Western Front - 1969 November 12

              "western front
Vol. LXII no. 14 Western Washington State College Bellingham, Washington 98225 Wednesday, Nov. 12, 1969
Ohio Pose—CPS
I keep tellin' ya, man, the end of the war
is just around the corner.'
Viet Moratorium beginsThursday
The second Moratorium gets
underway here Thursday
morning for three days of
protest against the Vietnam War.
Local activities will include a
36-hour Fast for Peace, a peace
vigil at the Federal Building
downtown and a candlelight
procession through the city
Saturday night.
Like the Oct. 15 Moratorium,
students will be encouraged to
leave classes to attend the
activities.
A "do your own thing" will
begin the events Thursday at
noon in the VU with anti-war
poetry readings and guitar
playing.
The Fast for Peace, according
to Lois Mattix, head of the fast
committee, is intended to be a
symbolic sacrifice by Americans
for the death and destruction to
the Vietnamese.
The fast will begin at 8 a.m.
Friday with a formal opening
ceremony in the VU Lounge, led
by Dr. Howard Harris, associate
professor of soc-anthro
department.
A peace vigil is expected to
draw several hundred persons to
the Federal Building at 3 p.m.
Friday for a silent protest over
the war.
The three-day Moratorium
will officially conclude here in
Bellingham with a mass
candlelight procession through
the city on Saturday night.
Marchers will gather at 6 p.m.
on the corner of Kentucky
Street and Cornwall Avenue near
Bellingham High School for the
march to the Federal Building
via Cornwall Avenue.
Legislature election
to be held Nov. 20
Election of candidates for
representative to Associated
Students Legislature will be held
Thursday, Nov. 20.
Polls will be open in the
Ridgeway Commons, Viking
Commons, Viking Union, and
Coffee Shop from 9 a.m. to 6
p.m. Students must present their
I.D. to vote.
Students wishing to apply for
a representative position must
AS legislature
position open
for applications
Applications are still being
accepted for one vacancy on the
AS Legislature.
The position will be filled at
the legislature meeting at 4 p.m.
next Tuesday.
Applicants must be enrolled
with 12 credit hours this quarter
with a 2.0 cumulative grade
point average.
Last minute applications will
be accepted in VU 231.
have at least a 2.4 grade point
average, and attended at least
two quarters of college, and at
least one quarter at Western.
Applications may be obtained
in VU 217, and will be accepted
no later than Friday.
A mandatory meeting ot all
candidates will be held at 4 pm.
today in VU 217.
This year, due to increased
enrollment, the Election Board
is requiring each candidate to
post a $5 bond which assures the
maintenance department and the
administration that campaign
posters will be removed by the
specified time.
A violation would result in
forfeiture of the bond and
possible disqualification form
the election.
Presently, candidates may
display posters only on VU
bulletin boards.
However, a proposal now
before the student council may
allow candidates to place posters
in and on all campus buildings, if
passed.
The proposal would also
allow other campus groups to
display posters.
Class-drop deadline ioday
Today is the last day to drop
a class, Registrar William J.
O'Neil said in an interview last
week.
Failure to properly withdraw
from a class will result in a grade
of F for the course, he said.
Proper withdrawal includes
notifying the registrar's office
that the class is being dropped.
"Students must pick up their
admit to class cards from the
instructor and fill out a change
of program form," the registrar
said.
"Both the class cards and the
change of program form must be
brought to the registrar's
office."
The marchers will walk in the
street.
The city has already approved
a parade permit for the
Moratorium Committee.
After the procession, the
marchers will break their fast
either with a small ceremonial
meal of rice and tea or at
individual homes.
The Oct. 15 Moratorium
peace march drew an estimated
2,000 participants in what
turned out to be the largest
protest demonstration in
Bellingham history.
Friday afternoon will be
spent handing out leaflets in
downtown Bellingham and
encouraging businessmen's
support in the Moratorium by
asking them to close on
Saturday.
Thursday night at 8, the
Moratorium group will present
David Schoenbrun's film,
Vietnam-How Did We Get
In-How Do We Get Out? in the
Bellingham public library.
Friday. The film will be shown
continuously from 1-4 pjn. in
L-3.
They say it again
—"We're on a course that is going to end this war."—Pres. Richard
Nixon, Sept. 26,1969.
—"We've certainly turned the corner (in Vietnam)."—Sec. of
Defense Melvin Laird, July 15,1969.
-"We have never been in a better relative position."-Gen. William
Westmoreland, April 10,1968.
—" . . . We are enlightened with our progress . . . we are generally
pleased . . . we are very sure we are on the right track."—President
Lyndon Johnson, July 13,1967.
—"We have succeeded in attaining our objective . . . . "—General
Westmoreland, July 13,1967.
—"We have stopped losing the war."—Sec. of Defense Robert
McNamara, October, 1965.
—"We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand
miles from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for
themselves,"-President Johnson, October 21,1964.
-"The United States still hope to withdraw its troops from South
Vietnam by the end of 1965."-Sec. of Defense McNamara, Feb. 19,
1964.
-"Victory . . . is just months away . . . I can safely say the end of
the war is in sight."-General Paul D. Harkins, Commander of Military
Assistance Command in Vietnam, October 31,1963.
—"(the war) is turning an important corner."—Sec. of State Rusk,
March 8,1963.
—"The Communists now realize they can never conquer free
Vietnam."-Gen. J.W. O'Daniel, military aide to Vietnam, January 8,
1961.
- " I fully expect (only) six more months of hard
fighting."-General Navarre, French commander in chief, Jan. 2, 1954,
(From the Post, Ohio Univ.)