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Yomboro PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER Volume LXXXVI Wooster, Ohio, Friday, May 22, 1970 Number 25 Fastest Road To Peace 5m ' (D) (SaflEneffG Maflfiimall by Kerry Stroup Found "On The Hill" ulty will be present alone: with colleges. Both individuals called Participation '70 program gain- political candidates, community or-ganize- rs, Weeks, expressing elation over Richard Bauman will- by open and responsive to those ed momentum early this week as and professionals familiar Wooster's proposed summer train- behind-the-scen- One hundred thousand people ing to exert their influence. The Al Unger and John Pierson of the with the es scope ing program, and interest in how of marched in Washington two weeks problem in the past has been that History Department traveled to political operations. Students a college might be able to share ago. Protest and demonstration was by and large only a few special Washington to encourage national will have the opportunity, then, to in the work and benefits. interest again used to show disgust and groups were willing to support of the summer workshops. acquaint themselves with all as- The heads of the two consor- make the effort. pects of outrage with the policies of the Among the first legislators con- political involvement. tiums plan to meet with Kent Response nation. However, the post script to However, if last week was any tacted were Senator Saxbe, Repub- to Sunday's New York Weeks and a representative from Times this march was different from the kind of an indication, this pattern lican from Ohio, Indiana Demo- advertisement was steady the Great Lakes College Associa- and growing rest. Several thousand people stay-e- d no longer exists. Congressmen ap- crat Birch Bayh and N. Y. Repre- Wednesday morning. tion Monday afternoon in Dayton Out-of-sta- te inquiries, at the Capital to "lobby for pealed for public support for vari- sentative Lowenstein, peace-plan- k many from to discuss a plan of action. peace." ous amendments before Congress spokesman at the Democratic Con- Eastern schools, began to arrive President Drushal spoke for the after a first-da- y to end the war in Indo-Chin- a. The vention of 1968. Arrangements response from college community when he stated Hunt Rollason and I spent part Ohio tele- were also made to speak with Sen- and Pennsylvania. Applicants that "No age of the week following the demon- public responded with letters, group, no majority, ator Percy who earlier expressed ranged from experienced organi- no minority has stration "on the Hill". We watched grams, phone calls, and petitions a mere right to re- the hundreds interest in the establishment of zers to students never before in- main silent these days. TTiere the Melvin Laird "justify" the Cam- by of thousands, both is campus political workshops. volved in political process. moral obligation to learn how bodian invasion to the Senate supporting and condemning the to Much work, though, remained utilize effectively the political Armed Services Committee; we president's policies. Over 1,500 of While Unger and Pierson talked pro- these originated here in Wooster. in Washington, President Drushal to be done at midweek. The Strike cesses. With these objectives in heard Edmund Muskie introduce Committee Congress was amazed and is now traveled to New York City. He offered its services, and mind, we hope for a better under- a "declaration of peace" to an al- from 50 to ready to respond. spoke Wednesday with represen- 60 students were offer- standing of ways and means to most empty Senate chamber; we ing their tatives of two foundations in an time to make the summer approach a solution to our prob- visited with the liberal Con- The real strength of a concerned session a appeal for $50,000 to finance this success. lems. We are committed to making gressmen like Charles Vanik, the citizen, however, does not rest with On summer's General esti- Wednesday Kent Weeks the democratic process work." This moderates like Robert Taft Jr., and petitions, letters, etc. It resides in- operation. spoke with the heads of two col- sentiment echoed the commitment the most traditional conservatives stead in our elections. As one Ad- mates of the cost of the program lege consortiums Union for Ex- of students, faculty, administrators like our own John Asbbrook; we ministrative Assistant told us, range from $40,000 to $50,000. periment in Higher Education and and townspeople involved at the analyzed with their assistants; we "Throw 3,000 kids who are willing Thursday was to be the day of the Associated Colleges of the Mid- organizational level in making Par- exchanged ideas with other stu- to work into any Congressional a national press conference; this west which represent over 40 ticipation '70 a reality. dents. District and we can get our man Monday, another press conference into office." It does not take huge was to follow at the State House. As we moved from office to of- political The endorsement of Saxbe and fice interview to interview it be- monetary resources or a machine in City Hall. With work- Percy was expected along with en- came increasingly apparent where ers printing up campaign material dorsements by Bayh and Lowen- the American system of govern- tin and talking with stein. Press conferences and sub- ment offers the individual a chance people through the back door, it's simple. It takes sequent wire-servic- e coverage will to be heard. The executive branch wide-sprea- a lot of effort, but it works. The insure the d publicity fit is obviously unresponsive and in- most effective individual deserved of the Participation '70 sensitive to the cries of the people, is not found in the halls of Congress, but program. except possibly every fourth year. in the streets of and all The judicial branch is seemingly Wooster, The steering committee was hard the other of the nation. The distant and somewhat mysterious. streets at work developing the summer American political be -- But the Congress especially the system can program. The philosophy of the 5 mm lUf iVj beat by using that system. House of Representatives is wide steering group is to accommodate alternative area of interests, ac- cording to the desires of individual FRIDAY A.M.- - Senator Saxbe (R-Oh- io) participants: campus organization has agreed to serve as Chair- will be stressed, as well as com- man of Participation '70 and Senator Index Near Deaf7 orienta- (D-ln- d.) munity organization; issue Birch Bayh is momentarily ex- -- The publications committee is Ml y J. II pected to announce he will join Saxbe tion will be stressed as an alterna- Co-chairm- an. Senator Percy extremely concerned about the as has tive to party orientation. Typical of America's waterways, this stream (oozing through Christmas Run Park) been personally contacted in Wash- dearth of applications for editor The ultimate end of the Partici- was the target of concerned students until interest in the environment dissipated ington and has expressed enthusiasm of the Index for 1970-71- . In spite following the Cambodian invasion. Most committees set up during ecology week with the program, and will probably pation '70 session, regard- of notices in Voice and Potpouri, summer are on the verge of disappearing as "activists" return to politics. speak on campus this summer. less of alternative means, is student only one application has been re- President Drushal, recently back involvement in the upcoming elec- from New York and talking with foun- ceived. dations about money for Participation tion. Participants will learn how '70, has said no substantial funds It has been suggested that this to work effectively for the candi- Black Manifesto Demands have yet been found. Optimism still shortage of applications indicates date of their choice. characterizes the embryonic program a The summer session will incor- and this morning over 1,000 en- total lack ot student interest in velopes, containing letters and a copy the yearbook as presently consti- porate four advisory groups. Fac- - Mei With "Positive Action" of the N.Y. Times ad were being pre- tuted, or at best only latent interest The Ad Hoc Committee, which came together the week pared to go out to every Congress- in its conventional function as a during man, hundreds of colleges, and friends of May 4 to determine what had been done with regard to the Black record of Wooster to collect dust Strikers Looking of the movement. Manifesto, has put together several facts gleaned after research, and add weight to your collection meetings with the Deans and the President, and consultations with of books in years to come. The the BSA. The committee learned that much of what had been achieved committee asks students to express Saigon Democracy To Fall Races for next year is the product of several years administrative effort im- their opinions about various alter- to prove Black enrollment, an effort the Black Manifesto served to accel- Saigon May 15 (CPS) natives.