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Speakers debate Viet Nam ) 3 Vol. XXXVLX Mundelein College, Chicago, 111., 60626, November 3, 1967 Bevel baffles onlookers Approach to conscience fails by Marianne Fusillo Viet Nam: an approach to conscience was publicized as the theme of last Friday's panel, but at the end of the evening, it could have been labeled Existence: an approach through love. The eve ning left the three panelists. Karl Meyer, staff member of the Catholic Worker, Mrs. Vivian Ral- stein. a visitor to North Viet Nam, and Reverend James Bevel, a member of the Southern Chris tian Leadership Conference, in an emotional three-way draw. Meyer, speaking first, pri- even a dim one in this dark night in order to prove the presence of man Panelists consider ethics of war tactics by Jennifer Joyce President Johnson could use you, asserted Julie Ann Lyman i Lehman i in reference to her fellow panel member's agility in debating the Viet Nam war. That is what I keep telling him. quipped Mrs. Robert Matasar. RICHARD BOARDMAN, a draft counselor for the American Friends Service Committee, Julie Ann Lyman C59) a journalist and member of the Mayor's Cultural Affairs Committee, and Mrs. Matasar, political science department, aired diverse views during the Oct. 26 Viet Nam panel, but no one lost his or her sense of humor. marily quoted from the poetry of Buddhist pacifists of South Viet Nam. Drawing upon the writings of a young girl. Pfan Thi Mai, who burned herself to death for the cause of peace in 1966. he quoted her last piece: My fellow men, listen to me, because I love my people, because I love my country. I want to be a light. Dean cites policy switch The five day plan of resi dence, unique to Mundelein college, will be discontinued next year, revealed Sister M. Joan Frances, dean of resi dence. In a recent Skyscraper interview. Beginning in the fall of 1968. students will board on a seven day contract only. Formerly, girls living in the Chicago area could pay for five days of room and board and live at home on weekends. Sister Ann Ida Gannon, college president, decided on the new change In policy at the recom mendations of the business and admissions offices. Sister added. SINCE THE number of stu dents in residence has grown phenomenally in the past five years, it is increasingly diffi cult for the college to maintain a two system residence pro gram, which overlapped at the student's convenience, ex plained Sister M. Joan Frances. A 7 day student pays room and board whether she spends a weekend away or not. A 5 day resident has the best of two worlds, changing from 5 to 7 day residence at her wish. she continued. THIS SYSTEM has caused a double amount of work in ev ery department of the college involving residence, since two separate sets of records must exist. Sister added. She noted that a flexible number of stu dents on campus each weekend inconveniences the dining room and causes confusion in the handling of the laundry service. Sister stressed that oppor tunities for on-campus employ ment would be increased to offset the added expense to former five (layers. She said she would welcome an inter view with any student who felt she could not carry the new financial load. Meyer remarked that he had been arrested and jailed for trying to deliver this poem to Secretary of State Dean Rusk last May. Speaking second, Mrs. Ral- steln conveyed her impression of daily life of the Vietnamese in the north. At a peace con ference which she attended in Czechoslovakia, she was in vited by the North Viet Nam delegation to visit their coun try as an observer. She re turned to the U.S. with two comments: The U.S. is trying to bomb Viet Nam Into the Stone Age and this bombing Isn't stopping the north. To illustrate her conclusion, she described two incidents she observed. The first con cerned the bombing of four schools. The official reason given by the U.S. for the bombing was that the build ings were used as barracks; but she pointed out that they were concrete buildings out In the open, and no one would house soldiers in them. To break down their morale, the U.S. trys to destroy everything the National Liberation Front has done for the people, but it isn't working, she said. Mrs. Ralstein later expressed admiration for the spirit the north showed in mobilizing for the war, telling the audience how the remote villagers will ingly accept child evacuees from the cities. She also de scribed how hospitals, after being marked with red crosses became special targets for U.S. bombers. She was adamant in her fi nal statement, if the common people there can fight this op pression, the common people here can bring Johnson to his knees Wearing a panel of African beading and a prayer cap, Bevel, the third speaker, ad dressed his audience as a Baptist minister, often elicit ing an Amen from them. He warned his audience, which consisted largely of Maryknoll seminarians, that some of the things he said would be shock ing, but that they were a part of himself. Repeatedly. Bevel said that we are all lovers and sons of lovers. He then proceeded to explain the role of women in the world, a role of the pro tector. Women brought man into the world, and it is inborn in her to love and protect him. Women, not the government should protect, he said. John son says he'll protect us. with his bombs and missiles, but be ing a protector is natural to a woman. At the end of his talk, Bevel played some soul records that told of man's true search to be a lover and to be nat ural. Boardman maintained the pacifist position that mass murder Is not a way to solve social conflicts. He stressed the Quaker teaching that there's something in all hu mans which transcends their individuality and binds all men together. KILLING, THE YOUNG man claimed, denies this com mon element among men. The implication of the pacifist view, on the group level, is that society must experiment with solving problems by means other than war. He cit ed Ganahl's liberation move ment in India as an example of the success of non-violent action on a large scale. Boardman expressed the failure of pacifists to work out concrete alternatives to war In current world crises. He urged pacifists not to sit on the sidelines but to take direct action which might include of fering to serve as mediators In negotiation between Hanoi and the United States. THE PANEL SWITCHED its focus from pacifists to pac ification as Julie Ann Lyman recounted her experiences dur ing a six-week visit to Viet Nam as a feature writer for the Chicago American. The military in Viet Nam to day, Mrs. Lehman said, are faced with two seemingly op posing tasks: to build as well as bomb. A small team of soldiers go into a village only at the request of the villagers. Besides defending the village from Viet Cong attack, they show the peasants how to build their own schools and clinics. This mission of pacification is finally fulfilled when most of the villagers no longer al low Viet Cong Into the com munity. The writer warned that a U.S. pullout would signal the beginning of communist con trol In Laos, Cambodia. New Zealand and Australia. ALLUDING TO THE domi no, theory Orientals have great patience, she continued, and repeated the claim made by Vietnamese war prisoners whom she interviewed: Ho Chi Minh doesn't care how long it takes, he wants to own the world. Claiming to be a member of neither side. Mrs. Matasar offered what she termed an objective, academic ap proach to war from the view point of the political scientist. Attempting to ascertain the justice of a particular war is fruitless, she explained, be cause justice may change sides as the battle continues. Thus, war can be neither com pletely just nor completely un just: atrocities are committed by both sides. DENYING THAT morality is pertinent in discussing Viet Nam, Mrs. Matasar admitted that the objectives of the Unit ed States in the war are un clear. Although the Americans must follow through once they are involved in the war, she advocated that the United States attempt to end the war as quickly as possible. The war will end only when the Viet Cong are forced to ne gotiate. Boardman agreed upon the necessity of negotiation, but added that the United States must cease bombing to bring the other side to the peace table. JULIE LYMAN disagreed, citing that in the last bomb ing truce, 300 U.S. men were killed by Viet Cong attacks. A truce, she maintained, turns American soldiers Into sitting ducks for the Viet Cong. Mr. Karl Meyer Rev. James Bevel Psychiatrist at Hearsay Continuing the Hearsay pro gram. Dr. Thaddeus Kostru- bala, assistant professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, will analyze the hippie phenomenon Nov. 6, 7:30-10 p.m. in room 405 of the Skyscraper. As chairman for the Educa tion for Life program, Kostru- bala organized a group of 53 negro high school students to travel to Sweden for dialogues with the King, Gustaf Adolf, and Swedish youth.
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1967-11-03 (1)
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