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The open dorm reguli
ministration are not desil
students. A progressive r
ministration in an effort tc
little more palatable.
On an expermental basi,
able to visit each other ii
times on the weekends. T
survey purposes, which i
determining how many s
parental permission stipul,
University from off campi
old ladies attacking the
umbrellas should not be e
super progressive society -
liberal.
Residents of the Men's
hostile attitude toward the
hours and effecting certai
To be very blunt the Towi
good thing when it sees it
more than reasonable in c
perimental basis. This is ar
more freedom, and it wou
this campus ten, five or tN
For once students are no
administrative pastime) bt
good sense, grace or intelli
MyC
By AwrtiHUR HOPPE
Columnist
The radio this morning said th<
allied invasion of Laos had bogge4
down. Without thinking, I nodde4
and said, "Good."
And having said it, I realized thi
bitter truth: Now I root against m:
own country.
This is how far we have come i
this hated and endless war. This i:
the nadir I have reached in thi:
winter -of my discontent. This i,
how close I border on treason.
Now I root against my owt
country.
now frighteningly sad this is. M3
generation was raised to love oui
country and we loved it un
thinkingly. We licked Hitler anc
Tojo and Mussolini. Those were
our shining hours. Those were ouw
days of faith.
They were evil; we were good
They told lies; we spoke the truth
Our case was just, our purposes
noble, and in victory we were
magnanimous. What a wonderful
country we were! I loved it so.
But now, having descended dowri
the tortured, lying, brutalizing
years of this bloody war, I have
come to the dank and lightless
bottom of the well. I have come t<
root against the country that once]1
blindly loved.
I can rationalize it. I can say thai
If the invasion of Laos succeeds
the chimera of victory will dance
once again before our eyes -
leading us once again into more
years of mindless slaughter. Thus,
I can say, I hope the invasion fails.
But it is more than that. It is thai
I have come to hate my country's
role in Vietnam.
I hate the massacres, the body
counlts, the free fire ztones, the
napalming of . civilians, the
poisoning of rice crops. I hate
being part of My Lai. I hate the
inet that we have now dronDped
s gov't
idiots
itons established by the ad
;ned to give the big shaft to
iove is being made by the ad
o make dormitory life at USC a
members of both sexes will be
i their rooms during specified
he sign-in - sign-out rule is for
; the only effective method of
-udents are participating. The
3tion is for the protection of the
is criticism. Little gray haired
administration building with
ncouraged. We do not live In a
South Carolina is anything but
Towers are demonstrating a
administration for limiting the
n ''en loco parentis" controls.
ars government doesn't know a
. The administration has been
iranting open dorms on an ex
i experiment in giving students,
Id not have been witnessed on'
vo years ago.
t being "ripped-off" (a favorite
t some students don't have the
gence to accept it and shut up.
oun try
more explosives on these scrawny
Asian peasants than we did on all
3 our enemies in World War II.
I And I hate my leaders who, over
the years, have conscripted our
young men and sent them there to
kill or be killed in a senseless cause
' simply because they can find no
honorable way out -- no honorable
I way out for them.
I don't root for the enemy. I
doubt they are any better than we.
I don't give a damn any more who
wins the war. But because I hate
what my country is doing in
Vietnam, I emotionally and often
irrationally hope that it fails.
It is a terrible - thing to root
against your own country. If I were
alone, it wouldn't matter. But I
don't think I am alone. I think
many Americans must feel these
same sickening emotions I feel. I
think they share my guilt. I think
they share my rage.' -
If this is true, we must end this
war now -- in defeat, if necessary.
We must end it because all of
Southeast Asia is not worth the
hatred, shame, guilt and rage that
is tearing Americans apart. We
must end it not for those among our
young who have come to hate
America, but for those who
somehow manage to love it still.
I doubt that I can ever again love
my country in that unthinking way
I did when I was young. Perhaps
this- is a good thing.
But 1 would hope the day will
come when I can once again
believe what my country says and
once again approve of what it does.
I want to have faith once again in
the .justness of my country's
causes and the nobleness of its
ideals.
What I want so very much is to
be able once again to root for my
own, my native land.
(Copyright Chronicle Publishing
Co. 1971)
'ES., orelcCR, I Supposi
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4-v6,a,r.o,e*v 4r- PR4YrTv
Today revisited
Stud(
By JOHN GASH
Columnist
I was going to write a column about Pre
Thomas Jones' meeting yesterday wil
Towers residents. What I wanted to say I
two-fold in the following quotes from sti
who attended the meeting:
"He (Jones) came down to appease t
hedged on all his questions. We came sin
and open-minded. For what? Nothing.
did was give us pat answers."-Mike B
"He (Jones) is a typical politician. He
iot but actually not very much."-Ken Gi
social chairman of the Towers Council.
"Pres. Jones gave no definite answers.
The Gutenberg experij
From Mr.
Dear Diary, Anywi
Well, it certainly has been a poetry 1
lovely evening, what with the libido, 1
basket ball players in the backyard awful. H
gone. And USC's poet-in-residence pus th:
came to the house tonight, just to English
see us and to try and sell us a copy works w
of his new book.
I really didn't know who he was But he
until he said "Il'm James .Dickey his mov
and I'm the greatest poet, in the going to '
world." I knew right then that he the prodi
was James Dickey. Maybe
Well, he tried to sell me a copy of him.
"Deliverance" but I said I read it
down at the Capitol News Stand. I have
Tlhen he tried to sell me a copy of residenc
"Self-Interviews"--which is the seems
perfect title for any Dickey book-- though.
but I didn't really want to buy it, once saw
and I told him I would catch the really.
movie.
Well, he stayed--and stayed, and
stayed and stayed. But it was
really fun, what with him shooting
cigars out of Tom's mouth with
flaming arrows and playing his .TH E G
guitar. He's written a new song and wee
I've Been Flushed Donte holidays
Toilet of Your Love" but it sounds scripo
sorta country and I didn't like It summer.
that well. received
Tlom was really worried. He had suJbscrlpi
just talked to those kids over in the 17722
TIowers about open house rules. GAMECl
He's a nice man when he does that. expressed
And I really wished he could have student t
rested--except that Baby Darling ....-I.
~'rjDS
My
SPVA,/N0
04ts tell
a typical political gamt
sident he'll do this and this i
h the didn't meet us halfway.
s said senator.
Mdents
''The students can si
fronts everyday: admi
run -around.''-John Bla
is. He of the Towers.
..erely
All he Overall , as the quote
lzon. the meeting was tha
listening to themselves
said a
reene, To paraphrase ''Easl
went looking for answi
It was them anywhere...
7wnt
. Jones'<
iy, James read us some Anywm
guaranteed to excite the until we
ut me f itwasprety ran
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l it
it. All he said was that
ind this and that.' He
"-Clint Sloan, Towers
me what the SGA con
nistration bulls--t and
ckshire, vice-president
s indicate, the result of
it the students were
talk.
e Rider,"' the students
?rs. And couldn't find
liar}
iy, Dickey idn't leave
11 past midnight. He was
us articles which Tune,
sek and Esquire had
about him--that wais after
Ld us 177 pages of
ance." He ~promise4i to
ck next week and show us
of the WIS-TV program
James Dickey?" I'm sure
people want to know
ly since he is getting a
g salary for teaching once
to weeks.
guess I'll go now, Diary. I
if those kids on the
ek staff will get into any
)rinting this. I don't think
a hopeless bunch of kids.
Mary
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