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PAGE 2—THK NORTH TEXAS DAILY
The North Texas Daily
53rd Year North Texas Stmt* Uniwlty Denton, Ttn«
ALL AMERICAN
PACEMAKER NEWSPAPER
GEORGE FLYNN
Editor
TOM KELLEY
Business Manager
Editorial statements of the North Texas Daily and
readers' letters reflect the opinion of the individual
writer and not necessarily that of the Daily, its adviser
or the North Texas State University Administration.
Junior Junkies
Addiction
To Young
Spreads
Users
Drug abuse by the very young has added a terrifying new aspect to the
drug problem plaguing our society.
The "junior junkies" as they are referred to, range in age from 9 to 15. No
longer are they the product of the ghetto or lower income family. The
adolescent user has moved across the track to the upper and middle class
home; to the homes of the silent majority; to the homes of the politicians
themselves.
The use of drugs by the youth has become as much or more of a problem
than drug abuse by the older youth. All types of reasons have been given for
their recent attractions to drugs. Time magazine quotes one 12-year-old as
having "a desire to break away and screen out reality."
Break away from what? What is reality to an adolescent?
Could it be the lull in their lives that occurs about the 12th year? Or could
it be the lack of acceptance by their parents as maturing individuals? Or
could it be the lack of attention by the society on a whole?
Let's face it. the young college adult is staging protest about almost every
aspect of our culture and receiving more than enough attention. The middle
aged Silent Majority has decided to be silent no more and everyone is
listening. The 18-year-olds have convinced someone that they are old enough
to vote and they too have received attention.
If this is what the younger set regards as reality, then one would have to
admit that they are very much indeed left out of all the attention getting and
perhaps are justified in their need to break away.
The solution to their problem is in finding ways to make the younger set
more active in this society. And, their quest to explore the boundaries of
their own minds will make the solution that much more harder to attain. The
solution, perhaps is one that will require a tall order, but it is not
impossible one.
—GARYLYN SAMPSON
an
Opinion Poll
BY THE ASSOC IATED PRESS
One of the most pressing social issues
today is school desegregation, and more
specifically, busing.
The Associated Press took an opinion
sampling of 30 Texas college newspaper
editors for their views on the busing
question. The results indicated that busing
should not be a tool in bring about racial
balance.
The question asked was: Do you favor
busing school children to achieve racial
balance? Why?
Only two answered "yes" while 12 said
"no." However, most of those answering in
the negative still feel there should be
integration of the races in society as well as
in the schools.
Those in favor of busing were Frank
Lewis, editor of "The Skiff' at Texas
Christian University and Lionel Ceniceros,
editor of "The Prospector" at the
University of Texas at LI Paso.
"There is no mild antidote to the
hundreds of years of bigotry and racial
hatred that WASPs have inflicted in this
country," Ceniceros said
LEWIS QUALIFIED his answer by
saying it depended upon the distance. "If it
is only a short distance further then it does
not make much difference, but if the
distance is great then there would seem to
be no justifiable reason for it. To bus
children over great distances from a much
closer school deprives them and their
parents from much extra participation in
the school."
Among the 12 taking the negative view
was Jimmy Snowden of the "University
Daily" at Texas Tech University. "Children
should attend schools which are closest to
their homes," he said. . .districts should
be apportioned strictly according to the
number of districts in the area. . .and for
this idea to be equitable, housing in cities
must be completely free of racial
restrictions."
"Theoretically and physically there
would be racial balance, but not spiritually
or emotionally," said Garner Roberts,
editor of the Abiline Christian College
"Optimist." "Busing will integrate the
schools, but there will have to be a massive
change in the attitudes for racial balance."
Alan Kelley of the Angelo State
University "Ram Page" said that
noticeable pressure to eliminate segregation
is likely to backfire and result in widening
the already large emotional gap
"SEVEN HOURS of exposure a day in a
system of forceful integration could
conceivably create tolerance, but never real
acceptance." Kelley said.
The editorial assistant of the "North
Texas Daily" at North Texas State
Wadnaaday. March 26,1970
Ex
Soviets Soothe Russian Nerves
Kids Learn No Evil on TV, Except About US
MOSCOW (AP)—"Our television
programs," a Moscow doctor proudly
proclaims, "don't tell children how to feed
their parents broken glass."
He implied that Western TV offerings of
"horrors and deformities" do. The good
doctor went on to tell the editor of
Literaturnaya Gazeta — Literary
Gazette -that the only thing wrong with
Soviet television is that it encourages
viewers to sit for hours in dark rooms glued
to the boob tube.
But many Soviet viewers say the
physician's fears are groundless. Programs
seem designed to make one switch off his set
and the ponderous, ceaseless propaganda is
usually too much for even the most devout
Communist.
Officially it's "televidenye." Many
Russians simply call it "dira"—"the
hole"—or more irreverently, "tele-yele," a
sly cooloquialism roughly translated as
weak or inconsequential TV.
There are some bright spots on the Soviet
tube. Sports coverage ranks with that of the
West, displaying good action photography
of figure skating, basketball, hockey and
soccer. Plays, ballet and symphony concerts
also are regular offerings, providing a
welcome break from long dissertations on
Georgian tractor drivers and Komsomol
youth building roads in Uzbekistan. There
is virtually no advertising.
Occasionally, Western-style musical
variety shows are aired, liberally sprinkled
with anti-capitalistic skits. A troupe from
Leningrad recently made a big hit with a
satirical number about two Americans
trying to decide what caliber pistol to buy in
a Chicago gunshop. They finally agreed a
bazooka was needed for survival in the
Windy City.
Newscasts, of course, play up violence,
poverty and aggression in the Western
world, contrasting with peace, progress and
happiness under the sun of socialism.
Production techniques are sometimes
amateurish.
While two sober commentators discuss
five-year plan goals for agriculture in the
Volga basin, one hears loud thumps, foot-
steps and shouted directions off-camera. A
Ukrainian folk dancer slips and falls flat on
her face. The camera studiously angles in
for a closeup of the embarrassed girl as she
struggles to her feet in a welter of skirts.
The interview is a Soviet television staple.
A politician, an intellectual or an industrial
hero will sit for hours under bright lights
with an interviewer, laboriously expounding
how socialism helped him develop his
utmost capabilities.
The camera never wavers from one angle,
periodically panning in for an excrutiatingly
long and detailed closeup of the
interviewer's gold-capped teeth and the
mole on his nose.
Movies are usually revolutionary epics
about heroes of the proletariat or World
War II battles between Soviet and Nazi
armies. One can lose count of the climaxes
in the revolutionary dramas. One offering
had the hero escaping 12 capitalistic
hangings each time just after the noose was
placed around his neck. War movies tend to
show few battle scenes and many portly
Soviet marshals discussing strategy while
artillery booms ominously in the distance.
The 100th anniversary of Lenin's
birthday will be celebrated April 22, and the
Kremlin is making sure no one forgets it. It
is impossible to switch on a set these days
without finding a program devoted to the
life and works of Lenin on at least one
channel. These are noted in heavy black ink
in Pravda's weekly TV log as desired
viewing material. (See related story this
page)
Television as an ideological tool has
never been underestimated in the Soviet
Union. Hence the number of TV sets in the
country has increased Irom 820,000 in 1956
to an estimated 20 million.
N. K. Baibakov, chairman of the Stale
Planning Committee, reported to the
December session of the Supreme Soviet
that one of every two Russian families will
have a television set by 1970.
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University, Julian Williams, said, "Strain
on involved schoolchildren, local
governments and federal authorities
outweighs any possible good that busing
may achieve. However, gerrymandered
school districts should never be allowed."
J. Ahmad of the TSU Herald at Texas
Southern University said he does not
believe in integration.
"To assimilate bodies through busing is
no guarantee of the assimilated mind,"
Ahmad said. "The solution is to rewrite, not
revise, all texts and include the contribution
of all peoples to these United States of
America and improve the physical facilities
and plants of black schools; in oiher words,
let's have separate but equal."
Jerry Cowling, the editor of "The Last
Texan" at Last Texas State University, like
the others, agrees that integration needs to
come about, but that busing isn't the
answer.
"WHILE I agree with the idea that white
children need to study and associate with
black children to remove preconceived
prejudices, I don't think busing children is
fair because it abuses the rights of both
blacks and whites in arbitrarily deciding
which school the child should go to."
Cowling said.
"It is not economically feasible," said
Jerrie Chesncy, editor of the University of
Houston's "Daily Cougar." "Besides, it is
not the students who need to learn racial
tolerance; it's the parents who instill
prejudice in their children who create the
problem."
Larry Baker of the "Brand" at Hardin-
Simmons University said, "I feel schools in
ea?h district should neet HEW standards
then have students attend the schools in
their district. The funds used in busing
could be better put to use in providing
equipment and hiring teachers for the
schools involved."
PROFESSOR!
MOSCOW (AP) There is no God, says
the Soviet Communist party.
There is a demigod, however. Cantatas
and chorales are sung in his praise. An
oratorio has just been produced to glorify
his name. Musical odes and symphonic
poems are written about him. Young
Communists lead pilgrimages to shrines
where he once walked. Festivals celebrate
his memory.
And that's only a small part of it.
Throughout April, Communists will
celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth
of Vladimir llyich Ulyanov who, under the
revolutionary name of Lenin, led the
Bolshevik coup which seized the 1917
Russian revolution.
1 HE BUILDUP, going on under official
auspices for two years, has been in some
ways more extravagant, and certainly more
pious, than the campaign of 1949 when
Joseph Stalin, nearing his 70th birthday,
was similarly deified.
Here arc some of the things that are
going on:
Early in February, Moscow reported the
premiere performance of an oratorio, by a
composer named Shchedrin. It is called
"Lenin in the Heart of the People" and it
uses poems about Lenin and reminiscences
of his contemporaries as a text.
Leaders ordered production of novels,
essays, short stories, plays, poems, picture
stores, postcards, radio and television
programs about Lenin as a child, as a
schoolboy, as a young man, as a moral
ideal, as a revolutionary ideal, as a worker'
ideal.
ALTHOUGH LENIN is presented as a
scientific rather than a spiritual deity, he is
still an "immortal force" as "the
acknowledged leader of the world
proletariat and the international
Communist movement."
Like other religions, the Lenin religion is
infused with missionary zeal. Thus, the
party announces, "there is not and cannot
be world communism without steadfast
adherence to Lenin's teaching."
But like other religions in the past, this
one has its schisms, great and small, and its
violent quarrels about who is the real
interpreter, who is the real carrier of Ihe
"true word."
For all their adulation of Lenin, Soviet
leaders must be aware of how. over the
years, they have revised him and even
distorted his revolutionary meaning to suit
their changing needs, as in the case, for
instance of modern-day Soviet denials that
war is inevitable.
The Chinese Communists, now
claiming to be the only true Leninists,
constantly jeer at the Soviet leaders on this
score and others. They cite instance after
instance in which the Soviet "revisionist"
heretics "betrayed the brilliant teaching of
Lenin."
That must be a bitter pill for the
Muscovite Communists to swallow.
Fencers Lose Zorro Image, Find Foiling Difficult Work
BY KEITH STETSON
Daily Reporter
A death-defying leap, a graceful swing
from a chandelier, a quick zap with the
blade and the handsome, black-masked
stranger leaves behind a capital Z. . .
Many fencers begin either as a frustrated
Zorro, hopeful Errol Flynn or humble
Cyrano de Bergerec, but the competitive
collegiate fencer niether looks nor acts like
his romantic ancestors.
"Most people have a romantic image of
fencing very definitely. It's not what it
looks like. They find out it's durn hard,"
said Don Hubbard, Monahans senior and
president of the NT Fencing Club, during
an interview at a fencing practice.
"The beginner is often disappointed it it.
People have to be ready for rules and
regulations," explained Janet Grauso, Lake
Worth sophomore who has been fencing
since she was 15. The under-19 champion
for three consecutive years in the National
Fencing Leaguw, Miss Grauso said, "Once
you teat just one person, you're stuck and
come back to beat the next one."
Fencers who make it past the first
disillusionment to get their first win make
up the regulars of the NT Fencing Club.
The loosely organized club is a serious coed
group in various stages of learning fencing
that meets on Monday evenings from 5-7 in
Rm. 117 of the Women's Gymnasium.
Unofficially, they call themselves a team
(an official fencing team is three people).
But fencing is an individual sport. Friends
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off the strip (the long rectangular area
marked on the floor), they are competitors
trying to outmaneuver each other while they
are on it.
In practice, men fence women; right-
handers fence left-handers. Officially, men
and women do not fence mixed bouts. A
left-handed fencer, like Hubbard, has an
advantage over a right-hander. The mixed
practice allows each individual to broaden
his fencing skills as every fencer has a
different action, pace and style.
Hubbard and Miss Grauso are two of
three NT fencers who are planning to go to
Chicago April 5 for the Midwest Tryouts. If
they qualify in Chicago, the next step is the
Notre Dame Tournament. The United
States Collegiate Sports Council (USCSC)
will send a fencing team made up of four
men finalists in each weapon and four
women finalists to compete in August at the
World University Games in Turin, Italy.
Dallas junior Clayton Bockbrader,
Hubbard and Miss Grauso qualified for the
Chicago trials in the SMU Qualifying
Tournament Feb 21. Bockbrader placed
third in the saber division one NT does
not practice and second in men's foil.
Hubbard finished third in men's foil
competition and Miss Grauso took second
in women's foil.
"It was a strong showing by NT," Mrs.
Gloria Browning, physical education
teacher and coach for the NT club said.
"This was a more sucessful season for
ability than last year, but it doesn't show
because of all open tournaments," she said
In open tournaments, fencers of all levels
of ability fence bouts, instead of bouts
between the same rank.
Most tournaments today are fenced
electrically. The electric foils arc used with
a special metal mesh encased inside the
fencer's jacket. The competitors stand on a
special metal strip. Any contact is recorded
by an individual electric box that flashes a
iight when the foil hits. Touches by either
opponent are easily decided and points
awarded.
Fencing electrically can be a shocking
experience, however. Eric Johnson, Dallas
junior, in one match received an electric
shock every time he was touched or made a
touch. Hi* sweat-dampened jacket was the
conductor.
Accuracy is a big part of fencing. Rules,
standard forms and tradition insure it. The
object is to touch the opponent, inflicting a
simulated wound. The point must go
straight in, not slap the jacket. The three
types of fencing, classified by weapons the
foil, the epee and the saber —use different
parts of the body as the target area. Only
the saber allows a hit anywhere on the body.
The epee is limited to the upper body above
the waist; foil is limited to trunk, not
including arms. Distance, timing and speed
are needed, because with one slow or bad
move the bout can be over. Theoretically,
you are dead.
Contemplating the days of the duel,
Hubbard said, "You would have to be a
stark raving idiot to fight a duel. One stab
and you've had it. Only one man has to be
quicker then you are."
Even with the built-in saftey features of
the sport, it can still be dangerous. A
standard rule of the fencing club is never to
have a foil in hand without a mask and
jacket on. No horseplay is allowed. The
long pants or knickers worn by the fencers
protect the upper legs. A sword could easily
catch inside the upper thigh to cut the artery
there if there is no protection. Bruises,
blood blisters and snapped blades arc
common.
The traditional all-white dress is devoid
of lace, decoration or swirling capes. It is a
practical, non-distracting color and styled
to allow freedom of motion. It is a long way
from Zorro.
"Endurance, agility and skill are
imperative for a fencer," Mrs. Browing
said. "I've seen excellent fencers lose
because they couldn't hold up to the end. A
tournament lasts forever!"
The beginner faces sore and stretched leg
muscles. The fencing form is not related to
any other type of exercise. "It's wicrd,"
Mrs. Browing said.
To build up endurance, the fencer jumps
rope, runs and practices as much as
possible.
Miss Grauso, a petite brunette, practices
between classes and in her dorm room. "I
practice on the doorknob of my room,
aiming, lunging, distance and timing," she
said "then sometimes I just practice
walking (in engard stance) backward and
forward " Neighbors who open her door
to
it s tun to
a game of
stated
Mrs
have often been startled to see her ready
lunge at them.
Hubbard practices four to five hours a
week and flatly says its "not as much as Fd
like to."
Other members who practice when and
where they can, relish the stares of passing
motorists as they fence about outside their
house.
Besides the physical aspect, most fencers
are quick to p^int out the balance of mental
and physical skill in fencing;
"The little guy has a chance to beat the
big guy," Hubbard said.
"You're by yourself, alone.
outthink someone else. like
chess," MissGrawso said,
"It's more of an art than a sport,
Randy Noblitt, Dallas junior.
"It's not a sport for dumbbells
Browning said
Fencer's majors range from government
to psychology. Out of the club membership,
only one is a physical education major.
Some are in music or art.
Throughout the many tournaments he
has attended, Hubbard noticed that fencers
were mostly professional people: lawyers,
doctors, engineers and so on. "They all have
something on the ball," he pointed out
" I here is a great deal of sportsmanship and
feelings of friendship . more so than any
other game."
It s not a sport you start early in Fencers
start for a variety of individual reasons.
Many get started by taking a college
fencing course and continue it for their
whole life.
You can learn all the moves in a
semester. It s the refining, combining the
execution fo them that makes a good
fencer," commented Hubbard
For all, enjoyment makes them stay
Ihe Fencing Club encourages beginners
to join, and it trains them. "Please join
fencing. We need new blood." and "it's a
sport you ean really stick with." are two
slogans they made up There are no dues
and not much paperwork
"One of the biggest problems is hanging
on to the team,' Miss Grausc said. "Also,
some people seem to think its a man's
sport."
Actually, Icncing is one of the most
vl1?r/iUS sPorts a wi>man can participate
in, Mrs. Browning said
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