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Pleasant dreams!
Volenti: He came,
Woodward takes a dip ia geae pool
as Mackey asks ethical questions
By KEN CARPENTER
Jack Valenti, Presidential As-
sistant for three years, Presi-
dent of the Motion Picture As-
sociation of America for six
months, Defender and Apologist
for the Great Society, appeared
Friday afternoon, courtesy of
Will Rice College. He gave no
lecture, but fielded questions
for 75 minutes. The questions
concerned Viet Nam and trivia.
The Trivia
About the Connally - Yar-
borough feud: "I don't know
much on that." LBJ likes both
men; Conally because he is an
old friend, Yarborough because
"he is a man who votes right."
About an LBJ backlash as
Goldwater claims: "I can under-
stand Barry Goldwater saying
that." Valenti does not think
there was a backlash; the party
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out of power always gains in
off year elections. The Repub-
lican shift will not seriously
affect LBJ's program, for the
Great Society's greatest task
is now to implement legislation
already passed. "Congress will
remain liberal, narrowly so."
"On the whole I think the
election was a sad day."
About admitting Red China
to the UN: "I don't think Red
China wants to get into the
UN" Certainly no one is wil-
ling to kick out Nationalist
China as a precondition for
their admission.. We must wait
and see. "I'd be for having them
come in."
About the credibility gap: "I
don't think the credibility gap
is credible." There are about
70 White House reporters; 30
or 40 form a "ruling elite."
They get upset about small
things, "minor vexing irriat-
tions of small consequence to
the public." Hence the credi-
bility gap.
The War
About how long it will go on:
We can't predict when victory
will come. We'll fight 'till we
win. Can we win? Well, we
rout and kill vast numbers of
the enemy until there are only
a few guerrillas left. There will
always be guerrillas around,
but they're just pests.
About the imperative that we
stay in Viet Nam: "I happen to
believe we need to be there,
because if we don't stay, South-
east Asia will become inundated
with a war of national libera-
tion." Or again, "We have to be
there because if we get out
abruptly, I don't know where
the flood tide will take us."
About our having troops in
Europe: "If we withdraw, every
government there would fall.
We're the umbrella; we're the
shield of the world." And, about
our role in the world in general:
"I think it's in our enlightened
self interest to save the world
for democracy."
More War
About our lack of foreign sup-
port in Viet Nam: We're the
only power in the world to bal-
ance off the Chinese menace.
Other countries either have
more immediate problems or are
not worried so long as we're
in there fighting.
"Burn Paris!"
was the order that
had come shrieking
over the phone.
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About domestic effects of the
war: There will probably be a
tax increase .There may be cut
in non-military spending; cer-
tainly, there will be no increase.
It depends on the cost of the
war.
About morality: "Well my
young friend, if you get to Viet
Nam, and you probably will,
you'll find immorality in the
Viet Cong. The immorality in
this war comes from what the
V.C. does." But paradoxically:
Our situation is "like a man
whose arm has been severed by
a freight train." We're not
concerned with how it happened;
the problem is to do something
about it.
Similarly, "events have moved
us past whether it was right
or wrong how we got involved."
We are there. We are concerned
with winning security for South
Viet Nam. "Security isn't cheap.
We have no moral right to be
secure. It takes power to be
secure." "Survival of the fit-
test" — that's how the world
is. "When you're in a war,
suddenly nobility flees you,
and survival becomes impor-
tant."
Comment: Jack Valenti may
sleep a little better each night
knowing Lyndon Johnson is
his President; I may sleep a
little better knowing Jack
Valenti is no longer his as-
sistant.
By RAY BROWN
Thresher Reporter
"Should the geneticist attempt
to augment the human gene
pool?"
With that question Rice pro-
fessors Val Woodward and
Louis Mackey, biologist and
philosopher, respectively, opened
a debate entitled "The Ethics
of Human Genetic Control."
The discussion was the second
of Brown College's speaker pro-
grams.
Approximately one-hundred
persons were on hand in the
Brown Commons only to be
disappointed by the remax-kable
amount of agreement between
the two principals. The debate
deteriorated further when
Mackey left for a seminar and
Woodward fielded all of the
audience's questions.
Woodward began the discus-
sion with the premises that
(1) the human gene pool lacks
certain genes, (2) the scientist
has the obligation to explore
and make known facts about
genetic structure, and (3) the
gene pool can be augmented.
From these premises, Wood-
ward stated that heterogeniety
is the human race's greatest
asset and any changes of gene-
tic make-up should preserve
this balance.
As to the means of augment-
ing the gene pool, Woodward
said that methods for such
have been known for two or
there thousand years. The
method would be either cross-
breeding, such as in plants and
■lower animals, or the develop-
ment of a clone. A clone is an
off-spring produced asexually.
Woodward's only reservation
in the process was that mistakes
or mutants would be present.
The treatment of these mutants
is the main problem. In closing
out his argument, Woodward
related that he would not be
suprised in the least if the
theoretical knowledge needed
for such a project becomes avail-
able in the next five to ten
years.
Irreversable
Mackey based his stand on
the reservation that such gene-
tic work could be irreversable
and if the results were not the
desired ones, no changes would
be possible.
Mackey also questioned who
would have the ultimate de-
cision as to whether such work
should be done on the popula-
tion. He argued that if the
change were permanent, the
decision would be of greatest
importance and impossible to
make fairly.
Mackey aired one other reser-
vation during the session. The
philosophy professor wondered
at the consequences of having
genetically alike persons.
Second annual last non-minstrel
Hanszen Players clean up humor
By JEFF NORRIS
As promised in last week's
Threshser, the Second Annual
Last Hanszen Non-Minstrel,
perhaps better known as the
Hanszen Playhouse, did indeed
come off last Friday night.
Playing to an audience of
over 300, the "gentlemen of
Hanszen" surprised nearly
everyone by presenting a pro-
duction keyed to be gross which
turned out to be funny. To give
Hanszen the benefit of the
doubt. We will assume that this
was not accidental.
Several jokes were enjoy-
able, at least for the sake of
variety, in that they were clean.
Other commendable innovations
included jokes that were humor-
ous without being pushed by
the "actors" and the use of a
number of jokes not commonly
heard.
The cast of "Bingo" was gen-
erally good. Newcomer Chris
Gates stole the show. Perfor-
mances by lettermen Paul
Spikes and Paul Lindsay lived
up to expectation. Direction was
unusually good for a Playhouse
production as was well illu-
strated by such scenes as the
"instant replay."
Of course, we can not deny
that it was also gross, perhaps
too much so in places.
It is interesting to remember
that the black-face Minstrels
were discontinued because they
were thought to be in poor
taste, because of the racial
issue. At any rate this year,
Hanszen did avoid the racial
issue.
The men of Hanszen have
apparently squeaked past
another chance at social proba-
tion. Even though the Play-
house bore little resemblance to
"Bye Bye Birdie" when all was
said and done, it should be in-
teresting to see how the EB's
fight back this Friday and
Saturday.
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