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Dear editor:
I was truly amazed at Gerald Logan's opinion-it
had some good points and some bad ones. It is really
quite senseless to throw water on motorists. You're
right-something tragic will have to happen before
any punitive action is taken. I'm surprised that
nothing serious happened last week, as there were
cars going the wrong way on 16th St. I would like to
see this type of action stopped or at least controlled.
Now, it's quite obvious that it's nearly only the
frat boys that do any damage around here. Not once
in the two years that I've been down here have I seen
a dormie throw a water balloon, frisbee, football or
even a snowball! Some of us on 16th St. like to get
out and have a little fun once in a while. Now I can
see that after four years of higher education you do
have higher intelligence. I thought your idea of
burning down fraternity houses was really brilliant.
I'm sure you have some more ideas of how to
improve the university and the entire community. So
why don't you print them and get some more
opinions?
By the way, Gerald, you ought to stop by and
have dinner with us fraternal mental midguts some
night that is, if you can stand the food-throwing and
other obnoxious things we frat boys do.
Junior
Junior high home
Dear editor:
I agree with Gerald Logan's guest opinion (Dairy
Nebraskan, April 21), concerning the water show on
16th St. last Wednesday. .
Having friends who are decent people in
fraternities and sororities, 1 realize that not everyone
was out there heaving water Wednesday night. It is
unfortunate that the antics of some moronic little
Greeks cast a bad reflection upon all who are involved
with fraternities and sororities, but then I suppose the
few who do behave like adults just accept such
punishment anyway since it was their choice to live
with no-minds.
For those imbeciles who were involved in the
Wednesday escapade, I, like Logan, have a suggestion.
Why not lock the little devils up in their rooms, jack
up all of the Greek houses and slide them on over to
the nearest junior high where their occupants will feel
more at home?
Julie Schmit
World domination
Dear editor:
I would like to make a few comments concerning
Ernest Rousek's letter, especially his final statement,
"It is quite evident that much of the education of
people like Nelson and Ehrlich must have taken place
in the little Red schoolhouse." It is clearly evident
that Rousek was educated in the American school
systems and accepted the propaganda that was fed to
him in his elementary and high school indoctrination.
He swallowed the slogan that to be American is to be
right, that an American can do no wrong.
Rousek talks of Hue, but not of the massacre by
U.S. soldiers of 347 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai
and various other incidences which were covered up.
He doesn't remember how U.S. troops dropped
prisoners from helicopters to get information from
others. His memory is too short to recall the
supposedly accidental bombings of hamlets by U.S.
planes. I ask him how the blame can be placed
anywhere but on the U.S. military for what their
bombs and bullets did?
He then questions the credibility of the Bertrand
Russel War Crimes Tribunal, calling it a biased source.
This may be true, but he fails to take into account
the fact that his information on the war came from
extremely biased news sources in this country. He
apparently doesn't know that CBS was involved in
the bombing of Southeast Asia under a contract with
the Air Force which called for CBS to transmit aerial
reconnaissance photos from Southeast Asia to the
Pentagon for $1 million. Also, in 1967, a CBS
documentary on the air war in North Vietnam was
filled with propaganda of U.S. airpower but said
nothing of the horrors of guava bombs and napalm.
It referred to civilian deaths, but the narrator passed
it off by saying, "civilians are always killed in war."
CBS also showed its great patriotism by blacking out
the face of Abbie Hoffman on a talk show because he
wore a shirt made out of the sacred flag. ABC also got
into the act by blacking out the halftime show of the
Buffalo-Holy Cross game because it had a peace
theme. Yet, they allowed the Joint Chiefs of Staff to
talk war during the halftime of the Army-Navy game.
How can these television networks give unbiased and
true information when they are so powerfully
influenced by the government?
In his denouncement of the Communists and
defense of the great United States, Rousek forgets
about the United States' foreign activities. I ask him,
what country indulged in 3,630 secret bombing
sorties over Cambodia in 1969 and 1970? What
country landed Marines in the Dominican Republic in
1965, sponsored the Bay of Pigs invasion, sponsored,
aided and actively participated in various political
coups and assassinations throughout the world? What
country tried to help overthrow the Bolshevik
government by invading Russia after WW I? What
country ostracized' its black population and practiced
genocide on the American Indian? The great United
States of America is the culprit, and I suggest that
Rousek and others take a close look at American
ideology and its practices before they condemn the
ideologies of others. I am sure that he will find there
Isn't that much difference beiween American's
foreign activities and the Communists, because both
are bent on world domination,
Dale R. Griffiths
