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COFFEEHOUSE OPENS SOON? RAY LONSDALE Work on the NCCC coffee house at 611 Erie Avenue, is slowly progressing. The vacant interior is rather unimpressive but the possibilities of it filled could be intriguing. Repairing the floor (which really needs it) and the other three walls painted like the front wall, will provide an at- mosphere in which the students may relax from the difficulties encountered during a day of classes. The real holdup on the work is the furniture; there isn't any! Workers are needed. If you would like to help, leave your name in the HERALD office or see Miss Merino. It's Nixon's War In an article on Nixon's opportunity to gain peace in Vietnam, David Halberstram said in Harper's magazine, \. . . He will have that chance. Perhaps one chance, and it will come and go very quickly . . . Nixon's chance will come per- haps in the first four months, and if he fails, then his speeches will have to justify the war, and the failure to end the war, and soon it will no longer be John- son's war, it will be Nixon's. He will find himself justifying it more and more and slowly but surely ... he will be pulled by the powerful currents around him into the same course as Johnson.\ Mr. Nixon's time is up, his chance has past. The time has come for the American people, through a unified effort, to demand a firm peace plan that would end American involve- ment as soon as possible, re- gardless of the a p pr o v a 1 of South Vietnam's government which has helped drag the war on as long as it has been. It is a known fact that the current government's only ma- jor strongholds are in the cities. This doesn't seem to be very impressive as 60 % of the coun- try's population lives in rural areas. Who's freedom are we suposedly fighting for, the people's or the government's? SPOKES Fresh Peak Into A Dark Corner Last April 21 in an article \The Best Kepi Secret of the Vietnam War\ the Weekly called attention to passages in Westmoreland's report on the war which disclose that in 1965 the U.S. put combat troops into South Vietnam not at the re- quest of its government but on our own initiative, and that Saigon in 1965 while acquiesc- ing tried to keep U.S. troops in the sparsely populated high- lands and away from the cities. We believe that when the truth becomes known, we will find that the U.S. \Americanized\ the war in 1965 because we feared Saigon's last civilian gov- ernment (overthrown in June 1965) might make peace. It now turns out that on May 12, after reading the Westmore- land report, Sen- Fulbright asked the State Department whether it had any record of a formal request from Saigon for U.S. combat troops. He received a reply dated Sept. 2 and made it public in the Senate Sept. 12 (Con. Rec. S10509). The Department reply was ver- bose and evasive, but never- theless revealed that after four months of search it could find no such request. We think it time the bigger newspapers of this country dug into this story, (reprinted from I. F. Stone's Weekly, VOL XVII, NO. 17) STUDENT PROTEST OCT. 15 808 POTTER \United we stand, divided we fall\; an appropriate phrase for the upcoming nation-wide student protest against the war in Vietnam. This is not a movement which is limited to the radical studeiits of American universities. It is, in- stead, a combined effort of young people, senators, notably Kennedy, McGovern and Goodell, and hope- fully business. The urgency for unity is apparent. I funity is present, we will no onger be a scorned, radical minor- ity. We will become an influential minority. We cannot be a majority, but those senators aspiring to fu- ture political offices will do well to pay heed to our plea. A hundred and fifty thousand 21 year old voters can be a very im- portant influence on a state-wide or even nation-wide level. Multiply this number of young voters by the fifty states, and you will have over seven million on a nation- wide scale. An extremely influen- tial minority. Moderate male students as well as radicals face the same dismal future. That is, there is always the uneasy feeling that the army will end his career before it even gets started. The fear is an ex- tremely valid one. For what rea- son have the thousands of young men died? For an obscure, if not non-existent one. Old sayings such as, \Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die.\ or \Somebody up there must know what he is doing,\ are brought to mind. BULLSHIT!!! We do have the right to know why we are dying, but we don't know. Therefore, we must protest. Perhaps N.C.C.C. has had a his- tory of apathy. This, like all other situations, including Vietnam, is subject to change. Will we carry on the tradition, or will we finally get off our asses and start doing something about the world condi- tions? It is not necessary that you go from door to door with a petition against Vietnam. If you wish to do so. fine. It is necessary, tow- ever, that, as one, the student body as well as the faculty join the boy- cott on October 15. Don't look at your schedule to see if you can afford to miss a class. Just do it and you will find a great sense of justice in your involvement Pence brother Report on SDS meeting Everyone todfiy has heard, either one way or another, about that or- ganization known as the Students for a Democratic Society. So much has been said about the SDS, and (more truthfully), so much has been rumored, it inspired me to attend one of their meetings; just to see what it was all about. The closest official chapter of the SDS is, of course, on the Uni- versity of Buffalo campus; so, with tape recorder in hand, I went to UB last week to record one of their meetings. The meeting was held in the Mil- lard Fillmore Room of Norton Un- ion. and, to my expectation, it was open to the public. Standing at the entrance to the room, an SDS mem- ber was shouting to anyone within bearing distance the fact that the meeting was about to begin. Promptly at 7:30 p.m., the lights in the meeting room were extin- guished, and up upon the screen was projected a black and white film about the Vietnam war, which lasted exactly 15 minutes. It was most interesting to note that all the scenes in that film displayed the Allied Forces as the aggressor; searching and destroying the ene- my in each sequence. Four differ- ent scenes portrayed an innocent Viet Cong soldier being beaten by South Vietnamese forces. The crowd of about 300 students watched in silence as the Allied villains raided suspected Viet Cong villages. When the movie ended, the lights were turned on, and the meeting officially got underway. The first issue discussed, was the fact that six Buffalo youths were on trial for draft evasion, and the plea wont out for support of those men The Leaders emphasized the fact that a bus runs down the entire length of Main St.. twice an hour, and if anyone wished to join in the demonstration in front of the County Courthouse, all they have to do is catch a bus in front of the college. After elaborating on this for the good part of an hour, other short selected subjects were taken up. One leader asked the crowd for typists and stenographers to help them with their bookwork, and in the entire crowd of 300. only two people raised their hands offering to help. And, last but not least, they reminded everyone about the Moratorium on October 15. After about an hour and a half, the meeting was declared over; and as the people filed out of the room, leaflets were passed out touching on every subject from how to avoid the draft to organiz- ing demonstrations in downtown Buffalo. A free will offering was also taken, to help in the \Revolu- tion.\ In retrospect, the meeting seem- ed quite unorganized. The people who presided over the meeting all had too much to say about too many issues that were totally un- related to each other. The lack of support was fairly obvious, for was the central theme of the wiidfe meeting. Hardly half of those jierf- ple who attended could be consid- ered active supporters of the or- ganization, which is very poor when one considers the fact that 23,000 students attend that college. The support if lacking, the dis- organization is groat, but their voice is certainly heard. 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