1969_03 The Daily Collegian March 1969

              Editorial/Comments
2    THE DAILY COLLEGIAN    77iur«<
Card
in mou
th
Very little was accomplished in yesterday's National Draft Card
Turn-in ceremony. The free speech area ■activity" drew a couple
hundred sightseers to witness Byron Black, a Fresno State College
linguistics instructor, eat his draft card with the aid of a liberal
amount of catsup. After reading the penalty for destroying the Selec¬
tive Service document, the liberal lnstruc
said, «Now I am my draft card.'
II someone get the man a match.
e advocates t
opposition   to  the  draft,   the  war  In  Vietnam,   and I
American Institutions. There have been a number of y<
that   have turned their cards In to General Ilershey and have been
subject to the list of punishments.
For Black the eating of his draft card serves no purpose. The
card that he ate was his second; the first card was turned In at
another draft resistance rally last year. Black, who Is 29 years old,
is out of the reach of the Selective Service and his participation in
the rally only puts him and FSC In the middle of unfavorable public
Sot the other four students, one of (hem blind, the role in a still
eonservatlve society will be rough, not to mention a possible stay
In a federal prison. And the sad part about the idea of returning a
draft card Is that the act serves no effective cause.
Letters to the Editor.
'Brothers'
A strange thing happened I
a couple years ago. 1 was w
lng as a parking lot attendant
'brother" came
!!.,:.
I  lot   a
into
approxl-
•UNCI.E
satlon.   We wa
in   his   calling
TOM."
calling me an Uncle Tom! But
it was true, I was exactly that.
The thing that hurts me is the
fact that it took a white man to
make me aware of this. My black
* stood by condemning
lot even attempting to
one  of  their "broth-
to those blacks mentioned In Ihe
previous paragraph. The term
•brother" is used loosely, and it
Is defined at most, vaguely. The
Webster New World Dictionary
defines 'brother" as, "a friend
who Is like a brother". The word
•brother" connotes a relationship
based upon concern for one an¬
other.
If this meanlnR had been adop¬
ted by those blacks mentioned In
the second paragraph, I would
have been 'corrected" sooner
and I wouldn't still be classified,
even up to this present date, as
an Uncle Tom by those blacks.
meaning of 'brother* wenl al
with the word.
Blacks must care enough al
their fellow 'brothers' to gc
to the Uncle Toms, etc., and s
■ girl
in
liki.' t
" did It
Misguided girls?
n glad Mr. Swope noted that
iave done away with chastity
i, too. Prior .'to this year, all
en residents were Issued
at the beginning of the se¬
er, but Gov. Reagan and his
impossibility  this
greatly appreciated by all of
those tyrants In control of the
halls. Effective Immediately, no
residence hall women will be al-
Students urged to
attend dept. meetings
What does tl
vort'l
The use of the term 'broi
by the black population Is
nlflcant in unifying the I
movement. But It could I
much   more  significance   II
it Fresno State College.
As Mr. Swope points out, these
dorms are being run like military
academies. Why. every morning
you can see the freshmen out In
the parking lot at 5 a.m. doing
their calisthenics before they set
out   for Ihelr close order drill.
I agree with Mr. Swope that
"the women's dorms are sym¬
bolic citadels of parental mis¬
trust and suspicion." The 20 foot
tall chain link fence to be started
immediately to entirely surround
the residence halls will, we hope,
keep  these wayward, misguided
the girls' parents will construct
Mr. Swope's astute statement
, hope that the m
thing about the deplorable con¬
ditions In the halls. The way
they're being run now, they put
Sing Sing to shame. And I think
Swope Is just the man to do It.
S. CRAIG HOLLAND
OPENING
TONIGHT
8:15 PM
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH   !
F.S.C. Littlei Theatre
"Wilder at his Wildest!
/#
F.S.C. Students 25tf with  ASB card
LITTLE THEATRE BOX OFFICE
The World of Leo Rosten
To an angry young man
dent   r
(and s:
/age) k
signed "Columbia Senior," I wish
I knew where to send this reply
It will upset you to learn that
I agree with many things you
said. For instance; "Don't ques¬
tion our sincerity!" I don't. You
are about as sincere as anyone
can be. You are sincerely un¬
happy, sincerely frustrated and
sincerely confused. You are also
sincerely wrong about the few
facts you cite, and sincerely Il¬
logical In the violent conclusions
you reach. Besides, what does
•sincerity"  have to do with ls-
least three fields In which you
pass such sweeping Judgments:
economics,  history,   political
You   say,   'Destroy   a system
>t abolished unemploy-
thc  s
. expiol
■ntng, ;
• By
y ins
s full
of sincere patients. Hitler was
undoubtedly sincere. So are the
followers of Vollva, who think
the world Is sincerely flat.
I sadly agree that your college
courses have been 'outrageously
Irrelevant tothetlmes"-because
your letter reveals that you could
not pass a freshman exam In at
blow up all hospitals (and per¬
haps execute all doctors, biolo¬
gists and researchers): they have
not abolished disease.
Before you destroy a system,
propose another that will solve
(not hide, shift or disguise) un¬
employment, "exploitation," war.
Anyone can promise Utopia -
without specifying a program.
Tom Hayden, idol of the New
Left, has said: 'First we'll make
the revolution—then we'll find out
what for." Would.you employ a
plumber who rips out all the
pipes  In  your  house before he
You si
i repair a leak?
media:
•The rr
not   telling
how and from whom did you learn
'   you  correctly  de-
r all, your Informa¬
tion comes from one or another
organ of-the mass media.
•This society is only Interested
In higher prices and profits!"
You apparently do not understand
this society, or a society, or the
function of prices (and profits)
In any economy. Has It never oc¬
curred to you that the market¬
place Is a polling booth? That
buying Is voting? That no eco¬
nomic system Is possible with¬
out some form of pricing, with¬
out some measure of efficacy or
worth? Has It never occurred to
you that profits are a form of
proof (that something gives satis¬
faction to those who pay for it)?
Perhaps you should examine the
public uses that we make of pri¬
vate profits - through taxation.
The countries that follow your
platitude, "production for use,"
without exception produce farjj
less for their people to enjoy/
of much shoddier quality, jt
much higher prices (measured by
the hours of work needed to buy
something). Don't you know that
•Socialist' countries are smug¬
gling 'capitalist" incentives Into
their systems? Has it not dawned
on you that wherever and when¬
ever mere is no free market
there is no free thought, no free
(Continued on Page 6, Col. 1)
Once around the campus ... briefly
TJmra,
!, 1969    THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
ter relationship't
partment of English and English
. majors, four faculty members
and a group of students met
Tuesday afternoon at Fresno
State College.
Dr. Robert S. Billings, chair¬
man of the English department,
Dr. Gene Bluesteln, Mr. Martin
T. Paul and Mrs. Benjamin Clark
represented the faculty of the
English department at the meet¬
ing.
Bluesteln led the discussion,
encouraging students to assert
themselves and participate in
what happens In the English de¬
partment.
In answer to a student's ques¬
tion regarding the location of
power and Influence on the FSC
campus, Billings said, "All of the
power is in the president's office,
but we do have recommending
power. Changes are initiated at
the faculty level i
would be welcome to attend the
English department meetings and
sit in on committee meetings. He
added, 'We are asking you to limit
our power by putting pressure on
us. If you sit back and depend
on our good graces, this will not
get you anywhere.' He stressed
the point that the faculty and
students should be a 'community
of interests'.
The students agreed to form
an organization and get a charter
from the college as this would
enable them to secure meeting
rooms on campus and to use
bulletin boards for notices.
A small groupof students stay¬
ed after the meeting to act as a
steering committee and to initiate
forming an organization and se¬
curing a charter.
There will be another faculty-
student meeting on March 11th
at 1 p.m. in EdP 219 for all In¬
terested English majors.
Concert tonight
The Fresno State College Sym¬
phony Orchestra will prosent its
first concert of the semester
tonight at 8 p»m., In tie First
Congregational Church, 2131 N.
Van Ness Blvd.
FSC music staff members will
be featured In solo roles. The
program Includes three contem¬
porary pieces by Poulenc, Vllla-
Lobos, and Hlnderolth, two of
which will be performed in Fres¬
no for the first time.
The   combination of two organ
play a
n this.
I the students they
Chief asks for
CALENDAR   student help
Douglas Bambrldge, chief of
the Fresno State College se¬
curity force, has called tor re¬
newed cooperation between stu¬
dents and the security force In
keeping campus crime at a mln-
gram is rare, because most con¬
cert halls do not have satis¬
factory organs. The First Con¬
gregational Church recently had
a Cassavant organ installed.
The concert Is open to the pub¬
lic.   Admission Is free.
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorori¬
ty's newly elected officers for
this year are: Linda Palmer,
president; Sue Brltton, first vice
president; Nancy Holmes, second
vice   president;   Diana  Escola,
responding secretary; Iamble
Brash, recording secretary;
Diane Galloway, treasurer; Jean¬
ne Burubeltz, scholarship; Mar -
cla Boltlngfaouse, membership^
Loree  Sward,    pledge   trainer;
The request follows the com¬
pilation of the security report
for February which shows an in¬
crease of 1,657 reports, arrests
and citations over the same month
in 1968.
'Students can helpby reporting
any suspicious activity to the
security force, extension 2132,
or by Jotting down the license
number of a suspicious vehicle
and reporting it to the cam¬
pus police," said Bambrldge.
The Daily Collegian
Kathye Cole, public
Jeanette Schaaf, social; Janelle
Leonard, music; Ann Duke, reg¬
istrar; Suzl Bert, activities;
Marlene Matlock, panhellenlc;
Tina Nelson, fraternity ap¬
preciation; Nancy Bolten, cul¬
tural;    Irene    Shlmasakl, hls-
mendatlons; Lynnette Elliot,
marshall and Fran Jones, mem-
Government confab
Five student body officers will
attend a CSCSPA conference in
Sacramento. Saturday and Sunday.
The conference, sponsored
by the California State College
Student President Association,
will discuss crises In higher edu-
Dlscussion will center around
student govemment'on campuses
hit by disorders and recently
passed state-wide punitive leg¬
islation   for   the   state   college
Among the officers attending
are Bruce Bronzan, student
body president, Randy Walsh and
Gregg Harding, first and second
vice-presidents, respectively.
Beta Kappa
The Beta Kappa Chapter
of Phi Chi Theta, a profession¬
al business organization for wo¬
men, received 14 pledges at the
last Thursday
pledging ci
evening.
The pledges are: Betty Broad-
dus, Janet Chlnn, Sandra Fos¬
ter, Katherine Impertrlce, Den-
lse Jnqua, Shirley Jung, Judith
Kramer, Betty Madrid, Sandra
Mlnaslan, Karen Philips, Karen
Schwartz, Phoebe Taylor, Gall
Walker and Kathleen wilier.
March 9 the alumnae group will
join the local chapter for a Found¬
er's day dinner.
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August 31
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students of The Calliornla
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Fare: $225 one way
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(413) 469-1041
joint ventubi rimim
TOMORROW  NIGHT
PAUL BUTTERFIELD BlUES BAND
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College Union, Rm. 306   Ph: 487-2657
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