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A Straw Poll on Communism PUBLICK OCCURRENCES The nation's oldest newspaper Pullman, WA V. 1 No. III A straw poll on communism given a chance to leave or stay." BY DAN FLEM ING Cheryl Haskins: "I'm against it because it's "Where come using a lot of ideas people think are good and Students from WSU and UI have had a from, we don't take using them in a negative way." somewhat limited exposure to communism. John Muter: "I have both negative and positive kindly to Recently local academia listened to the standard attitudes toward it: I've been to the Soviet Union line and doctrine of Marxists from the mouth of communists and the a few times. I think we're terribly misinformed communist Angela Davis. idea of sharing about it. It's used by the present administration For most students ... it's hard to believe more everything. " to scare us so they can get through their than half of the world's population is under the backwards policies." influence of communism. The billions in China, Anthony Lo (foreign student from Singapore): Russia, Vietnam, Cuba, etc, etc., all drink from Anthony La "I have a negative attitude toward them. Where I the well of Marxian thought. According to WSU, Business come from, we don't take kindly to communists columnist Georgia Ann Geyer, communistic Administration and the idea of living and sharing everything. You governments are expanding their ideology and should work for what you're supposed to get. land acquisition at alarming rates. Jenny Lee (also from Singapore): "I don't think The list of nations resting at the bottom of much of it. Where we come from competition is Russia's gullet is impressive: Czechoslovakia, way of doing things. great and we like it. Communism doesn't appeal Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Poland and on and on. Add Helena Hougge says, "It's just a much tome." to that list names of those whose ideology is different, restrictive way of life with no choices Jeff Jones: "It's bad news... it's too bad for the identical and it seems as though most of the involved basically." people who have put up with it." world is dripping red. From Bamboo to Iron, the Gern Blannsson echoes her thought. He says, curtains of communism are closing in. "All I know is that it's different than the political #3. Do you consider the Soviet Union a Although the current college generation hasn't system the United States is under." threat to world peace? seen any major blowouts, parents of students Lori DeBrian says her concept of communism Most of those polled felt very definitely the have gone through the Red Scare of the 50's, the is "No democracy, just one leader, no choice." #2. A definition of communism Eric Ray: "Communism is a Marxist doctrine "I think the basis of with an economic base saying that capitalism "No individual runs in a cycle and the concentration of it is good. With the rights. State • ownership is finally out of the hands of the elite right people in Control. No and then the masses take over." ownership. It can't power it could be Jeff Franks: "Just a philosophy that started good. It's just never with Karl Marx that exists today in a number of be all that bad. been used countries in the world." It has been around effectively. Finally, there were some students who hadn't for quite some time spent any time pondering the subject. now." Valerie Johnston: "I don't think anything about Bruce Blackwood communism." Teri Funk UI, Business Cheryl Haskins says she feels bad but she UI, Journalism Marketing doesn't know much about it. ~oncepts are concepts but just what do people think of communism itself. Publick Occurrences "Bay of Pigs" incident, the Cuban Missile Crisis, asked, "What is your personal attitude toward Soviet Union was a threat. the Korean Conflict, the Vietnam War end, and, Beckv Cruickshank savs she definitely feels the communism?" of course, the ever present Cold War. There wasn't one student not expressing an Soviet Union is a threat but she doesn't look for The first generation of television viewers opinion ... even those whose concept of anything big to happen for a few years. watched as Senator Joseph McCarthy went on a communism may have been limited had an John Muter says the Soviet Union is not a rampage, exposing communists in every niche of opinion on the topic. threat to world peace and said the United States American Society. They continued to look on as Helena Hougge: "I don't agree with it, I think is the one to be fearful of ... especially with the WSU's own Edward R. Murrow locked his camera current president. Muter says he lives in daily on McCarthy and brought him to ruin on his See It people should be allowed the freedom to choose." fear of some sort of nuclear or world conflict. Now program. Through the events of the 50's, David Nannson: "I don't approve of it, I Cheryl Haskins says if one were to put it in 60's and 70's, however, the United States has wouldn't want to live under It.Tthink those that terms of the natural. .. sure the Soviets are a continued to serve as a beacon of hope to those choose to should be allowed to, although I think threat to world peace but in the spiritual even the oppressed by communism. those who don't want to live under it should be Russians are going to have to take a back seat to Sitting around the evening dinner table, most God. students in the Palouse have heard "about" Thirteen out of those 17 interviewed said to communism and America's fight against it. What '~.. .in the spiritual, keep an eye on the Soviet Union, and of those then does your average student think of it? predictions on the time of an outbreak of violence Does the mere mention of the word conjure up even the Russians on a world scale ranged anywhere from "any advancing Soviet troops in Afghanistan? Do are going to have to time" to "20 years down the road." students try and remember what their big brother take a back seat to The Soviet Union is, of course, not the only said about the "Tet Offensive?" or is Joe Student God." communist nation in the world, but most even concerned with the issue? students immediately though of the "bear" in To find out what Joe is thinking these days, clarifying their thinking. Publick Occurrences went to the WSU and UI Perhaps, if things go according to what union buildings and asked 20 students three ques- . Cheryl Haskins students in the Palouse think, we may tions. WSU, Business understand more about communism as time goes # 1. What is your concept of communism? Administration by. Especially if the world as we know it today Those responding to this question answered in becomes more encircled with a red banner. three different ways. Some feel it's just another PUBLIC~ Quote Stranger than fiction OCCURRENCE§ Even if you've never orbited the earth "Hush. Don't ask any questions. It's always best on these occasions to do or gotten Syria to release a Navy what the mob do. " pilot... You Too Can Be a Democratic "It was by the press that the morals of this country have been "But suppose there are two mobs?" Candidate for President. That is the ruined, and it is by the press that they shall be restored." name of a book released last month by RJ -Alexander Hamilton suggested Mr. Snodgrass. "Shout with the largest, " replied Mr. Publications, Inc.!Kampmann Publish- Pickwick. ingCo. Michael Wade Volumes could not have said more. For only $4.95 you can learn the laws PUBLISHER/EDITOR of presidential physics: When different- The Pickwick Papers sized politicians are dropped from a win- David Bakken Charles Dickens dow they all land at the same time, but MANAGING EDITOR only a presidential candidate will go back and do it until the TV cameramen are Matthew C. Brenner satisfied. The book also contains press BUSINESS MANAGER releases, New Hampshire road maps, EYI. tips on raising hogs in lowa-and a con- John O'Malley cession speech. STUDENT ADVISOR Steven M. Olson To be a democracy, or a republic. Is CIRCULATION DIRECTOR this a question? A funny thing happened to Walter Politicians today use these words in- Mondale on his way to New Hampshire. Dan Fleming terchangeably. Is there a difference? The press gave an accurate account of RESEARCH ASSISTANT Noah Webster's first edition of his dic- Mandale's Hart attack, but glossed over tionary, finished in 1828 after he spent one of the reasons for the shocker. Kurt Schaedel 36 years putting it together, defines de- Terry Dolan's National Conservative FINANCIAL ASSISTANT mocracy as a 'government by the people; Political Action Committee spent $2 mil- a form of government, in which the su- Suzie Melchor lion exposing Mr. Mondale's 'integrity SECRETARY preme power is lodged in the hands of the gap.' It seems that the candidate after people collectively, or in which the promising government money to s~ial people exercise the powers of legisla- interest groups, later has told different tion.' crowds that such promises would proba- In 1690 Benjamin Harris published Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick. Harris' first issue became his last, however, when the gover- Noah even gave an example of a de- bly not be fiscally possible for quite some nor of New England decided that the continent's first newspaper was anti- mocracy: 'such was the government of time.
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