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By CARL STEPP
Editor-in-Chief
It began with a prayer.
A prayer for peace, by the Rev.
Don Bundy.
They were huddled around the
patio, 200 of them, funseekers and
war-haters, peace lovers and
mankind lovers.
It was chilly and the wind blew.
They read the names.
They read and read and read.
For 21 hours they read the names
of the war dead, and they didn't
finish.
The crowd milled around, spread
blankets, and dwindled away at
times. During the class hours, it
grew and ebbed as classes ended
and began.
They read.
Others retired inside. The
speaker told them he was humble
to be before them in "youth's finest
hour."
It's because of you there's stil1
hope in this miserable country," he
said.
And the problems? "Lack of
communications between races
and generations," he said.
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By Thomas Richardson
Columnist
Last week the Vietnam con
troversy reached new heights as
there was a national appeal for
support to end the war.
Across the United States,
college campuses stressed their
desire to end America's genocidal
tendencies in the conflict by
abandoning its prestigious stand.
Some students of the USC family
participated in this com
memorative event. But is this a
family at Carolina?
The turnout for this occasion was
exceptionally poor, including the
opponents and proponents. This
could be due to the fact that most
students are apathetic to the
skirmish abroad.
It appeared as if the supporters
(RSVP) consisted primarily of
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They read, outside, in the chill.
The others came, in their
decorated cars with cute
cheerleaders, high schoolers just a
little afraid and out of place. They
brought their flags, patriotic signs.
They waved their flags around.
There was a lot of talk, but it
wasn't pleasant to see them wave
the flag around like a new toy.
It meant something, the piece of
cloth. It meant everything.
Throwing it around hurt. It was
too much like a battle flag.
They rallied, sang songs. The
peace guys sang their songs. The
cheerleaders saved the day: they
began singing the peace song too.
"We're for peace too." one said.
They took their flags and signs
away, inside, to hear their
speakers.
First was the federal marshal,
scorning the "yippies, hippies and
dippies," laughing at the peace
people, joking about "make love,
not war."
They waved their flags.
Outside, in the chill, the reading
began.
The second speaker began; the
high school students. The op
ponents seemingly consisted of
"way-out" groups on compus.
There were quite a few present
who were indeed indiffernet. But
there were no Blacks there, of
number, on either side.
There were a few curious on
lookers, as myself, and they were
unresponsive. Did this mean that
the Black students at Carolina
were unconcerned in this
demonstration? On the contrary,
Black students did not see any
need to broadcast their stand on
the war, and for various reasons.
America Is supposedly
protecting the freedom of the
Vietnamese people. Black soldiers
are dying to secure "instant
freedom" for the Vietnamese when
their brothers, sisters, mothers
and fathers must get freedom and
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peace group watched their film.
Everyone passing by smiled, sang
their own Vietnam song, and
wondered how the Mets did.
Night.
They still read, and it was bad.
"Dead" they would mutter, and
inside something would get all
tight.
More night, more names.
There was no confrontation and
there was quiet and there were two
sides expressing their opinions.
And at midnight it ended, with a
prayer.
And there were the tears again,
the tight stomach and the
goosepimples when they sang "We
Shall Overcome." Shall we, and
yes, and please and peace.
Someone said it all. "Nobody
listens to anybody else's side," he
said. "Nobody."
Lack of communications. Peace,
and the warriors waved their flags
and heard not.
Not communism, not mislead
idealism, peace man. Peace.
It was cold and walking back to
the dorm was chilling and scary.
It was the morning of the second
day.
Cold.
eauality on the installment plan at
home.
In America Black GIs' parents
hear the cry, "Education is the
problem. The freedom of the Negro
in America depends on his
educational standard." Yet the
educational standard of Vietnam is
not questioned.
If the educational standard is not
a question in granting the Viet
namese their freedom, then
America had better stop
questioning mine.
America seems to tell the
Vietnamese, "We shall free you,
.even if we have tolkill every one of
you to do it." Black America does
not agree with this concept.
America has long been guilty of
genocide against Black people.
She is the real culprit. Then why
should they perpetrate this
genocide by dying dispropor
tionately on the battlefield? Black
soldiers rate abnormally high on
the fatality and casualty columns
of the wvar. But dying is not
segregated; everybody is in
cluded.
White and Vietnamese families
are also broken.
The Oct. 15 issue of The
Gamecock carried an article on
the 'RSVP and Pro Nixon Rally."
Nixon. in his political payoffs, has
finally committed himself as the
true racist that he is and his
followers reflect this attitude.
This brings to the surface a
humorous story told by Dick
G;regory'. lie stated. "Some white
folks I just can't understand.
Thev're' more concerned about
busing a kid to school than they are
about shipping a kid to Viet
nami...That's like worrying about
dandruff when you've' got cancer of
the eve(balls."
People emphasize unessentials
while contributing to the mass
murde(r of inoce'nt pe(op)le For that
re'ason Blacks could not possibly
support the policy or the itSVP.
however goodl t hei r intent ions.
It is evident that the white
racist soldier should (examine' his
morals. lIe would suffer. ble~ed andi
die for the rights of a colored
Vietnamese. but1 when he comes
home. maybe' to South Carolina,
and that same colored Vietnamese
he fought for came to live next
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Letters
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Dear Mr. Stepp:
A recent article in The
Gamecock discussed the 2-way
intercom system employed at
door. that soldier would then point
his gun at his would-be neighbor.
Because of such divisiveness in
overall doctrine, the Black student
here has found it impractical to
align himself to a single issue.
Having been omitted from this
so-called family it would take more
than a war issue to get the Afro
Americans to align themselves
with a bunch of Dixie-blowing
crackers.
(I hope that "Terrible Tom and
the Boys" can hear) After all, "No
Vietnamese ever called me
'nigger'."
A solution to the war has also
been advocated by Gregory. He
stated, "Of course if I were
President there wouldn't be any of
the young kids who have to go to
Vietnam. Iwould go into all the
prisons and draft all the sex
maniacs...
"I'd give them some LSD and
some tennis shoes and send them
to Vietnam ... I can just see the
headlines now: '20 Vietcong
Captured and 47 Trees At
tacked' ... and when those plant
lovers read those headlines, they'd
make sure that the war was ended
in the morning."
Resigned,
not dropped
Dear Mr. Stepp:
This letter is written to correct
an error in an article concerning
the USC Senate. (Friday Oct. 10.
Gamecock).
I was not dropped from the
Senate roll for failure to attend
Senate meetings; I formally
resignedI because I moved out of
the residence hail I was elected to
represent.
Ida Nelson
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Bates House. Several students
objected to its use, saying it was a
violation of their rights of privacy.
As much as. I'm for privacy, I
cannot accept the exaggerated
claims of these few students. I
have personally listened through
these "bugging devices," and one
cannot hear normal conversation
clearly.
I stipulate the condition of
normality is voice level. The
system is designed to detect ex
cessive noise, i.e., stereos blaring
from one floor to another, war
games in the bathroom and
practice intramural football
games in the hallways.
Being a student, I certainly
appreciate the presence of some
means of control, seen or unseen,
for I am here to learn. Contrary to
popular practice, one must study
to learn, and you can't study when
psychedelic or soul music com
petes with your books for attention.
Therefore, I believe that the
intercom system represents not an
invasion of privacy, but an
assurance of privacy and an ef
fective aid to students and the
ever-besieged hall counselor.
Jeryl R., Davis
Innovation
Dear Mr. Stepp:.
In response to your article about
the invasion of the students
privacy at the Bates House. I am
expressing my opinion in favor of
the system.
I am a resident at the dormitory,
and feel that such a system is an
innovation which is desperately
needed in today's college dor
mitories. It is an extremely con
venient device for the hall coun
selors. because they can monitor
dorm activities from their desks,
while studying simultaneously.
I'm sure that some of our
counselors would be reluctant to
have to patrol their halls by foot
periodically throughout the
evening. Also, the system is not
only used as a means of sur
v'eillance. but also was a public
address system and a com
municative network for daily
propaganda.
However, its major application
is that of a protective device. It
keeps the hall counselors abreast
of the students conduct, and before
the building was opened for oc
cupancy, it censored the halls for
intrusions by our neighbors.
l.ouis l,auurich
Communication
Dear Mr. Stepp:
As a hail counselor at Bates
liouse. I feel that the recent
criticism of our two-way intercom
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system is completely un
substantiated.
In the first place, the students
have just as much privacy here as
any other students on campus. All
they need do is walk into their
room and close the door if they do
no wish to be disturbed.
One's right to privacy cannot be
extended to include the hall
because the hall is a commual area
for all to use.
Secondly, if it is to be labeled a
"listening device", then the ad
ministration is out of luck. All one
can detect over the listening end of
this system is disturbing noises or
loud voices. Individual con
versations cannot be distinguished
as such, unless the students are
speaking directly under the in
tercom.
Thirdly, this two-way system is
invaluable to the unique Bates
House design, where seach floor
has three entirely separate wings.
Its primary function is as a
communication network for the
building, and its use for picking up
excessiver noise is for the benefit
of the few students who are in
terested in having their right to a
quiet hall protected.
Furthermore, I'd like to point out
a critical fallacy in the article by
Mr. Krochmalny. Two of the
residents who testified to the
sensitivity and effectiveness of the
"listening device" wvere not
present when I conducted the test
for the benefit of Jim Bible and
James Little.
To my knowledge, these other
students have never been on the
listening end of this system, and
consequently know not of what
they speak.
I consider my job to be that of
maintaining a studious at
mosphere on the floor, not bugging
other people's conversations.
Without the ability to check up on
the students frequently and con
veniently, as we must do. no hall
counselor could possibly do his job
and expect to pass his courses at
the same time.
Larry Newton
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Letter
Sadness
and fear
Dear Mr. Stepp:
I am sitting to write this
response to "Let The Killing Stop"
with a mixture of fear and sadness
causing butteflies in my stomach.
I can't understand why some
people can't, or won't, see that we
are not only fighting the North
Vietnamese but also Russia and
Red China through the north
Vietnamese. Nikita Khrushchev -
said, " ... we will bury you."
Khrushchev, a gentle man in
comparison to those in control of
Russia now, is gone, but the policy
dedicated to the annihilation of
capitalist democracy remains.
Knowing that using nuclear
weapons to achieve this end would
be suicide, their plan is to
gradually take over, country by
country. Vietnam is part of this
plan.
And to deny that Russia and
China are actively involved in Viet
Nam would be an act of extreme
naivete. They were actively in
volved long before we were.
Please, people, wake up. We did
not start the war and it would not
end with our withdrawal.
But whoever wrote the editorial
obviously does not care about
peace for the whole world, but just
for the United States, certainly an
extremely selfish attitude,
Leo A. Bloschock
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