Letters to the Editor
(Continued from pane 2)
move chairs and make decora
tions for dances, set up art ex
hibits, find places for retreats,
arrange speakers, present spe
cial attractions, carry posters
all over the campus, work in
tin print shop all day Saturday,
arrunge interviews for commit
tees, keep the listening rooms
open, present fun nights, pre
sent Kridays-at Four, arrange a
buddy program for the foreign
students, provide rugby and ski
teams, etc., etc., etc. This type
of work makes one of the best
union programs in the country.
Once a year at the awards ban
quet we thank these people for
their efforts. At some point in
a union program, you have to
pat the ticket taker and the
post carrier on the back, or they
won t be around to become com
mittee chairmen and Hoard
members.
Now that the purpose is clear,
I would like to talk about the
$550 cost which is under fire.
With 300 involved in presenting
extensive and diverse programs
there is only one salary on the
budget This is $231 for the
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Two Worlds
( Cun limit'd from page 2)
alumnus—the one who comes
hack to Alma Mater like a
spawning salmon and wants
nothing more than to build a
bigger football stadium Or he
loudly and bitterly denounces
all the changes on the campus
or how the students are being
duped by all kinds of sinister in
fluences Hut not all alumni are
like that Most alumni realize
that it is the nature and func
tion of rivers to change, to keep
grinding away at the established
order with new and diverse cur
rents, to even cut new channels
from time to time.
The student, for his part,
must realize that it is the nature
of the sea to change much more
slowly and imperceptibly And
its nature is such that it is pos
sible. in the western seas at
least, to chart one's own course,
usually within the confines of
the mainstreams of current,
though not necessarily.
Obviously, things are not “per
fect" or even "rosy” in the
world of alumni There will be
much that the new alumnus can,
and probably should, criticize
Coming from the purity of the
rivers, he may detest the salti
ness of the sea I doubt if he
can do anything about the salt.
There is much he can and
should do to improve conditions
—economic, social, political—in
specific ways. I agree with Lin
coln who said an individual does
not have the right to criticize
unless he also has the heart to
help.
And in the final analysis, it
is the rivers which feed the in
tellectual sea, and the sea which
feeds the rivers, and the cycle is
never-ending.
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board secretary. The awards
banquet for approximately 2fW)
people costs much less than a
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dent and similar positions. It
takes students to run programs
and even though they are doing
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“thank you for a job well done.”
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Racial Issue
Emerald Editor:
Mr. Floyd McKissick (the
CORE chairman who spoke on
the campus Wednesday night,
Nov. 6) was quite correct in say
ing that the churches do not
have the answer to the segre
gation problem of today. What
mankind needs is an up-to
date religion. Conflicting phil
osophies and political systems
have wrought just as much
harm in the world today, so
they are not the answer either
He said, "... if religion was
going to solve the problem,
then it would have solved it
before now.”
The fact is, there is a new
up-to-date religion which has
the practical solution to this
problem and all the other ills
that afflict mankind at this
[joint in his evolution.
For the past 100 years of its
existence, the Baha’i World
Faith has been completely and
totally integrated. In all 257
countries of the world where»
Baha'is live, one can see the
prime principle of the oneness
of mankind at the root of every'
other principle and action of
the Baha'i communities.
Notice I said 'action' for, as
most people know, many so
called religious people will
quote Scripture one minute and
do its opposite the next.
I know so many Baha'is of all
races, and I have seen what an
influence this Faith has had
on them, including complete in
tegration. For you sec, as Mr.!
McKisseck said, “Your churches
have found passages of Scrip
ture to support segregation” —
and this is exactly why all hu
manity needs an up-to-date
World Faith if it is going to
have a working solution to the
segregation problem.
The passing of laws does not
completely eliminate existing
prejudices, for until you have
a change in the human heart,
the racial problem will not be
totally solved. This also in-1
eludes other problems which
have international dimensions to
them, such as tjie fanatical re
ligious persecutions in the East
Even more important is to
realize that this is not just a
problem with the Negroes. Just
as it takes two wings to insure
a perfect flight of a bird, so
will it take both races, white
and colored, to solve this prob
lem.
To quote from the Baha’i
Writings: “Casting away once
and for all the fallacious doc
trine of racial superiority, with
all its attendant evils, confu
sion, and miseries, and welcom
ing and encouraging the inter
mixture of races and tearing
down the barriers that now di
vide them, every human be
ing should endeavor, day and
night, to fulfill his or her par
ticular responsibilities in the
common task which so urgently
faces them.”
Let no man think that such
a problem can either easily or
immediately be revolved. No
one, no matter what color, can
sit back in this day and age
and expect someone else to
solve the problem.
In agreement with Mr. Mc
Kissick’s statements that God
has ordained America to estab
lish racial equality once and for
all, the Baha’i Writings state:
“May this American Democra
cy be the first nation to estab
lish the foundation of interna
tional agreement. May it be the
first nation to proclaim the
universality of mankind. May it
be the first to upraise the stan
dard of the Most Great Peace."
Don Addison,
P.O. Box 5004.
The University’s eleven Cambodian
students celebrated their southeast
Asian nation’s tenth year of independence
Saturday. Photos, from top, show the
students singing a popular Cambodian
song; Miss Oum Thoup Molyse Thourk
leading countrymen and audience mem
bers in the “ramvong” (circle dance);
at left, height as well as language was
sometimes a problem in explanations;
below, Kim Sillon welcomes the 100
guests; and right, gestures aid explan
ations of Cambodia.
Production and
Photography:
Dave Sands