Masters Week
In the wake of the dismal showing for
Kosmet Klub's "Cabaret" and the recent diso
lution of AWS, it is good to see that some
organizations are capable of following through
on successful projects. The Mortar Boards
and Innocents, especially Joe Voboril and
Barb Ramsay, deserve congratulations for
Masters Week.
Instead of crotchety, cane-toting fossils
whose greatest successes are memories and
whose value exists in money headed for the
University Foundation, this year's Masters
were generally young people in the prime
of their careers. They did not return to the
University to spout their success stories. They
were genuinely interested in talking to stu
dents, and for the most part, there was a good
response from students.
Furthermore, the Masters were involved
in problems, issues and occupations interest
ing to students. Marianne Means, for example,
is a columnist for Hearst Newspapers-King
Features Syndicate in Washington. Dr. Donald
E. Gatch is credited for reporting the starva
tion of rural South Carolina residents which
lead to an increased food stamp program
there.
Some problems remain in the Masters
Week program, however. There is still a need
for more informal sessions with students and
more informality" in classroom sessions. Some
Masters complained about the problem of
urging discussion in large classes and the
stiffness of some fraternity-sorority visits.
Furthermore, if the University could pay the
expenses, or at least part of the expenses of
visiting Masters, the program would probably
be better yet.
Nevertheless, Masters Week should be
considered a success, especially when there
nearly wasn't any Masters Week at all. And
the week shows that university organizations
are capable of making somewhat traditional
programs both interesting and relevant.
Jim Pedersen
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"Poor devil if he could only learn to stay out of wars . .
The American Dream dies
Once upon a time he had the American
Dream sacked. It was in his pocket. He finished
the University of Nebraska, got a $175-a-week
job in sun-and-fun Miami, bought a new sports
car, and was to be married in a month.
THEN A COLD wind blew down from the
North. The draft called, and he was whisked
away to boot camp in the rainy Northwest.
"It was, he wrote me later, "a totally
fascist experience.
"God! Running at bags with bayonets and
yelling 'kill them Cooks! "
After weeks of degradation he got his first
leave from the camp. He left.
For good.
Now he's in Canada, along with thousands,
possibly hundreds of thousands of other young
Americans. His dreams of success, money and
family shattered.
IT HASNT been easy, but he doesn't regret
his decision to desert a bit. "I simply could
not bring myself to rationalize the murder of
en innocent people into the defense of their
and my freedom. I could not be forced to
kill senselessly."
I visited him In Vancouver, Canada over
Easter Vacation. I correspond with him and
five other friends who have fled to the land
where involuntary servitude does not exist. I
talked to deserters and draft evaders hitchhiking
in Canada that I picked up.
And don't kid yourself, America. They
haven't had a milk-and-honey time about it,
but they are happy and proud they had the
courage to stand up against insane
militarism.- -
They don't think of themselves as slinking
yellow dogs:
"When I got here" one said, "I looked
back across the border and sneered. I felt
like a refugee from Nazi Germany."
The refugees I know are keeping quiet.
They have gained landed immigrant status, and
have to wait five years for Canadian
citizenship.
Until then, they must tread lightly. The
slightest offense will get one deported.
BUT IF THEY ever decide to get back
Into a political movement, the opportunities are
there. The Canadian student movement focuses
on the issue of American imperialism. The
U.S., it is argued, is the greatest threat to
world peace. It controls Canada and most of
the world economically, and students are work
ing to break the chains.
"The success of a national independence
movement in Canada is absolutely vital," a
typical Movement magazine in Vancouver, B.C.,
writes. Independence from the U.S., that is.
"That was something really freaky, too,"
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my friend said. "They really hate the U.S.
"Girls are reluctant to date me, even though
I'm a deserter," he said, somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
"They dislike you just because you were
born in America."
Vancouver on the outside seems to be a
typical American West Coast city. All the ugly
neon lights and dropped-from-a-mold American
businesses are there. The drug traffic is in
credible: Ask for directions on a street corner
and your answer will be, "Two down, one
over to Fraser Ave. Want an acid? Five
dollars?"
BUT DOWN DEEP, the Canadians seem
to be preserving their own culture a distinctly
English one. "They just don't get excited about
anything," the deserter said. "They're so
reserved. Calm."
The city, though a metropolis of l million,
has no more traffic in the downtown core than
Lincoln on Saturday afternoon. Pollution is at
a minimum. Prices match Seattle's. Wages just
a bit down.
In five years the deserter will be able
to move more freely. Right now he's tied down
in Canada.
He plans to visit Japan, and maybe Europe.
Sad that he can't go back to the U.S.?
"Not much. It's only 7 of the earth's
surface or so. That leaves 93 more, and I
can't begin to explore that."
by FRANK MANKIEWICZ
and TOM BR AD EN
John Mitchell has now become the
first attorney general in our history
openly to advocate that Americans
disobey laws they do not like. When
the attorney general counseled
Southerners last week to disregard court
orders on the ground that there is a
right "to reject unreasonable re
quirements of busing and to send their
children to neighborhood schools," he
finally confirmed that this Administra
tion will gladly abandon law and order
if it will help beat George Wallace.
That is the reason for Mitchell's as
tounding call to the Republican leaders
this week. When he asserted that this
revolutionary right to Ignore court
orders is "just as important as the right
of all our citizens to be assigned without
regard to race," Mitchell was telling
the young radicals that he shares their
contempt for a system of government
under law but he was really making
a campaign speech for Alabama
Democrats who will choose on May 5
between Gov. Albert Brewer and
Wallace.
NO LESS an authority than Kevin
Phillips, until recently Mitchell's aide
and the leading "Southern strategist"
In the GOP, believes that the Alabama
primary is the most Important election
not of this year's campaign, but for
1971. There are. says Phillips, 182 elec
toral votes for Richard Nixon riding
the result, and that is why top GOP
spokesmen and strategists are working
so hard to win the white South this
month.
It is also undoubtedly the reason the
President was witling to risk some
Senate seats in 1970 by his seemingly
intemperate but in fact carefully
calculated attack after the vote on
Judge Harrold Carswell. Senators like
Albert Gore of Tennessee, Ralph
Yarborough of Texas and Quentin
Burdkk of North Dakota will be running
more strongly as a result of the
President's outburst, but Wallace, so the
Mitchell strategy goes, will be
weaker.
IF WALLACE does not beat Brewer
on May 5 for the Democratic nomination
for governor (Brewer succeeded
Wallace's wife, Lurleen, in the office),
he is clearly through as a national can
didate. Without Wallace as a factor in
1972, the South and much of the Border
States region are then considered
by the White House men as safe
for Mr. Nixon. For that matter, they
look to garner a harvest of votes among
Incipient Wallace voters in the North
as well.
So all the GOP power there finan
cial as well as ideological is going
toto the effort to defeat Wallace. Winton
Blount, the postmaster general and an
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Alabama Republican, has been raising
money for Brewer for months. And the
statements by the President and the
attorney general Inflammatory as
they may be in the rest of the country
are designed only for consumption
in Alabama. "Don't worry," they are
saying. "You don't need George to keep
us honest."
ALTHOUGH WALLACE sees the
threat clearly enough. It is astonishing
that Democratic leaders throughout the
country do not. The presidential election
of 1972 may be over and gone by May
. 1970, fought and won in the single
state of Alabama.
A Wallace victory would permit
Democrats to keep their hopes for car
rying Texas, Missouri, Arkansas and
other states. It would also Insure more
outrageous statements, such as those
of Mitchell, as the Administration con
tinued its efforts to take votes away
from a flesh-and-blood menace. It would
keep the Administration heading south,
and therefore it would keep a liberal
option alive.
Thus, in cold political logic, there Is
one Issue and one issue alone that ought
to unite Hubert Humphrey. Ed Muskie,
George McGovern, Edward Kennedy and
the new Democratic coalition and
,the need to re-elect George
Wallace In Alabama. To such cynicism
lias the Southern strategy brought
American politics in 1970.
RAPPING
Editor:
Your editorial of April 13 is
not strictly correct on one
point. Though Nancy Ryon was
refused permission to speak on
the Senate floor at the March
15 meeting of the Senate, AS UN
was not refused permission at
the April 13 meeting.
The Human Rights com
mittee has requested of Presi
dent Soshnik the right to rise
and extend the privilege of the
floor to ASUN for the purpose
of allowing It to present Its
critique of the Eldridge pro
posals and its coun
terproposals. HOWEVER, when the
meeting took place. Professor
Wheeler rose to propose the
alternative motion which was
passed by the Senate. Since
that motion included the sug
gestion that the Committee on
Committees set up an ad hoc
committee to consider a varie
ty of suggestions Including
suggestions from other com
mittees, it appeared to me and
to some student representatives
with which I was in touch that
a Senate appearance on Tues
day would not serve much
purpose.
I do hope that the Committee
on Committees will include
students in its Senate restruc
turing group and take seriously
ASUN recommendations.
However, the process of
working on that problem will
probably take some time, and
students will, as Jim Pedersen
suggests, have to make a
persuasive and forceful case If
any change in the student place
in NU internal governance is to
occur. The Human Rights
committee is acting, in this
situation. In a liaison role
primarily.
Paul A. Olson, Chairman
Human Rights Committee
Dear Richard L. Herman:
Sing to me. Sing to me of all
the natural phenomena with
which you are acquainted:
gasoline, trucks, money, coun
try clubs, the American Way.
Sing to me of the Canadian
American border. Sing to me of
political contributions and
payoffs. Lift your golden voice,
Mr. Herman. lift your fat, ugly
thumb out of the university.
I think your motives are
clear. You want us to stick the
homophile course into
psychology. Is that correct Mr.
Herman? You want the course
most likely In abnormal
psychology. Stick It in with all
the other freaks and wierdos.
Eh. Mr. Herman?
COULD IT BE, Mr. Herman,
that you are afraid? Are you
just the least bit jittery that
someone with not exactly your
drives and needs can be
human? Do your bones and
guts go all aquiver with the
thought of a different type of
human? Pardon me, Mr.
Herman, but basest bigotries
are showing.
Don't loosen up. Please stay
tight. I'd hate to see you back
down now. We read you loud
and clear. You doubted Mr.
Crompton. If you knew his
qualifications your comments
are the grossest form of
hyprocrisy; if you didn't, you
spoke from the deadly, stifling
ignorance that Is your forte.
What else can be said?
Don't grow, Mr. Herman.
Stay small.
D. S.
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Editor:
I'm pleased with the en
thusiasm and seemingly
unanimous support for the
Earth Day programs. I only
hope that when it comes time
to actually pay extra for a
pollution-free car or clean
water, or to make sacrifices in
the name of an unpolluted en
vironment that this support
was still be as strong.
Steve McCoWster
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