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America the beautiful s By Martyn Green umtednagdom Whea I ea* young (sad I eaad to think of A men •Cesdaa CttyV- the piam worn, If not all, was * Ills was greet. Later I realise that It might est cam* to ea st I susp mil that It image h bs different, plosssnt osore of aa ethereal tongdom than :. I could ssetbere an earthly society bet I hardly e some problems, ear*, ■ntlclpared whst eaa only be re would not measurably classified as more thsn psrtlal ha image I had of Amort- dUUluslonment. • heautiful go many things now disturb me wrong I was. True, my sheet this from society that I DIAMOND RINGS *WV»^^^w#*^»^V^^^^VWV^VVVV*^^»s>j«^"4s<^»^-l<-'%AMA»*sw*sa^»^a^a^a^a**a^a^»^a^a« ATTENTION FSC STUDENTS BRING YOUR STUDENT BODY CARD AND YOU GET EXCLUSIVELY AT BALDWIN'S IN FRESNO! hkk a* tous csssflxci i* «t warn oe rtiiow 00*0 MANY kaORI STYIIS TO CHOOSf FROM, 73 00 to 2500.00 STUDENT CHARGES WELCOME - NO CO-SIGNER NECESSARY SPK1AL SEMESTER TERMS FOR STUDENTS &cdJtlrit& **& a r %K# r 1 r d c JEWELERS -OOWNTOWN- 1107 PULTON MALL Ph. 8*7-8101 —MANCMC JfER — 8ggg BaVaCaatTXaiS par. agf-ggii ui e •ni s 00*86 aaver have expected. There are many shoot which other people la Amertcmfeel the same. Others, I view as dangers, yet people might dUmgre*. 80ms of my vwSx-msn assy bs to- trtbetobes tothodulu rasa toe lings involved la the seceeeary cultural My Lai Massacre What brought this hapless stato to s head? If I am to lay a flager on the catalyst I would haws to Identify ths recent revelation of the My Lai massacre In Vim nam In March 1*66. At thst timet was scarcely 900 mitos sway la Saigon. What is so appall, nf which undsrststss the case) is thst this wss not an isolated Incident Involving ths vendetta of one man bet that many 'Whits Hat'a ma ii- cans were Involved In the systematic slaughter of over one hundred Innocent Vietnamese men, women and CHILDREN! If this alone was not enough to tarnish ths bright seal on the American way of life. I hsdshout mo reinforcements that I hsd once tried to Ignore. I had read somewhere shortly after my arrival that Americans have been accused of "being friendly without being friends". I had never been entirely conscious of this until I read that phrase, which crystallized my aldose. Very quickly I had began to sense the feeling that A merlcsns wore generally hifhly approachable - but often 11 ttl. elae. It seemed. Theirs is s casual relationship whore one person means little more than another. I sensed s distaste for emotional* Involvement and wondered wh>. Could It he that tho pace of tho American way of life leaves no time A Traced} of Society Then I recalled the story of tho girl who wss stabbed three limes In succession In New York in 19C4 while thirt\ -eight people who were horribly aware of what was going on did NOTHING to help - not even to pick up tho phone and call the police. What Is the prognosis of a society that seems to be becoming increasingly alienated towards each other' Are we no longer In any way "our brother's keeper* As I looked around I became aware nf several trends thai few people would identify as "progressive". America has between 20 and 21 per rem of the population who are twlow the "poverty line" - living in a manner which Is nothing less than an utter disgrace to •.metiraii aoc|a.|y. This didn't happeti vest-erds). Yet very little i* being done even now tn "the richest countr\ In the world" to alleviate the suffering of the poor through effective social welfare. The current rise in ethnic consciousness max Iw a natural reaction to suppression until now. but 11 • an hardly he construed as useful to society as s whole. It leads not to integration but to tho kind of separatism or provincialism that India Is still striving to ronilvat. ■ rsjgj nigh Oara oul* has to sniff Los Angeles on a Friday night to realize thst there ia more than just something to the increasing protest against pollution. Rivers sre horribh contaminated and land Is piled high with filth and garbage - the tragic end product of a nation of waste makers thst produced tt initially to safeguard the health of those It now menaces. More menacing still is the Incidence of crimes and particularly the easy avallabtlln of guns snd weepoue of dsath sack that In some areas people dare not leave their houses st night. Police sre no longer respected as they eeee wore, snd possibly with some justification by the innocent victims of police brutality. Un doubtedly not all police believe In self administered "justice" but these who do.have loag since dissipated much of the puMle's usual coafldenes la the police in general Televioton he* been sceeawdof Hartyn Groan /• • paychatoga mmfo* mtudont from (he Umr*g Kingdom. Ho a pant e yam, tn Vtatnom ma a pro— photograph*, before cowing to toe Urmtad Statam. Him column. Food lot Thought, ahll he a regular /•*. rure ol Campum International and there Is certain »-.:- A Ola ssarehlag tor a story, will naturally shoot the most drsmatlc peris of •demonstration or riot ao that It -ui look Interesting on Sim. Hews is thus biased because of commercial necessity - new* programs without news won't sell the ad- vertlslng time that pays for it. Similarly, hs won't sheet the normal day-to-day scene occurring two blocks sway, ear ss interview with s non-volatile •moderate". Only "msa bites dog* wss ever news - never vice versa. Television cameras hsv* also not unjustly, been accused of promoting violence by their very presence in a hyper-actlv* crowd. Danger Within Similarly, there are certain things thst disturb me which some A merlcsns might not loan tt* ss problems. Yst It is the very fact thst they do not consider them a threat that msy be so dangerous Tho press Is so commercially orientated and competition so keen that all the most tragic and gory news hs* now become fit for general consumption. There wss sums when Ths National Inquirer took flrst prize for grisly sadism. Now LlfS lesds ths wsy. followed by sacks mess of "give It to 'em straight" formerly conservative. pars, that ths Inquirer's 1 ship hss dropped off - its read ers* needs fulfilled elsewhere. Ttase magazine ostensibly points the wsy to Illustrative news of the My Lsl massacre tn lta November 26th issue, saying, "pictures of the massacre . . . will also he aeon in a forthcoming las** of Life". The justification being that tt is news - not that It la pandering to the tastss of a society that la Increasingly unaware of lta trend toward aadism snd the casual acceptance of scees* of horror and violence that once shocked and motlfled. Americans meg protest environments! pollution - but what shout the pollution of our minds" Ths tremendous popularity of such Italian Westerns as "a Fistful of Dollars" and "The Good, the Bad snd the Ugly" with their truesome torture scenes snd Jus- 11fled killing lends further credence to this idea. How far eaa ws go In this escalation before »e cease to be shocked by scything" Flnslly. the television ne«saim of agony and death tn Vietnam precedes programs math aa "Combat" or "Wild. Wild. West" such thst to msny. psr- ticulsrly the young the whole thing is just one long fantasy of thrills. I do not presume to suggest that all that I hav-ft outlined la neceeearlly objective or possibly without fallacy. But If mac* of this Is true aad If many Americana ars bllaafulty unaware of tho state of ths Union, then is-toed there ie cause tor alarm, far threats unperceived are tar snore perilous than throats pros*****. And if these tow readily perceptible, hidden Uks Icebergs, lark boas*** the trisMsdsssrtoceofoon- Uto->
Object Description
Title | 1969_12 The Daily Collegian December 1969 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1969 |
Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
Language | eng |
Description
Title | December 4, 1969 Pg 4 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1969 |
Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
Language | eng |
Full-Text-Search | America the beautiful s By Martyn Green umtednagdom Whea I ea* young (sad I eaad to think of A men •Cesdaa CttyV- the piam worn, If not all, was * Ills was greet. Later I realise that It might est cam* to ea st I susp mil that It image h bs different, plosssnt osore of aa ethereal tongdom than :. I could ssetbere an earthly society bet I hardly e some problems, ear*, ■ntlclpared whst eaa only be re would not measurably classified as more thsn psrtlal ha image I had of Amort- dUUluslonment. • heautiful go many things now disturb me wrong I was. True, my sheet this from society that I DIAMOND RINGS *WV»^^^w#*^»^V^^^^VWV^VVVV*^^»s>j«^"4s<^»^-l<-'%AMA»*sw*sa^»^a^a^a^a**a^a^»^a^a« ATTENTION FSC STUDENTS BRING YOUR STUDENT BODY CARD AND YOU GET EXCLUSIVELY AT BALDWIN'S IN FRESNO! hkk a* tous csssflxci i* «t warn oe rtiiow 00*0 MANY kaORI STYIIS TO CHOOSf FROM, 73 00 to 2500.00 STUDENT CHARGES WELCOME - NO CO-SIGNER NECESSARY SPK1AL SEMESTER TERMS FOR STUDENTS &cdJtlrit& **& a r %K# r 1 r d c JEWELERS -OOWNTOWN- 1107 PULTON MALL Ph. 8*7-8101 —MANCMC JfER — 8ggg BaVaCaatTXaiS par. agf-ggii ui e •ni s 00*86 aaver have expected. There are many shoot which other people la Amertcmfeel the same. Others, I view as dangers, yet people might dUmgre*. 80ms of my vwSx-msn assy bs to- trtbetobes tothodulu rasa toe lings involved la the seceeeary cultural My Lai Massacre What brought this hapless stato to s head? If I am to lay a flager on the catalyst I would haws to Identify ths recent revelation of the My Lai massacre In Vim nam In March 1*66. At thst timet was scarcely 900 mitos sway la Saigon. What is so appall, nf which undsrststss the case) is thst this wss not an isolated Incident Involving ths vendetta of one man bet that many 'Whits Hat'a ma ii- cans were Involved In the systematic slaughter of over one hundred Innocent Vietnamese men, women and CHILDREN! If this alone was not enough to tarnish ths bright seal on the American way of life. I hsdshout mo reinforcements that I hsd once tried to Ignore. I had read somewhere shortly after my arrival that Americans have been accused of "being friendly without being friends". I had never been entirely conscious of this until I read that phrase, which crystallized my aldose. Very quickly I had began to sense the feeling that A merlcsns wore generally hifhly approachable - but often 11 ttl. elae. It seemed. Theirs is s casual relationship whore one person means little more than another. I sensed s distaste for emotional* Involvement and wondered wh>. Could It he that tho pace of tho American way of life leaves no time A Traced} of Society Then I recalled the story of tho girl who wss stabbed three limes In succession In New York in 19C4 while thirt\ -eight people who were horribly aware of what was going on did NOTHING to help - not even to pick up tho phone and call the police. What Is the prognosis of a society that seems to be becoming increasingly alienated towards each other' Are we no longer In any way "our brother's keeper* As I looked around I became aware nf several trends thai few people would identify as "progressive". America has between 20 and 21 per rem of the population who are twlow the "poverty line" - living in a manner which Is nothing less than an utter disgrace to •.metiraii aoc|a.|y. This didn't happeti vest-erds). Yet very little i* being done even now tn "the richest countr\ In the world" to alleviate the suffering of the poor through effective social welfare. The current rise in ethnic consciousness max Iw a natural reaction to suppression until now. but 11 • an hardly he construed as useful to society as s whole. It leads not to integration but to tho kind of separatism or provincialism that India Is still striving to ronilvat. ■ rsjgj nigh Oara oul* has to sniff Los Angeles on a Friday night to realize thst there ia more than just something to the increasing protest against pollution. Rivers sre horribh contaminated and land Is piled high with filth and garbage - the tragic end product of a nation of waste makers thst produced tt initially to safeguard the health of those It now menaces. More menacing still is the Incidence of crimes and particularly the easy avallabtlln of guns snd weepoue of dsath sack that In some areas people dare not leave their houses st night. Police sre no longer respected as they eeee wore, snd possibly with some justification by the innocent victims of police brutality. Un doubtedly not all police believe In self administered "justice" but these who do.have loag since dissipated much of the puMle's usual coafldenes la the police in general Televioton he* been sceeawdof Hartyn Groan /• • paychatoga mmfo* mtudont from (he Umr*g Kingdom. Ho a pant e yam, tn Vtatnom ma a pro— photograph*, before cowing to toe Urmtad Statam. Him column. Food lot Thought, ahll he a regular /•*. rure ol Campum International and there Is certain »-.:- A Ola ssarehlag tor a story, will naturally shoot the most drsmatlc peris of •demonstration or riot ao that It -ui look Interesting on Sim. Hews is thus biased because of commercial necessity - new* programs without news won't sell the ad- vertlslng time that pays for it. Similarly, hs won't sheet the normal day-to-day scene occurring two blocks sway, ear ss interview with s non-volatile •moderate". Only "msa bites dog* wss ever news - never vice versa. Television cameras hsv* also not unjustly, been accused of promoting violence by their very presence in a hyper-actlv* crowd. Danger Within Similarly, there are certain things thst disturb me which some A merlcsns might not loan tt* ss problems. Yst It is the very fact thst they do not consider them a threat that msy be so dangerous Tho press Is so commercially orientated and competition so keen that all the most tragic and gory news hs* now become fit for general consumption. There wss sums when Ths National Inquirer took flrst prize for grisly sadism. Now LlfS lesds ths wsy. followed by sacks mess of "give It to 'em straight" formerly conservative. pars, that ths Inquirer's 1 ship hss dropped off - its read ers* needs fulfilled elsewhere. Ttase magazine ostensibly points the wsy to Illustrative news of the My Lsl massacre tn lta November 26th issue, saying, "pictures of the massacre . . . will also he aeon in a forthcoming las** of Life". The justification being that tt is news - not that It la pandering to the tastss of a society that la Increasingly unaware of lta trend toward aadism snd the casual acceptance of scees* of horror and violence that once shocked and motlfled. Americans meg protest environments! pollution - but what shout the pollution of our minds" Ths tremendous popularity of such Italian Westerns as "a Fistful of Dollars" and "The Good, the Bad snd the Ugly" with their truesome torture scenes snd Jus- 11fled killing lends further credence to this idea. How far eaa ws go In this escalation before »e cease to be shocked by scything" Flnslly. the television ne«saim of agony and death tn Vietnam precedes programs math aa "Combat" or "Wild. Wild. West" such thst to msny. psr- ticulsrly the young the whole thing is just one long fantasy of thrills. I do not presume to suggest that all that I hav-ft outlined la neceeearlly objective or possibly without fallacy. But If mac* of this Is true aad If many Americana ars bllaafulty unaware of tho state of ths Union, then is-toed there ie cause tor alarm, far threats unperceived are tar snore perilous than throats pros*****. And if these tow readily perceptible, hidden Uks Icebergs, lark boas*** the trisMsdsssrtoceofoon- Uto-> |