1968_11 The Daily Collegian November 1968

              THE DAILY COLLEGIAN    Tuemday, Nov
Harris, Joan charm FSC audience
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ANOTHER  VIEW
Army another step on educational ladder
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; unpatriotic, disloyal, stupid, not nice, subversive,
and a crock of dirt to say the Army manufactures
S; that the best way to gain happiness In the Army
e gullible, Impressionable and wear blinders. It is
lastier to Imply that the Inspector General would
such practices to continue, especially during war-
most men the Army Is just anolher step on the
s the Army, and 01
ho thinks his education
a fool. The best thing
e keep ourselves mov¬
ing.  Hith
(Tet  ii
o wipe tt off. When yi
muddy boots it's because he just got back
from some place and Is looking forahose. Yet how many
times have you seen a civilian whose low quarters aren't
even polished. Two or three times a week In some parts
of the country. However this is only an analogy and noi
a formal protest against civilian maintenance of foot¬
wear. If you can liken shoes to brains and mud to intel¬
lectual stagnation you've got something to expound a few
Innuendoes about. Otherwise you can look at mud all day
for two yearspvlth binoculars and not get a thing out of it.
So. When the time comes for the Army to make a de¬
cision, nine times out of 11 we're there with a decision,
If not an answer. However nobody, not even the Presi¬
dent, can come up with an award-winner every time,
and nine out of 11 isn't good enough In the Army, though
It passes In civilian life. Two point zero out of tour will
get you through college.
Sometimes In the Army It's easier and a hell of a lot
more practical to just look at the bulletin board, tor sug¬
gestions. Indeed, we are encouraged to read It twice a
day to minimize hasty decisions and the excuses which
follow Impulsiveness. Rtght In the doorway of every bar¬
racks a sign says plain as day: "All Personell will Read
the Bullettin Board Twice a Day.» So we do It, while
civilians have to make up their own bulletin boards.
Eric Hotter had this to say about the best way to arrive
at the right conclusion: 'Persuasion Is clumsy and Its
results uncertain. • Quoting St. Dominic, Hotter contin¬
ued,  'For  many years I have exhorted you.  . . with
gentleness, preaching, praying and weeping. But accord¬
ing to the proverb of my country, 'Where blessing can
accomplish nothing, (bulletin boards) may avail.' ••
Now the civilian tends to make distinctions between
necessity, propriety and rewarding endeavor. A G.I. can
forget ahout the difference. A G.I. Is shorn of the un¬
necessary, knows what's appropriate and gets 15 days
leave at Christmas. A civilian with an assertive mind
gets ulcers and can't make the track team. A college
man concerned with proprieties probably drinks to much
and Isn't on the dean's list. We're all on the dean's list.
Lately there has been a lot of gutter-smlping at the
militia and It's, time It stopped. With all the free time
a civilian has you'd think he'd have accumulated enough
of his own ruckuses without having to spawn a slew of
them amongst those of us who have no free time, though
same? Take any example. Take communists. We've got¬
ten rid of a whole hell of a lot more communists than
you have. In fact, we're the only ones on the contempor¬
ary scene qualified to kill communists. If you even threw
a brick at one you'd get thrown In jail, and then you'd
never get to kill one legally because they wouldn't let you
in Ihe Army after that without special permission. It Is
asuspected truth that a soldier Is basically more effec¬
tive at his job than a civilian is at his. Civilians have
been trying for three years now to get rid of poor people,
make them not poor, but there are still some left. How
come? Is this making good progress? Is the poor popula¬
tion decreasing as rapidly as the communist population?
Not according to the latest poll. Of course somebody will
say, "Well Smarty, I'd rather be a destitute civilian than
a millionaire Army private any day," but civilians are
prone, among other inclinations, to statements like that
and it doesn't make any difference. I was a civilian 22
years and It wasn't all that peachy to my recollection.
And few living civilians have ever been United States
Army Soldiers, to get the feel of It.
Now that the air Is clear for the first ttme, the time
has come for a showdown. Send your finest representa¬
tive, say the Green Bay Packers, against any one of our
rifle platoons - Just rifles, no mortars - and see who
wants to have a party after the game. This Is only fool-
•Ertc Hotter, The True Believer, p 101.
lshness   1
. We aren't allowed to compete against
civilians unless they start It.
To get a true picture of the relationship between sol¬
diery and being a true civilian you have to realize how
separate we are In our togetherness, yet how neither of
us could swat files with a pencil and get a good score.
And how If there was a uniqueness contest to test the
Individuality potential of both, there's no telling who
would lose. At the end of our tours of duty - your four
years at least, our three at the most - we could have an
accomplishment contest to see who knows the least about
our respective majors, on a 100-point scale. (Not to let
the cat out of the bag, but In my own case I've undergone
a remarkable turnabout in academic performance. I
barely made It through college, yet, smack-bam right
off, In basic training, I was high Individual in my.platoon,
with Impressive scores on many subjects, and I didn't
even think I was trying. The new environment reached
out and grabbed my brain by the ears, It seemed, and
transformed a person with at best latent Intellectual po¬
tential Into a whizz-bag, If not a genius. What happened?
Have the sociologists accounted for this satisfactorily? r
and a few other experts doubt rt.)
So if you're willing to take on the Army in academics
stand up_ and be counted. If you're, say, an English major,
the top man In your field - perhaps Dr. Stanley Poss —
can be enlisted to draft up a test encompassing every¬
thing English - literature letters-to-the-edltor compo¬
sition, poster lyrics, everything. You take the lest and
see how you do. Then we'll get the Officer in Charge of
Testing to do the same for us. Again, leaving the cat
alone, I must In all fairness confess that I've never been
in a unit that wasn't the best so far. I seem to have come
in at a turning point in Army history, or Its peak; though
at times I wasn't even sure we'd pass. During every
training phase we'd be going Just lousy as hell and then,
a couple days before graduation, we'd become lie best
there ever was. This Isn't Just boasting either, because
a lot of sergeants told us the same thing. So you've got
to realize you're dealing with some clutch performers.
Though the oddsmakers will probably want to consider it,
this Is not a prediction or an attempt at psychedelic war¬
fare, but fact. A neutral observer, maybe Argentina, will
probably want to Judg the results and analyze them. Then
let's not talk about It tor 60 years.
Non-violence leminqr
HS.1968    THE DAILY COLLEGIAN   5
'War is obsolete for solving problems'-White
Civilization Is ready to
developing a broad scale of non¬
violence, Jim White, acting di¬
rector of the College Y, said
during the fourth seminar on non¬
violence recently.
Part
sponsored
«Y*, the seminar centered
on the procedure of peaceful re¬
sistance and how It can be sub-
Dance company
to perform here
The Merce Cunningham Dance
Company, a modem dance troupe
»11l perform at the Fresno Con¬
vention Center Theatre at 8:15
p.m. Monday.
Cunningham, featured In the
cover story of the Oct. 19 Issue
of the Saturday Evening Post, has
created a new dance technique
which treats dance and music as
distinct and Independent ele¬
ments. Rather than dancing «to"
music, the performers dance
"through* it.
Tickets for the performances
are available in theStudentPres-
| ident's Office for $2, $2.50,
and S3 with a $1 discount avail¬
able to student body card hold-
Harris
ij If w
-I
i can say It has
stltuted for war.
War has become an obsolete
way to settle problems. It causes
many more problems than tt
stops, While said.
Obslously non-violence can't
guarantee Success. Many believe
Martin Luther King didn't ac¬
complish much. But violence has
don't   think  yc
People now have the courage
to lose their lives In violent war¬
fare, if It could Just be trans¬
formed so they would be willing
to die in non-violence attempts,
White said.
•A non-violent person tries to
weaken the will of the persecutor
and win him over. He throws the
enemy off balance like In Ju ltsu.
He shows him he's in a different
moral climate than he expects."
, - The aggressor is surprised. If
he can be persuaded that the non¬
violent person Is not Just a cow¬
ard, be becomes curious, White
"Non-violence goes on
sumption that goodness is more
powerful than evil, good more
powerful than hate."
Respect for the ' assailant Is
very powerful, White said. If the
attacker Is aggressive and is
counteracted by decency and love,
these forces will draw out the
goodness In him.
Also during the program Ray
Floyd, a senior philosophy major
helping coordinate the seminars,
summarized a chapter from
•Sanity and Survival: The Non-
Violent Alternative", by Jerome
Frank, M.D.
violence as an effective substl-
War results when two parties
are unable to settle their disputes
In any other way. 'But has the
vanquished country accepted the
have some good qualities which
can be Incorporated Into peaceful
resistance. These are a sense of
inspired purpose, courage, ener¬
gy, sincerity, and discipline.
•These things are necessary if
you're going to make non-vlp-
lence   a   resistance force,* he
Non-violence can be set up on
any level. It Is a moral force, a -
persistent effort toward what you
think the truth Is.
Three films, on Ghandl, the
magician and nuclear warfare,
will be shown for Tuesday's pro¬
gram at 7:30 In the International
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up. You have to decide whether
you want to live with those people
around the world or If you want
to live on top of them. If you want
to live on top of them, you can
stay where you are. If you want
to live with them, then you and I
move. And when you do, the first
thing you will run Into Is the law.
But wheiKthe law has done nothing
other than sanctify butchery, I
want nothing to do with it.
•We must move and work for
the day  when  the words 'op¬
pressed'  and  'oppressor' won't
.   exist in our society," said Har¬
ris.
•And If you do mc
you no guarantee, i
you all the ramifications and all
effects.  But I  can tell you
•tbe
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>. You and I must stand uj
do Ij. If we don't, It will never
happen. And If you do stand up,
you'll have trouble. Butyouwon't
be alone. Your brothers around
the world are standing up and
fighting too. And they're standing
up for that day when a man stands
up, It doesn't have to be on an¬
other man's back."
Harris' talk was warmly re¬
ceived by those who braved the
chilly temperatures and wet
grass In the Amphitheater. Fol¬
lowing his s p e e c h , the ar¬
ticulate former Stanford Univer¬
sity student president fielded
questions from the audience.
Free speech
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Neither Paul nor Albright are
members of the Executive Com¬
mittee.
The final vote was five to four
in favor of sending the recom¬
mendation back to the Student
Affairs Committee.
In further action the commit¬
tee, on a recommendation from
the Ad-Hoc Committee-Data
Processing, noted the need tor
schools and thai committee to
facilitate Us operation.
Finally, the committee sent
on, as evidence, a recommenda¬
tion to establish a policy on re¬
leasing confidential information
f, on faculty members, similar to
the one recently established tor
students by the Academic Senate,
to a committee studying the feasi¬
bility of establishing an Ethics
Committee.
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