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Letters To The Editor:

'Law And Order' Letter Termed Illogical

Ah, it's good to hear from
another avid opponent of the
slogan "Law and Order" (i.e. Police
Brutality!"). I myself don't care
very much for the byline, but I find
it unbelievable where it has led Mr.
David Pollock in his Cavalier
Daily letter. "Look here," he tells
us, "excessive speeding fines, jailing
for minor offenses, bodily injury
for refusal to move from a street,
these are all part of the hostile
judge-police complex which has
charge of 'law and order' in our
society." Simple, huh? And he
winds up, logically enough, by
warning "the Wallace-Nixonites et
al," to remember the harsh
remedy of Hitler for disobedients
and undesirables.

Mr. Pollock's letter is the most
shallow and illogical I have ever
read in The Cavalier Daily. Politics,
like many other things, is a broad
and varied spectrum, Mr. Pollock; it
claims an almost infinite
combination of hues and
intensities, limited only by the
number of people active in things
political. The man who categorizes
Wallace and Nixon as exponents of
the same type of "law and order"
cannot distinguish between what
each man thinks the slogan means
and what his followers can distort it
to mean — and such a person who
lumps Nixon and Wallace together
is as misguided as the Wallacite who
says there's not a dime's difference
between Nixon and Humphrey!

Following Mr. Pollock's "logic"
about Hitler, I suppose I should end
this letter by warning FDR
admirers that Lenin, too, supported
"freedom from want" and yet he
slaughtered millions of kulaks in
the early '20's. I should warn
Humphrey voters that Ho Chi
Minh, too, wants the bombing of
North Vietnam stopped — and he
was responsible for the death of
hundreds of thousands of peasant
landlords and farmers during his
"Land Reform" campaign. But I'm
afraid I just can't be that simplistic
— there can be no valid comparison
between Lenin and FDR, Ho Chi
Minh and Humphrey, Wallace or
Nixon and Hitler. I just wish that
Mr. Pollock had been a little more
thoughtful and a lot less prejudiced
in his astute analysis of that slogan
"Law and Order."

'Laissez-Faire'

Mr. Murray accused Mr. Levy of
implying that the Negro is
incapable of producing students
who can compete on an equal basis
with the white student. This is not
"racial injustice" on the part of Mr.
Levy, but his recognition that the
very inadequacy of Negro
education denies him even a chance
to compete.

Mr. Murray is undoubtedly
familiar with the general education
requirements for admission. Many
Negroes cannot consider applying
for admission as they lack unit
requirements in the fields of
language, math, and science. The
reasons for this was a lack of
parental and teacher influence to
enroll in the college preparatory
program in high school. Also, even
if the Negro were able to meet
entrance requirements, financial
difficulties would further prevent
his college attendance.

Mr. Levy's proposal is neither a
"free ticket" nor a "handout." And
how many of us are on a parental
"free ticket?" It is a constructive
program aimed at alleviating
discrimination on college entrance
requirements. I would go even
further and suggest a free tuition
for Negroes.

Something must be done, and
Mr. Murray's "laissez-faire"
philosophy will only result in a
continued stale mate in the
problem. I support Mr. Levy's
proposal and hope to see it in effect
next fall.

Redirected Fury

We were most pleased to read in
the Tuesday issue of The Cavalier
Daily that the University Union was
absolved of Saturday's "concert
failure blamo" (to quote the
headline), and that the real
blunderers were, in fact, 1) a
worker for the Department of
Buildings and Grounds, 2) his
young son, and 3) two University
policemen.

We had the strange and
unfounded notion that an
organization that is professional
enough to sponsor a concert and
professional enough to handle
student funds in excess of $20,000
(paid in good faith) is likewise
professional enough to ensure that
the sound system for that concert is
double-checked by the appropriate
technicians, thus avoiding
"mayhem" like that which
occurred Saturday night.

We are sorry for having held a
student group suspect. We are
indeed indebted to your resourceful
writer who has redirected our fury.

Bob Ogle

The Graduate Arts & Sciences
Oct. 11 will elect a new
representative to Student Council.
The Council is growing in
respectability and responsibility. By
selecting Bud Ogle to Council,
GA&S can contribute to a more
progressive and open University.

In the regular elections last
spring, Mr. Bob Yuhnke was elected
to this Student Council spot. He
transferred to Columbia this fall,
and asked Bud Ogle to run for his
vacated office.

Bud Ogle was asked for a
reason: He's got the nerve and
intelligence to strengthen and lead a
critically important Student
Council.

He was on the ground-floor in
reestablishing the University
Human Relations Chapter. He was
instrumental in beginning
Charlottesville Draft Counselling
Group. He has demonstrated in the
Virginia Weekly his perspective of
the University and Charlottesville.

Bud Ogle is taking the campaign
seriously, Student Council is
important and he recognizes this.
He is openly publicizing his
positions on issues pertinent to this
University community.

Grad A&S needs to send Bud
Ogle to Student Council.

Draft Study

I am preparing an individual
study on the emerging generation
and the challenge it presents to
military leadership.

There are many indications that
the 18-25 year old men of today
are significantly more intellectual,
more critical of the assumptions
and assertions underlying
established institutions and
radically more intolerant of
hypocrisy than previous
generations. Manifestations in these
pursuits are, however, sometimes
puzzling. A long standing principle
of military leadership is "know
your men." This has proven to be
more difficult of late.

Vietnam or no Vietnam,
apparent world tensions are likely
to require a military draft for the
next several years. With this and
current youth's desire to
"participate in the decision making
process," I would sincerely
appreciate your thoughts on the
leadership technique and practices
that you believe would be most
appropriate and responsive to the
unusually talented young men of
today. Comments from faculty and
administration personnel are
welcome but I particularly solicit
the views of the students of the
University of Virginia.