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Its That Time
It's that time of the term. Time for moan
ing and groaning about how far behind we
are, how we swore we’d never get behind
again, how mean that nasty old comp teach
er is, how little time there is for studying,
bow noisy it is in the dorm. But let's think
back a bit.
What were we doing a month ago at this
time? Shooting the breeze with the fellows?
Taking off for a mid-week show? Cutting
class to listen to the hi-fi at The Side? Just
goofing off in general? We really deserve
sympathy then, don't we? Now that all of
our term papers are due, we're in a final round
of mid-terms, and final week is only two
weeks away. And suddenly comes the dawn.
W e see it in big red letters on the mirror
when we get up in the morning. It’s written
on every professor’s face. It hangs over
campus coffee spots: Grade point average.
After a term here no one needs to be told
the importance of obtaining and maintain
ing a high GPA. Additional privileges- hon
orares, offices—many are the things depend
ent either wholly or partially upon the al
mighty GPA. And a high GPA winter term
doesn’t necessarily follow a high GPA fall
term. *
The answer? The best possible use of the
time remaining and the hope that good studv
habits learned may carry over to spring term.
And good luck in pushing that D-plus over
to a C-minus. — (S.R.)
I\lew Smear Word
The Fifth Amendment to the Constitu
tion of the United States has become a smear
term.
That was one of the main points made by
the 1955 Eric \V. Allen Memorial Speaker,
Irving Dilliard, in his address on campus a
little over a week ago. As editor of the edi
torial page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
one of the nation’s outstanding newspapers,
Dilliard has been in a good position to ob
serve this phenomenon.
Primarily through Congressional investi
gations, but also in court trials in recent
years, we’ve added the terms “Fifth Amend
ment Pinko” and “Fifth Amendment Com
mie” to our colloquial language.
A citizen wholnvokes the fifth amendment
when questioned is pictured as at least sus
pect, probably worse.
It's been a long time for many of us since
we took a course in civics or U.S. History,
but it might be a good tiling to pause for a
minute and reread the “infamous" fifth ar
ticle of the Bill of Rights :
“No person shall be held to answer for
a capital or otherwise infamous crime, un
less on a presentment or indictment of a
grand jury, except in cases arising in the
land or naval forces, or in the militia, when
in actual service in time of war or public
danger; nor shall any person be subject
for the same offense to be put twice in jeop
ardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled
in any case to be witness against himself,
nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
without due process of law; nor shall priv
ate property be tak«n for public use with
out just compensation.”
It sounds pretty basic, doesn’t it? But this
article, or parts of it, are being used today as
smear terms, to cast aspersions on persons
merely because they refuse to testify against
themselves.
There are those whose purposes would
best be served if such obstacles as the Fifth
Amendment were removed from their paths.
One way to accomplish this would be to dis
credit the obstacles one by one as they arise.
Just as basic as the Fifth Amendment is
the First Amendment—and the rest of the
Bill of Rights.
Maybe when a demagogue begins to say
that those who claim freedom of speech or
religion are subversive, the American people
will begin to realize that as their constitution
is made a mockery, so are the basic right"
which it contains.
It’s Aging
We’ve been disillusioned! The Student
Union is aging.
We thought that the SU would always
stay the way it was when it was dedicated
in 1951. However, deterioration lias set in.
Some of the chairs in the Fishbowl are
wearing out. The middle door which leads
to the turnaround is “out of order.” Also,
the doormats are near the point of disinte
gration.
Maybe the building will last forever, but
many of the parts are already getting to the J
place where they detract from the building's |
beauty.—(P.K.)
Footnotes
Why not a plan for a speaker system for I
the SU jukebox so that the music can be
heard throughout the Fishbowl instead of
blasting at one area?
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Dulles May Face Showdown
With Red Chinese Armed Power
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
Of the Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP)-Secre
tary of State Dulles returns from
Asia this week to face an almost
certain test of his newly com
pleted system of anti-Commu
nist alliances. This will be some
kind of military showdown with
Red China.
Officials here believe the cru
cial contest, which appears to
be developing now, will be re
garded by friendly Asian peoples
as a measure of US willingness
to stand by them when the rigk
is great.
At the same time the British
may think the risks are more
than the United States should
take for the stakes immediate
ly involved. This could put ad
ditional strains on the alliance.
The critical area, authorities
agree, is Nationalist China’s off
shore island line anchored by
Quemoy and Matsu. Generalissi
mo Chiang Kai-Shek’s abandon
ment of Nanchishan three days
ago is expected to speed up Com
munist operations against the
Quemoy-Matsu sector.
Evidence that critical develop
ments are to be expected soon
is found by State and Defense
Department officials in (1) the
high volume of Red Chinese
propaganda about moving on
Formosa, and (2) new military
dispositions opposite Quemoy
which have brought the island’s
air strip and other installations
under Communist artillery fire.
In a speech in New York
immediately before he left for
the Bangkok conference ten
days ago Dulles said that “a
great danger in Asia” is the
fear of many non-Communist
peoples that the United States
would not stand behind them.
That fear, he said, has already
“mounted to the danger point.”
He added that the whole area
of Asia would become indefens
ible if the free peoples living
there felt that the Western Al
lies would retreat whenever Com
munism threatens the peace.
Dulles clearly applies this rea- i
soning to the problem of the Na
tionalist-held coastal islands. It
is this concept, widely shared by i
other officials here, that gives ;
the expected Quemoy-Matsu
showdown greater significance
than would be involved simply in
the Formosa problem.
Yet, it appears that Dulles
and his advisers will have to
take Into account the extreme
ly strong desire of the British
to avoid a military showdown
with Red China and especially
a showdown over the coastal
islands, which the British con
sider properly belong to the
Chinese Beds.
Dulles and British Foreign
Secretary Eden discussed at
Bangkok last week whether any
steps could be taken to dissuade
the Chinese Communists from
violent action. In this the Brit
ish at least hope for some coop
eration from Moscow.
The Russians are happy to see
trouble between the United
States and Britain but both Lon
don and Washington experts
think the Russians want the Red
Chinese to avoid any action
which could lead to a big war.
—Paid Adv*rti«emenf
Ok Campus
(Author of "liar, foul Hoy iVilh
with
MaxQhuIman
Cheek," tie.)
THE BULL SESSION
1 wonder if they still mnke bull sessions the way they used
to. Well do I remember the bull sessions of my own undergrad
uate days. How cogent they were! How informative! How the
good talk crackled and our young hearts lenped and the hours
sped by as swiftly as minutes!
Our discussions were always led by Jack Femur. (Good old
Jack! I hear he’s in the extruded aluminum game now. I We
would sit cross-legged in a circle around Jack and he would fill
his pipe with his own private blend — burley, latakia, and shred
ded coconut. The rest of us preferred tobacco, so we would light
up Philip Morris. This is a procedure I recommend without qual
ification to everyone who prefers tobacco because Philip Morris
has the tobacco that tobacco-preferers prefer the most mild
vintage leaf with a clean, cool flavor thut soothes and steadies,
that gladdens and enlivens and refreshes.
Jack would puff on his pipe and we would puff on our
Philip Morris and the bull-session would begin its meandering
journey. The talk would touch on every subject known to man,
on every conceivable thing beneath the sun, but no matter how
far the conversation wandered, it would always return to "Topic
A.” 1 refer, of course, to gardening.
But. as I say, the discussion would cover many subjects before
it came to the inevitable gardening. Jack would open each session
with a provocative question of a general nature, like: “What’s
the most important thing a man can get out of college?”
“Girls,” Harold Clavicle would reply promptly. (Good old
Harold! 1 hear he’s in the frozen lobster tail game now.)
“No, 1 don’t think so,” Hen Fibula would say. "I think edu
cation is the most important thing you get out of college.”
(Good old Ben! He’s still in school.)
“Listen, guys. I’ve got a question,” Clyde Ilium would say.
"If you could spend a week either with Ava Gardner or with
Albert Einstein, which would you choose?” (Good old Clyde! I
hear he’s in the unclaimed freight game now.)
“Albert Einstein, of course," Will Mandible would say. (Good
old Will! I hear he’s in the jack handle game now.)
“What?” Cleanth Patella would cry, astonished. “You would
rather spend a week with Albert Einstein than with Ava
Gardner?” (Good old Cleanth! 1 hear he’s in the unclaimed
freight game with Clyde Ilium.)
“Natch!” Will Mandible would answer.
“P.ut why?” Sol Sacrum would ask. (Good old Sol! 1 hear he’s
a parking meter in Deal, New Jersey.)
“Because,” Will Mandible would cry, “if I spent a week with
Albert Einstein, maybe I would get so smart that I would
be able to figure out a way to spend more than a week with
Ava Gardner!”
Well sir, we laughed until our little uvulas were sore and then
we went on to a host of other topics. “Do you think it’s im
portant to join a fraternity?” Murray Tarsus would ask. (Good
old Murray! I hear he's in the mica frame now.)
"Only if you are a boy,” Bob Turbinate would answer. (Good
old Bob! 1 hear he’s in the sheared raccoon game now. I The
raccoon, incidentally, was invented by Milton Raccoon, whose
career should be a source of guidance and inspiration to us all.
Mr. Raccoon arrived in this country in 1907, penniless and not
speaking a word of Flnglish. Today he is the Mayor of four of
our principal cities. 1)
But to get back to the bull session—"What's the best thing
to do when the girl you are dancing with insists on leading?"
Rric Ulna would ask. (Good old Eric! 1 hear he’s in the flutter
valve game now.)
“Hit her with a folded newspaper,” George Vertebra would
answer. “Never hit a girl with your hand. They learn to associ
ate the hand with food, and you must not confuse them." (Good
old George! 1 hear he’s in the folded newspaper game now.)
And so it went — the talk ranging the worlds of the arts and
the sciences and the social graces, until we would climb, spent
but happy, into our little hammocks ... I wonder if they still
make bull sessions the way they used to.
<£Ms* fthulman, I'iVi
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