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Diehard sports fans wh
Football League action f<
pleased upon hearing oi
strike settlement betw<
management.
Those same fans, how
extremely disappointed
scheduled to resume.
Instead of the high qu
rnrnfi to exnect. fans will
game that's just a cut a
Out-of-shape athletes wil
the exception, and after
who can still play will
drive to win.
Baltimore Colts' coacl
is "no wav" his team c
Dr. Mike Andrews,
specialist in Chicago, sa
a bunch of garbage on th<
Players go through n
workouts and exhibiti
summer to be properb
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is rushing to give all of
the season to start up agi
Andrews said the pla>
three to four weeks to j
condition needed to play
But the NFL, like all <
leagues, emphasizes m;
the safety of the player
same. The most logical
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season and start over ag
Instead, the league lu
agony, scheduling a t<
sending 16 of its 28 tc
season with less-than-e>
advent of a substanti
meaningless. When moi
to the olavoffs. the feel
contented satisfaction.
The strike has left
mouths. Players are m
are angry with the pla?
out in the cold. Instea(
affair, we will be subje
inferior play as a once
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tar ism vie wee
lis' letter of Nov. l "
las many legitimate CTllACl
against the American gUtTal
iblishment and the way
i War was conducted. Tht> s*?onnri I
is does not mean, as he is rife with inc<
lagine, that any stick is his attitude is
i to beat our "politicians cummings's p
i"with. ^la(j anc| big,
al to lay so many of killed rather
evils at the door of expressing a i
Mr. Ellis mentions, oiaf. Yet Mr.
r atrocities, Munich and there is no h<
rhe inclusion of Munich is wishes to live
ir, because the image that ?'sure'?the hal
n my mind is the piece of, have thp qamp
le Chamberlain waved in Hedafms
gned by Herr Hitler and Vietnam dead
g "peace in our time." saying he is 41
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igui iu ^ictuucu uic ucoi to jor anoiner ci
; glad and big" and other manipulated.'
is objectors with whom are many of f
rofesses to identify, but the Lt. Tuck<
er had never touched off saying he and
I, it would have meant the he professes t
of millions of Czechs to "could care 1
for his countr
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VLjLP an uu n v/ii w. appi cuiaic n,
that the extermination of upkeep of the]
>sies, and other "un- Such rhetor
would have gone on journalism, tt
y help from the German is preparing
[ad the other countries of hope that in
epted German domination college he woi
ly as the Czechs, Hitler's examples of <
ion" would have been final mention mo
at put an end to Auschwitz toward thoi
the resistance of con- disagrees. Wc
)bjectors, but the victory of likes of "olaf j
lies having no truck with of their crav
l_ i imL in
/orcis, me sacriuce ui uue nim so sure
ouls won't defeat the forces possibly give
>me or abroad." worthy as Ola
dent's desires
jalistic, foolish
imn criticizing the stadium addition was ai
mple of three typical student characteristics,
total lack of appreciation for the necessii
major projects well in advance of their
i tt. .4:4:?..?u a
tun. lviajur ciiuucs &ucii h? uic umvciany u
e or appropriate funds, solicit bids, and let
on short notice due to an unexpected econ
ch nobody seems to be able to figure out any wi
you demonstrated a very short memory..a
hims and desires. My observations over a <
he university have been that when the Gam<
ams are riding the crest of victory and the ca
vith the excitement of winning, students corn
having tickets ffiiarantfted for ?verv rnntest.r
iplaining students are the ones who stay aw
len the 'Cocks play a no-name team (even in
have fallen on hard times.
you expect the amount each student pays i
s to guarantee you 24-hour-a-day, seven-di
ess to every facility on campus, plus guara
very event.
bout it for a few moments. Estimate the actm
ng what you expect. Lifok at how foolish you ai
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tialf of Mr. Ellis' letter Tucker <
onsistencies. He claims criminals
summed up by e. e. andreaso
oem in praise of "olaf E*lis does
" who let himself be displaying
than take up arms, qualities,
>vish to see Christ and I have
Ellis states flatly that contrast i
iaven or hell, says he ana me
to be an old man and is ranges fr
f-million draft resistors were popi
desire. level of a
to speak for all the the kind o
1 in his last paragraph, each gen<
'certain they would ask Is it
hance and refuse to be changes ii
' Yet among those dead fall of oi
ho cnmA mntivntinn as. Perfectly'
sr whom Ellis vilifies, I suspe
the half million (again, idealism i
o speak for all of them) late '60s \
ess" if Lt. Tucker dies sublimati
y, "excepting we won't fears, of
aving to pay for the drafted a
plot." for nuir
ic may be acceptable in ingrainec
IP traHft which Mr Fllis is hard
to ply, but one would motivatic
his three-plus years of their core
lid have been exposed to I do no
clearer thinking, not to toconvin
re humane attitudes motivate
se with whom one atrocities
uld he also begrudge the draft was
|lad and big" the upkeep much (
es? If not, what makes disappea
that Lt. Tucker cannot
his life for a cause as
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(SING, I would like to adit
appears to be his main
ontention with Lt. Tucker,
es of 500.000 draft resistors.
-alls them cowards and
, Ellis, "men of conscience
n." As I have indicated, Mr.
not do an exemplary job of
I either of these noble
but let that pass.
long been intrigued by the
n tone between the late '60s
present day. The contrast
om the sorts of songs that
liar in each era, through the
ictivism on our campus, to
if future the young people of
oration claim to be striving
just a coincidence that the
n mood followed the rise and
ir Vietnam involvement so
?
jet that the expressions of
that were so prevalent in the
vere in large measure due to
on and rationalization of
ten unconscious, of being
nd sent to war. "Looking out
iber one" is so deeply
I in the American psyche, it
to believe that the only
>n of most draft resistors was
science and reason.
t doubt that many were able
ce themselves that they were
d by anger over American
> in Vietnam. But when the
? done away with, why did so
)f "the counterculture"
r along with it?
Peter J. NyiVos
Associate professor
irtment of Mathematics and Statistics
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