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"' SOUTH CARDUNA ROOM Nominations Three candidates compete for top position Nominations for student body officers Three candidates were nominated for were nominated for the position of the political science major. John is a senior and court members for the 1971-72 school the positions of president and vice Lesser Court of Appeals. prosecuting attorney and a defense at- year were held Tuesday night in the president, six for High Court, four for the torney for High Court, as well as a junior senator, chairman of the Senate rules chemistry auditorium. position of Junior High Court, and six General elections will be held for these positions Tuesday, March 9 with runoff committee, and member of Blue Key, elections planned for Thursday, March APO, Sigma Tau Epsilon, and the Cen- 11. Nominees will have two weeks prior tral Spirit Committee. Senate grants funds to these dates for campaigning. Hodge is a chemical engineering major from Sumter. He was a freshman senator Approximately 200 students attended and is a member of AICHE. the nominations from all classes. Framp for Speakers Bureau Durban headed the nominations, as other Don Kelley is from Greenville and is members of the Election Board tallied majoring in pre-dentistry. Don is a By MAUREEN LUDIAN the votes. member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, Staff Writer Blue Key and the Block "C" Club. He is When the number of candidates for also vice president of Tiger Brotherhood. A bill appropriating $1000 to the nomination exceeded the number of Speakers Bureau from Student Govern- possible nominees, votes were held Nominated for Senior High Court were ment funds was passed by Student Senate among those present to determine which Steve Avant, Jimmy Poole, Debbie Monday night. candidates would gain a position on the Carsey, Ron Twitty, Perry Mize, and The Speakers Bureau budget was ballot. recently eliminated because of a six per Gerry Beaman. cent cut in the budgets of all state The candidates for the office of agencies. According to Jr. Senator Gerry president are Gerry Hough, Jerry Massie Candidates for the Junior High Court Hough, who is also a member of the and Jackie Shuler. positions were Marty Cope, John White, Speakers Bureau, part of this money will Johnny Ward and Butch Mills. be used to pay for a speaker during Black Hough is a junior and political science Awareness Week in March. major from Annapolis, Md. Gerry is The Lesser Court of Appeals nominees A resolution to continue membership in presently a High Court member, junior were Bill Nelson, Tommy Crenshaw, Ron the National Student Association and to class president, and a juniorsenator, as Jayner, Richard Garrison, Harriet Ross join the Association of Student Govern- well as member of the President's and Jim Atkins. ments was passed. Cabinet and Speakers Bureau. Other The polls will open at 9 a.m. March 9. Sr. Senator Bob Behling of the Ex- activities include Blue Key and ATO, and All students must have their activities tramural Committee reported that the the Debate Team. advantages of dual membership were cards to vote. worth the cost since their "services are Jerry Massie is a junior from At 6 p.m. the polls will close, and the complementary." Membership in each Sayreville, N.J., majoring in chemical votes will be tallied by 9 p.m. that night. organization is $100 per school year. engineering. He is a member of the The results will be posted outside the Senate also passed a resolution having American Institute of Chemical Student Government room and on the teacher evaluations administered by Engineering (AICHE). bulletin board next to the information Student Government once a year, with booth on the loggia. WSBF will also the results being given to department Jackie Shuler, from Holly Hill, is a broadcast the results. heads. junior majoring in animal science. A bill requesting a black administrator Jackie is president of Gamma Rho Speeches by the candidates for or student on the admissions committee fraternity and vice president of the Block president and vice president will be held of the University was passed. The bill and Bridle Club. He is also an IFC Tuesday, March 2 at 1 p.m. in the am- also requested the formation of an ad- representative and a member of the BEHLING phitheater. visory committee to help guide the ad- Agriculture and Biology Council. Residence Halls Committee reported ministration's policies and decisions More door-to-door campaigning was concerning minority group students. that he had received a letter from Juniors John Marshall, Mike Hodge, Manning N. Lomax, director of residence encouraged by the Election Board at the Hough said the purpose of this bill was and Don Kelley were nominated for the nominations. This is designed to achieve to specifically help black students on halls, stating that women will definitely office of vice president. be housed on west campus in dorms 9 and more personal contact between can- campus. didates and students. Sr. Senator Brad Keeney of the 10 next year. Marshall is from Spartanburg and a Editorial Calley, the Army's scapegoat As the Fort Benning trial of Army Calley does not deserve the entire avoided having the blame for the there is no room for morality and Lt. William Calley delves further into blame for the My Lai massacre. He butcherings placed on any one in- the lugubrious details of the My Lai reason in times of war. Such thinking was merely a tool to be used by his dividual's head. The military is obviously dangerous, both to the massacre, it becomes evident that it military superiors for whatever hierarchy is deftly structured so as to aggressor (in whom a sensible and is not merely one soldier being tried. purpose they deemed necessary. allow "passing the buck" whenever The outcome of the court-martial will However, he is certainly not the hero such fiascos as the My Lai incident humanitarian people must have far-reaching effects, not only on that a few people tend he is. Any in- are uncovered. The rationalization us- necessarily lose faith) and to the American military justice, but on the dividual weak enough of character to ed by Calley and numerous others is victims of ftie type of unthinking very rudiments of the military allow himself to be molded into such that they were only following orders; ruthlessness exemplified by the My ideology itself. an unquestioning, mindless murder when accusations are then directed at Lai case. As long as this and other Calley has testified that he did not machine is not fit to be considered a the next level of the hierarchy, one wars exist, the deplorable result will consider it a "big deal" to massacre beneficial part of society. hears the same thing all over again, be the preclusion of any in- the inhabitants, many of them women The horrendous irony of the Calley and so on, ad nauseum. dividualism, humanitarianism and and children, of the hamlet of My Lai. trial is that the Army has successfully Calley's testimony implies that sense of reason that may exist in man. The victims were not human beings in his mind, but rather animals. Thus Calley felt that exterminating them was an amoral act, not an immoral one. On to Rumania, Moscow "Basically, all I could think of was By DICK HARPOOTLIAN with our boys in Vietnam. We went there to The Nixon offensive is a bold move in what I was taught, what I was sup- Editor-in-Chief win and we should use every weapon at our times when few men dare to be bold. All we posed to do, what I was ordered to disposal to insure victory. ask is more of the same. do... All orders were to be assumed President Nixon is to be commended on Peaceniks like McGovern and Fulbright The president's strategy is aimed at his conduct of the war in Southeast Asia. have helped the international communist stopping supplies from reaching the legal. It was a soldier's job to carry conspiracy in its plan for world out any order given to the best of his His tactics concerning Cambodia last communist bandits in South Vietnam. spring were brilliant and the recent of- domination. Forceful, dynamic men like Without weapons and other supplies the ability. You could be court-martialed fensive in Laos is a military masterpiece. Richard Nixon and his right-hand-man Viet Cong will wither and die. for refusing an order and in the face of Spiro Agnew want peace, but peace with Nixon's efforts are being thwarted, the enemy you could get the death Too long has America sat by while a honor. This country can insure peace for though; because overwhelming amounts penalty," Calley said. handful of underequipped, untrained further generations by stopping the of supplies are being pumped into the area women and children have played havoc communist vermin in their tracks. by Russia and her allies. The Ho-Chi Minh trail is the last step in a series of transfers the communists use in supplying the Viet Cong. At this point, it is What happened to campus violence? very difficult to stop the flow because many people are using a myriad of routes to reach their goal in the South. Since it is obvious our efforts at stopping By JERRY GRIGGS removing said obstacle. Students are music. The hard stuff is fading, losing the flow of supplies are directed at a point Columnist working closer to the root problems in- popularity. It is being replaced by the too far down the chain to be effective, the volved in American society.

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