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Monday, February 3, 1969
THE MEGAPHONE
It’s Been Born--
Don’t Let It Die!
During the first week of the January term, it was announced
that the SU campus would be the scene of some activity this
summer: a seminar to study “The Impact of the New Technol-
ogy on Society,’* The last two issues of the MEGAPHONE have
carried articles about this seminar explaining its origin and its
purpose, namely “to provide students and faculty opportunities
to engage in interdisciplinary programs of study and research
in selected areas of interest* providing participants with an
understanding of the meaning, development and process of the
new technology and its impact on today’s society.”
Six hours of credit, three each in humanities and social stu-
dies, will be given for completion of this course which will
last from June 5 to July 15. The deadline for registration is
Saturday, Feb. 15. Dr. H. Ren Kent, program coordinator in-
dicated that at least 45 people must haye registered with him
by the 15th in order for plans for the program to continue.
The MEGAPHONE views this program as an excellent oppor-
tunity for Southwestern to make another step toward its goal
of academic excellence. There has been no summer program
here for the last several years. This one has now been tenta-
tively approved by the administration pending support from
the student body. The MEGAPHONE feels that a summer pro-
gram is an integral part of any institution of higher education.
Previously, Southwestern students wishing to attend summer
school were forced to enroll elsewhere. Now they may obtain
credit here. ,
Hopefully, this program will prove successful and will be ex-
panded in future years. The Student Congress has passed a
resolution in support of the program and has appropriated some
of its funds for publicity for the program. The MEGAPHONE
supports the program as an ideal educational opportunity, both
for the students and for the University. But you, the individual
student, have the final say as to the success of the program.
It will survive only with your support.
Middle East Series
Powder Keg Erupting
The Christian Science Monitor reported recently that the
Soviet Union has refused to sell or give strategic weapons
to the A1 Fatah Arab commando units which have been pe-
riodically raiding Israeli-held territory. Although the prob-
lems of the Middle East are at best complex, this, along
with the earlier Soviet proposal of a four-power conference
on the Middle East, may signal a change in the position of the
U.S.S.R. on the continuing Arab-Israeli struggle.
The United States will most certainly be interested in the
import of these new developments concerning that highly ex-
plosive part of the world. And while it may take several weeks
to fully understand the results of Saturday’s review of the
Middle Eastern situation (held by President Nixon at the
White House, along with his top advisors), we may hope for a
new era in U.S. — Soviet relations vis-a-vis this area.
At least, we must seek such a rapprochement. As the
President has indicated, there is no area of the world more
volative; and this time any major conflict would likely involve
the world’s nuclear powers.
Tn the coming weeks, the MEGAPHONE will feature a series
of articles written by Assoc. Editor Lon Curtis concerning the
background and the complexities of the Middle Eastern con-V
troversy.
MEGAPHONE
Published by the Students Association of Southwestern Uni
versity. Georgetown. Texas 7862o. Issued weekly during the
Entered at
office at Georgetown. Texas 78626 as second class mail mat
ter September 26. 1906. under special provisions of Act of
March 3. 1879. and accepted for mailing at special rate of
August 20. 1918.
Phone 863 2531 P O Box 48
GENIE HACKENJOS, Editor-in Chief
Associate Editors
Lon Curtis Mandy Weaver
FINE ARTS EDITOR
Mary Callaway
SPORTS EDITORS
Mike Jones
Paul Gilbert
CIRCULATION
Bill Scarbrough
PHOTOGRAPHY
John David Fields
Mart Goodman
RELIGION STAFF
Larry Thomas
Carl Clarke
Bob Dupuy
STAFF
Bruce Emmerton, Cay Dickson, Joe Cavitt
A certain member of the Board
of Trustees of this University ap-
proached the editor after Friday’s
event with the suggestion that the
MEGAPHONE print an editorial on
long speeches. We think that
perhaps this notice will serve the
same purpose.
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A student, more or less (mostly
less) overcome by all the prepar-
ations for the BIG EVENT last
Friday remarked: “Why, they’re
spending so much money getting
ready for all the alumni, they can’t
possibly hope to recover the ex-
penses in contributions.”
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Another was heard musing over
the possibility that ‘the little pot'
would end up too large to fit in‘the
big pot;’ that could have really
thrown the plans into disarray.
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Finally, we’ve heard a sugges-
tion for the next Alumni Luncheon,
etc. Instead of the usual menus:
MENU:
Honorary Doctor of Laws $50,000
Honorary Doctor of
Humane Letters $25,000
Honorary Doctor of
Literature $15,000
N“Make Checks Payable toSouth-
western University — A Collection
Plate will be Passed Before Des-
sert.”
New Discovery
At Ruter Hall
Ruterus: P. Sapiens
BY BILL SCARBOROUGH
This may be an opportunity to
inform the scientific community of
a discovery so new that it may
never be made. It is well known
that Dr. John C. Lilly, author of
MAN AND DOLPHIN, has postulat-
ed the theory that this planet has
developed two intelligent species:
He concedes the human race to be
almost as smart as the dolphin.
Now the world of science has yet
to discover this planet’s third in-
telligent creature: the Ruter Hall
light bulb.
11 may even be a new life form.
People may start saying, “Animal,
vegetable, mineral and light -
bulb...” For want of classification
by present standards, I shall put it
in the phylum Ruterus, the family
Electricus, and the genus and spec-
ies Photo Sapiens.
These bulbs have the strange
capacity of unscrewing themselves.
They have been known to commit
suicide all over the floor, causing
the establishment of more cleanup
committees. Sometimes they goon
strike a whole floor at a time. They
exist in a kind of transient symbios-
EGA PHO
ESTABLISHED 1908
It is the duty of the press to protect free expression of
ideas and promote freedom of intellect.
After Vietnam
Will the Children
Get It?
BY RICHARD L. STOUT
Washington - If you listen you can hear the drumbeat of
advocates of an antibaliistic missile (ABM) system that will
cost $100 billion and that Senators Charles Percy (R), Illinois,
and William Proxmire (D), Wisconsin, call worthless. Ameri-
ca’s military - industrial complex is backing it. If enacted
it will take more money than the Vietnam war. Senate hearings
on it should start early. It may be an issue of Mr. Nixon’s
first year.
When John F. Kennedy ran for president he charged that
there was a “missile gap,” and it helped get him elected.
Nearly everybody now agrees there was no such gap.
In his presidential race Richard Nixon charged that the
United States had slipped in the missile race and that “we
have a greatly serious missile gap.” What Mr. Nixon now
plans to do on ABM remains to be seen.
Many suspect that fear of Republican attacks played a part
in President Johnson’s decision to go ahead with a ‘‘thin”
antimissile system. If you don’t understand the term it means
that a country installs a screen of new, vastly expensive mis-
sile launching devices which are supposed to knock down in-
coming enemy warheads.
Mr. Johnson authorized a “thin” ABM system; price tag
$5 billion in five years. No Senate hearings were held. The
first thing the surprised residents of Lynnfield-Wakefield,
Mass, knew about it was when the military came in with bull-
dozers, breaking down fences. They learned they were to be
one of 16 such sites. Some residents protested. It is all part
of the helpless feeling people have of nonparticipation in a
government where they have no voice.
This thin, or “baby,” ABM defensive screen is directed,
incredible as it sounds lo laymen, at Communist China. A
billion dollars would subsidize housing for 1,000,000 families;
it would build 500 new city grade schools. It is one billion
more than is being spent in the Model Cities Program to re-
build slum neighborhoods in 140 United States cities.
Presidential scientific adviser Jerome Wiesner said, “I
think we ought to regard Sentinel (ABM system) as a bad joke
perpetrated by Mr. McNamara and Mr. Johnson on us in an
election year.” But with the toe in the door for the initial
$5 billion system against China the pressure is now on to
build a full-scale ABM system against Russia. Some guess it
would cost $50 billion. Some say $100 billion. A professor
from Columbia University told this reporter that he is con-
fident it will climb to $200 billion. In a 1967 speech, the then
Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara reluctantly approved
the anti-Chinese system but strongly opposed the “thick”
one. It would start a huge arms race, he said. And the system
could be thwarted, he thought, by dummy warheads.
“We’re on the brink of another Vietnam expenditure,”
warned Senator Percy over the Public Broadcast Laboratory
chain, Jan. 5. “After all, the Soviet Union abandoned their
ABM system in Leningrad; they've totally slowed down their
system in Moscow. I think before we even install the first
missile site it would be obsolete.”
It was General Eisenhower who warned against the “mili-
tary-industrial complex.” Presently half the budget goes
for defense. Men in uniform number 3.5 million and there are '
4 million men on defense jobs, a combined total of 10 per
cent of the work force dependent on the Pentagon payroll.
The powerful arms lobby includes the American Ordnance
Association; the Association of the United States Army; the
Air Force Association; and the Navy League. The American
Legion has 16,000 posts and 2.5 million members and is potent
politically. Retired generals and admirals stud the defense
Then there is Congress. Rep. William H. Bates (R), Mass.,
was pleased to get the new ABM sites for his district.
Texas ranked seventh in defense contracts in 1962 and is
now second as Mr* Johnson leaves.
Rep. Mendel Rivers (D), South Carolina, chairman of the
House Armed Services Committee, is an all-out champion
of ABM; he has just got a second Polaris sub squadron for
his home city of Charleston. It has an annual military payroll
of $200 million, and Mr. Rivers is in his 15th term. The Air
Force has given Charleston a huge air transport command
base and named the entrance “RiversGate.”Mr. Rivers scoffs
at an arms treaty: “I have no confidence in any Communist
anywhere on earth,” he says.
There will be competition for those saved taxes if Vietnam
ends. Don’t be too sure the school children will get it!
(Richard L. Stout is Washington columnist for the CHRIS-
TIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. This editorial comment appeared in
the MONITOR on £m. 17, 1969).
the Dern Thing Came Falling Down
Upon the Tuberoom Floor,”MOD-
ERN ALCHEMY TODAY, June'64).
As has been said in the article
noted above, the lightbulbs unite
with their lampshades only a short
while, although there have been un-
confirmed reports that Photo Sa-
piens has been seen with lampshade
for as long as a week.
Speculation has it that the lamp
shade has a longer lifespan than,
and bears the young of, Photo Sa-
piens; however, the shade has a
lower order of intelligence than the
lightbulb. Phot Sapiens has been
known to flicker a bit. Hypotheses
concerning this effect run from a
form of speech to sex. It is defin-
itely an indication that there’s more
inside Photo Sapiens than just a
filament and hot air.
This matter should be given the
most serious attention. It could be
vital to our national defense. A
streetlamp that could call the cops
would be a great deterrent to crime.
Perhaps the AFL-CIO could recog-
nize the lightbulbs’ union.
“Did you hear about the
Medicare patient who had
surgery? He woke up and
found a placard on his in-
cision: ‘This is a Federal
project showing your tax dol-
lar at work.' ’’-—Tony Beebe,
The Spencerville (Ohio)
Journal-News.
“Don’t feel sorry for your-
self—feel sorry for the folks
who have to live with you.”—
Frank Bridges, The Smith-
ville (Tex.) Times.
“If money could talk, it
would ask, ‘What happened ?’ ”
—James H. Russell, The Bel-
ton (Tex.) Journal.
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