Wallace may heat
Southern strategy
by Frank Mankiewicz and Tom Braden
By any' objective standard, George Wallace ought to be
a beaten man. Vice President Agnew's speeches, the Haynsworth
and Carswell appointments, the Administration's about-face on
school integration and voting rights all are designed to
hurt Wallace badly.
But it may be that the Nixon Southern strategy will fail
after all and for a reason which the strategists never
considered: that Wallace will not know he is beaten.
WALLACE STILL pretends he has not made up his mind
whether to run for governor of Alabama this year a decision
he must announce by the end of this month but he is
clear about one thing: He intends to remain at the head
of his "movement" and to run for President again.
That is why the 1970 race for governor of Alabama is
important. If Wallace can win again in Alabama, he might
well win again in the other states he carried in 1968; and
if he can do that, Mr. Nixon's political strength is not so
great as it now appears to be.
Nixon needs Wallace's states to win decisively he may
need them to win at all. As Wallace says, "I've got the
President worried to death. Have you seen anything lately
that made you think he was worrying about Hubert Humphrey
or Ted Kennedy? I'm the one who's got him worried and
that's not bad for a fellow from a little town in Alabama."
WALLACE DOES NOT sound like a man about to say
"no" to another bid for the State House. "If I said 'no,'
all you writing fellows would write that I was afraid, or
that I couldn't win. I don't want you to do that.'
"But I'll tell you one thing," he continues. "If I run
I'll win. People in Alabama know the difference between a
carbon copy and the real thing." And he makes it clear
that "carbon copy" applies not only to Gov. Albert Brewer,
but to Vice President Spiro Agnew as well.
Most Alabama politicians think Wallace is right about winn
ing. His record and that of hs wife is a pretty good
record, they say. Between them, they built more schools and
highways, and brought more innovation to the state government
than any other administration in the state's history. Sophisticated
Alabamans don't like his style but can't quarrel with his record;
red-necks who don't care about records are won over by the
style.
MOREOVER, Wallace seems to enjoy pouring his style
on the President, and the Vice President. Spiro Agnew is
no rival, in George Wallace's eyes. He's a bad imitation.
Richard Nixon is a clever dodger who doesn't say what he (
thinks. "I'll say one thing for Bobby Kennedy. You never '
, had any doubt about where he stood, like you do with this
fellow."
The Administration's slowdown on school integration is not
nearly enough for Wallace. "As far as we're concerned, nothing's
happened. We're still under orders to bus children all over
town." The Southern strategy, Wallace thinks, is mostly talk.
"They spit in our eye and call it dew."
There are, perhaps, some slight signs of weakness behind
the cocky front. Surely, for example, Wallace is on the defensive
when he says "My people will remember that George Wallace
started it all."
- DEFENSIVE, TOO, is the Wallace assertion that a
Southerner can never be President. "My accent is against
me but my movement doesn't care."
But these little signs of doubt behind the confident facade
are not of national significance. What is of national significance
is that Wallace is looking ahead to 1972. There is nothing
yet to prove that if the "real thing" is what the voters of
Alabama want, the voters of Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia,
Louisiana and maybe some others won't want it too.
Mr. Nixon is gambling the nation's moral resources on
his Southern strategy. If George Wallace makes it fail, Mr.
Nixon will appear to history as Othello, "whose hand drew
a pearl away richer than all his tribe.
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In the Ivory Flower
by Steve Tiwald
The residents of Cather and
Pound Halls are third-class
citizens. We already know that
all the students living in the
dorms are second-class citizens
in the fact that they do not
have the control over their
social lives which students liv
ing off campus can exercise.
But, the men and women of
Cather and Pound Halls do not
even have as many rights as
the men and women living in
other dorms.
I-et's review the , recent
history of the students' struggle
for control over their social
lives at NU. Last spring
representatives of Abel and
Schramm Halls got together to
draw up the open lounge pro
posal, which allows limited
visitation by members of the
opposite sex in floor lounges.
Endorsed by IDA and then by
the Regents' Housing Policy
Committee, this proposal went
to the Board of Regents for
approval. The Regentss first
wanted to see the dorm
facilities. (The Regents had
built the dorms but some had
never been inside. )
They approved the open
lounge policy on an ex
perimental basis for Schramm,
Smith and Abel Halls. The
Regents rejected Pound Hall's
participation on the grounds
that the facilities weren't
suitable - the lounges are not
enclosed and the elevators stop
only on every other floor. So,
Pound and Cather Halls by
default were not even
allowed the token visitation
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rights which the other dorms,
with different facilities, were
granted.
Schramm, Abel South and
Sandoz Halls now are utilizing
the open lounge policy. Smith
Hall residents decided against
implementing the policy (self
determination of the dorm.)
The Sandoz women decided to
utilize the policy.
Where does this leave Cather
and Pound Halls? Not allowed
visitation in their floor lounges,
these people were not satisfied
with their situation. The women
of Pound Hall called for an ex
pansion of the existing IDA
Hours policy. Cather Hall men
joined with them in proposing
changes in the existing policy
to allow IDA hours on
weekdays and to allow staff
(student assistants) and or
floor government officers to be
present and responsible. The
present policy . . allows IDA
Hours visiting in rooms, with
doors open, registered In ad
vance with the residence
director to be held on
weekends only and with
sponsors limited to parents,
faculty, residence director or
graduate assistant.
This proposal was endorsed
by the IDA Council and taken
to the Regents' Housing Policy
Committee, composed of four
faculty and three students, and
approved. However President
Soshnik rejected the plan.
Tuesday he told Al Bestman,
Cather Hall President, and
Bicky Adams, Pound Hall
President, that "not even stu
dent assistants were competent
enough to handle the
responsibility of IDA Hours."
This is an insult to all men
and women attending the
university. Control over our
social lives is a basic right we
have long been denied. Visita
tion is a fact of life at hundreds
of schools across the country,
including universities In all the
surrounding states. When will
the administration and Regents
wake up to the rights of the
university men and womon to
govern their own social lives?
Dorm governments are con
tinuing the struggle. They are
not forcing visitation on the
residents; they are only trying
to achieve the right of self
determination for these men
and women who live in the
residence hulls.
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