war" in Vietnam. j
Thus did Senator Fulbright,
chairman of the Senate Foreigh Re
lations Committee, break his pro
longed and deliberate silence on the
Vietnam issue. In so doing he also
gave support to a private prediction
made last January by one of the
President's closest and most astute
political advisers - that it would
be "Nixon's war" by September if the
Administration had not made substan
tial progress by then in ending the
conflict.
Despite and almost in defiance,
of the President's plea for time and
national unity, criticism of the Ad
ministration's Vietnam policy - or
lack of policy, as some would have
it - welled up in Congress last week
from Republicans as well as Demo
crats. The criticism was not yet
as shrill as that which bedeviled
President Johnson. Nor had "John
son's war" yet become completely
"Nixon's war." As Senator Frank
Church of Idaho, one of the Demo
cratic critics, observed, nine
months was still too short a time to
shift the responsibility completely
away from the Democratic Administra
tion, which had involved the nation
in the war.
But it was apparent that the
hopeful patience with the nine-month
old Nixon Administration had worn a
little thin and that on Capitol Hill
the responsibility for the war - and
not ending it - was being thrust on
to President Nixon.
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LOCAL NEWSPAPER
FORMED
Several students from local
schools and colleges have organized
in a very unique way a newspaper
entitled "Together." The co
editors, Bart Charlow and Kirk
Fuller, are both Wake Forest Uni
versity students.
"Together's" philosophy basic
ally is to serve the community, not
to represent any one school, organ
ization, or political faction.
"Together" is an open forum for
news and opinion.
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STUDENT
MORATORIUM
On October 15, students in
colleges across the nation will
join together in a "Moratorium Day"
campaign for an end to the Vietnam
War. The protest comes during a time
when the nation has reached a new
peak of disillusionment over the Viet
nam War. In the latest Gallup Poll,
6 persons out of 10 were of the
opinion that the U. S. made a mistake
getting involved in Vietnam. The
Senate Foreign Relations committee
has planned a week of hearings on the
war to help President Nixon out of the
Vietnam morass which could be crucial
in the effort to fashion unity in Con
gress and the country after the latest
attacks.
The student Moratorium Day is
occurring while the peacemakers have
the momentum. A strong majority of
reporters and opinion makers in the
communication system of the country -
television, radio, and press - are
sjnnpathetic to them and are giving
their statements good play. Intell
ectuals are predominantly on the peace
making side. They vie with the
leaders of the political opposition in
Congress in providing the arguments
and phrases that fuel the debate.
Student councils in universities
across the nation Tiave voted unani-j
mously to observe the Vietnam Morator
ium Day and have petitioned presidents
to cancel all classes that day.
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Cdimt>us Tfansv^awts And Cul+vi»al Shock
By KATHLEEN FITZGERALD
Staff Reoorter
Last Sunday night I picTced up my tired, decrepit
body up from its seat in the lounge of the Sanford
Women's Old Folks' Home and doddered down to the New
Dormitory and Day Nursery Complex to find out how the
hifeh school students were settling in. I sloshed
through the Georgia red clay, barely escaping a fall
into the pit which houses some manner of generator,
and came at last to the narrow bank of cement and light
which more or less surrounds the new buildings.
Wheezing a prayer I trudged up one of the many out
door stairways and entered the cheery sterility of C-
Dorm. I tapped my gnarled knuckles against a blue door.
There was no answer. My myopic eyes at last focused on
the sign which read "Toilet". I pushed on the door
thinking to check said facility but it only opened
forty-five degrees before banging against the commode.
"Ah, the nimble children," I thought, "to be able to
twist in and out of these apertures."
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