The University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, November 22, 1974 Page: 2 of 12
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IVERSITY PRESS Nov. 22, 1974*2
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Votin’ booth blahs?
In the recent general election, voter turn-out was the lowest in
almost 30 years. In Jefferson County, only 36,000 out of 118,000
registered voters bothered to make the trip to the polls.
In the current issue of “U.S. News and World Report,” Richard
Scammon, director of the Elections Research Center, says that a ma-
jor factor in the low participation may be that this was the first off-
year election in which 18-20 year-olds were eligible to vote.
Scammon does not offer a reason for the low turn-out among young
people, but Robert Redford thinks he knows.
Redford, star of stage and screen, says corrupt politicians cause dis-
affection among youth. In an interview in the December issue of
“Playboy” magazine, he says, “I can see why so many of the 18-year-
olds didn’t vote. If I were 18 and I picked up a newspaper and saw
that-..everybody’s living in a state of corruption, I’d turn my back and
go on to something else.”
Redford’s thesis is, of course, that honest and idealistic young
people are offended by immoral, money-grubbing politicians.
We find that reasoning, while common, to be ridiculous. Our
experience with our own peer group leads us to conclude that today’s
youth is no more or less honest than any other age group.
Young people cheat. Several news media recently reported that
cheating has become common in medical schools across the nation.
Pressure and competition are so intense that students apparently
have decided to graduate in any way they can.
Young people lie. How many young men found excuses of ques-
tionable veracity in order to avoid a “1-A” Selective,Service clas-
sification?
In short, youth has no monopoly on integrity. Many of this country’s
elected officials are of outstanding moral character.
I think it more likely that young people are simply more selfish than
their elders. Having fewer responsibilities, we are less inclined to take
advantage of those we do have.
Young adults do not seem to be immune to griping about how rotten
conditions are nowadays, but acting on that discontent is apparently
another thing.
The activist generation of students prevalent during the late 1960’s
has passed. The current crop seems intent only on getting diplomas
and high-paying jobs. Capitalism has regained respectability.
A new group of candidates, all “clean as a hound’s tooth,” would not
motivate today’s youth to vote in any larger number. God only knows
what would.
GWG
Letter to the editor
Dear Editor,
With regret, I must tell you and the
International Students, that my family
and I will be leaving the Beaumont area
and Lamar University at the end of this
month.
Working with and for you has been one
of the greatest experiences in my life,
and I will miss all of you.
My best wishes for your future career
and personal endeavors.
Sincerely,
Sharon Pate
KEEPING AND B^ARI\TG--Feservists demonstrated
gun safety in Setzer Center Wednesday,,
staff photo by Ed Culwell „
What have we learned?
Eleven years ago today, John F.
Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. It
was the most traumatic event America
has suffered since Pearl Harbor was at-
tacked to usher this nation into World
War II.
' “It can’t happen here:”
Oh but it could. We quickly learned
that assassinations were not exclusive
property of banana republics; that riots
were not j ust something we read about in
newspapers or see on TV; that the
problems of the world did not end at the
American shoreline.
★ viewpoint ★
But did we really learn the lessons of
thel960’s? We don’t act like it. We still
think we have a right to consume most of
the world’s production. We pay
iipservice to the problems that threaten
to consume us.
Faced with critical shortages of food,
energy and raw materials of all sorts we
consume more and demand even more.
The government takes stop-gap
measures to ease shortages. The
private sector does as little as possible to
alleviate the situation, and much to
worsen it.
The reason for government and
business not taking any real action is
that the American people have not
learned their lessons.
Now President Ford refuses to allow
amendment of the Freedom of In-
formation Act to-allowmore freedom of
information. One massive coverup has
been and is still being exposed; but we
are content to let others continue even
when the public is supposed to have
access to the information.
One of the bases of a representitive
democracy is supposed to be an in-
formed electorate. Another is voter
participation. Yet in the last election,
only 35% of those registered to vote did <;
so.
Freedom is no breakfast food. And
when “Concentration Camp USA”
becomes a reality for all of us, there will
be only one question more to ask.
When we wanted to know about the
death of the President, Lyndon Johnson
appointed a commission headed by then-
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl
Warren. The Commission’s report
smelled of cover-up. Much of the
evidence and much of the testimony
collected by the commission was sealed
and not to be made public for many
years hence.
How could so many people of above
average intelligence know so much
about what was happening and not try to
do anything differently?
Janes R1ain
hi iimuin rim i
Serving Lamar University for 52 years
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by mona brittain
Thanks to Mary LeNormand with the
Top Name Committee and everyone
concerned who worked the Homecoming
Concert in Cardinal Stadium. It went
very well, except for the inclement
weather. Perhaps it should be explained
that Lightning did not perform because
so much time was consumed in stage
setting. As no lights in the stadium were
to be used, the concert could not run past
dark, so the first set was cut. Mary
waited after War for Lightning, but that
is just never done—-although the in-the-
sky variety did appear later.
Yes, the stadium concert was a noble
experiment. Everything was well
organized. In the Woodstock tradition,
the number of deaths balanced the
births (here the score was zero each).
If only everyone involved (except
War) would not have lost money, this
concert might have been the start of
more big concerts in Beaumont. Maybe
in the next twenty years, when the
proposed Civic Center is built, big
groups will come to Beaumont and
people will be able to at least break even
for their efforts.
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