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  • page 4 THE.WESTERN CAROLINIAN Thursday October 19, 1972 Comment We've Got Car Trouble Starting tomorrow students will be unable to park their cars in the post office Townhouse-Center Pharmacy area of Cullowhee, except when shopping. The parking ban is a result of local merchant complainst about students parking their cars in front of a business - say, the barber shop - and leaving them there all day while the driver attends his classes. The merchants are talking about towing away any automobiles that violate the new ban. It will be interesting to see how students react to the idea. The parking ban is only the latest indication of the severity of the campus parking problem. AU proposals to date have been stop-gap, temporary solutions to a long-term, ever-growing problem. Freshmen men have been instructed to park only in the overflow lot behind Scott Hall. A ten-minute zone was created in the McKee Building parking area. This fall's five per cent enrollment increase effected a corresponding increase in the number of student cars, and this trend will continue as the number of students rises. The solution is not to build more parking lots. Green space is vital to the life of this campus, and we want to protect what little grass now left growing. And banning freshmen from keeping cars on campus would be a poor alternative, too. This school is seven miles from any form of public transportation, and fifty-four miles from any city with a semblance of night-life. Freshmen should nevertheless put their autos In the far-off lot behind Scott, even though this would necessitate quite a walk for those living in Reynolds and Robertson Halls. The solution to the car problem is to limit the number of students, a difficult thing to do, but necessary. Closing The Gap The election of Ms. Wanda Pate as the 1972 Homecoming Queen is noteworthy for two reasons. She is the second Black queen at WCU In three years, and students have elected both of them. It can be suggested that the election of Black candidates is a result of bloc-voting by the sixty- odd Black students on campus. This may be true, but the practice is perfectly legitimate, even if -disturbingly effective for some observers. The "white vote" was distributed among twenty- four candidates this year, and this had to increase the chances of Ms. Pate's candidacy. Her election has been met with a noted lack of hostility, and we applaud the University community for this. In 1970, the idea of a Black homecoming queen was novel to many and unthinkable for some. This time the Western Carolinian has received no reaction like the viciously racist postcard from "the white girls' team" that we got in the mail in 1970. All this doesn't mean that Western Carolina University has become a mecca of enlightenment. It hasn't - not yet, anyway. But the growing contribution of our Black students is being recognized on Its own merit. Black participation in student life is on the rise, in the arts, the theater, in academics and athletics. A good way to recognize the Black contribution to WCU would be to hire a Black professor or two. Such a move would be a good way to thank Wanda Pate for her courage. Black is beautiful. TteWi=5Ti=i^i CLai^LiMiam Published twice weekly, through the academic, year and weekly duringthe summer by the students of Western Carolina University. Member: Collegiate Press Service, Intercollegiate Service. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ..... .BROOKS SANDERS BUSINESS MANAGER JACK COLLINS "Offices, first floor Joyner, Phone 293-7267, ,mailingsaddres&, Box 66, Cullowhee, N.C. 28723. ^Subscription rates, $4.00 per year. YEau... n»5 a M\ce CAM'T Dt^lV/t re... Dear Editor: We were fortunate enough to be able to attend a meeting of the Student Senate last Monday night, We are writing this letter to you to express our amazement at it's operation. Now, we don't mean to say we are any kind of experts on parllmentory procedure, but as we sat there and observed as students, members of the university community, the confusion of this organization, we could only speculate that Gen. Custer could have been no more confused at Little Big Horn than were the great majority of the Senators present. We were amazed by the rapidity with which the presiding officer spoke. We were stupefied by the absolute confusion which reigned over the discussion of S.G.A. officers salaries. We can only have a feeling of pity for those from seats on the Senate Floor who were trying to make heads or tails of the whole thing. We do have one request of the S.G.A.- we wish Senate meetings could be held where more students could observe, so they could all witness this great event P.T. Barnum move over for the W.C.U. Senate. John Scott Dick Jones Dear Sir: The Watergate Controversy- has been making the frontpages and I would like to discuss a possibility. Was Nixon responsible? Ten years from now when historians look back on this election, they will say that Nixon had only one setback throughout his campaign, or should I say THE campaign (Nixon doesn't seem to be campaigning. Maybe he has forgotten that this is the year his term will expire), and that was the Watergate Episode and all that was related to it No one at this point really knows all that happened but there is proof that whatever has happened started as far back as June 1971 (and maybe even further back). Was Nixon that desperate to win re-election? First, another question has to be answered: Was Nixon Responsible for the acts of espionage between June 1971 and now? Nixon says publicly that he wants the Watergate incident cleared upas soon before the election as possible in order that his name and his administration be freed of the "ridiculous accusations" of the Democratic Party. This, as an added fact, confuses the situa-_ tion. Especially in light of the newly released report of the FBL Accordingto them, "...the Nixon organization mounted a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage intended to undermine all major Democratic political contenders. Nixon, if he headed the operations, would go to this extreme for one or both of two reasons: 1) Nixon doesn't want another close election where the chances of winning or losing hinges on a half million votes or less. He wants to win by a comfortable margin (this leans to a corrupt possibility that Nixon aided in the defeat of Hubert Humphrey at the Na= tional Democratic Convention in July) and that means that Mc= Govern was their choice to get the nomination. Humphrey and Muskie would have produced re= suits more nearly like 1960 or 1968 and the Democratic Party would never have nominated George Wallace or Shirley Chil- solm.-. That left McGovern, a dark horse candidate from the first He was the most obvious candidate to win, from the Republican's point of view, and so they "campaigned" for his nomination. If you don't believe me, look in the May and June issues of NEWSWEEK and TIME and read any newspaper published during this period. You will see lines such as this repeatedly: "Nixon says he expects George McGovern to win the Democratic Nomination and is gearing his re-election campaign accordingly." They may as well have said, "Nixon wants Mc= Govern to win." Now that McGovern has won with a little help from his friends, and his enemies, Nixon has a downhill battle while McGovern has an uphill battle; and, anyone knows that it's easier to go downhill than uphill (as Nixon is doing slowly but surely). 2) Maybe Nixon is really that type of politician who will go to any means in order to achieve victory. Back in the days of Monte sqieu, this theory- was applicable, but today it's just not the way. Man and, indeed, politicians are suppose to use diplomacy and LEGAL ways to achieve victory. Back ways to achieve victory within a society. But apparently these ideals are not held by Nixon. This brings us to the answer of the second question. I believe Nixon is, if not head of these organization of espionage, at least the mastermind. And the reason is simple. He isn't desperate (to answer the first question) so much as he is power hungry. He will establish the Republican Institution by 1976 if he wins re-election. It may be a part of our American culture for a 12 to 20 year span. This is Nixon's goat There's just one problem. This established Republican Institution will be based on a devious, illegal, and corrupt foundation. It will be synomous, as it is beginning to be now, with the name of Richard Milhous Nixon. Sincerely, Paul Harris To The Editor: The election draws near, and the partisans are tearing into each other with gusto. But there are those of us who watch morosely from the sidelines; we can generate no enthusiasm for either presidential candidate. Voting for Senator McGovern is unthinkable. His schemes for redistribution of income are contrary to the spirit of self- reliance on which America was founded. McGovern's economics are not only objectionable; they are unfeasable. Even now that he has scrapped his $1000- per-person grant plan, the estimates of his proposed budget deficit are running about forty billion dollars. It seems elementary that spending money you don't have is bad business. The senator also plans to significantly reduce defense spending, at a time when we are lagging behind Russia in nuclear capability. America is a second-rate power and this is dangerous; not because we are losing prestige, but because Russia has proved itself to be fond of expansionistic military action (Remember Hungary? C zechoslovakia ?) McGovern does not consider the Import of his statements. He boldly declares his policies, and then abandons them without qualms. By way of Illustration, notice how, after his $1000 grant-per-clty program was discredited by all the major political magazines, he blithely disowned It He did the same with his erstwhile running- mate, after emphatically supporting him "one thousand per cent" McGovern does not feel bound to honor his word, and therefore fails to consider the consequences of his actions; it is easy for him to reverse his position, if he deems it expedient I hope that if he is elected, he does not support the Constitution "one thousand per cent" While McGovern has been telling us all about his radical phantasies, Nixon has been drifting slowly leftward. Longago, in some of his better moments, Nixon took on the appearance of a genuine statesman. Staunchly opposed to the excesses of the Communist regimes, and to CONTINUED Page 5 . . . .
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