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PAGE TWO THE LANCE 1—’.IZ Mass Arrests In D.C. Signal Turning Points For Protests THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1971 THE LANCE staff Editor Jeff Neill Associate Editor Lanl Baldwin Associate Editor Marshall Gravely Assistant Editor Kathy Keamy Sports Editor Dave Mills 'Business Managers. , , , Hunter Watson Lonnie Burrell Advisor Mr. Fowler Dugger The Editorial staff’s Intent Is to maintain professional stan dards within the guidelines put forth by the Code of Respon sibility. Signed articles reflect the opinion of the author, where as unsigned editorials and articles reflect the majority opinion of the staff. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the College. Letters to the editor and articles are wel comed though subject to space limitations. Subscription Rates $2.50 per Semester. Advertising Rates $.90 per column Inch. Semester Contracts, $.80 per column Inch. Another Side of It was learned earlier this week that two maids have re tired, one from Granville and one from Kings Mountain, and that replacements would not be hired. Reasons offered centered around a cutback in the physical plant’s budget and a report by an "efficiency expert” who felt eight maids, for the amount of the space covered, were un necessary. Yet, at present with eight mlads, working full time, the dormitories still come under fire by the sanitation Inspector with health ratings fluctuating between A’s and C’s, a fluctua tion due not to the maids’ inefficiency, but to our own careless ness. Due to our haphazard discard of litter in the halls and bathroom, by our attitude of, “Oh, the maid will get it in the morning,” when we spill beer or break something. More dis turbing, though, Is some of the additional information obtained that leaves us asking the question, “How many of us, students or faculty, would be willing to work under similar conditions?” At present mlads earn $1.65 an hour and are permitted to work a forty hour week. That is a total Income of $66.00 a week or, at most, $3,432 a year. . . before taxes. At least one of the maids has three dependants. At present there is no job security for any maintenance em ployee below the level of foreman. Should Mr. Babcock, who is leaving SA, be replaced by a director of the physical plant who Is less concerned about the welfare of his employees, this could mean firing or laying-off of maids and other maintenance em ployees, in accordance with further budgetary cuts. At present there exists no unemployment compensation for workers and none will exist until January 1, 1972 when the state law will require it. At present there Is no formal structure for non-academl employees to make grievances known. Mr. Babcock felt that since the maintenance staff is small (60 employees) grievances could be made directly to him or a higher up. Yet, how many students hesitate to confront a professor, much less go over his head, in a matter of fear of having their final grade hurt? Now, just consider the similar situation where a job, your livelihood, might be ultimately affected. ’ At present there Is no retirement plan established for main tenance workers. Workers who retire must rely solely on part time work available and on whatever social security benefits they quality for. if they retire before age 65, as did one maid, they are not eligible for full social security benefits. Granted, SA at this time is having financial difficulties. Most small colleges are. It is self-evident that all areas of the college are having to cut back and tighten things up, in order to reduce expenditures. However, does that alter the seeming hypocrisy of a liberal, Christian, educational Institution that attempts to arouse awareness, sensitivity, thought, and concern about social problems, while it pays its maids only slightly higher than minimum wage? Contributors to this Issue: Charlie Gottenkieny Dick Prust Jim Pope Robblo Klnne Mike McQuown (Photography) BY MARSHALL GRAVELY “If the government doesn’t stop the war, we will stop the government.” The mass pro test in Washington over the past two weeks, first by the Vet erans Against the War, and then also by the Spring Offensive groups, points up several ques tions concerning war protest. Anti-Draft Law Letters Needed Dear Editor, Several bills to extend the draft are now before Congress. As 1 understand it, the House version reported out of com mittee would abolish the II-S (student) deferment altogether. The Senate version would allow those who now hold H-S’s to keep them, but would not allow Issuance of any new ones, in other words, one extension of the draft is likely to have pro - found effects on all ourfutures! There is now at least a pos sibility ttiat this new draft legis lation couldbe defeated. Several senators are planning to fili buster against it. I urge that all of us act in our enlightened self-interest by writing con gressmen and senators asking them to “defeat” any bill to extend the draft. Sen. B. Everett Jordan, especially, should be contacted. (He is said to be un decided.) Any senator can be written simply c/o The U. S. Senate, Washington, D. C., or any congressman c/o U. S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. Sincerely, Dick Prust Two Seniors Get Graduate Awards Two graduating seniors have won awards for graduate study In science this fall. Don Wil- hoyte has been awarded a gra duate assltantship at VPI, and Walter Wri^t is the winner of a research fellowship at SUNY - Buffalo. Wllhoyte, a chemistry major, will enter VPI in September as a graduate teaching assistant with a monthly stipend of $340. His field of interest is analy tical chemistry as related to environmental science. Last summer he won an undergra duate research award, studying with Dr. Donald Bames. Wright, a double major In chemistry andblology, has a re search fellowship in the medi cinal chemistry division of the School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences of the State University of New York at Buffalo. His fellowship carries an award of $3000 plus tuition and fees. Wright will work for the Ph.D. with the goal of college teach ing. Last summer and again this summer he will do research with Dr. Hames Stephens. gort ?/ 8gJov«r... Iti5 a monolith.^ deerriM&s. 1 AM AM EXTWTERBeSTRIAL TEA044M6 MACUIMC. MTU MY HELP VOUR 8P€0£S WtU. €VOCV€ 4ND wia eute Tuis PLWO€T. MOW PICK UP TUAT BON6. vvttob reoii^ got to me was his patronizing approach...he was sounding like an Adult Sesame Street. GOOP POR YOO. mta BONe 19 A ■weAPONT 1 WIU, TEACM YOO ITS PROPS? The attempts made to shut down the government clearly feOled. Over 7000 protesters were arrested, and some 1000 remain In jail. The revolution did not start in May In Wash ington, but-what started Instead may be a new kind of protest. Mass protest about the In dochina war may be obsolete— for several reasons. First, it is Ignored becaue the govern ment is convinced that the pro testers are a lunatic fringe and wUl always be a vocal minority attacking the rights of the silent majority. Further, the move ment seems to have exhausted its base of power--the students who felt so strongly about the need for protest In 1968 and 1969 seem numbed and apathetic because the government has not responded. It has become al most cliche’ to be against the war. For evidence of this, wit ness the almost leering attitude of news reports toward Carl McIntyre’s latest “March for Victory” last week. The reports assumed most readers were a- galnst the war, so the odd mar chers were pictured as relics of the past. Rennie Davis, of the Chicago 7, leader of the Spring Offen sive groups, admitted that the attempt to stop the govern, ment failed. He said, thou^ that the attempt symbolized something new in protest - the final break of any hope that the government could be moved by protest. This raises two pos- siblUtles--violence to change the government or working within the already established system to bring about slower, but more rational, change. Which way the movement and its leaders choose to go can only be seen in time. Whichever way, though, it Is imperative that the movement go as one--without the fragmentation and diffusion of the past. 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