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set of interviews. February will return to interview more money starved, warmonging co-opers; so get your little crayons out and start making up cute slogans like ?Wouldn? aCarling% go better now?’ JIM DETENBECK CIVIL 2A 30 Dow
To the editor: Good grief and gadzooks, my faith in higher mathematics has been shattered. Until now I always thought that ‘%du” was the derivative with respect to X of the But lo and behold function U.S. it% actually an organization aCANADIAN EMPLOYgajJ=t MENT. If the SDU is so keen on the idea of solving social problems why don’t they do something construcMaybe they tive for Ontario? could help the government find 11,000 or 13,000 new jobs for all the men they want to unemploy shutting down those massive wart factories we have. What they could do is retrain these men in the fine art of protest-placard-making. Also in return perhaps the men could teach SDU the proper way of picketing. Better luck chappies during the
To the editor: The students who protested American and Canadian involvement in Vietnam should realize they can only enjoy the right to dissent as long as there is a democratic society willing to go anywhere in the world to defend that privilege. When we are denied that privilege, we will know that democracy is dead and the communists have reached their goal. RICHARD MUEGGE math 2 To the editor: Concerning your editorial “Monsters and BB gun? (Nov. lo),
let me remind you that one of our major concerns was the attemptto persuade co-op students not to accept jobs with certain companies ‘involved with the war effort. We asked them to consider it as a moral decision. We made no decision for them. We expressedour view in the highest tradition andin my opinion it is a view shared by a good number of people on this campus. We don? for one moment believe we have the monopoly on conscience. What we have donej as opposed to the others with conscience, is demonstrate our concerninpubol lit. Most companies can be seen as contributors to the war effort. Dorothea Knitting Mills makes green beretsl) I feel that those grossly involved in strategic production should be the targets of our protest, for without the materials they produce the war could not go on and the marginal companies’
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To the editor: My major beef is with the students that said thes,e companies should NOT be allowed on campus. Why can’t these companies re= cruit students from this university? They should have the same freedoms as the anti-Dow students. Whether the war in Vietnam is a right or wrong is not the question. Whether .companies should engage in war productionis also not the question. Thequestion is can these companies have the same freedoms as the students? MIKE BIELER history 3
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To the editor: What a jolly goodideaboycotting South Africa is. Crippling the economy of South Africa, or any other countries we don’t like, is an excellent idea. I have hopes we will extend this to the USSR, China and perhaps even Uncle Sam in Sure, the task is time to come. more formidable, but with powerful economic levers such as re turning Outspan oranges to Ontario grocers (Nov. 17) who could resist? Student bodies following the shining example of democracies such as the Soviet Union andGhana in boycotting South African goods is clearly a force of new significance. What a shame the UN resolution on this matter was killed by fuddyduddy imperialist nations like the U.S. and Britain abstaining. The aim of crippling economies and hence inciting rebellion, bloodshed and loss of life is commendable. If you think about it, we haven*t had a GOOD revolution in Africa for some months, The highminded idealism, tenacity and a-
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To the editor: Your editorial “Nuremburg court~martial” (Nov. 17) lacks even an elemental attempt to present a balanced picture, and is seriously weak in logic. Pte. Lockman was sentencednot for disapproval of the Vietnam war but for refusal to carry out a legal order. No army permits its members to pick and choose which orders they will choose to obey. That goes for your beloved Chinese Peoples’ Liberation Army as much as for the Swiss or theMexican Army. You will probably retort that the Vietnam war is illegal and by the Nuremburg 44law’* Pt e. Lockman is absolved of any requirement to o’bey orders to prosecute thatwar. But, remember, Lockman was tried by a MILITARY courtmartial.’ The members of that court are entirely military (except for def ense counsel) and are obligated to carry out the orders of the civilian government and of their commander-in-chief, the P resident. It would be entirely out side their competence to pass upon the legality of any government directive. Are you seriously calling for are versal of the cherished democratic principle of subordinating the military to the civilian? It seems plain from a reading of the cases tried under the Nuremburg precedents that this culpability applies in the case of deli+ crate atrocities. If Nuremburg established the duty of the military to resist all illegal wars (what’s a “legal war”?) then the Allies would have to try ALL soldiers of Nazi Germany. Many feel today that theNuremburg trials were simply lynch law, applied by the victors to the vanMany of the decisions quished. were to please Stalin, outraged that the Nazis had invaded the Soviet Union after he had done his best to live on the most cordial terms with his ally Hitler. (If it makes any difference, I feel the Nazi swine hanged at Nuremburg got all they deserved.) Pte. Lockman 44doesnjt want to kill” It sounds good, but would you f:el as outragedif he were sent to kill South African or Rhodesian whites? Did you object to the Is-
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