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Students express views on Iranian situation
by Kathy O’Brien
“I ask ‘what’s gonna
happen when the Shah leaves
this country?’ I wonder what
they’re going to do?” In
voicing these questions,
Meredith Senior Ruth
Franklin seems to speak for
many Americans in their
reaction to the current
situation in Iran.
The American expression
of outrage toward the Iranian
takeover of the U.S. Embassy
in Tehran and the captivity of
fifty American hostages has
been strong, especially in the
student sector. When
Meredith students were asked
their reaction to the situation
in Iran, their responses dealt
generally with American
strength as a nation and
solutions.
Ruth Franklin suggested
“it wouldn’t hurt for us to be
looking at the Ayatollah more
closely and trying to un
derstand his position. I don’t
think the average American
understands the Moslem
principles he’s (the
Ayatollah) supporting. I find
it hard to believe, though, that
so many Iranian students
could come here and be
modernized and then return to
Iran and accept his 15th
century Moslem Rule. How
could they accept going back
in time?”
Another solution to the
current crisis involved
dependence of oil. “We’ve got
to show that we have some
strength. We could do that by
doing without a lot of the oil
we are using, but I don’t think
we will,” said Carmen
Warren, also a senior.
Warren went on to say “I
just don’t think we should
bomb them. I don’t think that
is the answer. At this point it
doesn't look very optimistic
about getting the hostages out.
I don’t know how to do it; we
just need to keep in contact
with them.”
Dr. Rosalee P. Gates, who
concentrates in non-Western
studies in the history
department also urged
restraint in dealing with Iran.
“I would like to see us do
the right things for the right
reasons; that is work for
world peace because of a
sympathetic understan^ng
and a feeling of common
humanity for those who are
different from us as well as
like us.
“This is not to suggest
that the U.S. should not be
strong or that the U.S. should
submit to blackmail by
terrorists but it does suggest
that we use restraint and the
generosity of strength in our
dealings with other people.”
According to Gates, the
need for restraint is also
particularly important at this
time as the Iranians celebrate
the Islamic religious ob
servance “Moharan.” She
explains this observance as
"remembering martyrs and
characterized by a great deal
of emotional outpouring.”
Sophomores Amelia
White and Carla Baker said
that the hostages in Iran were
equally important as the
presUge of the U.S. and that
“it’s a stupid thing to go to
war over. We think the
Ayatollah needs psychological
help.”
One Meredith student,
Ginny Vaca, a Sophomore
from Nicaragua, declined to
comment on the crisis in Iran
because of the situation in ter
own country, which also
recently experienced a
revolution. She felt it would be
inappropriate to become
involved.
Student reactions to the
situation in Iran have been
more aggressive on some
other college campuses than
Meredith. North Carolina
State University has ex
perienced several demon
strations over the past few
weeks.
Danny Johnson, a senior
at State, suggests fo^ be used
as a political weapon against
Iran. “They are using oil in
the same way. All economic
ties should be cut with them. If
any of our people get hurt, the
military should intervene.”
He added that most im
portantly, the Shah should not
be forced to return to Iran.
The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill has
also been the scene of several
anti-Iranian demonstrations.
Chapel Hill junior Bennet
Houston feels the situation in
Iran is “an indication that the
international respect for the
U.S. has gone down. The fact
that Iran is a little country
compared to the U.S. puts us
at a disadvantage because if
we had military intervention
it would seein to the world like
we were picking on a poor
little country.”
“I don’t think there is
anything we can do right now,
but I don’t think we should
send them any aid or food. I
think the Shah should be sent
away from the U.S. but not
back to Iran. I don’t think the
hostages will be killed. If the
hostages are killed, the
Iranians might as well hang it
up,” Houston added.
Another State student,
Ricky Branch, a junior, said
“I think that when all this
ends, whichever way it goes, it
will have a definite effect on
the U.S. position in world
leadership.
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