Daily Evergreen Friday March 13, 1970

Daily Evergreen Friday March 13, 1970 Washington State University Vol. 76 Number 79 Peace Coalition attacks draft Anti-Draft Week, March 16-23, will be initiated on the WSU campus today. Dale Combelic, member of the Three Forks Peace Coalition, explained that national action has been planned by the Vietnam Moratorium Committee CVMC). Demonstrations will depend on local organization, but the national VMC's planned tactics for next week include flooding of the draft boards with information concerning changes in status and the national "We Won't Go" statement. If undertaken on a national scale, the plan could have serious effects on the efficiency of the boards, Combelic said, Peace Coalition activities today will begin with a panel of Viet- nam veterans and resisters. Speakers at the discussion include Joe Ford, Bill Martin, Dave Finch and Ervin Newsome, veterans; and Don Gayton and Dick Patterson, resisters. Audience partici- pation is anticipated, according to Combelic, Following the panel discussion there will be a rally in the Mall and a march by participating sutdents on the Pullman sel- ective service office. Speakers will include Ernie Thomas, Black Student Union; Don Smith, Radical Union; Bill Martin, Univer- sity of Idaho Coalition for Peace and Survival; Dale Combelic, Student Mobilization Committee; Robert Cole, WSU Faculty; and Peter Pran, WSU faculty. The Three Forks Peace Coalition is sponsoring Sam Brown, co-founder of the national Vietnam Moratorium Committee, to speak Monday at 4:15 in the Cub Aud, The Peace Coalition is a regional organization of groups work- ing toward an end to American involvement in Vietnam. It includes the WSU Moratorium Committee, the WSU Student Mo- bilization Committee, Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Pullman Citizens for Peace, Pullman High School Moratorium Committee, Pullman High School Student Mobilization Committee, University of Idaho Coalition for Peace and Survival, and the Lewiston/Ctarkston Peace Committee. On Monday students at the University of Idaho will be asked to fast and contribute their lunch money to the American Friends' Service Committee for its efforts toward peace. There will be a discussion of films shown on the-war in Vietnam. The Idaho group is hoping to bring 100 carloads of students to Pullman today to participate in the march. The Lewiston/Clark- ston organization is also sending representatives. Schedule of today's events 12:30 p.rn, to 3 p.rn, Vietnam resisters and veterans panel CUB auditorium. 3 p.rn, to 3: 10 p.rn, Assemble on the CUB Mall for the Clenched Members of the Three Forks Peace Coalition construct posters march to the Pullman draft board. with the word 'mobilize!' superimposed over the outline of a 3:30 p.rn, to 5 p.rn, Rally at the draft board (Pullman City clenched fist, a symbol of resistance being used by the coali- Hall). tion. It was reported that, of an estimated 1,000 posters paint- 7 p.rn, Memorial church service at the Pull- fist ed, almost all were pulled down immediately after they were man Congregational Church. put on display. 9 p.rn, to 12 p.rn, Dance in the CUB Ballroom. UW students continue Complaint of assault week-long BYU protest underi nvestigation Police are investigating a complaint by a black student that said he was assaulted at Friday's basketball game with the University SEATTLE AP - A Black Student Union leader The comment came as the crowd jammed the of Washington. No formal charges have been filed as yet. told a rally of about 1,000 persons yesterday the UW Student Center and police officers stood in In a letter to the Evergreen published Tuesday, Ozzie Diamond BSU should prepare to escalate its protest a- readiness on the campus in a heavy rain, an- charged he was approached during half-time by a white man who gainst the University 0 f Washington in the next ticipating renewed violent demonstrations. asked him if he "was one ofthe black bastards with the raised clench- school quarter. Disturbances have centered on the campus four ed fist." Diamond said he replied, «is it your business and if it is, of the past six days. what do you plan to do about it?" Then, according to Diamond, the Meanwhile, a university spokesman said the man pushed him repeatedly and said "I'll kick your black --- •• school can't meet BSU demands because doing Diamond was one of a group of students who stood on the Bohler Petitions checked, so would be religious discrimination prohibited Gymnasium floor with raised fists during the playing of the national by the U. S. Constitution. anthem. Fourteen persons suffered possible fractures, According to Ernie Thomas of the BlackStudent Union, the purpose of the protest was to show visible support to black people at Eastern primary scheduled cuts and brusies Wednesday as demonstrators Washington State College and around the country in their stand against swarmed through six university buildings. <racist and imperialistic" college athletic departments. Candidates' petitions for ASWSUspring elections City police and county officers were promised were checked Wednesday night by Election Board late Wednesday in an effort to avert more vio- members. Those who didn't meet the filing re- lence. quirements were at - large representatives Bill The issue is the insistance by the Black Stu- Mustard and Jim Betts; Tom Marier, Russ O'Dell, dent Union and supporters that the UW break John Espy and Steve Sarich of District 5; Dave off relations with Brigham Young University, Farrar of District 1; Jack McKenna of District 7 operated by the Mormon Church. Church pol- and Meredith A. Heick of District 10. Inside icy prevents blacks from becoming church of- The primary election Wednesday and Thursday, ficials. will be held in the CUB Lounges. According to Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman said Wednesday city Sue Michaelson, chairman of the committee, cen- New spring fashions poltce would be on the campus Thursday and tralized voting eliminates much of the cost it nor- said County Executive John Spellman had pledged mally takes to have district elections. Since the county manpower. primary only involves choosing three preSidential "r have requested the governor to provide assrs- Campus police seen candidates, it would be costly to have polls in the ,- tance from the State Patrol," Uhlman said, "and individual districts. Centralized voting will cost if the present situation should escalate, it would the Election Board $280 instead of $800. be further incumbent on the governor to involve However, District 2 will have its own voting the National Guard." Agronomy prof dies booths to determine which three of the four candidates will run in the general elections March Gov. Dan Evans was not available for comment. 26-27. District 2 includes all Greek women. Voting Uhlman said acting university president John for them will either be the Bookie or the first floor Hogness had asked for police assistance for The woman's role of the library. Thursday. Page 2 March 13, 1970 Nixon Ylorks for peace Students who oppose President Nixon's efforts toward Vietnam- GOIh ization and bringing American troops home from Vietnam have criticized but offered no workable alternative for ending that war. Like the nature of today/s anti-draft and next week's Mora- ) r torium activities much of this criticism of United States involvement has been emotional rather than rational. It has centered on attacks on so-called American imperialism and oppres- sion in that country. It has made use of protests and demonstrations primarily to gain publicity. Apparently, the only alternative offered by these students is immediate withdrawal. But this is neither practical nor real- istic. This would end all hope the South Vietnamese may have to defeat Communist aggression. It would end all faith, too, that other Southeast Asia countries may .have in the United States. The emotional attitude which has characterized previous Mor- atoriums an<1 probably today's activities has been ignorant of the accomplishments of the Nixon Administration toward ending the war. The U. S. is closer now to bringing the war to an honorable close than it has ever been. Nixon has done more in one year toward reducing American commitment there, than the previous administrations have done in eight years. In April, over 100,000 troops will have been withdrawn. Hope- fully, more troops will be withdrawn by December if the North Vietnamese do not accelerate the war. By December then, according to U.S. News and World Report, there may be less than 300,000 troops left in Vietnam with America's combat role dras- tically de-emphasized. This week in the midst of the marches, the protests and clenched fists, students should consider the effects of an immediate withdrawal. Think of the South Vietnam ese and their future if all U.S. troops were pulled out im mediately. Think of the thou- sands of Americans who have given their lives so that South Vietnam can be free from agg re ss ion. I'''' ~ WI1l1DI?A~~L. Instead of supporting the Moratorium and anti-draft activities, students should instead back the Nixon Administration in its at- Too ... FRoN\ CouaF tempt to honorably end the war. o Gary Eliassen - Guest editorial Letters to the Editor Clenched fist 'speaks' Discouraged reader Women's suffrage is probably the A co-ed Gannon? Sign language, be it the haphazard gestures of a person attempting best known example. a conversation with a foreigner, be it the universally understood Dear Editor: Those who condemn the actions Dear Editor: gestures so commonly used to express obscenities, or be it the of others should take a closer highly refined gestures of deaf-mutes, is a form of communication.

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