Guilfordian
Volume LXIV, No. 8
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On her recent visit to Thailand, Mrs. Carter comforts refugee child.
Union hosts political activist
Jerry Rubin, legendary politi
cal-cultural activist of the 19605,
will be speaking in Dana Audi
torium, on Nov. 15th at 8:00
p.m.
Rubin, now 41, was one of the
leading catalysts in the move
ment against America's war in
Vietnam. He became a symbol
of activism to American youth,
and as a member of the Chicago
7, was on trial for 5 1 /j-mos. for
his participation in organizing
the demonstrations against the
Democratic Convention in Au
gust, 1968.
Rubin co-founded the yip
pies, the Youth International
Party, and gained fame as a
guerrilla theater activist. He
has published three books, in
cluding Do It!, a best-seller;
We Are Everywhere, about his
experiences on trial and in jail;
and his study of the human
potential movement of the
19705, Growing [Up] At 37,
published in 1976.
Just when the media was
saying that he had "dropped
out" of politics which he
consistently denied -- Rubin
was arrested with 600 other
protesters climbing a twelve
foot barbed wire fence to invade
the Shoreham nuclear plant on
In conjunction with
Jerry Rubin 's appearance,
WQFS will be turning
back the clocks to the late
60's. The music and news
format will bring alive
again the sounds and
events of one of the most
controversial and exciting
periods of American his
tory.
June 3. Shoreham is under
construction on the north side of
Long Island, 60 miles east of
New York City, where Rubin
resides.
Rubin was quoted the next
day in The New York Times
saying, "The nuclear energy
issues is an important as the
Vietnam war. I wanted to make
a statement and a symbolic act
by being arrested. This is my
first political arrest in 10
years."
Rubin considers himself in
"rank-and-file" member of the
anti-nuclear movement, one
part of the national uprising. He
is also an organizer in human
potential movement, having re
cently staged the 14 1 /j-hour
event which brought together
Masters and Johnson, Wayne
Dyer, Budkminster Fuller, Dick
Gregory, Werver Erhard and
George Carl in in a conscious
ness spectacular that attracted
national attention.
Having experienced every as
pect of the consciousness move
ment of the 1970s from rolfing
to yoga to EST Rubin's forth
coming book on sexuality will
challenge the new sexual
myths and will transform the
way men and women look at
Bobby Kennedy, The
Vietnam War, Bell-bottom
pants, peace, love, The
Smother Brothers,
Twiggy, Country Joe and
the Fish, Woodstock, pro
test marches and much
more will all be brought
back to help capture that
period in history for
presentation.
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Cambodia causes campus concern
Beside the hospital a thatch structure to house orphans had been put up
the only other known orphanage beside the one in Phnam Penh. On 12
bed frames covered with straw matting were gathered 92 parentless
children. The huddled mass of spindly kids were guiet. Only one child
in the ward cried fitfully, with barely enough energy to make a
whimpering noise.
An account by James Matlack who visited Cambodia this year.
In 1975, the population of
Cambodia (Kampuchia) was
seven million. Today, the popu
lation is believed to be around
five million. Of that number,
according to UNICEF and th£
International Red Cross, 2Vi
million people face starvation
Personnel at the U.S. embassy
in Bangkok, reportedlv estimate
sexual masculinity and femin
inity.
Rubin graduated from the
University of Cinicinnati, major
ing in American history and
polictical science, studied
sociology in Israel for two years,
See "Rubin" pg. 7
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Jerry Rubin will speak on 60's activism and 70's awareness on
November 15 at 8:00 p.m. in Dana Auditorium.
that as many as 10,000 Cambo
dians are dying of malnutrition
each week and that the very
existence of the Khmer race
may be at stake.
What caused the Famine?
The Indochina War which en
gulfed Cambodia from 1969 to
1975, had a devastating effect
on the land and people of that
country. In 1970, Cambodia was
wracked by war and extreme
dislocation. During the Lon No!
regime, the American bombing
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of Cambodia in the early 1970's
severely disrupted the country.
In 1975, the Pol Pot regime took
power. Under this regime, mas
sive executions of political dis
senters, intellecturals, and all
who opposed the harsh
measures of the government
resulted in tens of thousands of
deaths. Countless others died
as the government emptied the
cities, abolished all markets and
private property, abolished any
form of currency, burned
villages and schools, and
attempted to impose an austere
agricultural society on the for
merly Buddhist country.
The result of this bombing
and political turmoil is a deci
mated and dying people. Fam
ine and epidemic disease have
begun their own grim march
through Cambodia. Once a
gentle, neutral and agricultur
ally lush nation Cambodia is
now threatened with extinction
unless there is immediated and
decisive world action.
Of those remaining, as many
as 200,000 people are dying
monthly, with hundreds of
thousands more racked by mal
nutrition and disease. Of those
Cambodians escaping to ref
ugee compounds in Thailand,
90% have malaria, and bleed
ing dysentary and other dis
eases rampant. Estimates are
that as little as 5% of the
present food crop is planted and
havestable, with many of the
seeds for the next crop eaten by
desperate Cambodians.
The need for food and medi
cal aid to Cambodia is both
urgent and great. There is still
time to avert yet another Cam
bodian tragedy, and the world is
responding to the desparate
need But already the nation
has been devastated by war,
tryanny, and famine.