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March 18, 1971
THE PROSPECTOR
Page 2
Frank Macias
Editor
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Land of Oz
by Richard Robins
The middle of the page
S.A. not for interest groups
Against Peter's column
again
U.T. El Paso Prospector
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Fime to act on tuition issue
pressure needed on House Reps
Charlie the Tuna' Richard Nixon's POWs
been run do something about it.
If you like politics and can put
up with a challenge, run for
student senator. Running for
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Dear Sires;
In re The Holy Slow Train: whose kidding whose? The only thing
slow about that whateveryoucallit is the automation that produces it.
(Too bad you can't see me, my eyes flash when I'm angry.)
For months I've read The Prospector with interest if not always
with appreciation; at times a bit peeved, but never really hostile. It
was only after you began printing garbage in the guise of art that I
became upset. I am here particularly refering to The Poet’s Choice
(you've been running this for months now, when are we going to see
some poetry?) and the Lowly Coke Brain. Let me explain here that
I have nothing against your politics (something which an ungodly
number of people get accused of), even when it has the scent of bias.
Carlos Morton is an okay guy (I can understand how embarassing it
must be to have your last name standing between you and Brown
Power), and if he enjoys looking up the dirty parts of the Texas
Penal Code, I can't really see any harm in it. At least its more
interesting than having Ron Vincent tell me what a nice guy Eric
Kangass is. To get back to my subject, I really don't have anything
against your politics, just don't try to tell me that you're trying to
present anything closely resembling Kulture.
Everybody knows that Steve Peters is a computer, the first one
ever programed to write "literature." They just drilled a hole in his
cute little curly headed head, stuck in a funnel, and poured in: ON
THE ROAD, by Kerouac; the first part of HOWL; one issue of THE
BERKELEY BARB; the lyrics off a couple of Lead Zeplin 45's; and
several pages of nifty/hip proper names from American and World
History. After this was done, it was only a matter of instructing Mr.
Peters in the fine art of placing conflicting and non sensical adjective
side by side modifying the same nous: and turning him loose to
write.
Mr. Peters must be a computer. It is obvious that he is not a
human being, because he does not write like one. It has always
seemed to me that the artist has an acute sensitivity as to the
motivations of human beings, an intuitive knowledge of just why the
hell we do the shit we do. It is obvious that Mr. Peters is not even
aware of why he is writing his column, much less why his characters
do and say the things that they do. Were Mr. Peters human, I am
certain he would write with more warmth. But alas! In place of
characters (or even symbols) by substitute, monstrosities without life
or motivation; in place of style he substitutes distortion. This is
certainly not art, it is not even good writing. Personally, I don't think
Mr. Peters would know art if it hit him in his flange and sprockets.
To recognize art, one must be human; and it appears that humanity
is one "trip" Mr. Peters has denied himself.
PROSPECTOR, U.T. El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79999 or can
be brought to room 201 West Union on campus. Letters to
the editor should be kept to one typed page.
. . Arturo Franco
....Robert Zuck
. . . . Ray Sarabia
. . .Albert Franco
Martha Crawford
.Edna Gundersen
. .. Frank Macias
. . Larry Bucking
......Steve Hill
. . . Jay Zatovich
ELLA LU1
UD Oddinsf TG WGII
It is evident that many
Major Joe Overly. After his
release he said "Vietnamese
would act toward me with such
compassion that it staggered
me." And that "We were well
treated. I got no indoctrination,
just a few books on Vietnamese
history. We got plenty to eat and
pollution settles on white shirts
turning them gray. The paint on
new cars turns dull with grime.
To touch such cars leaves on
feeling unclean. In El Paso the
American Smelting and Refining
Company (ASARCO) flies the
American Flag each day. The
grime and filth produced in that
area turns the flag from proud
red, white, and blue into dull
hues of red, gray and blue. The
flag must be replaced about
every two weeks due to this
destruction of the colors.
America was once the land of
the best and now it is the land of
the throw-away bottle. Business
men consciously make goods
that will break down within
three years. A car is good for two
years, a shirt for six months, a
pair of shoes for one year, and a
child's toy maybe fifteen days.
America no longer has the touch
of a craftsman, but has the touch
of the con-artist and carnival
barker.
What have you done to stop
this destruction of your sense of
sight and touch. At the barest
By Carlos Morton
(The scene is a sewage infested ocean bottom. Old inner tubes and
tin cans abound with all of the other refuse that man dumps into the
common pool of water. Charley is lying on a chaise-lounge with
bottles of plasma being transfused into his system. It is obvious that
he is deadly ill. Charley occasionally moans.)
Reporter: (Swimming by in a wet suit with tanks and fins & carrying
a microphone.) Good evening, America, this is Dicky Diver,
your underwater reporter. Tonight we have with us a famous
personality whom many of you know intimately, Charley the
Tuna, how are you feeling, Charley?
Charley: Not too good, Dicky, you see-I’m rather ill.
R: So I heard, Charley. Are you feeling bad because Starkist keeps
rejecting you, hah, ha!
C: That's not exactly it, it sort irks me, you know, but I keep trying.
R: It must get pretty maddening being passed up all the time, huh,
Charley . . . probably gives you a trauma, huh?
C: No, Dicky, to tell ya the truth, it's the water around here that
makes me sick.
R: Oh, what's the matter, Charley, can't take a little inner tube or a
few tin cans once in a while?
C: Actually, it's the oil slicks and atomic radiation that scare
me . . . did you bring your Geiger counter with ya . . . you people
up here threw a lotta garbage into our ocean.
R: Ah, don't you worry your little gills about that, let our capable
scientists take care of it . . . just look how far technology has
advanced in the last quarter of a century . . . hell, a little mercury
never hurt anybody!
C: But it gives me a stomach ache.
R: Damn it, Charley, you have to roll with the punches, boy-keep a
stiff upper lip, that sort of thing.
C: Dick, look, my scales are falling off; I get dizzy spells where
everything looks like the bottom of a swimming pool, sorta wavy
and hazy . . .
R: Relax Our boys will take care of it, they know what they're
doing up there.
C: Common, knock it off, I feel like a pickled herring,
R: Charley, what will our viewing audience think? You’re bumming
up their trip!
C: I don't care, I feel like I'm dying.
R: Oh, cut that out!
C: But I'm really sick.
R: Charley, you're a real drag.
C: I can't help it, Dicky.
R: (Turning to audience) No wonder he's always getting
rejected-it's his poor attitude.
C: I think I'm dropping out of this society, (mumbling)
R: Good night, folks next week we'll be talking some ghetto kids in
Los Angeles to see how they are getting along. Bye now.
(Blackout. Then a sign drops down.)
THIS WAS PRESENTED
AS A PUBLIC SERVICE
BY THE STARKIST FOLKS
most probably receive
support from Chicanos
liberal students. Once
over-crowded, polluted, noisy,
and insensitive to the needs of
the land and its people.
We Americans live with our
uglyness. We have come to
accept it as normal because we
no longer have an alternative. We
either case he stands
self-convicted liar.
Another POW turncoat
Soviet Jews stage sit-in;
kinsmen seeking support
medical care
Since Nov.
suddenly
THE PROSPECTOR is published weekly during the
school year on Thursday. Financed by Student Association
fees and advertising.THE PROSPECTOR is published under
the direction of the Student Publication Board.
While the official University newspaper, THE
PROSPECTOR does not express the official opinion of the
administration of U.T. El Paso and is not responsible to it
for editorial content.
All correspondence should be addressed to THE
Another POW myth is that
Hanoi refuses to discuss a POW
release. FACT: think back to
1969 Hanoi then had a 10 point
VN peace program which
suggested American POW would
be released following total
American withdrawal. In 1970
Hanoi offered to release
American POW's if Nixon would
set a firm date for American
withdrawal.
The Geneva Convention on
POW's, Article 118, clearly
states, "Prisoners of wars shall
be released and repatriated
without delay after the cessation
of active hostility. ” Since Nixon
has no intention of allowing
active hostilities to cease, he
knows Hanoi can't allow
hundreds of American pilots
their freedom to recommence
bombing and killing throughout
Indo-China. So the call "Free the
POW's" becomes a perfect play
to promote pro-war sentiment
among the dominated or
unsuspecting.
Another muth is that POW's
are mistreated in captivity.
FACT: only three of the nine
when needed."
30th, Overly
found that
wide candidacy supported by the
and Black Student Union.
Letters and contributions to the Prospector can
be brought or mailed to room 201 W. Union.
Letters should be kept to a 2 page maximum.
- Letters should be in by Friday for the following
issue. Contributions may be held until space is
available.
For this article I will look into
the pollution of the senses of
sight and touch.
Sight
We started with wild forest
filled with game, green plains
covered with buffalo, and
mountains sparkling in the clear
blue sky. We have successfully
cut the forest and killed the
game. We have slaughtered the
buffalo and plowed the plains.
We have strip-mined our
mountains and turned the sky a
grimmy gray. America has
become ugly!
Ugly America is crisscrossed
with freeways, billboards, and
to see that the student
government represents your
viewpoints. As a student you
have a vote in the upcoming
election. Look over the
candidates and the issues and for
the sake of a true representative
student government-VOTE!
Things looked up a little in efforts to fight the proposed
tuition increase as the Senate Finance Subcommittee
scrapped the House hike and replaced it with its no-increase
substitute which is expected to clear the Senate body soon.
What it all means for the student is that possibly if enough
pressure is mounted within the next few weeks, the final
outcome might be a no increase or at worse a $25 hike as
compared to a $75 jump.
The substitute bill would leave in-state tuition untouched
and increase out-of-state tuition to $500 a semester with
specific exemptions. Previously the House of
Representatives had passed H.B. 43 which would raise
instate tuition to $9 a semester hour and $700 for
out-of-state students. A second effort was made by the
House in H.B. 448 where tuition would be $7 per semester
hour and $700 for out-of-state students. The substitute bill
eliminates the other two and should be forthcoming before
the Senate. There according to Texas intercollegiate Student
Association sources it should pass.
The substitute bill upon passage would return to the
next thinks to send unwilling didn't have any purpose. The freedom of the press. For this
troops to their deaths-or purpose was to take a critical Middagh tries to condemn the
imprisonment. look at the three candidates for man.
If people really wanted to help the position of police chief, un- Do you think the Supreme
prisioners freed by Hanoi have
complained about their
treatment—and their stories are
contradictory. Of the prisioners
freed or escaped from the VC in
the South, only one—a career
major-has been critical. Several
others had to be hushed up after
speaking respectfully about the
VC and stating they would never
fight them again. In fact in
January 1970 orders were issued
in Saigon to keep released or
escaped prisioners away from
newsmen until their attitude
could be found out. Then only
anti-VC attitudes could be
expressed. Other soldiers are to
be held incommunicado.
The most imaginative prisioner
yet returned has to be Lt. Robert
Frishman. On August 8, 1969 he
"recollections of his captivity"
were "chilling." Quite
coincidentally Major Overly has
finally been promoted to
Colonel.
On October 27th the Boston
Globe reported several other
released POW's had been
Recently have noticed a
barrage of criticism concerning
one of my columns where I
commented on assistant-chief
Ted Vogel.
House where members in a direct vote would either concur
with it or reject it. If rejected then the tuition issue goes to a
joint House-Senate conference committee which would
work on a compromise version. What could happen in the
conference committee is that theoretically an increase would
be recommended acceptable to both bodies. The result may
be a $25 hike.
Yet what has TISA and others worried is the nature of
conference committees. Such committees can meet at
irregular hours and in closed sessions, meaning to students
that they would lose effectiveness. The committee can also
wait until the end of the session and run what ever bill
through Congress—which is even more frightening. The
conference committee, therefore, could pose an
insurmountable problem.
Students can be effective now. You must write and
pressure El Paso's State Representatives to vote for the
Senate substitute when it reaches the House floor. Only a
majority is needed to pass. The representatives from El Paso
are James Kaster, Paul Moreno, Charles Tupper, Tom Niland
newspapers and hysterical radio
announcers, a "POW" hysteria
campaign is long overdue. When
it comes, recognize it for what it
is-a rally for war support. War in
Cambodia, war in Laos, war in
Vietnam, war where Nixon
Games people play.
Behind the curtains
Between the lines
And under the table
or a law enforcer. Yet Voegl was
on the police force long before
his presidential pardon. Does El
Paso need a police officer, who
has the respect for constituted
law, such as Vogel? If he has any
respect for the law why did he
One very personal sounding
and Tati Santiesteban. In view of a recent amendment letter came from Mr. John
attempt to one of the initial House bills, voting indicatesthat Middagh, Chairman, of what is become a police officer in
Niland and Santiesteban are for the increase as witnessed by commonly referred to at U.T. El violation of the law?
,: .... , . Paso as the Journalism Mr. Middagh's accusation was
their no votes in a bill lowering the hike to $5 an hour. Department , .
3Department. a fata( error on his part. It is due
Paul Moreno, Charles Tupper, and James Kaster voted for The second was a very to journalists like him that men
the lower tuition. • concerned letter from Fayne M. such as Vogel are in power
Pressure must be put on Niland and Santiesteban so they Hunter. Mrs. Hunter’s letter was positions in the city. It is because
will vote for the Senate substitute. At the same time letters answered in last week s of people like Mr. Middagh that
.......Prospector-again, thank you for the U.T. El Paso press is brushed
should be sent to the other three thanking them for their some of the information that Mr. off with phrases like "Oh, it's
support. This will be the only opportunity you will have to Vogel refused the Prospector only the Prospector", or "they're
effect the pending tuition issue. Once it goes beyond the reporter. As for Middagh's letter, only college kids."
House and into the conference committee it will be too late, permit me to comment on those He says that he has been here
TISA gives the substitute bill a 50-50 chance in the House allegationsright now. 23 years, well what has he done
. , . Since this writer has had for the Journalism Department?
meaning that student pressure can be the difference. Middagh as a teacher, I know the There is a desparate
The tuition increase affects everyone with the minorities letter is purely a value judgement need for a research course as is
being hit the hardest. The issues are high. Students can write on his part and gave the people exemplified by Mr. De La
letters or petitions (which can easily be circulated in class) who know him a good laugh. But Garza's cover story in the most
, ■ .for the rest of the public who recent issue of El Burro If the
to El Paso s representatives at the State Capitol, Austin, . , an e M. sue ° Burro. I the
don’t personally know Mr. Journalism Department would
Texas 78711. Middagh, the title "Chairman of have taught that "journalism
The time is NOW! Ea. the Journalism Department" major” research, his story might
POW's they could do two things:
1. Join the great American
majority in calling for the
withdrawal of all Americans
from Indo-China—say by the 4th
of July.
2. Call for the release of all
POW's including the 36,000 held
in concentration camps by
Saigon.
With the current POW
hysteria, rational people like
Virginia Warner of Ypsilanti
whose son James was shot down
over NVN in 1967 are not being
heard. Her comments that her
son is being well treated and that
"I'd like to see us get out to Viet
Nam" as the best route to
securing his safe release are
ignored by the pro-war press.
have destroyed our surroundings minimum have you been
and now we are confronted with indignant at what is going on
our handiwork. around you? Or have you read
Touch the new billboards, littered the
As a new born child touches grass, thrown-away your
he learns about the world around throw-away bottles, and believed
him. We learn to touch ourselves, the ad noting that all youths are
our surroundings and our friends, car thieves. Look around you
We learn the touch of love from and ask if this is what you want
our mother and the touch of for your children. As Sir Walter
pain from, our father. Raleigh noted in THE LIE, "Fear
In parts of this land it is not to touch the best; The truth
possible to touch the air.The air shall be thy warrant."
students last year supported
candidates for office not because
of their stands on the issues of
the campaign but because of
their group identity. On a whole
this year's student government
has not been too bad, but still it
primarily is representative of one
student interest group. The
student government should
represent a majority of students
and not a specific interest group.
Throughout the year many
students have complained that
they are not represented in the
student government. These
students have complained about
bills passed in the senate. If you
don't like the way things have
like the one-sided public Court broadened the libel clause,
relations story that appeared in in its most recent decision,
the El Paso Times. because they feel journalists have
Vogel was convicted, abused their right? Middagh feels
according to Mrs. Hunter in the way he does about my
1946. Twenty years later he column because he has neglected
received a presidential pardon. If his duty to the community as a
a man has a felony on his record, journalist, teacher, and
he is not eligible to be a lawyer interested citizen.
senate is not that difficult it just litter. Ugly America has
takes a minimum of campaigning ticky-tacky suburban track
to secure enough voters to win. housing. Ugly America is slums
Even if you don't want to that the rats have over-run,
actively participate in student decaying cities, and rotting rural
government you can still do a lot areas. Ugly America is
by Paul Russell
Next month elections for many students will vote along
Student Association officers will racial lines and not for the issues,
be held. Campaigning for office Another ticket will probably
and formal announcements of be a Greek Ticket. Although this
candidacy for office should be columnist is highly in favor of
forthcoming from those th6 Greek system, he does not
, . support control of the student
individuals who intend to run
4 , government by any one interest
shortly. The question is exactly , .
L group or faction. There is always
what the student body will be , ...
the possibility that other interest
looking for to lead the S.A. next
groups will run at least one
year. candidate. A YSA or SAC
Once again this year MECHA.
. supported candidacy would be
will run a ticket. Once again they . . .
3 nothing new. It has also been
will run on a platform of brought to my attention that
Chicano rights. This ticket will there is a possibility of a
told an American contacted by it. Most of them
newsconference that he had been indicated that Frishman and
well treated and that the prison Overly were being dishonest, and
diet, though unappetizing to that the others had to keep quiet
Americans, was nourishing. Since about the truth for fear of
then he has found the military reprisals if they
POW lecture circuit profitable contradicted the Pentagon "line"
when he tells fanciful stories of on POW's.
mistreatment. Obviously he lied Since El Paso is a community
in August or he lies now; in with generally inept TV, purile
Who would have thought it to do so? Why is the Soviet
possible. A sit-in at the Kremlin, government so intransigent in
Never! Yet, that is exactly what this regard? We are ready to
happened, leave, say these Jews, with only
On March 10, more than 100 the clothes on our socks. All we
Soviet Jews demanding exit visas ask is to be allowed to go.
for Isreal staged a sit-in at the Why has Russia refused to
parliament building. Fifty-seven allow nationals who desire to do
Jews from Latvia entered the so the right to emigrate? The
parliamentary reception room answer is clear. If large numbers
and were joined later by sixty of Russians leave the Soviet
Lithuonian Jews who had earlier Union this would give the lie to
conducted a brief sit-in at the the Soviet s claim that everyone
communist party Central is equal in Russia and that the
Committee headquarters. When USSR is a workers' paradise. As
the demonstrators refused to the number of emigrees streamed
move 450 militia men marched out of Russia to freedom, the
in and forced them to disperse, world would equally realize that
Anyone daring to oppose the the claims of Soviet apologists
policies of the Russian are nothing but an empty pack
government, even in secret, runs of lies.
a great risk. But to oppose the Soviet spokesmen say that
policies openly and in such a there is no need for Jewish
blaniant manner is almost culture and education, that there
suicidal. What prompted these is no Jewish problem in the
Jews to do so? Soviet Union and that there is no
What these Jews and many of anti-Semitism. These assertions
their brethren in the Soviet have been proven false by the
Union desire is the right to leave Soviet Jews themselves. The
Russia. They are saying loud and entire world has heard their
clear, for all the world to hear, protest.
that the Soviet Union's claim We denounce the policy
that all nationalities in Russia are pursued by the government of
fairly and equally treated is a the Soviet Union of suppressing
myth. Why, they ask, shouldn't the historic Jewish cultural and
we be allowed to leave if we wish religious heritage. This
gives the impression that he have at least been factual. There
knows what he s talking was a need for a course in the
about—which is a notion quickly History of journalism. The
dispelled after sitting in one of History Department had to close
his classes. this gap for him. I could go on
In his letter he makes the and on
formal accusation of malice. If There was only one idea in
he can prove his allegations-be Middagh's letter that irritated me
my guest—take it to court, to no end: he tried to place the
Malice, as he well knows, is the blame on the shoulders of Arturo
one thing that can prove criminal Franco, the editor of the
libel. In short, what I am saying Prospector. Franco at the start of
is put up or shut up. As I stated the year told all columnists on
in my last column, it was my the staff that as long as the copy
opinion that these questions didn't contain any libel it would
(about Vogel) should be clarified be printed. In short, he said he
for the benefit of the general was going to uphold the
public principles—which are outlined in
He also stated that the column Supreme Court cases—of
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constitutes a flagrant violation of Nazis. The Leningrad trial,
human rights which the Soviet shocking to the world, was but
Constitution pledges to uphold one manifestation of such
and which is enshrined in the persecution. Far from being
Universal Declaration of Human crushed by such intimidation,
Rights. To cut them off from Soviet Jews today demand their
the rest of the Jewish people, as rights with ever greater courage
the Soviet authorities are and determination.
attempting to do, is a crime We, their kinsmen in America
against humanity. and throughout the world, will
The reaction of the Soviet not rest until the Jews of the
authorities to the Jewish Soviet Union are free to choose
awakening has been to mount a their own destiny.
campaign of harrassment, arrests "Let my people go.
and virulent anti -Semitism -Tzbar
practiced by the Czars and the
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