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Accuracy I really regret that Diane Win ocur, or her editors, sensation alized what I thought would be an informative and interesting discussion of my recent Kellog Foundation Fellowship award The interposition of my com ments on tokenism was not dir ected at the Foundation or its motivations Instead. I made them to Ms Winocur for her own education in response to her statement that minorities had been preferred by the Founda tion for fellowships I never said that my selection was a result of tokenism What I said was that the Foundation had an extensive pool of ap plicants. some of which were minorities Of 50 fellowships, 11 were awarded to minority group members and 21 were awarded to women All of the fellows have achieved some level of distinction in their work In making these awards, the Foundation moved beyond the nominal inclusion of minorities and women — tokenism — to a more meaningful support of true equality In doing so, the Foun dation set an example for other institutions, and society I imagine that it is asking too much for the writers of a student newspaper to understand what I said In the future, it is obvious that only a written statement will guarantee accuracy, and per haps honesty Linda Greene professor, law Rakes thanks Hey! Fellow students, look around What do you see? Leaves and lots of them Look again Now what do you see? People dressed in ram gear riding on overgrown vacuum cleaners? Souped-up golf carts zipping all over campus? People with rakes and wheelbarrows in the pouring down rain? This is a special thank-you that is long overdue to the group of people who make this univer sity a nicer place to go to They make the job of working with a tight budget an inspiring task Take time today to smile or even vocally express thanks to these individuals They keep this campus looking great! 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PACIFIC RAILROAD lOUB jcm RA/UOAP iSGOie R-ISS AWA» JO vews ELECTRIC COMPANy you a«u a bis INVESTOR IN tv* WTPS3 PEAL LOSETOtfXXT AUTZSN staohjm rOO i OSE A SfNtXJE. Ok T TiNG OH THt fWXS TDCfcAT ftOS£Bt «e W/GM SCHOOL udse1so» you ow* op a 5Miu.L 0OS'*MSS rut noujKryou^ Af ALL H«A.3 *Y)HTiSS LA Tfc R V(X^ CGO*U LOSE ^zoooo rocess over the war. Many Mill ions died with those 57,000 oung men Maybe we are still do close to face what the war leant I fought with any means ivailable to me against the war. Jot only did I oppose American nvolvement, I thought our "en tmies" deserved to win. The Vietnam War was a lideous chapter in American listory: our government lied to js again and again; our young nen fought and died for a dic atorial government that fought against its own people; our government engineered coups and plotted assassinations when our puppets did not re spond correctly to our tugs on their strings; we burned the country with napalm, poisoned it (and our soldiers) with Agent Orange and leveled it with thousands of bombs We ravaged and destroyed an en tire nation But I never blamed it on the soldiers They were essentially kids (like me, then), largely working class, many involun tary. some even believed in their government They are victims: the dead, the crippled, the wounded, the poisoned, the ad dicts, the criminals and the guys who have managed to hold it together but still carry the memory of that war with them They are victims of bad policy and deceitful government — not of the anti-war movement My clenched fist was for them as well as against the government Neither the war protestors nor the surviving ultra-patriots (those who still believe the lies our government told us) made the vets into social scapegoats Rather, it is the great mushy mass in the middle who have made scapegoats of the Viet nam vets The Americans who f stood behind the war as long as It had a reasonble chance of succeeding and turned away as prospects dimmed America has a serious re sponsibility, not only to remember the war dead, but also to help the living. The vets experienced the horror of that war in our name, a horror sup ported by a majority of Amer icans until any hope of victory had vanished. We owe them not only acceptance in our communities, but help for the severe physical and psychological problems re sulting from their experience We must welcome them home, not in victory — Vietnam could never have ended in parades — but in human solidarity If we are to learn anything from the Vietnam War, we must place the blame where it properly belongs, not with our soldiers, but with our leaders and their view of our role in the world Most of the current popula tion of students were very young during the Vietnam War To some it is only another collec tion of names and dates to learn in a history class. But par ticularly as the current adminis tration makes increasingly dan gerous moves in Central Amer ica, it is important for ail of us to understand and remember what happened in Vietnam Nothing can or should take away our guilt about that war We must remember Vietnam as Germany must remember the Holocaust It marked our low point as a culture We must never let anything like that hap pen again Guy Maynard Maynard, 32, la a journalism junior In tha lata 60s Maynard was a atudant at Boston Unlvarslty. 1 gon daily - - emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald is published Monday through Friday except during exam wee* and vacations by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co at the University o« Oregon Eugene OR 97403 The Emerald operates independently o< the University with offices on the third floor of the Erb Memorial Union and is a member of the Associated Press News and Editorial Display Advertising and Butanes* Classified Advertising Production Circulation •M $511 t*S JTtJ MS-4343 MS-4 341 SSS-ISft Editor Harry Esteve Managing Editor New*. 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