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Letters To The Editor

Mighty Gorilla Meets The Worm

As supreme commander of
that valiant band of anti-war
heroes, the Charlottesville
Gorilla Theater, I feel obliged
to clarify some of our military
weekend activities. What many
people thought was a skit
satirizing police state tactics
against dissenters, was in fact a
real unprovoked attack upon
Steve Squire by Bob "the
Jock" Canevari and Alan
"the worm" Williams. We do
not believe in the use of
violence and our chief aim is to
educate people about the
violence being perpetrated by
their government and
university with their tacit
support.

It's really a mystery to me
why Canevari should be Dean
of Students at all, he's clearly
just another jock who ought to
be spending his time bullying
high school gym classes rather
than student dissenters.
Williams also surprised me by
his courage in pummeling
Squire while he was being held
by "the Jock."

In any case the Gorilla
Theater has some surprises of
its own in store for these
bureaucrats and others who
think they can put their
conscience in the closet for the
next few years. The General
would like to take this
opportunity to ask for recruits
for his non-violent army for
peace.

All are welcome who would
like to express their love and
concern for their fellow
creatures by protesting the
military madness that is ruining
our country. Times and
locations to be announced.

Stars and Stripes Forever,
General Westmoreland

Petition

Previously, I had occasion
to write, concerning the
disposition of some 80 million
acres of Alaskan land—I am
pleased to report that
Secretary of the Interior,
Rogers C. B. Morton has since
set aside this acreage for later
inclusion in the National Park,
Forest, Wildlife Refuge, and
Wild and Scenic Rivers
Systems.

Secretary Morton stated
that, "Land use planning of
this magnitude is the key to
the quality of American life. In
Alaska we still have the
opportunity to avoid most of
the mistakes made elsewhere in
our country during past
centuries."

Additional significance of
this action lies in its
demonstration of the crucial
role which a concerned
citizenry can and must play in
the government's
environmental decision making
process.

The Charlottesville Friends
of the Earth are offering all
those concerned about the
quality of their environment an
opportunity to participate in
this process. We are circulating
petitions urging Senators Byrd
and Spong to vote against
weakening the National
Environmental Policy Act of
1969.

The Atomic Energy
Commission has recently urged
changes in this law which
would allow construction of
nuclear power plants without
the filing of an environmental
impact statement, as required
by the law in its present form.
Federal Power Commission
predictions of possible
electrical power shortages must
not be allowed to overshadow
the very real and serious
problems of radioactive wastes
and thermal pollution. We
can't allow past mistakes to be
repeated. Please stop by 310
Tuttle and give our petitions
your support.

Multi—talented

It may be true that we are
all lousy teachers and lazy
bastards, that we loathe all
students, especially
undergraduates, and that we
screw women only, but it's not
the whole truth: we play the
best squash in the University.