 | The Cavalier daily. Wednesday, December 4, 1968 |  |
Wrong Way Attack On ROTC Cited
I read with considerable interest
the article by Professor Mayer in
the Nov. 27 issue of The Cavalier
Daily, and was impressed by many
of the points he made, but I feel
that there is something missing.
It seems that this article is advocating
the non-existence of
ROTC on college campuses, but is
attacking it from the wrong direction.
The most efficient way to
end the abuses of Rot-cee is to do
away with the mechanism with
which young men are stampeded
into it, namely the military draft.
As long as you have the draft, you
will have a very prominent ROTC.
Fight for the right to your own
life. Repeal the draft law, and
ROTC will dwindle.
Do not mis-understand me. I do
not think ROTC should be thrown
off campus. This would be as much
a usurpation of free choice as the
present system is. Let everyone
choose for himself. But let us
choose in an atmosphere of voluntarism.
Let us take away Rot-cee's
blackmail material, and force them
to stand on whatever merits they
might possess.
College 3
Drug Retort
This is in response to Mr. Foxe's
response of December 3, 1968.
With all due respect to Mr. Foxe, I
would rather not have my opinion
represented by that letter.
I want to make it clear, first of
all, that I in no way condone
the use of drugs, even of marijuana.
However, the arguments presented
by Mr. Foxe cannot withstand
much scrutiny, such as his suggestion
that it was necessary to make
a law to punish those who were
breaking it. (How could they break
it if it wasn't a law?) That it is
general knowledge that the use of
marijuana is "highly dangerous" is
not true. My personal opinion notwithstanding,
many people feel it is
not dangerous, and not having tried
it, I cannot positively disagree.
Thirdly, I don't think Mr. Hite's
editorial complained that these men
were sentenced. He argued the relative
stiffness of the penalties
between those for possession of
marijuana, and those for possession
of heroin and opium.
Finally, I contend that anyone
who physically or psychologically
needs drugs has something wrong
with them. Anyone else, who
would simply like to use drugs
should be able to work for change
of the laws, instead of just ignoring
them.
Second-year College
Walking To Class in the Fog
My feet clump on but wearily
My briefcase full of books and papers
Things undone arranged in layers
And send the Christmas cards I loathe
And do research on concepts old
And, get your shoes repaired, I'm told
The morning fog creates a shroud
For all the Georgian buildings there
Scattered on the hills once fair
Or is it Tuesday, who's to care
No one will probe my psyche deep
Through the lecture next I sleep
Distant from the urban hum
I walk to class and wonder why
I do not turn and pass this also by
A man of no particular season
Fog-kept and search for the reason
Why the day began at all
But glad the god has come to call
As up the steps ahead of me
Awaits the scholar's sterility.
Graduate Education
Enlightened View
Bravo Cavalier Daily! Thank
you for your supportive and truthful
editorial on our dimly fit
grounds. As a concerned and rather
ambulatory resident of Mary
Munford, I hope "Out of this nettle,
danger, we pluck this flower,
safety."
Please enlighten us - now!
Graduate Education
Equal Coverage
Why do you continually run
front page condemnations of the
Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia
without devoting at least
equal space to the far more brutal
American occupation of South
Viet-Nam? The Soviet invasion cost
approximately seventy Czech lives,
the American one has killed hundreds
of thousands of Vietnamese
(and thirty thousand of our own);
the Soviets put a few bullet holes in
Hradany Palace, we leveled Hue
(and God knows how many villages
with everything from Zippo lighters
to napalm bombs to bulldozers);
they ended a brief experiment in
liberal Communism, we have
smashed a very ancient culture (by
displacing its people, destroying its
economy, and disrupting its familial,
social, and political patterns);
finally they have not returned (and
probably will not to the Novotyite
police state, while we have terrorized
Viet-Nam for years with our
bombings, napalmings, "search and
destroy" operations, and free fire
zones (one out of every four South
Vietnamese is a refugee from our
massive and erratically applied firepower
- Viet Cong terror is usually
selectively applied to a small segment
of the population, village
chiefs and government officials,
many of whom the peasantry are
glad to see go; thousands of South
Vietnamese have been sentenced to
death or hard labor for advocating
peace and/or neutralism, among
them the prominent peace candidate
in the 1967 "elections" Dzu.
This is not written as an apology
for the "Neanderthals in the Kremlin;"
it is written as a plea for more
balanced coverage - especially in
view of the fact that there is
nothing we can do to end the
Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia,
but there are things we can
do to end the American occupation
of S. Viet-Nam, which is being
carried out in our names with our
bodies.
SDS
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