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I hope the students SMC g The Student Mobilization enlarging its ideological bc student support and partki The hard core radicals arf 4o those students who arf revolutionary types. One leader In the group n will have to induce many "st to survive. Once a large nun and demonstrations and pr showing, a direct confront personnel will be attemptec The reasoning behind this more easily radicalized b harassed by the police. .Admittedly, the United Sta Vietnam everyday. We hay Americans and Vietnames4 mismanaged war. It should condemned. But what has happened to ultimate aim of marches an plaint against United StatesI cause student-police confror Obviously the leadership < radicalizing students and pel peace in Indochina. Cutu For those of you who jam every day trying to find a pl ''do It" or whatever -- you w an exhibit of one kind or an, Into that aesthetically barre the rest of the semester. The Russell House Is alrea thing students need is more c -- but put it In ao art gallery buy this He heavy. 'rowing Committee is hard at work ,se in an attempt to Increase pation. making SMC more palatable ? basically non-violent, non iade the statement that SMC raight" students Into its ranks iber - physically - Is achieved otest marches make a good ation with law enforcement 1. strategy is that students are being arrested, beaten or tes is committing atrocities in e no business in Indochina - a are dying in a senseless, be protested -- it should be peace? non-violence? Is the d protests to register a com iandling of the war, or is It to tation? >f SMC Is more interested in rpetuating anarchism than in re to fused into the Russell House lounge lace to sit, study, smoke, eat, ll be very happy to know that other will be lnfysing culture n head of yours every day for idy overcrowded, and the last vercrowding. Culture Is great ,music hall or anyplace that Our Man Ho Worn By ATiUR iiOPPE Once upon a time there was a Typical American Housewife named Gwendolyn Gwen, who worried. Like most women for a million years or so, she worried about raising her children and feeding her husiand and fixing up her home and things like that. Like most women for a million years or so, she believed in peace and sobriety and constancy and gentleness and things like that. Her husband, George, was a rypical American Male. He worked too hard and drank too much and, didn't spend enough time with the kids and often chased Right Angle Left's cr Sen. Strom Thurmond's recent appointment of an Orangeburg Negro to his staff has prompted some reaction among the Left. Nearly everyone seems to view this move as some kind of cynical political ploy to save Thurmond's political life. The argument runs something like this: Thurmond is a segregationist. Therefore, Thurmond hates blacks. Therefore, Thurmond's ap pointment of Tom Moss is due to base motives on his part. This argument is appealing to those who consider it their patriotic duty to hate Thurmond on principle, but it is very shallow. For one thing, Thurmond is no segregationist. He commented to a reporter that liberals still call him a segregationist, when in fact he was not. His opposition to the civil rights plank in the 1948 Democratic Paltform was not based on racial prejudice, but on constitutional and pragmatic grounds. That Thurmond hates blacks is absurd. As Holmes Alexander pointed out in defense of Thurmond when some leftist hatchetman Let IsI'AR MRt. BEEBE: I must say that I am thoroughly disgusted with this so-called "Food Service" that is "provided" by our most gracious and all-loving Vice President Brunton. I would like to personally thank him for allowing me to suffer over the past few weeks with acute nausea and diarea, but due to my condition, I have not had the chance. I am at Hates House, by the way, where the food is supposed to be best on campus. It was last semester, but since semester break, it has gotten to the point where it is almost a disaster with every meal. Tfhe selection of menus is not fit or dogs, much less hard-working ~ollege students. There Is ab olutely no variety in the selection it food, and many entrees run out flter the cafeteria has been open or just a short time. Oh yes, and here is nothing like having french ries every meal for a week. Makes me feel great. There is nothing nore appetizing than green ham nd Italian hoagies, which the tates House Food Committee upposedly voted out last emester. And there Is nothing etter tasting than stale fried fish ooked and,smotkiered in.tpre9 apd m half gallons of, arae -,. ppe en's Vi the ladies and sometimes pushed people around and things like that. But they thought they were happy with their lot. Then. one day, Gwendolyn ran into an old high school chum named Lavona Laganape. Lavona was Sergeant at Arms of the Women Against Male Mastery, better known as WAMM! Lavona took one look at Gwendolyn, sniffed and said loudly. "Gwendolyn, you are a slave! Follow me and get yourself liberated." So Gwendolyn went to a WAMM! meeting. She learned that she was no more than an unpaid char woman, cook and baby sitter. y shallow attempted to smear the senator, Thurmond has helped a black student from his home county through college. Those who in Pavlovian fashion denounce Thurmond as racist display magnificently their own bigotry. This is of course not to say that Moss' selection was purely devoid of political motives. It obviously was not. But the purpose of two party political system is to express the will of the people. The will of the people is that Negroes par ticipate to a greater extent in politics. Thurmond's action helped accomplish this. It has been claimed that Thur mond's action was a "move to the middle," which tacitly presup poses that all balcks are left of center. It should be noted that Thurmond had stated publicly that he has not changed his position on any issue one bit, and that he supposes Mr. Moss knows this. Hopefully, Mr. Moss will use his position to draw members of his race to Conservatism and not merely to promote a vapid, John West-type of political philosophy that is based on racism. ter I paid money to this University. for food service. What I am receiving is far from service. So If we must put up with A. R3. A. Food Services, at least A. R. A. could get up off of their rat posteriors and get to work providing what they're paid for -SERVICE! Al,AN HEAMES A frien William F. (Bud) Smiti For some he was merel students. For some he wa offered strong opinions at was the thought-provokir who would listen to what To his son he was a friel an infantryman who did hating every minute of i compassionate father. Bud said his years at Cai his life--the people were fri have to fight against nar He was many things In h here than on a used car Ctory Which didn't sound fair. She learned she didn't have equal rights under the law. Which didn't sound fair. Wouldn't have an equal shot at the top jobs in any profession. Which didn't sound fair. And couldn't get equal pay for equal work. Which sounded outrageous. So Gwendolyn joined WAMM!, read every word Betty Friedan ever wrote, took an eight-week course in karate, went home and told George to make his own breakfast because she was now 4 liberated. When George, in typical male fashion, sneered, Gwendolyn called him a "male chauvinist pig " and gave him a karate chop to the brisket. George, who didn't even know judo, decided to take this lying down. Gwendolyn put the kids in a day care center, got a job that paid as much as George's and spent her free hours marching militantly around, shouting, "Male chauvinist pigs!" Of course, society changes slowly. It took years before men grudgingly gave women equal rights. And during those years, Gwendolyn, to show she was the equal of any man, took up smoking cigars and drinking her whiskey neat and cussing and having an affair with her male secretary and things like that. Naturally, she didn't have much time for the kids any more. And, naturally, she didn't talk much about peace or gentleness. But sacrifices have to be made for a worthy cause. And at last victory was theirs. At last, women had equal rights, equal pay and equal opportunities. Lavona gave a party to celebrate. Unfortunately, George caught Gwendolyn, who'd had a few too many, pinching the bartender. They had an awful fight -- ten rounds, no holds barred. It ended in a draw. "At last I can say truthfully," cried Gwendolyn triumphantly, scattering cigar ashes on the rug as she woozily poured herself another belt, "that I'm thea bleeping equal of any bleeping male chauvinist pig in the room!" Moral: The trouble with women becoming our equals, gentlemen, is that then they'll be no better than we are. (Copyright Chronicle Publishing Co. 1971) ,poet ra is dead at 47. y a white-haired Carolina s the brazen old man who Speako'uts. For others he ig, humerous companion ( was said. nd who fought in WWIl as what he felt he had to, b' a sensitive poet and a ~oIina were the happiest of endly to him and he didn't row, set minds. is life. It's better Bud died lot. --by Michael Ball