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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
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COMMENTARY
The last march
By Herb Caen '
•WHAT DO we want?' .
•PEACEI' . . . 'When?' .
•NOW!'. . .'What do we wa
. . . 'PEACEI' . . . 'When?'
•NOWI' . . .
i, ringing out over the
shuffle of thousands of marching
feet on a clear and beautiful
morning In San Francisco. On
Saturday, there we aU were again,
for the tMrd time - or was lt
the fourth? -demonstratingeasily and glibly for the cause, en-
Joying the thrill of ■ solidarity,
feeUng even a Uttle silly at Joining ln the schoolboy chanting of
simple words.
nores it. If you can believe Dr.
Gallup and his ten-foot polls,
a majority of Americans are now
against the war, but It's still a
minority that marches.
One more time, trying to'get
the   message  through, trying to
here in the loveliest of American
cities. But all those red flags
flapping In the morning breeze-
do they mean the revolution is
really here or are they merely
young defiance? AH those Viet
Cong banners. •[ don't Icnow
why,' says a somber young woman   who   has   walked   ln   every
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each rise, marchers pausing ti
look back at the packed stree
and ask the question that was t<
be asked 10,000 times that day
"How many?' Everybody had s
guess but there never was anac-
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demonstrative; o
and miserable a
and even then it took years. In
1965, only a few hundred were
willing to lay it on the line (to
be photographed, filed In a memory bank, sumetlmes busted). By
1967, there were tens of thousands; In '69, hundreds of thou-
rolUlon, here and ln Washington.
Still, ln a country of 200 million, only a drop in the bucket.
The President gives no signal
(waa he occupied again by a game
on TV?) His Administration Ig-
The cadres formed downtown,
gatherihf; momentum and people
as they swept Into Geary Boulevard, the well-worn route through
the houses of the silent majority,
toward the Russian Orthodox
church with Its onion domes shining In the sun. Tac Squadders in
their coveralls, hundreds of photographers, not all of them from
Army Intelligence.
At Arguello, a Dixieland band
pumping a little life Into already
OFFICIAL
RING DAY
nough, for the war goes
ers with expressionless eyes.
With us or against us? Here and
there, bartenders standing on the
sidewalk, glowering. No doubt
where they stand. But the kids-
ah, the kids. Leaning out the windows, peeking furtively from behind curtains, they flashed the
peace sign. At 26th Ave., a drunk
with a glass In his hand shouted
•Commies!' over and over as he
staggered, lurched and finally
fell.
How motley this throng. 'It's
timers out today," beamed an
old-tl mer. but it was still a march
for the young, as lt should be.
The uniform was tattered Levis
and Army castoffs. At least one
example ofRadlcalChlctawoman
in Gucci shoes, carrying a Gucci
shoulder bag, and around her neck
a locket containing a baby picture
of - Lenin! At 27th Ave., Roger
Kent, wearing his Navy blouse
with Its row of World War II
battle ribbons. Poet Allen Ginsberg, who has lost weight and
looks fit. tooUIng away on a
plastic horn. Lawrence FerUn-
ghettl. But mainly kids, kids,
kids, some of whom hadn't been
born when the Indochina war began and who now wave red flags
in front of bulls on the streeU of
San Francisco ... a memorable
friendly sign outside a little house
on 27th Ave.: 'Please Use Our
Bathroom.'
The thousands filed Into Golden
Gate Park, past a row of legless
and one-legged Vietnam veterans
watching Impassively from
wheelchairs. On the grass of the
polo field, the great crowd settled down for a huge picnic. Out
came the salami, the cheese, the
Jugs of wine. 'What are all these
PEASANTS doing on my POLO
field?' lisped a young man with
0 hip,
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skinny short-haired guy walked
through the mob, carrying a sign
reading 'TeU It To Hanoi!' Everybody admired his guts. In
marched the Gay Liberation
Front, to smiles and laughter.
Their Mg Viet Cong banner was
colored a delicious delirious lav-
The speeches began, the weU-
meanlng cUches distorted and
lost in thebrlsk Pacific wind. One
sensed the absence of a villain
like Lyndon Balnes Johnson. Nixon is merely an object of derision;  it  was  «Hey,  hey, LBJ!»
At the edge of the Park, the militant Chlcanos, In their brown
berets and battle Jackets, were
forming up to disrupt the speeches for keeps, a raggle-taggle
army. 'They oughta get drafted •
scoffed a Vietnam vet 'so's
they'd   learn how  to  march  at
The last peace march, ending
ln frustration and bitterness. If
there Is a next one, It wiU surely be violent. That was the message of last Saturday and lt had
better be heeded.
-Reprinted from
The San Francisco Chronicle
Elections
(Continued from Page 1)
seats   and   School   of Graduate
Studies with one seat.
NomlnaUon petitions for the
various senate seats are stlU
available in theStudentActlvlUes
Offlce and must be turned ln by
4   p.m.   today  to  the  activities
An all-candidates meeting wlU
be held at 5 p.m. in College Union
Room 310 and active campaigning
wiU begin after the meeUng is
Voting wlU take place Wednesday, May 5, and each school wlU
vote in the various school of-
Candldates taking out petitions
thaa far are: School of Professional Studies: Jenny Bailey,
Maureen Davis, Davis Fox, BIU
FoUett and Scott Tompkins;
School of Education: TonyRoque-
School of Natural Sciences:
Woody Brooks; School of Social
Work: Esther CastiUo and Rachel
Maldanando; Division of Engineering: WlUlam Woodson; School
of Business: Hal Bolen and Grace
Soils; School of Humanities: Irma
Alvarado and James Estrada;
School of Agriculture: Eldon
Parker; School of Social Sciences: Bonnie McNeil and Matt
Potthast and School of Graduate
Studies: no petitions taken out
yet.
THE DAILY COUEGIAN
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FRIDAY
APRIL 30th
8:30 P.M.
CONVENTION CENTIR
THEATRE
Tickets: $5.50, 4.50, 3.50
Tickets on sole ol the CONVENTION-CENTER BOX OFFICE.
700 "M" St. (by Moil, enclose stomped self-oddressed
envelope).'Agencies: Villoge Records, Weinstocks. Vorsity
Shop, Greenbrier (both stores! Gottschoiks (Merced &
Vi'solio only) Kings Stotloners, Honford, lewis Travel, Tulare, Coalinga Hordware. .
Spring anti-war activities focus on May 5 CGfltGr
anniversary of Kent, Jackson State killings
After a long, relatively Inactive
winter, tha antt-war movement
has taken to the streets again ln
a renewed effort to end tba war In
Southeast Asia.
The next major event ln the
Spring Offensive wlU be the May
5 Moratorium on Business as Usual, which wlU be the-culmlna-
spring. StudenU are requested
by moratorium organlzera to stay
away from classes as a protest
against the war, and ln memory
of those students killed last year
at Kent and Jackson State.
The moratorium, which will be
observed, nation-wide, wUl Include a wide variety of non-violent activities designed to bring
normal operations to a standstill.
Highways and bridges will be
blocked, stores which open will be
picketed, and coUege classrooms
across the country wlUbeempty.
The moratorium Is designed to
coincide with boycotts and demonstrations ln Europe and Saigon.
Cells Stodola, national strike
coordinator of the student Mobilization Committee,  stated ln a
speech on April 8 that tba moratorium is a 'poUtlcal strike,'
designed to open up the campuses
and high schools, using their
facilities to spread the facta
about tbe war Into every nook and
cranny of their communities.
On campus, Resistance leaders
and some members of theStudent
Senate are planning to request
that classes be officially closed
and a campus-wide convocation
be held ln memory of the deaths
at Kent and Jackson State, and
ln protest over tbe continuation
of the war in Vietnam.
over 5,000 square feet.
Schwarta said that the current
site Is Just not equipped to handle
tba almost 14,000 students on
campus today.
'- Wampler cornmeotad that leg-
lalaUon was Introduced last year
by Congressman BernleSlsk, CD-
Fresno) to use (ha health feea to
build and pay for health centers
on the 19 California State College campuses.
Tbe majority of the payments
for the health centers la ralaed
through tbe sale of bonds at a
five per cent Interest subsidy
guarantee.
This  roeana that when a col-
legs la ready to buUd, bonds wlU
be sold with tha coUege system
paying thrae par cant and tbs
federal government paying two
par cant or up to $47,000 of tbe
total cost.
preliminary plans tor the can-
tar wlU be ready by June, according toWamplar.wlthworklng
plans expected to be finished tn
nine months and lime of actual
construction expected to take
about 15 months.
Wampler said the approval of
health cantors usually does not
have to go through aU tha 'hurdles' that some other building
projects do.
•Fresno State Is really In a
CAMPUS FOOTNOTES
All-day garbage roundup today
An all-day garbage roundup,
similar to that of Earth Day's
roundup, will be held today ln the
Separate containers for glass,
aluminum and newspaper have
been placed ln the area forstu-
dents to deposit any of those
products there. The event Is being sponsored by Ecology Action,
an FSC -based student organlza-
Sandy Turner, spokesman for
the group, states that the Earth
Day roundup was such a success
that plans have been made to have
a garbage roundup ln the Free
Speech Area every Wednesday
through the end of the semester.
Turner says that all newspapers coUectod win be donated
to the Boys Club of Fresno and
that the money coUected from the
sale of tbe aluminum and glass
wlU go toward tbe establishment
of a permanent recycling center
on the FSC campus.
Noah's Ark.
Noah's Ark, theThursday night
coffee house at the CoUege Religious Center, has scheduled the
following special events through
May 20 (which Is its last night
for this academic year):
May 8 - poetry reading by
Chuck Moulton and music by Joel
Mansfield
May 13 - John Urrutla, classical guitarist'
May 20 - A last fling, with
music by several of the Ark's
Maddy campus visit
The CoUege RepubUcans are
sponsoring a 'rap session* with
Assemblyman Ken Maddy, R-
32nd District, between 10 a.m.
and noon Friday In the College
Union Lounge. Maddy will be loll In the northwest corner of
There wlU be a general membership meeting of the College
Republicans  at DIClcco's Res-
Blood needed
There Is stlU an urgent need
for supplies of blood to help provide blood plasma for Nobuko
Yazawa, a non-student, who was
injured earlier this semester.
Miss Yazawa is still ln need
ot blood and any assistance will
be greatfuUy appreciated.
For further Information contact Dr. Kenneth Kerr, director
at extension 2409.
Readers' Theatre
The Readers' Theatre, sponsored by the speech arts department, wlU give three performances of two one-act pUys on
April 29 and 30 and May 1 at8:15
p.m. In the Arena Theatre. The
plays are Lanford Wilson's
•Home Free", a two character ■
play, and Arthur Kopett's'Cham- j
ber Music*, a large ensemble
from the pages ot history, including Gertrude Stein, Isabella
of Spain, Pearl White, Joan of
Arc, Amelia Earhart and Mrs.
Mozart. Tickets are on sale at
the Little Theatre box office at
Ag Expo '71
The School of AgrtculturalScl-
ences has announced plans for Its
•Expo '11', an all-day event
scheduled for Saturday, May 15.
An open house of aU ag facilities,
departmental seminars, exhibits
by   agri-business  firms in the
Fresno area, a fashion show In
the CoUege Union by the FSC
Home Economics Club, a deep-
pit barbeque and live entertainment at O'Neill Park are planned.
Tickets for the barbeque are
$1.15 ($1 for FFA and 4-H Club
members and children 12 and under). Tickets may be purchased
at the main office ln Ihe Ag
Building. For further information call 487-2016.
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