Spiro again
What would student, or for that matter
professional, editors do without Spiro Agnew?
Just when there seems to be nothing to praise
or criticize, Spiro launches on another tirade
of ignorance. Amazingly, the vice-president
has an ability to appear more ignorant each
time he speaks, but maybe that is because
each time he speaks it is on a topic about
which he knows less. Take for example, his
comments on American universities, in gen
eral, and Yale and Kingman Brewster, spe
cifically. Perhaps Agnew's attack on possibly the
best university president in the nation stems
from Brewster's accurately labeling the vice
president a "pawn in the effort to co-opt the
right wing to head off Wallace." Real pawns,
after all, don't liked to be called pawns. Or
maybe in his list of demands on universities,
Agnew wants to "end open-door enrollment
for unqualified students" because as one of
a small minority of unqualified students to
graduate, he would like to maintain his
uniqueness.
More likely, Agnew's ridiculous attacks
on Brewster are retaliation for an anti-administration
Brewster speech. And his attack
on Yale is probably meant to focus attention
on what is sure to be another tumultuous
trial (eight Black Panthers face murder
charges in New Haven) as an example of the
irresponsible, anarchical "criminal left" And,
as a- self-appointed expert on higher educa
tion, Agnew seems intent on incriminating
university faculty as the true culprits of un
rest it is more effective in his role as a
pawn than merely denouncing a minority of
students.
None of this, however, even comes close
to the vice-president's master plan for elitist
police-state universities. Agnew called for the
establishment of rules for campus conduct
with expulsion for serious violations. In other
words, a whole new code of regulations ap
plied only to students and specifically against
politicized students who actively demonstrate
their beliefs.
Agnew asked also for the elimination of
amnesty for lawlessness or violence. Fair
enough. Does this include an end to amnesty
for violence and brutality by such groups as
the Alameda County sheriffs and California
State Patrol?
If Kingman Brewster is even harrassed,
let alone removed as Yale's president, it will
be a sad day for American higher education.
If universities adopt Agnew's suggestions, it
will be even sadder. Every time Agnew has
trumpeted his right wing propaganda, he has
sent some individual or institution cowering.
American universities should stand up and
tell the vice-president to stick to something
he knows about and is accomplished at
say golf.
Jim Pedersen
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Wallace on the wane
by FRANK MANKIEWICZ
andTOMBRADEN
It Is hot in this town's
treeless square where faded
lettering on dingy clapboard
fi r o c 1 a 1 m s that Harris
lardware once had nopes. The
man on the back of the truck ts
sweating horribly In the hot
sun, and he pumps his arms,
exhorting the citizens of War
rior to one of hope's
substitutes.
Anger Is the word for George
Wallace as he tries to find the
right culprit for whatever it is
that caused the 20th century to
pass Warrior by. Hts opponent
in this primary. Gov. Albert
Brewer, is not the i ight culprit.
Brewer was a Wallace aide and
his wife's loyal lieutenant
THE TELEPHONE company
is more likely. Wallace tries it:
"It costs more money to call
Mobile from Warrior than it
docs to call Florida.1
The Alabama Tower and
Light is another. "Why does
Alabama Power and Light
advertise in the newspapers Is
there some other place you can
buy electricity? I'll tell you
why. Because that's the way
Alabama Power and Light buys
a newspaper."
The faces in the crowd are
drawn and gray like the sign on
the clapboard, advertising dry
goods. Wallace has not whipped
their frenzy. He tries another
route.
"WHY DO YOU think these
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
big-city newsmen are here?
They wouldn't spit on Warrior.
But they know this isn't just a
little old election for governor.
They're trying fo find out
whether Alabama will sur
render." "If you vote for me, I can
keep my foot on Mr. Nixon's
neck, and he'll keep nls foot on
Robert Finch's neck. But if you
don't vote for me, Nixon will
turn sharp left and you'll never
get your children back."
Wallace doesnt quite men
tion race, but the crowd un
derstands. SUI1 the applause is
a trifle hesltatnt, Just a little
embarrassed.
GEORGE WALLACE may
win his race, and his best
chance is to make sure that
Gov. Brewer gets the black
vote and that the whites know
it. Wallace front aroups are
now running ads: "Blacks Vote
for Brewer." If it doesn't
backlash, Wallace wli win.
But it appears to be his last
hurrah. The crowds are not
angry. The Populist appeal is
somehow not Populist enough.
One senses that peoole In this
crowd don't make many long
distance telephone calls.
They have come out to see a
famous figure, who put
Alabama on the map, but they
are just a little uncomfortable.
Brewer Is respectable, and in a
race between the respectable
and the poor it is important to
remember that what the poor
want is to be respectable, too.
Moreover, Wallace 1s bucking
Mr. Nixon's Southern strategy,
and what that strategy means
right now is a total halt In
school Integration. The halt In
furiates Wallace.
With narrowed eyes he cites
recent court decisions
postponing integration until
''September. To Wallace,
"September" spells death; the
election will be over In May.
But without fresh outrages to
support his cause he is confined
to bringing up the old and half
accepted and to making dire
suggestions of what may
come.
THERE ARE oddities at
work here. Blacks voting for
Brewer a white-collar
segregationist Is one. A
candidate named Charley
Woods perhaps the ugliest
man who ever ran for office
Is another. Woods makes much
of his ugliness, acquired in a
wartime fire. But he promises
to raffle off his pay check on
the capitol steps the first of
every month. He doesn't need
the money, he says, hinting
that Wallace does. rVoods may
make the difference between a
run-off and a victory.
The election is Important
surely the most Important
election between now and 1972.
If Wallace loses, Mr. Nixon
locks up the South. But the
most important lesson to be
learned from a trip to Warrior
is that, even if he wins, George
Wallace seems to be on the
wane. That is the true measure
of the Southern strategy.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1970