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!
Tom Simpson
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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
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