1979_09 The Daily Collegian September 1979

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Inman Perkins voted honorary cheerleader by AS Senate
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nman Perkins was officially voted an
aonorarv dieerieader by dw Associated
,'^dent Senate at its Tuesday meeting
The new resolution, proposed by AS
•fs.dent David Ditora   also stated that
Perkins will be allocated an equei part of
the cheorlaading funds to cover his
traveling expenses with dw pep squad
The speoal resolution was mod*
because Perkins 'has really done a lot
of good things for the pep squad *
Ditora said
Perkins       a      lft-vea/<4d      part-Ome
David Armstrong's American Journal
Baez howls over human rights
ghts are never so bitter as when they involve old friends   A case in point is
t- \iror among veterans of the antiwar movement ov*r the accuracy and pro
priety of a newspaper ad harshly critical of Vietnam for alleged human rights
.ittons   The full-page ad   published recently in five mayor newspapers   was
.   Ai ed bv singer J oan Baez and signed by a number of liberal luminaries   mclu
ng[ >aniel Berrigan, Cesar Chavez   Allen Ginsberg and I F   Stone
rheir 'Open Letter to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam * charges that Viet
1 *   \ tour year-old revolutionary government holds 150 000 to 200 000 poll
a   .wisoners in tails and re-education camps   where manv ar* starved   tor
ed and held irxxicnmunicado  after being arrested without warning
rhe ad has angered some antiwar veterans, such as Jane Fonda. Tom Hay
>■     [ )amel Fllsberg and lawyer William Kunstler   all oi whom refused to sign
1 <*ng with activist organizations tike the Southeast Asia Resouce Center
•.  j^estion Baez s sources of information and the wisdom of publicly cntsctz
,{ * ietnam  feeling that the ad plays into the hands oi conservatives here
-  >r the most part, the mass media have played the split as a celebrity cat
oan and Jane Have Con* to War * trumpeted m> local rvews-paper   But
there s more to it than that   much more
' Se   onflict shows  once again  what a tragi le alliance the antiwar movement
n tv      cxnposed of pacificists   disenchanted Johnson Humphrey  liberals    so-
1   sti   libertarians   Middle Amer.can% frustrated by high taxes and military
 ate   students tearful oi the draft and apolitical hippies turned oti by the
s ->ad vibes dislike of the war was all that The Movement las it was then
. «wn had in common "Alter Vietnam what?" was a question that American
-■ i -• Wnonstrators could afford to avoid answering
' nr v letrvamese couldn  t   For them   tomorrow came todav   In attempting to
•-'  >  (1 their shattered i ountry   they are making choices that force difficult phi
s. n>hiral questions to the surface   What is freedom? What kind of societv do
we want?
For Joan Baez and her supporters   freedom is a pacifist   libertarian v-cietv
*^i< h conflict is resolved by moral witnessing and rational discussion   riut to
" *>  »letnamese socialists who fought the French   the  lajxanese   t*e French
ma.1    the Americans and American -installed regimes to thro* oft generations
■'oppression    pacifism was not a rational choice
-.*• 'he<-   apparently   is libertarian ism   As socialists   Vietnam   \ new governors
*-i>eve that there is no authentic basis tor political libe*Ts   without economic
i   *      '    achteve this   they have set about expropriating rhe wealth of the
.;>per and middle classes
Not surprisingly   the upper and middle classes   swollen *ith profit and am
't trom South Vietnam s years as an American client state   don  t want
■h'f<r wealth expropriated   So they resist   some bv trading in the black market
v>me bv bribery   some by crying "foul' to the outside world   The government
►*s(x>nds by restraining them by force
rhe Vietnamese government has both the right and the need to do that   it
ult enough to feed people whose homes were destroyed by the war   heal
f physically and psychoiogically lame and purge the ecology of the chemical
- >, sons we left behind  Add to that the sabotage of rightwing ideologues whose
i  *~i were formed in the dog-eat-dog days of the recent past, and the task of
••txjilding Vietnam would be virtually impossible
That doesn t gave Vietnam, or any nation, the right to arbitrarily arrest or
■rture anyone Re-education should novor by a euphemism for abuse The
j^estions in my mind are not whether Vietnam has political prisoners but who
they ar* and how thev are treated As such, Baez and company s request to
-..%•. an international team oi neutral observers to inspect (VWtnams)
prisons and re-education centers' strikes me as a reasonable one - provided
I hey really are neuO*al and that observers are sent everywhere they re needed
rn luding our own execrable prisons
tt&ei has been called many things tor placing this ad turncoat and CIA
igent among them by people who once called her their friend I think she is
■■either Her record oi pacifism has been logically consistent for some 20 years
n stead ot betraying her princaptes, she has inadvertenth, revealed their limrta
An affluent idealist loan Baez lives in a dramatically different world than
he v .etnamese she criticizes She has a right to speak out about what she be
eves is wrong   But with that goes a nesponsibilate go understend that her vi
>.onof the good blazes more ri IgBtji aaoae sun aides efl
"■en in the streets of Ho Chi MinfcOly
student, was temporarily off the pep
squad because of a new ruling stating
that aM cheerleader! muat be carrying
Usjggb
"We nood to make an exception (to th*
12 unit policy) in Inman a case because
he s provided a tot of services to dw
students,■ Ditora said
Perkins has worked with the pap
squad for three years and has been involved with cheeHeedlng and spirit
organizations for about 15 years
He said he stays active with the pep
m mi—I 'I enjoy it Everybody
has something to glve-l can t give a tot
of money or coach athseucs, but I heve a
knack for getting people to cheer -that s
my contribution
Perkins is glad to be working wsth dw
pep squad again because "my big dream
s to open the new stadium Everybody s
got a dream and that s mine *
Perkins plans to retire from cheeriead
ing in 1981 after the opening of the new
stadium
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