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PAGE TWO THE LANCE THURSDAY, NOV. 30, I967 THE LANCE STAFF ED BUTTERWORTH - Editor-in-Chief LINDA SUSONG - Associate Editor MARGARET PARRISH Associate Editor JOE JUNOD - - Sports Editor PAUL SHANE - Business Manager JIM NEAL Assistant Business Manager PHOTOGRAPHERS Pete Cool, Sandy Harris PEGGY GAMBLE Student Association DEBBIE HARPER Administration JIM SIRBAUGH Dormitory JOE MITCHELL Drama CARLEEN STRAYER Music Linda Curtis Academic News BUSINESS STAFF; Charmer Walker, Todd White, Susie Simpson, June Stockbridge A Fearful Reality “Bombs cannot quell the determination of the Vietnamese people.” "With United States support, Francois Duvalier has made the black republic of Haiti into the poorest country in Latin Ameri ca.” “Korea, like Cuba, is ready to fight against imperialism whenever necessary to defend her national territory, her homeland, and her principles.” Similar statesments occur either as headlines or leads throughout GRANMA, the official organ of the Communist Party of Cuba, published weekly as a news review in three different languages and widely spread around the globe. Nearing their one hundreth issue, GRANMA consistantly supports the liberation of the people of the world from capita listic and imperialistic government. The staff of GRANMA and their contemporaries are striving to become good salesmen as they are good propagandists, for they are constantly distributing their weekly review to the youth of French, English and Spanish speaking nations. Many college and University newspaper edi tors and student government presidents are receiving weekly complementary issues, with the hope of thorough circulation within the student bodies. We are all well informed of the recent racial riots occuring within our country, and have been informed by the people in volved in the rioting, that their main objective was to overcome the suppression of the black race by the whites by means of force, since the paciface approach has not reached the desired goals as quickly as they wished. We also know of the recent campus demonstrations and the march on Washington, in which the majority involved were American youths in protest to present the military discipline of the United States government. Each person involved supposedly has the conviction that he is right In his beliefs. But in each case, rioting and demonstrating, there had to be an official organ to start the mass organizing of these people. It is believed by many Americans that com munists. both within and outside of our coiintrv. are resoonsible for the organizing of these protest groups, in an attempt to both weaken our internal structure, and produce more material for their propaganda. In an attempt to inform students at St. Andrews of the type of one-sided features and news articles edited by a communist newspaper, back Issues of GRANMA have been placed in the De Tamble Library and soon will be available in the Student Affairs Office library. To fully realize the reality of the communists drive for power, one needs to be exposed to the fearful and de manding statements of their powerful news media. Exposure to GRANMA reveals the one-sidedness of their arguments. From this exposure, we can then decide for ourselves what road of defense is best for the individual. Before we engage in pro tests, we should be sure who our leaders are, and whether or not they stand for the ideals that we as individuals represent. lEQS 0-sy Letter to the Editor The Social and Problematic Aspects of Alcohol Dear Sir: Reflecting on the over-all sit uation at Saint Andrew’s College may I make the following ob servation? The problem is not whether or not students shall be permitted by consent of the college to possess alcohol in their rooms because this is done in many Instances without ap proval of the college. The basic Issue is not the ownership or possession of alcohol but the use of alcohol. Social drinking is drinking with other persons at times and places prescribed by cus toms, social approval and other vital facts as related to the use of alcohol. Drinking alone, drinking to relieve tension, drinking to relieve boredom, drinking to relieve any emo tional crisis or problem, is not social drinking but problem drinking. It am aware of the tremen dous hypocrisy, ambivalence and contradiction in regard to the custom of the use of al cohol in our present society, but this is something imposed by society - not by Saint An drew’s College. A public school ''T TAKE IT THAT PASSING TH13 COURSE" 16 VPCV iMfDETANT TD VoU.« “Aien” of St. Andrews-Scotland Attacks U. S. Vietnam Policy The following is exerpted from the Aien, the newspaper of the University of St, Andrews, Fife, Scotland, The opinions expressed are those of the stu dent government president. The U,S,A. will not leave Vietnam, for it would result in a serious economic slump. Half of the American economy is making a bomb out of the war. Most Americans have a neurosis about Communists, They are not in face fighting a communist movement, but a nationalist movement by the North Vietnamese Communist Government, independent ofit,, Nevertheless, they believe they are fighting Communism, which A Dialogue About Campus Drinking “The time has come for St. Andrews students to prove their capacity for responsibility. The drinking bill offers the students a perfect opportunity to openly display such mature judge ment,” “Have we really the maturity to accept this privilege grace fully? The chance we would be taking to find out--and its pos sible results--could be disas trous.” “Until given the opportunity to prove our merit, we must continue to operate on sub adult mores.” “Can we not experience a d u 1 th 0 0 d without alcohol? Drink will not make the man,” “Reality cannot be Ignored. Drinking is a reality and occurs legally only 7 miles from Lau- rinburg, if not 700 feet from the student center,” “Perhaps nearer still. Yet can the pending regulations re form these local Saturday-night sots?” “Reformation is not the case; legality of alcohol on the cam pus is. Liquor is a normal and an accepted form in adult re creation; St, Andrews students are taught as adults; they should be governed as such,” “To consider drinking a re creation is surely a misnomer; drunkeness is no sign of ma turity, and admittedly there is no scarcity of weekend drun kards here,” “Drunkedness is not neces sarily the ultimate consequence of a social drink. Drunks are lere as well as any other col- .ege--legallzing alcohol on campus will neither prevent drunks nor permit them.” “A drunk Is a drunk, legal or non. Social drinking is an art, a grace, and It must be taught. Only then can students accept alcohol as adults,” to them Is anathema. They of ten don’t realize that the com munists are ordinary people with human vices and virtues. The Armed Forces like war: ordinary soldiers hate it; Gen erals love it. Civilians are di vided. The U,S,A. believes it has been invited by the people of the South to defend them. In fact It was called in by the notorious despot Diem, who got in with U.S, help. Even If Pre sident Johnson wanted to get out. It would be impossible; apart from the physical diffi culty of evacuating troops, the U,S.A, is too deeply committ ed for a long phasing-out to be inevitable. However, the longer Americans stay, the more deep ly they will be committed. The only solution to stop this horrible and vicious war is to be found at the conference tab- be found at the conference ta ble. The U.S.A. MUST do some thing to try to bring about an unconditional pause I n their bombing program, which is in credibly expensive and futile. For what do Americans want? They didn’t intend to win the war, for if they did, they would bomb seriously, Invade and cap ture the North and cut off the VIetcong. There is no doubt that they are strong enough to do this, and almost before the Chinese would realize what was happening. If they don’t want to win, which we must assume from the facts, then they must want the North to sue for peace. As a matter of pride, they want the enemy to come to them, even at the cost of $10,000 million and the loss of countless lives of both sides. This is a ridi culous price to pay: especially when almost the whole world is against them. To stop the wai" in the hope that conferences can result is the only sensible course, the only human course, and the only course which will restore the U,S. Image and self- respect. or college cannot establish a cultural or social use of alcohol but Is in itself bound by the cultural and social attitudes of the Immediate community and those persons who own and con trol the school or the college. In other words, a public school cannot take the lead in attempt ing to establish cultural and social norms for drinking, and a private school or college can not move far ahead or lag far behind the custom of that group which owns, supports or con trols the Institution. In all fairness to the admin istration of the school, the stu dent body must be willing to assume responsibility for en forcing the rules and exercising discipline even to the extent of recommending expulsion if a student repeatedly drinks in a fashion contrary to the accept ed norm, I would hazard a guess that if the student government took over this responsibility you would suddenly discover that this group would then be in virtually the same position as the administration at present Is now In, namely the Impos sible task of trying to deal with a very complex problem which has facets both In the area of law, social custom, morals, ethics and to a great extent the field of mental health. Finally, as I pointed out last night, this is not a matter be tween the school administration and the student body. This is a matter between administration and students as a unit as this unit fits into the total social structure which we call socie ty, I personally would not be opposed to the possession of alcoholic beverage within a col lege room, but as a matter of avoiding problems connected with use of alcohol, I would be extremely opposed to drinking within an individual room unless it were an announced, approved social gathering under condi tions in which no excessive use of alcohol were experienced by any individual. Sincerely, JOSEPH L. KELLERMANN A film on the growth, develop ment, decline, esthetics and problems of “the city” will be shown in the LAA next week. Narrated by Lewis Mumford, the film runs for three hours. LAURINBURG BAKERY 276-0686 Specialists in Wedding and Birthday Cakes Party Cakes, Pies, Donuts “We Serve To Serve Again' ONE HOUR MARTINIZING The Most In Dry Cleaning And Laundry Service
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