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PAGE EIGHT
Friday, May 9, 1969
THE MEGAPHONE
Spring Conference
Meet In Progress
The Big State ConferenceSpring to have an edge.
Sports Meet is slated Friday and The conference dinner will in-
Saturday at Southwestern Univer- elude the conference coaches and
Student Leaders Sign Statement
Refusing Draft
sity.
Included will be participation by
conference members in golf and
tennis competition, the BSC con-
ference dinner, and the conference
track meet, slated at St. Edward’s
University in Austin.
Teams are entered from South-
western, St. Edward’s, St. Mary’s
University, Texas Luther an ""Col-
lege, East Texas Baptist College,
and Texas Wesleyan College.
Golf competition will be held on
the Kurth-Landrum Golf Course at
Southwestern, while the tennis
tournament is slated at the Kurth
Tennis Courts on campus.
Texas Lutheran College - paced
by John Bohmann, a participant in
faculty committee members.
The All-BSC baseball team will
be announced during the two-day
meet.
Final Pirate
Baseball Stats.
Top season hitter for Southwest-
ern University’s baseball Pirate^
was shortstop Ken Sadler with a
.328 mark for the year.
The Pirates finished the season
with a 5-11 worksheet from a
freshman and sophomore domin-
ated squad.
Second high for the year was
the Masters Golf Tournament - will pitcher Larry Simpson with a .317
be favored in golf competition, mark, while third went to Ken Hol-
while Southwestern is defending ley, a pitcher-first baseman, who
tennis titleist and appears again averaged .314 for the year.
_ Other top Pirate batsmen in-
cluded centerfielder Larry Hayn-
es with a .283 mark and outfield-
er Harry Crenshaw - the only
senior on the team - with a 272
average.
Top pitcher for the Bucs was
Simpson with a 3-6 won-lost rec-
ord but a 2.19 earned run aver-
age.
Other pitching marks included
Expression
Results
Pi Delta Epsilon received the
results of this year’s Expression
in Contest this week. Awards were Holley, a' 1-1 record and a 4~33
given in categories of literature,
photography and journalism.
In the literature division, Lydfa
Gardner won first place for essay;
Mary Callaway, first, John Big-
ley, second, and Jim Waggoner,
third for poetry; Grady Roe, first,
and Beth Reeves and Judy Franze
tied for second a in short story.
In the Photography division,
Billy Stubblefield won first and
ERA, and Robbie Matthews, a 1-3
record and a 4.13 ERA.
Dean Explains Anti-
Panty Raid Ruling
The fact that tensions among stu-
dents build to a peak about this
time of year is known and under-
third in Black and White prints; stood by most everyone. The fur-
Jim Blakewell won second, and ther fact that there is a real need
Bob Grayson, honorable mention, for some manner in which these
John Dillard won first in color P tensions can be released is also
understood. Water fights which fre
slides.
In the journalism division, fea- quently' occur in and around the
ture writing category, MandyWea- men’s halls are usually precipi-
ver won first and Genie Hackenjos tated by such needs. Certainly the
won second.
In the news category, Genie
Hackenjos won all three places,
Administration has no interest in
suppressing innocent fun. It is con-
cerned that people and property
and in editorial writing, Genie be protected and that these activi-
Hackenjos won first; Lon Curtis, ties not get out of hand.
second; and Mandy Weaver, third.
Judges for the contests were C.
J. Leabo of A & M department
The difficulty in any such activ-
ity, however, lies in the group
psychology that becomes opera-
of journalism judging features; tive. They do get out of hand or
Professor Bill Ward of the Uni-
versity of Nevada School of Jour-
nalism judging news and editorials;
Russell Lee, lecturer in art, Uni-
versity of Texas, judging all en-
tries in the photography division;
they end in something else such as
a “panty raid’’. Though this be-
havior is still understandable and
it is readily admitted that students
have no malicious motivation in
such cases, it is nevertheless
Mrs. Ona Belknap, Editor of Chris- true that such “raids” are even
tian Woman magazine, judging
short stories; Brother Simon Scr-
ibner, Prof, of English at St. Ed-
more inclined to yield to irration-
al behavior and the result is that
many people are disturbed and
ward’s University, Austin, judging property is frequently destroyed,
essays; Professor J. E. Slate, of it is for this reason that such
the English department, Universi- raids are not acceptable,
ty of Texas, judging poetry. - Dean Wm. Swift
UNI VERSIT
Saturday, May 10
8:00 p.m. End of School Party-Union
[Tuesday, May 13
9:30 a.m. Class Makeup for 11:00 a.m. Friday, May
2nd classes missed
4:30 p.m. Faculty Meeting-RAC
4
rednesday, May 14
[last day of classes
[Thursday, May 15
tEGISTRATION tor Fall Semester 1969
May 16 - 22
FINAL EXAMINATIONS
May 16 -18
10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Glen Smith Art Exhibit,
Brown-Shearn Halls Patio
WASHINGTON (CPS) - More
than 250 student body presidents
and campus newspaper editors
have signed a statement opposing
the Vietnam war and saying they
will refuse induction into the arm-
ed forces as long as the war con-
tinues.
The statement, released by the
National Student Association, has
been sent to President Nixon, a-
long with a request for an appoint-
ment “to share more fully” with
him the students’ concern over the
war and the draft.
The statement was circulated to
demonstrate how widespread this
position is amongpersons who hold
elected offices and positions of
responsibility on college campus-
es, NSA officials said.The signers
come from ivy league, big ten,
denominational, teacher and com-
munity colleges.
“Mr. President,” the letter
signed by nine of the students said,
“We urgently write to you now...
to advise you that many of the bas-
ic questions students and other
concerned Americans have raised
hbout our purposes in Vietnam re-
main unanswered... .We must now
number ourselves among those stu-
dents who cannot at this time square
military duty with integrity and
conscience.”
Eight of the nine who signed the
letter to Nixon held a press con-
ference on Capitol Hill to issue
personal statements. Wayne Hur-
der, editor of the Daily Tar Heel
at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, said he can “no
longer duck the issue of an immor-
al draft and an immoral war.”
He said he is not going to seek a
Conscientious Objector classifi-
cation as first planned, but will
refuse induction.
At the press conference, Rep.
Allard K. Lowenstein, (D-N.Y.)
said the nation should start look-
ing at society’s problems from the
perspective of young people if it
wants to understand them both.
Sen. Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore.)
issued a statement saying, “I think
it is imperative that we seek to
understand the terrible dilemma
which these young men face. The
war and draft are two pressing and
relevant issues, that, hopefully,
can be influence by student con-
viction and action. For the govern-
ment to ignore their kinds of ef-
forts is to risk further alienating
large segments of our young peo-
ple.”
The complete text of the statement
follows:
Students have, for a long time,
made known their desire for a
peaceful settlement. The present
negotiations, however, are not an
end in themselves, but rather, the
means to a complete cease-fire and
American extrication. And until
that ceasefire is reached, or until
the Selective Service System is
constructively altered, young men
vho oppose this war will contin-
le to face the momentous decision
3f how to respond to the draft.
In December of 1966, our pre-
decessors as student body presi-
dents and editors, in a letter to
President Johnson, warned that “a*
great many of those faced with the
prospects of military duty find it
hard to square performance of the
duty with concepts of personal in-
tegrity and conscience.”
Many of the draft age have rais-
ed this issue. In the spring of 1967,
over 1000 seminarians wrote to
Secretary of Defense McNamara
suggesting the recognition of con-
scientious objection to particular
wars as a way of “easing the
coming confrontation between the
demands of law and those whose
conscience will not permit them to
fight in Vietnam.” In June of 1967,
our predecessors submitted, along
I with a second letter to the Pres-
ident, a petition signed by over
10,000 draft eligible students from
nine campuses, callingfor alterna-
tive service for those who cannot
fight in Vietnam. There have been
many other similar attempts to
influence Congress and the Ad-
ministration, Nonetheless, despite
all our efforts, the Selective Ser-
vice System has remained imper-
vious to constructive change. Pre-
sently, thousands of fellow students
face the probability of immediate
induction into the armed forces.
Most of us have worked in elec-
toral politics and through other
channels to change the course of
America’s foreign policy and to
remove the inequities of the draft
system. We will continue to work
in these ways, but the possible re-
sults of these efforts will come
too late for those whose defer-
ments will soon expire. We must
make an agonizing choice: to ac-
cept induction into the armed forc-
es, which we feel would be irres-
ponsible to ourselves, our country,
and our fellow man; or to refuse
induction, which is contrary to
our respect for law and involves
injury to our personal lives and
careers.
Left without a third alternative,
we will,, act according to our con-
science. Along with thousands of
our fellow students, we campus
leaders cannot participate in a war
which we believe to be immoral
and unjust. Although this, for each
of us, is an intensely personal de-
cision, we publicly and collective-
ly express our intention to refuse
induction and to aid the support
those who decide to refuse. We
will not serve in the military as
long as the war in Vietnam con-
tinues.
Additions To Scholars Program
Announced At 5U
A total of 20 freshmen have
been selected to participate next
year as sophomores in Southwest-
ern University’s Scholars Pro-
gram.
Included are Dwight Adair, Hemp-
stead; Beth Bohmfalk, Lampasas;
Martha Ann Chappell, Texarkana;
Mary Faith Gean, Keller; Melissa
Hallman, Wills Point; Linda Harris
Houston; Sally Heard, Belton; Bill
Hooper, Buna; Bob Key, Albany;
Sam Macferran, Hartford, Conn.;
Margaret Mings, Houston; Greg
Pratas, Lubbock; John Reynolds,
Georgetown; Tom Richardson,
Dallas; Bill Sterling, Friendswood;
Winnann Stone, Georgetown; Karen
Thompson, Midland; Ann Tyrell,
Fort Worth; Clyde Watson, Uval-
de; and Michael Yam, Hong Kong.
The Scholars Program - imple-
mented at Southwestern in 1965-
has four major objectives.
Included are development of a
strong general educational exper-
ience, development of inteUectual
and cultural curiosity, achieve-
ment of a high degree of compe-
tence in field of major interest,
and appropriate recognition upon
completion of the special program.
Selected for the program are stu-
dents with high entrance examina-
tion scores, high College Level
Examination Program test scores,
recommendations from faculty and
class performance as indicated by
grade records.
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