The Hilltopper (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 3, 1968 Page: 2 of 7
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THE HILLTOPPER
Friday, May 3, 1968
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EDITORIAL
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McCarthy saves politics from style-ists
A free man has no fears
Cartoon by Dick Fry, SEU Alumnus
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.......................... Mike Donohue
......................... Tom Boushley
........................... Mike Mervilde
Mike Cinal, Andre Guerrero
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With a platform that promises to do more for the
country than anything since the New Deal, McCarthy
has made his appeal to the American people. On May
7 in the Hoosier state, McCarthy the man of principle,
will try the political fiber. If he wins, then the art of
politics will be saved from the "image’ ’makers, and,
if not, then we can only hope that the "image” mak-
ers of the future will find good men capable of handling
the awesome reigns of the presidency.
Now, a lot of times when a black man says that,
white folks get up tight. Well, if anybody got up tight
just now, that's racism in your own head. I did not say
American white folks were the No. 1 racists on the face
of the earth, I said America; and one day when we
realize that black and white folks in this country are
Americans, then maybe when you hear that statement
you will realize that means black folks and white folks
I don’t know why this white society is so frightened
to realize that colored folks are racists. Why not? We
learned it from you. And we have watched you for 400
years.
A free man is nothing but a man with no fears.
If a man fears me living in his neighborhood, eating
in his restaurant, dating his daughter, going to his
schools, he's my slave whether he wants to be one or
not. And he’s more my slave than my ancestors ever
were to his, because when my forefathers broke that
chain off the black ankle and split to Canada, they were
free.
Once you become enslaved in your head, you never
get free. A white cracker from America can go to
Moscow, Russia, man, and see a nigger with a white
woman, and he goes crazy because he takes his en-
slavement with him all over the world.
I go all over, but this is the first time I’ve talked
to a group where 98 per cent is fixing to be dumped
into the system, and that's why I feel it’s so extremely
important.
I’m very bitter, and I’m very angry. I don’t hate
America. I don’t go for "isms!” I imagine if I was born
in Russia, I’d probably be fighting just as hard to clean
Russia up, but this is my home and I don’t intend to
go anywhere.
But I do see all the mistakes that we left on you,
and I hope that you will rectify them. It’s a hell of a
thing to ask you, but I hope you will for the benefit
of the whole world, because the Constitution of the
United States is a good piece of paper.
No one has ever made it work right yet, and I say,
let’s do make it right. We might decide to tear it up
after we do it, but let’s first make it right.
In this fast paced McLuhan Age of mass culture,
mass communication and mass thinking, it is little
wonder that the political campaigning of the soaring
60's has also given itself over to the alluring claims
of the "mass-in.” Fortunes are being spent by candi-
dates who have implicit faith in the magic of the "mass-
in” and its power to give him the "image” that the typi-
cal American is looking for.
Indeed, the art of politics has almost become a
sophisticated Madison Avenue-McLuhan combination of
advertising. Already candidates are being judged by
how well they looked on TV last night rather than how
well they argued the issues.
This frightening trend in politics may be irrevers-
ible. However, some believe that it is not, and they are
actively trying to disprove it. Senator Eugene McCar-
thy is a man who believes that there is still room in
politics for the honest man who can present himself
rather than his image.
A man of strong moral principles, McCarthy, after
concluding that he could no longer in conscience sup-
port or allow President Johnson to continue the war in
Vietnam, announced his candidacy for President.
Laughed by the old political pundits and the post-Ken-
nedy political analysists, McCarthy calmly asserted that
he was not joking and that he would campaign in the
primaries.
With his success in both the New Hampshire and
Wisconsin primaries and surprise withdrawal of LBJ
from the nomination scene, McCarthy faces head on
in Indiana the philosophy of the "mass.” With a low-
budget, small staff and little time, McCarthy places his
ideas rather than his image on the line.
While his platform was originally the ending of the
war in Vietnam, he has extended it to include demands
for civil rights, jobs, urban development, tax decreases,
farm aid and care for the aged.
Not afraid of the business world that proved help-
ful with campaign costs with other candidates, Mc-
Carthy has vehemently lashed out against the threat
of the military-industrial complex and has advocated
a guaranteed annual wage.
A close friend of Adlai Stevenson, this liberal has
the deep sense of love for country that Stevenson, the
last great statesman of the Democratic Party, had. He
has called to the American people to abandon their
fears, their prejudices and their selfishness and share
in the greatness of their country.
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On Friday, May 10th, the
UNION PROGRAM BOARD will
sponsor “An Evening at Casino
Royale.” It will be an evening of
"gambling” and dancing. Each
person will receive 25 Casino
Royale ten-dollar bills to win his
fortune with. There will be
prizes and refreshments.
This gala affair will take
place from 8 to midnight in the
dining hall. All it will cost the
student is the time it takes
to go.
by Rob Abernathy
Tim McDonald decided to ask
around for a coaching job earlier
this year . . . the results of his ven-
ture have blossomed into a groovy
situation which ought to help repaint
the sordid picture of American
youth that is so often projected.
What's happening is this: a group
of guys and girls from SEU/MC are
taking hold of the miserable situa-
tion at Dolores Parish . . . and
CHANGING it?
Dolores Parish is a small place full
of poor people who have an equally
poor attitude on life (understand-
ably). The school there has eight
grades of misdirected kids who have
pledged themselves to stealing, fight-
ing, and cheating. They have not
known discipline, pride, organiza-
tion, or integrity. The situation is
typical of a number of places here
in Austin . . . and similar to the
countless places around the country
where poor people have had equally
poor assistance. (The picture seems
clear enough.)
The SEU-MC people mentioned
earlier have been working at Do-
lores this past year. Seeing the des-
perate need for all kinds of help,
they have begun helping.
Pat Finnerty teaches English to a
group of eighth graders who have a
pitiful grasp of the language. He is
helping them to write, to speak, to
communicate. He also helps with the
P.E. program for the guys. There
was no sense of discipline before,
said Finnerty, but they have been
finding out what discipline means.
Pat, Tim McDonald, and Emily
Munoz have been working to develop
(through sports) a healthy spirit of
competition and co-operation among
the students themselves as well as
with others. There have been bas-
ketball tournaments, and work on
the football field is now underway.
There is much to do, but the kids
are willing to help now that they
have had a chance to see what can
be done.
"You have to get to the guys
through sports, because they under-
stand the language there. You have
to put things in terms they under-
stand,” said Finnerty.
Milt Werner teaches general
science; Katie Imber teaches arith-
matic. Everyone there is involved
with counseling because most of the
kids have problems that they haven’t
talked about before; they need di-
rection and re-direction. There is so
much to be done. These kids need
so much.
These people have started some-
thing good. Next year, it will con-
tinue. There is no pay involved in
what they are doing (except the
self-fulfilment which comes from
knowing that some vitally human
function is being performed). Hands
of recognition ought to be extended;
hands of involvement ought to be
shook.
Congratulations! Continue!
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(The following is an excerpt from Dick Gregory’s
address to a Yale senior class dinner in the middle of
his 32-day fast protesting the Vietnam war. The com-
edian began with a joke about his wife’s cooking, then
held the 800 seniors transfixed for an hour and a half.
He was given a five-minute ovation at the end of his
speech. The excerpts are reprinted from the Yale Alum-
ni Magaizne . . . ed.)
I am not here to impress you tonight, only to in-
form you, and when we walk out of here I could care
less about what you think of me. I have the one con-
solation of knowing that whenever we wake up—this
year, next year, 20 years from now—you will always
be able to say, Brother Greg didn’t lie to us.
As far as I am concerned, the No. 1 problem con-
fronting this country today is not the problem of air
pollution, but the problem of moral pollution. You
young kids who are going out to face the world im-
mediately, you are going to have to face this problem
like no Americans have ever had to face it.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not here asking you to
do a damn thing for colored folks; please understand,
I am not asking you to do no favors for me. I couldn’t
give a damn less what you do with your life, but I am
saying you had better understand what’s going on to
protect your own self, because older folks, black and
white, have used up all the lies and all the tricks.
Now you are going to have to deal with this prob-
lem. And by that I don't mean solve it, but you’ll have
to understand it. You will have to become a little more
honest than we have been, and even if you wanted to
solve the problem, we are going to have to stop passing
the buck and become totally honest, and realize that
America is the No. 1 racist country on the face of the
earth, bar none.
The Hilltopper is published weekly during the ac-
ademic year at St. Edward’s University, an institu- $A&,
tion of higher learning conducted by the Brothers A
of Holy Cross (CSC). Opinions expressed herein A
are those of the student editors, and not necessari- ‘
ly those of the University as a whole. The Hilltopper is a
member of the Associated Collegiate Press.
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