Moeday, January 19, 1970
Press
Attacks
Lottery
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this nation has established when
its most precious resources—
men and materials—are dedi
cated to a foreign war of dubious
value while mere lip service is
paid to such pressing domestic
issues as poverty, pollution arid
the cities."
LAFAYETTE VOLUNTEER
ARMY
The student newspaper at La
fayette College, a small men's
liberal arts school in Pennsyl
vania, said the random selec
tion of draftees is "indefinitely
fairer and more humane" than
the old system, but said a vol
unteer army can be the only
real answer.
"Yes, the new system is more
equitable than the old. Yes those
called should willingly serve. But
there is much more progress
to be made."
At Hunter College in New York
City, where the Selective Serv
ice Director has announced those
with high lottery numbers aren't
safe from induction, the student
paper, the "Envoy,"demanded,
"There is only one way to truly
reform the draft system. Repeal
it."
HUNTER END DRAFT
The "Envoy" compared the
new system with a short story
entitled "The Lottery" in which
one person would be chosen at
random each year to be sense
lessly stoned to death in the
village square. "Now only nine
teen-year-olds have to worry
about dying," the paper com
mented wryly. "The reform is
like renovating the outside of a
rotting tenement which should
have been destroyed."
At one large state university,
UCLA, the student paper voiced
concern that the lottery will frag
ment opposition to the draft in
general, and war in Vietnam.
"There is no doubt that much
of the opposition in this country
to the Vietnam war can be at
tributed to the fact that the mid
dle-class American boys were
getting drafted and getting killed.
"Now at least half and as
many as two thirds of those
middle-class American boys are
not going to have to fight, or get
killed, or go to Canada to jail,"
said the Bruin, apparently be
lieving the administration's
original claims that numbers
244-366 would be free from the
draft."
IMPROVEMENT?
The "Bruin" called the lottery
"probably an improvement over
the old system of Selective Serv
ice, but not much."
The University of Montana
"Kaimin" wrote: "A modern
form of Russian roulette, the
draft lottery, marked thousands
of young men for death and dis
figurement when the birthdates
were drawn. . .Leaving the mat
ter of life or death up to chance
is hardly the most equitable
method of selecting the men who
will serve in the military."
The cafeteria has announced,
that the last meal to be served
during first semester will be'
Saturday, January 24 at noon.
The first meal to be served
second semester will be dinner
on Sunday, February 1.
News, Features, And
The Radical's Race Against Time
To Whom it May Concern
American society exists today
as a self-perpetuating shambles.
The heavy weight of doom that
has hovered over our heads
since man's self-actualization as
a creature of reason is crashing
down unheard in the forest of
ignorance. The deafening cries
of the morally wounded are mean
ingless because of their intensity.
The nation is steeped in the
tears of frustration, but it knows
not.
The youth contribute their
jrief, but with a vengeance un
axperienced before. We are
frustrated, angered, outraged,
but most of all concerned. The
righteous indignation we feel
is justified by the daily news
paper. The double standard we
rebel against is expanded by
each utterance of societies'
figureheads. The naked hatred
we see becomes increasingly vi
cious with each attempt to ameli
orate it. The sub-ordination and
genocide of the black race oc
curring before our eyes is bla
tantly denied, or worse, rational
ized to fit the ideologies that
serve as a foundation for the
structure. The ethnocentrism
that pervades America blinds
it to any good that can be re
ceived from other cultures. The
blind justice that serves the coun
try cannot see through its blind
fold. It is time for an unveiling.
It is time for the light to come
through and penetrate our black
cloud of nescience. It is time.
And time will not wait. As it
comes, so will it go. The youth
Bryn Mawr Grad
School Openings
The Bryn Mawr Graduate
School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsyl
vania is now receiving ap
plications from men and women
for graduate work for the 1970-
71 academic year.
Departmental fellowships and
scholarships in all major fields
of study are being offered with
work leading to the M.A.,M.S.S.
and Ph.D. degrees.
Awards range from $2500 to
S3OOO, it was announced by Mrs.
Richard W. Foster, Dean of the
Graduate School.
National Defense Graduate
Fellowships under Title IV of
the National Defense Education
Act are available to students
entering the Byrn Mawr Gradu
ate School in many fields of
study including Biology, Chemis
try, Classical and Near Eastern
Archaeology, English, French,
German, Greek and Latin, His
tory of Art, Mathematics,
Philosophy, Psychology and
Spanish.
National Science Foundation
graduate traineeships are also
available to first and second-year
graduate students in mathema
tics, the natural sciences and
in certain fields in the social
sciences.
A program in the History and
Philosophy of Sciences, support
ed by the Josiah Macy, Jr.
Foundation, and leading to the
Ph.D. degree is offered at Bryn
Mawr in cooperation with the
THE GUILFORD IAN
OPINIONS AND FACTS
feel this. Our urgency is re
flected in our impatience and
our violence. The pacifistic
orientation exhibited by Martin
Luther King Jr. in the recent
past and of Ghandi in an earlier
time are too far removed from
the violence and hatred of the
present to be applicable to our
outrage. The road travelled by
non-violence advocators is re
strictive and confining. There
is too little time to wait for the
senseless to come to their
senses. In a nation corroded by
an anti-life attitude, a biophilic
orientation becomes irrelevent.
With the pressing urgency of
time and the increasing frus
tration of daily life, the youth,
of necessity, have begun to or
ganize. Our first experience
as a unified group came with the
advent of drug abuse. This led
to hippyism, with anaccompany
ing philosophy of love and
peace, with an appeal far more
reaching than ever imagined. All
that we longed for and dreamed
of was embodied in the belief
that peace and love were the
only answers and the only true
way to conquer our enemies (the
Establishment, Parents, Police,
Racists. . .) with kindness. The
consequence of this crusade was
despair. Our overtures were
met with violence and anger--
the very attitudes we have vowed
to overcome. Our love war
confronted with hate. Our peace
was confronted with strife and
warfare. Our outward manifes
tations of belief, our badges of
honor (our hair, our beads, our
dress) were attacked unmerci
fully. This seemed to be the
American Philosophical Society
and the University of Pennsyl
vania in Philadelphia.
The program emphasizes the
biological, chemical and physical
sciences since the Renaissance.
The core curriculum is being
taught by four full-time pro
fessors at Bryn Mawr and the
University of Pennsylvania.
Fellowships in this program
are awarded by Bryn Mawr and
the University of Pennsylvania.
There are numerous op
portunities for study in the
Graduate Department of Social
Work and Social Research at
Bryn Mawr.
A variety of financial resources
are available including funds for
traineeships from the United
States Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, grants
from the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, and fellowships
and scholarships from the Col
lege.
The Graduate School at Bryn
Mawr is large enough to offer
work in all major departments,
but small enough for each student
-to pursue his work in a flexible
program designed for his own
needs.
Students and faculty share re
search projects in small
seminars.
Applications for fellowships,
scholarships and other financial
aid should be received by Feb
ruary 15, 1970.
only level that our adversaries
could effectively amass against.
Characteristically, this was the
only part that was irrelevant to
what we were trying to say.
This oppression and insuing
depression begat an animal un
dreamed of by our opponents.
The metamorphosis to which e
vents led us created the radical.
Our escape from the problems
to drugs failed. Our attempt
at contending with the problem
through loving and peaceful
means failed. Our only recourse
was social protest, the bag of
the radicals. The protest began
as a continuation of the peace
philosophy, but in face of over
whelming opposition, has taken a
turn and is climbing the gradient
scale of violence.
We stand today in precarious
Of Bricks, Walls,
And Old Stoves
The leader of the hippie colony
somewhere in the wilds of
Colorado spoke to the elders with
grave concern:
"We came here many years
ago because we wanted to get
away from the rush of the city
life and start anew. We brought
hundreds of books with which we
could learn about the True Life
and teach our way to our chil
dren. We set up a Government
of the Learned to administer our
ways to our children.
"Yet yesterday as I was read
ing from the book one of my
students yawned and walked out
of the room claiming that I,
the Great Elder and leader of
the colony knew nothing and
that I was boring and should
mend my ways."
There was a murmur of dis
aDDroval among the elders.
"But this was not all" cried
the Great Elder, "Another said
that the young ones should decide
for themselves the books to
read in order to discover the
True Life. Gentlemen, unless
this kind of talk among young
ones ceases, our society is in
great danger, for only we know.
These ideas must not spread.
Picture Of The Week
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balance on the brink of abro
gation and annihilation. We are
beating on the doors to the closed
minds of our oppressors and our
hands are dripping the blood of
our fury. Time, in her rest
lessness, has produced the radi
cal, a creature of change de
manding change.
We are delivering our ulti
matum: either the closed doors
be opened while we are still
rational creatures pleading only
for peaceful coexistence and gen
uine communication, or, in
our blind fury, our hands may
tear down the doors and force
our change upon our oppressors.
Time will not wait. . .AND
NEITHER WILL WE.
To change,
A RADICAL
What can we do?"
An ominous voice from an
elder in the back of the crowd
spoke; "Build a hut" he said.
The Great Elder seemed baf
fled.
"A what?"
"A hut" came the voice a
little louder this time.
"Uh-huh" the Great Elder
mumbled still not understanding.
"Build the hut from the ground
up and let the young ones con
gregate there and do things.This
way they will divert their at
tention from matters which don't
concern them."
The assembly agreed that this
was the proper action to be taken.
They built a small building in
which students could congregate
and appointed a board of
students to decide what could
be done with such a building.
They painted it; they decorated
it with barrels, and very few
of the young ones came for most
were too tired to do anything
after the Great Elder's readings.
The Board of Students tried feebly
to do something with the little
building for many years but to
no avail while the Government of
the Learned remained quite happy
at their successful decision.
MARK LESSNER
photo by Willson