Setting the PACE
UNL's Program for Active Commitment to
Education (PACE) has added a new twist. In addition
to the optional tuition surcharge each student may
assume, a fund raising program is scheduled for
Saturday.
A one-dollar fee admits students into UNL's
Memorial Stadium to see a touch football game,
witness a bicycle race and hear a rock concert. All
proceeds will go for more low-income scholarships
funded through the PACE program each semester.
PACE is easily the most successful student-initiated
program from which the UNL community now
benefits. A large attendance tomorrow at the stadium
will make it even more successful.
Everyone is urged to support the PACE program
every semester by giving an extra S3.50 along with
tuition payments. Tomorrow's event is another
opportunity for everyone to again contribute. Let's
all do it.
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Kicked upstairs
UNL has proven to the state once again that it is a
testing ground for talented young faculty members
and administrators. The name "C. Peter Magrath" will
become a memory to this campus on July 1, 1972.
Magrath" has accepted the top post at the State
University of New York (SUNY) in Binghampton.
A large number of students and professionals in
this institution will remember Magrath in a most
favorable way. And most deservedly so. Magrath's
career of four years at UNL has been one of constant
promotion. He recently completed a temporary stint
as UNL's number one administrator. In that position
he was challenged greatly. His response to that
burden was most credible and outstanding.
Magrath's honesty with students and those around
him is his greatest asset. His willingness to aggressively
coordinate all aspects of this University express his
ability to contribute greatly to the SUNY system.
UNL's loss is SUNY's gain. In this case, SUNY is
the lucky one. We will miss C. Peter Magrath.
Barry Pilger
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by Phil Schrier
With an ever-decreasing number of
American casualties in Vietnam, draft
calls the lowest in almost a decade, and a
volunteer army in the making, it would
appear that the annual spring-time peace
demonstrations would find little to
protest about. However, the protesters
are now-with the lack of American
combat deaths-lamenting enemy
casualties and setbacks. They justify
their call for immediate and total
American withdrawal with erroneous
generalities about supposed
indiscriminate bombing and by asserting
that we should not get involved in a "civil
war. .
It would be difficult to convince South
Vietnamese civilians -driven from their
homes by Soviet tanks, bonbed by Soviet
rockets, their relatives killed by Soviet
arms-that this is a "civil war". One might
also have trouble explaining to the
terrorized . Laotian and Cambodian
civilians that the thousands of North
Vietnamese troops occupying their
villages and killing their relatives with
Soviet arms are merely taking part in a
"crrH war.
The most recent stir of demonstrations
is over renewed U.S. bombing of North
Vietnam. Official reasons for the
bombing were to protect American
troops and prevent the conquest of
South Vietnam.
Probably the main objective the North
Vietnamese have is discrediting President
Nixon's Victimization policy, resulting
in the election of a President willing to
abandon Southeast Asia to North
Vietnamese aggression. The North
Vietnamese have confidence in their allies
in the U.S. The confidence is so strong
that they committed 12 of their 14
divisions to the invasion, leaving the
homeland virtually unprotected, and did
not bother with the tactical necessity of
dispersing and camouflaging their supply
concentrations.
Fortunately, we now have a President
with enough integrity to risk his political
career to take advantage of this gross
tactical error. The error will most
probably result in the defeat of the
enemy with a much lower cost in human
lives, thereby upholding the American
position as a dependable ally.
It seems cunms that the supposed
"peace demonstrators never mention in
their protest the enemies official policy
of terror tactics, the haphazard rocketing
of civilian population centers or the mass
massacres of civilians. It may be revealing
that those who appear to seek peace most
avidly in Vietnam do not censure terror
tactics used by the enemy. They never
suggest that the enemies withdrawal of
its invasion force or willingness to give up
its plan of conquest might also be a way
of ending the war.
One stumbling block we run into in
Vietnam is people who say: "Let's talk to
the North Vietnamese and try to settle
this over a bargaining table, without
needless killing." Previous experiences
should have taught us mat the only thing
a Communist listens to is the barrel of a
gun.
The results of our "talk" with the
Communists have been broken treaties
and agreements. The Communists have
frequently broken the treaty they signed
in 1954, making the Demilitarized Zone
an international boundary. They have
broken the agreement they signed with us
in 1968 that stopped our bombing of the
North. The only times they have even
gotten down to serious talks in Paris is
after we renewed our bombing. One sad
fact remains: You can't use Western logic
with an animal as ruthless as a
Communist. You either talk to an animal
in his language, or you are wasting your
breath.
In the case of the Vietnam conflict, the
U.S. must "wield a big stick if it is to
regain it's reliability as a trusted ally and
a strong blow is to be dealt to world
communism.
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1972