this“. March 7, im SCARLET AND ILACK LETTERS Vietnam Examined Dear Sir, Most people are completely wrong About the nature of the Vietnam Wait The causes of America's involvement are not ideological, economic nor racial The United States is in Vietnam (or sexual reasons. America's traumatic toilet-training 01 its uncontrolled frontier self has resulted in anal-tixahons, classic symptoms oi nationality and suspicion of devrauou, slmplistlc thinking, and overemphasis on purity and iastldiousuesst The result- Ant extremes ot Purimn morality now clash with the license or present eoonom- icvtechnological mores to produce a te- rnale population or technical virgins and a male population of Playboy-aspirants who share the repressed fear of real love, and look for the ideal faceless, name— less female body who desires their kind oi semi-relationship. The result is that the appearance or democratic purity in Vietnam must be protected item the licentious, perverted commie hoards oi slantreyed gooks, who use their own manure to fertilize their crops. The venereal disease of Marxism must not be allowed to blemish the VI)”- gtnal, inherited and God-given Vlelnam- ese peasant ideals ol Americaliastyle democracy. The solution, or course, is to purity the land or disease with a sad- ulnusochlslic rite of tire! Imagine the young, potent soldier in a jet lighter dropping cylindrical bombs, and Illing these smooth, tubular rockets into allrieceivilig, allrdemandlng Mother- inrage Earth. Think at that marvellousiy straight and narrow trayertory leading the excited napalm projectile into the tender land, and producing the suddenly cllmzixmg flash of almost unbearable brilliant orange name that gradually subsides lnlo smoke-hazed rest. You see. before his legal (holy) map riage, every man naturally has desires that he must fulfill. It is far healthier {or the boys to have a little fun impregr hating some faraway Asian whoreland. than to be tempted into peacetime mas- turbation zit home. In fact, this union is all the more condoned as it will give birth and mongrel children of freedom, justice, appre pie, and equality tor all except those racially—diseased with pri- mitive trihal rhythmic perversions. But what is to be the result at all this. What is the world to do with this over— sexed teenage America? There can no no doubt dial such a vital problem must be dealt with radically. We must attack the very root of the disorder. There IS no alternative, our only answer is cas» tration. Duncan Wattets Former Grlnneil Student, Reprinted from Alien, student paper oi St. Andrews, Scotland. Schick Cuis Raub To the Editor: i must admit that Miss Raab's point ls well taken That the admlnistration. o_ hiring outsiders, is “trying to sup- pie student spontaneity" is patently clear. Let no one listen to those oi the ilk oi the University of Pennsylvania's student newspaper, Punchbowl. whose banner proclaims that “Any damn tool can be spontaneous.” By her reasoning, we must agree thnt such productions as Tartutte, Rigoletto, and especially the San Francisco Mime Troupe were administration . or studcnh controlled acts or suppression oi our spontaneity Further by this reasoning, the lust acts in a campaign to give the “students or the periorming arts more than a token acknowledgement," in a campaign tn “give the one-acts la the pros and let the students use the resortsces set up for shalt use," must he to cancel Duke EI- Proiest Condemned Prolessor Milner’s article in last week's 5&3 dealt with the recent demon< stration by some thnnell students pro- testing the appearance on campus or a representative troin Playboy magazine. Mt. Brice Draper, the Playboy represen- tative, had been invited to the campus by a resident advtser acting [or what is left of the student Sex Education Come nuttee as a part or its continuing pine gram or sex education. The protesters were, then, demonstrating against part of an educational program initiated and directed by fellow Students. The protest took the tollowing form: some nine or ten students marched in“) one or the hall lounges, where other students had gathered to hear Mt. pia- pcr's presentation and to ask him ques- tions; then interrupted the orderly and legal proceedings by singing a song, to the accompaniment ot a guitar; then several 01 them molt of! their clothes.’ After this action, they joined the other students in questioning the speaker. Professor Mlllier's article centers on the dismhlng as the central feature at the demonstration; and e to judge tram the accounts in newspapers — this tea- ture is the one which has most caught public attention. I should like to pmnt out that the nudity was only one purl of ii larger action, and it is that action which ought to be considered beiore pass- ing yudgnient. But iust as the action did not consist merely of drsrobing, neither can it be Classified merely as a demoli- stration. Protesting demonstrations can take many iornis, and it is the partlcu< lzir form of this demonstration that needs comment. The action oi the demonstrators was the interruption cl proceedings which are at me essence of an educational insti- tution: the presentalion of ideas and the suhiection oi those ideas to scrutiny Any interruption of such proceedings is a denial oi the idea of liberal education, and it is this charge that ought to he leveled against the demonstrators. Even if they had not taken [hair clothes off, they would have been guilty; the nudity was only an extreme torm at their antirintellectualism. That so-called “Playboy philosophy" is unworthy oi rational attention 15 almost seltevident; still, every dog deserves his day, even it Lhe dog he a bitch. The action of the demonstrators was identi- cal to that oi reactionary thinkers in pre- vtous generations, who thought that Com» muliist speakers should he kept trom the campus. The colleges and universities of the when led a long hard fight to Win the principle or the “open campus" 7 and yet, just when they have nearly won that tight, they are being attacked by the very people for whom they waged the right: the students. Far too much time has been spent de- bating either the motives oi the demon- strators at the consequences of their ac- tion. Neither is relevant. bet us grant that their motives were good — dubious as this concession may be; let us grant that the consequences Will be good —— though we can never ascertain this point; the action itseli was had. 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