Page Two Friday. Oclober I8. |963 Phil Johnson Diem Suppresses Simian it is 11V now well known that the Diem rnmcnt in South vim-Nam is pursuing a pilicy of ruthless political and religious slur pi'e‘ ion The naming suicides of six Buddhist monks leave no doubt as to the depth ot the s‘i‘ugglc taking place in this nation. Tlierc are many questions involved here, but one at par» t.cular concern to the strident community throughout the world is the open interference of the govcrmueiit in university and student liic. South Vietnamese universities and schools have becomc focal points of opposition to the Government. The countr s traditionally politi- cally passive professors and students have joined ranks with embattled Buddhist monk in the deepening religious and political crisis In August, the Government disnliargcd the rector of the state-run University of Hue. Father Cao Van Luan, a Roman Catholic priest. While no reason was given {or the action, it was widely believed that Van Lilan's disc missiil came because students at his univer- Sit hull participated in anti-Government at ity. Protesting Father Cat) Van Luan‘s removal, {ortwseveu University oi Hue faculty members resigned on August 17. The resig- nations included the deans of every faculty. A similar situatton developed in Saigon on August 22 when Dr Pham Bicti Tani was arrested. Dl'. Tarn is dean oi the faculty oi medicine at Saigon University and one oi South Vict-N'dm's most respected teachers. He had rciused to sign a Government loyalty oath. Amid growing student unrest. the military governor closed the university two days later On the some day that the order was published. e thousand students held a rally for Foreign Secretary vii Van Mau, who had resigned on August 22 and shaved his head Buddhistsstyle in protest against the Government's policies. tcr student loadersdclivered bitter antic Government speeches, Mr. Vu urged students ti “struggle ior your rights with unity and determination" Other student demonstrations SCARLET AND BLACK tollowed that day and carried well into thc‘ morning hours i Nearly three thousand students were arrested on August 25 and carted oii in Army trucks, Most were placed in a military training center outside Saigon where those cii this for mili- tary service and considered “militant” would be droitcd while others who were receptive to the “explanation oi the Government vieiv- i point" would be released. l The same night an unidentified student leader smuggled identical notes to the iiciv U. s Arn- bassador, Henry Cabot Lodge, and to key Southi Vietnamese oftictals, saying, “\Vc now liand‘ the tight against Diem over to you." , in September the struggle was secondaryescliool students 13, ii, and 15 yea s, old. On September 7, police surrounded all schools and arrested 300 teenagers. 0n the ninth, more than 100 secret policemen, supported by armed troops, arrested about 1,000 more at al boy's secondary school. Students at the school} reportedly hurled desks at the police, who we} spouded by beating some of the students andt throwing others headlu-st inlo trucks. l The United States joined by National Student Asso»l ciation has expressed its full support of the‘ student protest in South Vial-Nam. When the dismissals and arrests of late August became known to the delegates of the National Student; Congress this summer. the rules of the Congress were suspended in order to consider a special, policy declaration on the situation, i A resolution uas passed which: condemned the police»stale actions of the Diem government;l expressed the iull support or United States stus,’ dents tor the Vietnamese student movenient;‘ and urged the review of United States aid} policies toward the Diem government The posis lion oi the delegates was clear There is no justification for the brutal policies of the them government, especially in a state which is sup-l posedly a vital bulwark against the spread of‘ tyranny. l College Newspapers Reveal Universal Difficulties . By Jeffrey Kohlman When a college student cides to write tor his iiike to a relative assignment. The standard advice In its entirety: to such an aspiring iournalist is, A meeting to simply gather all the taste, sprites, nith emphasis on the word ALL.l ming In such a case stvle is ratherl Monday unimportant as long as the facts' are there Who looks ior literary style in a seven line story Squeezed between advertisements on page 15 anyhow? it for nothing else than col. A oc.. held and to swim. CDC College. iecoinmend de-lstalus (possibly to page H) to schnol‘whoevei‘ wrote the star, spaper, he is usually giveiilst. Louis University News under - unimportant and ob-gtheheading- Synclilomzed Swime scure topic lot at least his first niing Tryouts In Gym Monday. for Synchronized Swim- will ill. 6:30 Inn. gymnasium. Tryouts swimsuits "Billed. Members must be able , like Grinnell. letting ALL the lacts, l wouldlbuildiiig a new Student Union Peter' M. Miller its temporary union building has been named the TUB The Goo Cosmos recommends in that oct. 3 edition that the new per— inancnt union building be called the PUB. It also suggests that, the lounge be equipped with} hoischair sofas to avoid activi., ties which occur in the TUB, hold t r the During the first weeks of the‘ be school year the Carleton student he newspaper was printed tivicc \vecklyion an experimental ba-‘ sis. The Carleloiiian stan‘ gav‘eup, on the plan early this week} calling the ctiort too much worki tor the news staff. a rise lit in the the S.L.U. be in will will is The Sanity of Stones In case you don't know, assuming that you care, this is National Newspaper Weck (as op- posed to National Dill Pickle Week or National Can Opener Week or National Be Kind to Mo. lthcr Week). This week we are asked to honor one of America's great institutions. our news— papers. Really though, newspapers are truly won. deriul things. After all without them what would we wrap the garbage in, or wipe our feet on, or cut paper dolls out of? in newspapers how would we find out about any. thing: We would be lost without them For ex- iacl, \vithout ample, if we didn’t have newspapers we would have never known that the amount of Strain ‘iium S0 in the bones of children is on the in- ,cl‘easc, or that Madame Nhu used some of tha‘ $10 million dollars the United every week in Viet Nam to buy 15 yards 01' "lace, brocade or that Yankees lost tho “VVolld” Sc . to the Dodgers (the bums), or that the Deacon won the "Miss Cosmos Beauty Contest." States spends and plain sill'“ the Now taking tongue out oi cheek. my only re. gret is that [hole are so icry few really good newspapers in this country Only a handlul really deserve to be honored this week The vast majority of them are often so terribly biased and sensationalist oriented that, in truth, they aren't really lit for much more than wrapping the garbage in. Papers like the “New York Times" and the “Christian Science ionitoi" are two of the very few that take a su ient enough interest curate reporting as to be classified, in this \vl ltcr’s really good Granted in ac- opinion. as in apci-s there are many passiblc papers which attempt to a greater or lesser degree to achieve some, modicum or accuracy and imp rtiality in their} reporting but these are by iar in the minorityl it is'indeed uniortunalc that an institution Such. as a newspaper which has such an impo nt; effect on the thinking and actions at everyone, all too often iails to live up to even a minimum, standard oi journalistic ethics. , It is my sincere desire that. in the future. the majority and not the minority or American, newspapers will. by keeping editor lizations and opititoiiations nithin the editor is and and Cole unis. and out at the news repor . be worthy oi honor during National Newspaper Week Scarle‘l and Black GRINNELL COLLEGE Grinnell, Iowa * A weekly newspaper published each out i l t~ nu Cummitt t... stiitlrin riilih- - ul tin ii.illllli.i t _ some Inc" Collsce Pultl hers hep. New York 22. NY. Second iowa. Subscription rate 34.5“ riiday oi the roller. Lind . . l8 East 50th Stree class postage paid at Grinnell, per school year, Jim narrow . Conrad naiun Dare Emu John wotr Kart-ii Adhinsoii r. UR h SPORTS rim-wit Len ciilodncy Negroes and Grinnell For years Grinnell has been the School of the white liberal at which Students and faculty have discussed fare away segregation problems with a detached air. There have always been a few Negro Students at Gl'nnell — enough to act as a Symbol to Grinnell's libertility. The lezlson there tire few Negroes at Gl‘lllllell is two- folt‘ 1) Few 'egroes are well enough prepared to attend G ilinell, and 2) few Negroes are actually interested in attending Grilinell. Demonstrating Gl'inliell’s active interest in the civil rights problem, President Howard R. Bowen yester tiy outs lined two proposals to a group of students. The success of one proposal does not depend upon the other. The first proposal is for Griniiell to become affili- ated with tt Southern Neg ~i college and to become closely connected with the operation of that college. This pros pitsal is already in the negotiating: stage, and the follow- ing possibilities are offered by such it fraternal agree- ment: —A program to excllalig'e‘students for a se- master. 7A program to exchange faculty members for a year. —Exclizinge of faculty lecturers. —Annilal joint faculty conference. —Annlial Joint student conference. iCLlltlll'zll exchanges of student plays, recit- als etc. —Leci.ure series conducted by professors of one school over telephone lines. —lntercollegiate athletic Competition between the schools \‘itll each trip being a three or four day of lir. , iFlltli year students going into the South to teach in much the Same fashion Gi'innell’s Fifth Year Abroad system works. This proposal stemmed from a recent study President Bowen made for the United Church of Christ, 2m organiza- tion to which Griiinell belongs. As chairman of a summit tee studying what could be done to help with the educa- tion problem in the South, the President worked with the President of ti Southern Neg‘ro college who was anxious to initiate Such an agreement with Gl'innell. _ The advantages of such an agreement to the Southern College would be great, its Grinnell's valuable facilities would become available to this School. All advantage for both schools would be that this program would give Whites and Negroes the opportunity of forming friendships, of learning of the cultural differences, and of gaining ti genuine Social education. President Bowen's second proposal is that Grimiell join with three or four other liberal arts colleges of zip- prinxinlately equal standing and through a jointly operat- ed admission. i'et liiliuent office bring Negroes and other minorities to [it e college . The object of the program it ltl be to bring membels of minority groups, some of whom are not up to the Standards for regular admission to the college, into the liberal arts college. The program could be implemented in the following l1 miller: l) Talie selected students and give them a Spe- ‘cial summer Session to try to bring their education level lap to that of the incoming freshmen who have come from the better high schools; 2) Give these selected freshmen special counselling and perhaps have them take a light icolil'se load until they can adjust to the Grinnell Standard. i In this way Gl’innell would admit perhaps :30 students, ‘mziiiy of whom could not 0 'iginally meet Grinnell‘s entrance {requirements Through this extra guidance and counselling (and perhaps through-2m extid year of college), however, ,tliese intelligent but culturally deprived students could re~ receive an education. Neither for the college nor for the lspeciztlly admitted students would this be easy, but it would 'b a definite and perceptible step in the lindel'priviledg‘ed’s ‘1 gilt for equality. , Two other colleges have tilieddy joined Grimiell in lay» ‘lllg‘ the foundation for the Second ploposal. 'l‘lit: thinking" behind both these programs is that Grinnell ‘llollld do its purl to help the Negro and all oth« er minority groups gilt for equality. The only weapon Grililiell has to offer is an ediiczttioli. President Bowen has discovered. uiioreo or, that Grinuell can not sit and wait for the few qimli led students come to us—that we must {:0 out and help train students who can take ad- vantage of the academic excellence Gt niiell has to offer, that we must go olil‘ and associate with Neg 0 colleges and close the educational ,gap which lies before the N‘Qg'l'lll who is lryin to gain his rights as a citizen. We pledge our wllule~liearted support to this two— prong’ed program which would make Grinnell a vital in— strument in overcoming: racial barriers which have long been the,Uliited Stales' domestic eye-sore. For months we, have pleaded for a chance to play a part in drama which has unfolded in the U. S. over the past few yeti Now an opportunity has come.