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THE CDNCQRDIAN Concordia College Moorhead.Minn. 56560 November 19,1976 Vol.69 No, 11 Shirley Chisholm looks for democratic, moral reawakening in U.S. Congresswoman expresses optimism over a southerner Pn the WhiteHouse Ijy Karen Hoisington even though by tradition, Chisholm asserted. She has * Congresswoman Shirley Chis- Southerners have been firm visited Indian reservations, Ap- holm said, "Some people don't separationists and segregation- palachian mountain poor white like to hear me talk because I ists. President-elect Carter pro- areas, and Mississippi black tell it like it is." But judging vides one oiChisholm's answers ghettos. "You'd never come from her combination of con- to the crucial failings in the back to Concordia the same,Jf structive criticism, with opti- past. "He has the ability to deal you saw what I saw; . .and mism, and the subsequent rap- humanistically and competently then the government has the port with her audience, this with the issues," she said. nerve to talk about sending care brand of truthtelling is quite "If 'dear' President Ford had packages abroad. What about effective. been returned to office, I care packages to America's An overall message of the shu.dder to think of the minori- children!". congresswoman's speech was ties' chances for improvement." Chisholm's concluding an- that, despite the many govern- "Under the Nixon-Ford ad- swer to corrupt government ment mistakes in the past, we ministration, blacks and poor policies'was--"We're all our may see a restoration of faith in people could only grow bitter," brother's keeper." She offered a \ the democratic process during she said. "They were the first to more specific prescription for the upcoming years. become dispensable during the the individual in the panel/ "People have become disillu- economic crisis; the first victims discussion following the lecture. sioned with the perverted pro- of the recession." "Solutions involve, first, cesses," she said. "They think, Chisholm sees the recent the relinguishment of the 'poli- what difference does the presi- administration as "a govern- tics as dirty business' attitude; dential election outcome make? ment that doesn't listen." Ford's and then, becoming politically Candidates are all alike any- central campaign theme was and 'stick-to-it-ively' involved at way." overtaxation of the American a local level." For students, she Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm appealed to youth in her speech public because of the bulging advocates becoming informed on Monday night. But Chisholm speculated, '•Maybe a southerner can turn budget of social programs. by reading newspapers for at these misconceptions aroundv> "What they failed to realize least 45 minutes daily. Other- was the problem of unemploy- wise without knowledge, how ment. While there are 7.5 can you lead the country in the million Americans who want to future?" work but can't, large corpora- She also responded to several tions are still allowed to main- audience questions of current Swine flu story began in Ft. Dix tain most of their six-figure social importance; most heated- incomes under our taxation ly to the issue of school system," she pointed out. by Charles (task, Jr. hospital he was in a coma. An The summary states: "The desegregation. "All the hoopla The recent federal outlay of hour later he was dead. results indicated that the opti- '.'The resulting strategy of over 'busing' is a bunch of 135 million for the swine flu An autopsy showed that Lewis mally constituted influenza vac- playing on the fears of the baloney," she exclaimed. "The vaccination program, although had died of a classic case of cine at standard dosage levels working class, and pitting.them real issue is obtaining "resources lauded by the government, pneumonia. have little, if any, effectiveness against the poor is one of the and curricula for inner-city comes under some suspicion The Communicable Disease and that even very large doses factors of American frustration schools. Busing is merely an • when areas of misinformation Center in Atlanta, upon the of vaccine do not approach the and apathy," Chisholm said. 'artificial instrument.' This are considered. analysis of samples, concluded, high degree of effectiveness that "Those opting out of the system country doesn't have the guts to At Ft. Dix in January of this on the basis of the situation-at has been achieved with other are those whose input we need get to the root of the cancer year, recruits were found to Fort Dix, that the swine virus vaccines. most. Namely, minorities,-wo- (racism)." - men, and youth." have the flu. When the virus was had spread from pig to man and A recent article in the British And the real instruments? isolated is was presumed to be a thence to other men. This would medical-journal,The Lancet . ChisholmV hope lies in the Housing policies where blacks form of A/Victoria/75, a virus be important as swine flu is noted that six British volunteers youth. She said, "You can't dare and whites' live together in that had developed in New sometimes communicable from who were deliberately exposed drop out. Those students who communities; hence, the ques- Guinea and that killed 20,000 pig to man, but seldom from to the swine-flu virus developed provided the moral conscience tion of comparable neighbor- Americans in 1975. Additional- man to man. - only mild illness, that the virus forViet-Nam--the political acti- hood schools wouldn't even ly, at a very low level of activity, This conclusion went through did not seem to be predisposed vists of the 60/s-have become come up. indications of a non-A/Victoria proper channels and ended up to spread among people, and narcissists, involved only in A slightly ironical tinge strain of virus was discovered, as the vaccination program that that the episode at Fort Dix personal, self-absorbing pur- pointed out by Chisholm was- which later turned out to be President Ford announced on might well be an isolated suits: TM and guru religions. where were all the attackers of swine flu. March 24. incident. And then, most of my middle busing a while ago when black aged friends have minds like The death that has been The importance of the vacci- Other criticism has come children had to wak up at 4 attributed to this strain of virus nation program was stressed by concrete-mixed up and well a.m. to be bused to little shack from the scientific world. It set. So it's up to you/' yielded to doctors the first and the memory of the 1918-1919 seems' that in .manufacturing, schools on the outskirts of last recognizable sample of flu-plague that killed 20 million the present vaccine lacks the Another subject that domi- town? A/New Jersey/76 swine flu. people world wide. In the 1930's ingredient called neuraminidase nated the two-hour lecture and In response, to other ques- Researchers have been unable scientists traced this epidemic that is an active component that discussion was U.S. foreign tions, she foresees the need for to isolate this virus in the other to a pig virus. However, a triggers the body's second line policy, particularly as it relates the "restoration of the city," living human beings who be- research report published in of defense. No one appears to to the Third World. During her control'of "stark mad military came ill after the incident at Science magazine on Oct. 3, know why it was emitted, but travels abroad, she has found insanity," and the invention of a Fort Dix.- 1969, gave evidence otherwise. government officials are not' that the "ugly American" image workable energy policy so that The incident itself cannot be -. Three notable scientists (one particularly concerned. There is - still persists. In fact, America is "we aren't caught sleeping in an . accounted for totally by the of whom received a Nobel Prize evidence though that suggests more than ever losing its emergency crisis." killing effects of the virus. When this year) found evidence that the effectiveness of the vaccine respect, prestige and influence. Chisholm questioned the the army recruit, David Lews, cast a shadow on the swine-flu- would drop by 10 to 20 per cent "We (government) must rea- priorities set by certain groups. fell sick and reported to the 1918-plague. They found that it without it. lize that paternalism won't Why. not develop good housing medical clinic, he was found to was possibly an A/Victoria What was the point o£ all work/' Chisholm said. "Also, before bringing back rocks and have a fever of 100 degrees and strain that had caused the this? Coming during an election that U.S. aid doesn't insure the pebbles from the moon? And was told to stay in his quarters epidemic. year the finger could be pointed right to dictate to other nations. "instead of environmentalist for 48. hours. The medical On top of htis, the very at President Ford's desire to We certainly wouldn't let others pleas like 'save the whale', how officer at Fort Dix believes that effectiveness of the vaccine seem like a caring father. come in and control our internal about saving the babies eaten Lewis, had he remained in his itself has been held in question. But there might be a more government." by rats in the ghettos!" quarters, would have survived. One of the few well-controlled notable reason. The flu vaccine Amidst spontaneous ap- Before receiving her second But Lewis marched five miles clinical trials to test actual is only effective from two to 12 plause, she proceeded to sug- standing ovation of the evening, the next day to the small-arms disease-prevention effective- months.