Technicia North Carolina State University's Student News aper Since 1920 Volume LXIV, Number 5 WM, 20. 1933 Raleigh, North Carolu- A Race begins - Cass Republican — I966 ' ' _ I UP!) ” I " I80, , July 20, 1933 Technician / Opinion In Students accept conservatism, but Left still lives A friend of mine recently return- on the left back then. Richard Nix- Was l ever wrong. Everywhere I ~his own already assured re- ed to State after a 10-year vaca- on was being tarred every bit as popular on-today’s col- and feathered turned, 1 ran into students 10 years election. I don’t think that was lege campus as Bob Dylwi was 15 tion, and like otherchildren of the for his involvement in Watergate my junior who were the complete worth the deaths of an additional ’605 who returned to school, he and the years ago. The only indent ac- Democratic Party ap- political anathema to everything l 15,000 or more American men my tivism to be found today is the has had a great deal of difficulty peared to be making a quick believed in. At times I merely stood age. The war is as responsible as trying to understand what has hap- recovery Young Americans for Freedom from the McGovern back and observed it all in amaze- anything for the generation gap group. Formed originally as a right- pened to student politics. debacle of 1972. ment. At others times, I really let it that is beginning to bulge between I experienced the same thing wing answer to the left-wing Those are all faded memories get to me andgot into some heated people my age and the new wave Students for a Democratic Society. when I returned to State three now and it’s hard to figure out what discussions. It still gets to me of college students. years ago. I YAF is now working as the youth couldn’t beleive what I happened to the new left. Did it sometimes. ' Today’s students can swallow brigade for Jesse’s Congressional ...Cynical Sayingsc just burn out? With the exception For example — perhaps the and regurgitate Reagan’s baloney Club. definitive example - it still makes about what a noble cause Vietnam During freshman orientation a me hot under the collar to hear was, but they cannot begin to few weeks ago, a kid came to the some beardless, still-wet—behind- understand what that war meant to office wanting to write a conser- the-ears boy-wonder defend us, their older brothers, or the ter- vative political column for Techni- BRUCE Richard Nixon with the argument ribly disrupting effect it had on our cian since our resident right- that he got us out of Vietnam, and w WINKWORTH I hear that all the time. The fact of the matter is that Today’s students can swallow and Richard Nixon could have regurgitate Reagan’s baloney about withdrawn US. troops from Viet- what a Editorial Columnist nam the day he took office in noble cause Vietnam was, but they cannot saw on campus. What ever hap- of the women’s movement, there is , 1969. Instead, he spent four years begin to understand what that war meant to pened to the liberal consciousness no activity to speak of on the left. telling the big lie about a secret plan us, their older brothers, or the terribly disrup- of the late ’605 and early ’70s? In its While the left wallows around for “peace with honor," which was place there is a student body divid- without any issues or electable really political double-speak for ting effect it had on our lives. The threat of ed into two groups. The first group presidential candidates, the right “,peace but only with my re- going to war isn’t hanging over their heads doesn’t give a hoot about anything, continues to gather momentum election. like'it was ours, and most of them haven’t a and the second is this huge legion especially on the college campus. Would anybody out there care of young Republicans who are try- When the old student returns to to tell me what we accomplished clue as to just how lucky they are. ing to canonize President Ronald school, his first brush with student by staying in Vietnam those extra W Reagan and Sen. Jesse Helms. politics usually comes from the stu- four years? We certainly didn’t lives. The threat of going to war wingers were both too liberal for When my friend and I left school dent newspaper. At State that secure democracy for the people of isn’t hanging over their heads in the early ’70s, a typical after- means this one, and after looking it like it ' him. He said he’d see Tom DeWitt, Southeast Asia, if indeed that’s was ours, and most of them our resident right-wing desperado, noon involved sitting around the over, I can see how that can be what they wanted in the first place. haven’t a clue as living room, passing around something of a jolt. to just how lucky at “the Club,” which i took to Six months after we left Viet- they are. mean the Congressional Club. The various intoxicants and laughing at it was for me. In no way could I nam, it was completely Com- The attrocities of the idiotic notions then being cir- believe that the columnists in Vietnam hit Club - sounds kind of chummy. munist, and I doubt if most of the home with the college student of doesn’t it? Think again. culated in conservative circles. The Technician could possibly repre- people there knew the difference one the ’60s and early ’705, and those we liked best was the farcical sent the majority, or even a sizable between ‘Communism and memories make it hard for me to I’m not too happy with what is belief that» Ronald Reagan was an segment, of student opinion. it’s alcoholism or cared. War had believe that today’s students are ac- happening in student politics to- attractive and viable candidate for one of the reasons I came to work become such a way of life for the tually stupid enough to believe that day, but I can say that I'm no President of the United States. here. I felt some balance was need- people of Vietnam that any peace the more nuclear weapons we longer surprised by it. The day has Yes, things looked pretty rosy ed. would have been acceptable to have, the less likely we are to use yet to come when we can expect to them. Only the military dictators, them, or that something as horrify- see a platoon of Congressional Technician who we were trying to keep in ingly unthinkable as a “limited" Club Brownshlrts goose-stepping power, stood to lose by our nuclear war is not only possible but across the brickde to a book- withdrawal. in some cases desirable. buming, but when it does, I will not (Continued from page 2.) might be asked to write one hundred times “I shall not be ir- All Nixon managed to do by The changes are something to be surprised; very disappointed but staying in Vietnam was to ensure never violated it. and we are all af- responsible and insensitive ponder. Jesse Helms seems to be surprised. fected negatively. again." :Since this is not elemen— At the very least you owe a tary school, you could personal and formal apology to demonstrate your responsibility each worker in our physical by resigning after you plant. and a formal apology to apologize. Think about it. the University community. 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