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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1968-01-18_Vol36_No23_08

Page News Briefs APO Presents Talent Show A Phi 0 presents its third annual Showcase of Talent Thursday night. The program begins at 7:30 in Hoey Auditorium. Tickets will be on sale at the door for fifty cents with proceeds being donated to the U.S.O. there are three divisions in the competition: Student, Greek, and Faculty. A trophy will be presented to the winner of each division. APO regrets to announce that the Flying Dutchman will not be able to come as master of ceremonies. Instead an equally fine disk jockey, George Lee, will be doing the announcing. Door prizes and gifts will be presented. Help support the I SO, while you enjoy an entertaining evening of talent Sportsmanship Discussion Mr. H. C. Hawn, Commissioner of the Carolinas Conference, will be at WCU Ian. 22, 1968 to discuss six>rtsman ship at our university. This meeting will be of upmost importance as the presidents of several universities have requested Mr. Hawn to visit all member schools. The people that have been requested to attend this meeting are the Deans, Coaches, student government representatives, Head Mascot and Head Cheerleader. Summer Jobs Open Over 50,000 summer jobs open to college students are listed in the new '196H Summer Employment Directory" just off the press. Employers throughout the United States and Canada who list their summer job openings include resorts, summer camps, national parks, summer theatres, restaurants, ranches and business. They invite applications now. There are 12 per cent more summer jobs available than last year. Salaries are higher in many jobs—an increase of $100 to $200 for the season. Camp counselors, resort workers and office help continue to be in greatest demand. Scuba divers, ham operators, special education students, and fly-typing and origami instructors are among many others needed "Summer Employment Dir ictory" may be ordered oy mail; send $3 to National Directory Service, Dept C, Box 32065, Cincinnati, Ohio 45232 Computer Dance To Be Held Mere A computer dance featuring Clifford Curry and the Impacts will be s|x>nsored by the University Center Board Friday, Feb, H in Reid Gymnasium. The computer dance is the first of its type here at Western ( arolina. Students may pick up computer forms at the cafeterias and in Stillwell lobby Monday, Jan, 22. Students must answer all questions on the forms and return them to the stations in the cafeterias and Stillwell. Men will receive a card with their names and their dates' dormitory and student number. They will not know whom they are dating until they pick up their dates and match cards. Men are required to accept the date the computer has chosen for them. This dance is based on the same principle as the national computer match-up. Class Rings on Sale The Josten Ring man will be in the College Shop Monday and Tuesday, the 22nd and 23rd of January from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Anyone with 90 hours and a 2.0 qpr is clligable to purchase their class ring. THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN Enter Flay Competition Now is your chance to become part of the heritage of Western Carolina University. You can design the flag which will become the official flag of Western Carolina. As part of the growing traditions of the University, Alpha Phi Omega Service Fraternity is sponsoring open competition to students and faculty for the creation of a WCU Flag A committee is beinc carefully gathered from interested college officials and student leaders to make the selection from the entries After pass ing final approval by the student Senate, administrative commit tees, ;ind the Board of Trustees, the chosen design will be made into a flag with the recommen dation that the flag be hung in the new Hinds University Cen tor A plaque will be presented to the winning designer and another plaque will be placed beneath the flag which will include the designer's name. Entries should be submitted either by drawing or by detailed description along with a sketch. Students should place their design in a sealed envelope with only the student number on the back. Faculty may use their social security number. Place name and student number or social security number in a separate sealed envelope. Mail these together to: Wayne Carver, Box 465, Cullowhee, N. C, Closing date for entries is .Feb. 15, 1968. Thursday, January 18,1968 Hippies I'Tom Page 4. expression of themselves. Then a hippy chick brought in a huge nylon parachute. Couples and stags got in underneath and flung the cloth from the floor, leaping and gyrating to the pulsating beat CULLOWHEE BARBER SHOP Your Haircut As You Like It Lebern Dills Bruce Niiddleton Across From College Gulf OPEN TUES. —SAT. 8:06 s-xcu—6:00 puis. Wanted desperately a ride from Sylva daily for 8:00 class. Will pay any reasonable price. Post reply on Day Student Bulletin Board, basement of Stillwell. L.C. Whiteside SUDSW 633 MERRIMON AVENUE ASHEVILLE, N. C. A_FREE DRAFT BEER FOR EACH STUDENT, JUST SHOW YOUR STUDENT IDENTIFICATION-CARD. rGood for one FREE n I Idraft beer with purchase of any Pizza I FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NITES "OLE TIMEY PIANO" PLAYING PHONfc FOR GROUP PARTY RESERVATIONS American Soldiers Tell Of U.S. War Crimes I PHONE 25-48872 SHRIMP *** FRIED CHICKEN *** SPAGHETTI By DAVID SALTMAN ROSK1LDE, Denmark (CPS) Three U. S soldiers rw ntl. r turned from Vietnam told the War Crimes Tribunal meeting here of what Tribunal Executive President Jean-Paul Sartre calls "the accepted practice and use of torture and assassination by the American Army in Vietnam." The three soldiers whotesti fied were Peter Martinson and Donald Tuck, both of whom are just back from Vietnam, and Donald Duncan, the former Green Beret who no opposes the war and writes for Ram parts magazine. Their testimony was plainly contradictory to official Washington statements on American treatment of prisoners and refugees. "Can you imagine howitfeels to come out of the interrogation shed with blood on your hands?* asked Peter Martinson, 23, in an interview with CPS. He is now a junior at the University of California at Berkeley. Martinson served in Vietnam with the 541st Military Intelligence Detachment from August, 1966 to June, 1967. He has several Army decorations. "At Lon Giao, the troops were arresting about everyone in sight," he testified before the Tribunal. "One of the men in the detachment had been killed, and the others were mad. We received eight or nine prisoners. I got one. He kept saying he wasn't VC and didn't know where they were. I was certain he was lying about not knowing where they were. I started to beat him. This didn't do anything but produce strings of 'I don't know." "I told my lieutenant I couldn't get anything out of him, so the lieutenant beat him too. It still didn't worko The lieutenant had a field telephone... that produced an electric shock. The prisoner was tortured with this field phone., At first, the phone wires were placed on his hands, and the lieutenant gave him repeated shocks. When this didn't work, he put the wires on his sex organs." Martinson said he couldn't recall one interrogation "where war crimes weren't committed." "It was understood that if you didn't leave marks, you could do anything you wanted," he said of interrogation tactics. Martinson said he knew of "numerous" causes of prisoners dying from torture. He said the death certificates merely read "heart failure.* "This is logical," says Martinson. "The man had a weak heart, and when we electrocuted him he died of heart failure." "I personally saw and committed crimes against humanity—war crimes," said Martinson. Martinson's testimony was confirmed and amplified by David K. Tuck, 25, from Cleveland. He served in Vietnam with the Third Brigade, 125th Infantry from January, 1966 to February, 1967. Tuck gave evidence of the deliberate execution of prisoners by Americans- "On March 23, 1966 we were in an operation that left several wounded North Vietnamese on the ground, Everyone was angry because we had lost a lot of men. One guy took a machete and beheaded one of the wounded soldiers. He threw the head down the hill as a warning that we meant business." Tuck said he always had verbal orders to "Take no prisoners!" This meant that if his unit was forced to take prisoners, they had to murder them to follow the order, he said. ■in October, 1966 I person ally saw a North Vietnamese prisoner thrown out of a med- evac helicopter. 1 personally had to shoot a Vietnamese woman, acting under orders from my superior officers." Donald W. Duncan, 37, was a member of U.S. Special Forces (commonly called the "Green Berets") in Vietnam from March, 1964 to Septem ber, 1965. He has won two Bronze Stars, the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit and other decorations. He currently writes on military affairs for Ramparts magazine. Duncan confirmed the execution of prisoners: "In the An Lao Valley, in 1965, we had an eight-man team of Green Berets. Our mission was to get prisoners for interrogation, since this had been an NLF-controlled area for at least two years. "We got four prisoners, and interrogated them. Well, since we were only eight men, with four prisoners, we didn't know what to do with them. 1 radioed back to the base camp for instructions. They icld me: 'Get rid of them!' "I pretended to misunderstand, and called in an evacuation helicopter. When we got back to the camp, the project commander made it very plain that they were to have been murdered." The American Government has repeatedly denied that U.S. forces disembowel, beat and murder prisoners in Vietnam. Nevertheless, the U.S. has refused four invitations to send a delegate to Roskilde to present evidence or cross-examine witnesses, The Tribunal heard evidence that the U.S. uses weapons forbidden by the laws of war (white phosphorus, white arsenic,pellet and needle bombs), commits unjustifiable reprisals against civilian populations (burning of captured villages, "free fire zones," systematic bomWng of civilian targets), subjects prisoners of war to inhuman treatment (disembowelment, torture and death) and commits acts that could be called "genicide" according to the precise legal definition. Peter Martinson summed up the prevailing feeling in America like this: "Americans just refuse to believe that other Americans could commit war crimes. You know—Americans just don't do that sort of thing.. I have personally committed crimes against humanity—war crimes, in the precise legal definition." Nelson And Neil ...... From Page 1. Carolina audiences, and the. have appeared previously at WCU, Brevard College and elsewhere in the mountain area. One indication of their por , larity is that more than hall their itinerary is devoted to return engagements each year. There are 152 cities in the United States alone where they have been re-engaged, sometimes as many as nine times. Drs. Nelson and Neil are regarded as musical scholars of great integrity. Their students have played concerts throughout .America and Europe; the piano instruction books written by them are regarded by many as America's finest; they are retained as master teachers and consultants by several American universities and colleges, including the University of Tennessee at Martin. <f>

The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

• Creator
  • Western Carolina University
• Format
  • Publications (documents)
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  • Text
• Date
  • Date original: 1968-01-18;
  • Date digitized: 2017-10-26
• Extent
  • Dimension: 15.75" x 11"
  • Pages: 8 pages
• Subject - Topic
  • College student newspapers and periodicals
  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
• Location
  • Jackson County (N.C.)
  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
• Source institution
  • Western Carolina University
• Source Collection
  • WCU Students Newspapers Collection
• Identifier
  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1968-01-18_Vol36_No23
• Repository
  • Western Carolina University Hunter Library