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Much has been said about the plight of the Southern
Negro. Much more can be said; needs to ke said; will be
said. The Nation's press went to Greenwood, Mississippi,
to Danville, Va., to Americus, Ga., and to Plaquemines,
La. Stories were written and pictures taken. The news
papers and magazines sold and were read.
There exists today an impressive catalogue of facts
and figures on beatings, rapes, murders, arrests and as
sorted other manifestations of the new white man's bur
den to deny to a considerable chunk of humanity the
least voice in what purports to be a free society. These
facts stand as an indictment. Our continued silence can
only be taken as an admission of guilt.
"One man, one vote" was the cry of John Lewis,
chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commit
tee (SNCC) as he spoke to the 210,000 people at the Lin
coln Memorial in the City of Washington on Ang. 28, 1963.
Lewis was the youngest speaker to address that splen
did crowd and his words will long be remembered. For
young John Lewis came close to upsetting the apple-cart
that day. Thus far the Administration endorsed rally had
reserved its gentle wrath for the Dixiecrats and its re
spectful praise for the basic goodness of presidents and
congressmen for the intrinsic belief in brotherhood that all
men must surely feel. But John Lewis was genuinely
angry. He was bitter and resentful. His anger was for us
all North and South Republican and Democrat
white and black.
John Lewis is an ugly man, leading an ugly little
band of commandos in an ugly war. He and his fellow
SNCC workers are alone in the fight for Negro voter
registration desperately alone. The SNCC field secre
taries and workers are suffering from bleeding ulcers
and gunshot wounds while we are suffering from hang
overs and term exams.
If yon are Sam Block, a SNCC field secretary in Mis
sissippi, you spend sleepless nights in police jails, you are
followed everywhere by a squad car, you are beaten and
spit upon. Your own people say to you "All right, Til go
down to register, but what are you going to do for me
when I lose my job and they beat my head?" That is
if your people ever talk to you. Sam Block is a Negro.
He can't expect to be treated like a human being. He
can't expect to be protected by the Justice Department,
the courts, or by anyone else. He can only hope to stay
alive long enough to be heard. The Sam Blocks are alone.
There is a strange irony about the fight for votes in
the South. The enemy is bigotry and fear but it is not
an abstract thing in any sense. It is jailcells, clubs, police
dogs, and pistol shots in the night. It is people calling
you nigger and spitting on you. It is pain and anguish that
are reaL You can see it and feel it You can fight it. But
this isn't the South. We don't tolerate that sort of thing
in the North, We are civilized and liberalized. But, let's
let it go at that
Some students from northern schools have been to
Mississippi and Louisiana. They have worked with the
hardened professional shock corps of the voter registra
tion movement the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee. They have returned and told us of their ex
periences. Most interesting. Too bad these fellows couldn't
adjust to academic life. Maybe it did them some good to
escape their responsibilities for a few days. Now they will
attack their studies with some enthusiasm. But, then, just
what are our responsibilities? What is the measure of our
enthusiasm?
Bigotry and fear are everywhere. It is strange to say
that in the South men are honest about their prejudices.
They aren't too busy with their "responsibilities" to
join in and beat up some "nigger" who can't keep his
place.
The men and women of SNCC are alone. The Bull
Connors are not Our silence, our hypocrisy links us with
the Bull Connors against the Sam Blocks.
Yes, John Lewis and others like him are bitter, ugly
men.
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Dear Sir:
Hooray. We've won the
Orange Bowl and thus
established our school
among the top semi-p r o
fessional football teams in
the nation. It is inevitable,
I suppose, that the R a g
should be filled with such
enthusiastic, but generally
incomprehensible, letters as
that of Wednesday. Per
haps now is the time for
a critical look at the posi
tion of football at the Uni
versity.
It will be my contention
that (1.) footbaU has neither
directly nor indirectly bene
fited the Unversity acad
emically, and (2.) football
has fostered the unfair
treatment of students, de
void of any academic basis
One of the most popular
rationalizations for football
is that it brings alums
back to the school and, pre
sumably, brings their dollars
with them. However, the
money spent at the games
for admission, hot dogs, etc,
does not in any way help
the University improve its
facilities or faculty.
We must assume that do
nations from the alums pro
vide these funds the Uni
versity supposedly gains. I
would be very surprised if
it could be proven that foot
ball victories are greater
stimuli to donations than
are income deductions.
Finally, the University re
ceived the donations for the
Sheldon Art Gallery, the
Woods Art Building, and the
Kellogg Center when the
football team was at the
nadir of its fortunes. This
would tend to disprove this
rationalization.
It would seem that the
only ones who benefit from
the autumnal onslaughts
are the tycoons of "O"
Street, who fill the alums'
gas tanks, stomachs, and
flasks. The University is
simply left with the prob
lem of cleaning up the cam
pus after the horde has
left its weekly deposits of
everything from programs
to eye-shades.
In a final effort to ra
tionalize football, it has
been asserted that it gives
a college education to the
players, who might not
have gotten one otherwise.
The value of such an ed
ucation is somewhat ques
tionable, especially for the
degree-holder who immedi
ately joins a professional
team and then retires after
fifteen years or so, never
having used his education,
and having forgotten so
much of it in the period of
professional activity as to
make it useless.
Furthermore, there are
many persons, more acad
emically gifted than many
football players, who have i
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to work their way through
college, simply because
they are not 6'3" and 225
lbs.
This also results in the
glorification of the profes
sional athlete to the det
riment of the scholar. (How
many readers can name
even two of this semester's
Phi Beta Kappas? How
many can name two foot
ball players?)
It not only encourages the
development of a set of val
ues alien to an intellectual
atmosphere, but also devel
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SALUTE: TOM BENSON
When Tom Benson (E.S., Engineering, 1956 ) joined
Michigan Bell in 10, he was asked to put a new method
of handling telephone repair assignments into operation
in his Detroit Plant District.
So expertly did Tom prove out the new method, his
company soon put it into use throughout the Division and
promoted Tom to Staff Serv ice Supervisor.
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ops resentment against those
persons who are able to get
a four-year free ride on the
basis of their gladiatorial
exploits.
In conclusion, then, the
University is faced with
two choices. Either we
change the University mot
to to Football dedicata et
omnibus jockibus in ac
cordance with our actions,
or we change our actions
to conform with the ideals
of scholarship by quitting
our excursion into the realm
of professional athletics and
entertainment.
DISGUSTED
By BRITT MARIE THUREN
Lund, Sweden Some
times a person gets so well
known for an opinion or an
act that anyone thinking or
acting in the same way is
called by the same name.
For example, any advoca
tor of the rights of women
in Sweden has been called
a Fredrika Bremer, for
around a hundred years,
after the founder of the
movement in our country.
That movement has not
had much importance since
women got the right to vote
more than forty years ago.
But lately the family dis
cussion, the housewife prob
lem or whatever you want
to call it has come up, and
a young woman of the
name of Eva M o b e r g
shouted out such radical
opinions, that any wife now
asking her husband to help
with the dishes is met by
the comment, "Oh, you
sound like a real Eva Mo
berg!" And then the poor
woman blushes ashamed
and returns to her kitchen
alone !
More and more women
try to combine housework
and career. In Europe I
think Germany has the
largest percentage of wom
en working, but Sweden
comes close. A Swedish
woman without a profes
sion, when asked for it,
says with shame, "Oh, I
only take care of the house
work." If both man and wife
work, should they not share
household duties, too? But
if the children get sic k,
who is to stay home from
the job? Why, mother, of
course. And while the kids
are small, what to do if you
cannot find or cannot af
ford a mother's helper?
There are "day homes" to
take care of them during
the daytime, but they are
few and expensive and
someone has to take the kids
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1 Presents
( The Junior I.F.C. Ball
Friday, January 17, 1964
Featuring Bud Holloway 1
8:00 to 12 p.m.
Lincoln Hotel Ballroom
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to the field force. Another success, another promotion . , ,
this time to Supervising Foreman. Now Tom is responsible
for installation results in the entire Wyandotte District with
50 installers and five supervisors reporting to him.
Tom Benson, like many young engineers, is impatient
to make things happen for his company and himself. There
are few places where such resdessness is more welcomed
or rewarded than in the fast-growing telephone business.
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there in the morning and
get them back home in the
afternoon.
The dilemma seems to be
eternal and universal. Wom
en must prepare themselves
for either staying away
from the social machinery
or take on a heavier re
sponsibility than men.
Eva M o b e r g says no!
Housewives, stop being
lazy! It is your duty to take
part in society; housework
is a fulltime job only when
you have several children
under five; if more of you
go to work, there will be
more day homes; if house
work is all you knov why
not take care of several
homes, then we would boive
the lack of mother's help
ers, too.
Even career women who
had pondered for years on
how to solve their situation,
found Miss Moberg too radi
cal. Only 29 years old and
unmarried, what did she
know? The career women
have all the prestige, but I
don't know if there is a
solution. At our universities
almost half of the students
are women, and so far I
have not met a single one
who had a definite idea of
how she would combine job
and family. Most of us want
both.
This question is probably
well known to all of you too.
But last week I read an
article by the same Misj
Moberg on the situation in
the U.S., that surprised me
quite a bit She has just re
turned from a study trip
"over there."
She says your country can
serve as a warning for all
those who think the solu
tion is to give more pres
tige to household work, in
saying that the duty of a
mother is so important and
rewarding that it is quite
sufficient as a role in so
ciety, in stressing the im
portance of creating a good
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