Volume XI—Number 16 CORNING COMMUNITY COLLEGE February 11,1972 Contemplation Scores Big Transcendentalist Gives Talk on Deep Thinking Members of Inter-Club Council listen intently to business being discussed by President George O’shanick, not shown. ICC discussed Spring Weekend, a future presentation of the Fine Arts Club, nomination of a new vice-president, and induction of the Soccer Club. The club organization meets every Thursday at 1 p.m. in the Commons. Crier photo by John Wiggins By JOHN WIGGINS CRIER REPORTER A stimulating lecture on Transcendental Meditation was given by Robert Culicover, on February 3, in the classroom building. Mr. Culicover dealt with Transcendental Meditation as it is taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The lecture included the background of Transcendental Meditation and a discussion of the benefits derived from it. The purpose of the ancient technique of Transcendental Meditation is to develop creative intelligence and improve clarity of perception, at all levels of experience. Transcendental Meditation can be easily learned and enjoyed by everyone. It is an unique and natural way of insuring full development of the individual. It can easily become a part of the individual’s daily routine since it is practiced a few minutes morning and evening during which time the body gains deep rest while the mind expands in awareness. Mr. Culicover represents the Students International Meditation Society (SIMS). SIMS is attempting to stimulate interest in Transcendental Meditation by offering a course at all major colleges in the U.S. A course in Transcendental Meditation is currently underway at Elmira College and Mr. Culicover will be returning in a few weeks to lecture again at C.C.C. What’s Inside and where to find it Transcendental Presentation.....................Page 1 The Kick-Dog Intellect..........................Page 2 Women’s Lib, "Ms.”.................................Page 2 Changing Attitudes..............................Page 3 Great Decisions ................................Page 3 Willis Editorial Rebuffed.......................Page 3 Bengladesh Now..................................Page 3 Spy School in U.S...............................Page 3 Column, Right!..................................Page 4 Column, Left!...................................Page 4 Eve's Rib.......................................Page 4 Questions and Answers...........................Page 4 Campus Colloquy....................................Page 5 China, The Growth of an Angry Republic . . Page 6-7 Missing Sports Page................................Page 8 Next Week February 11-18 11 Faculty Wives Dinner, 6:30 p.m., Cafeteria 12 Vets' Club Keg Wrestling vs. Auburn 13, 14, 15 Film, The Sculptured Room 16 Vinnie Burrows, performance 17 James Restin, Jr., Convocation 18 Board of Trustees Meeting James Restin Convo. Feb. 17 Editor’s Notes: “Ms. ” By JAMES WILLIS Men of the world, unite! There lurks in every nook and cranny a woman without a bra. Yes, there are women of all sizes and shapes, my fellow male compatriots, and they have unleashed upon us the most vulgar and tasteless fad in many a year. It seems to me, and I am highly biased in this matter, that there is something wrong in a woman’s appearance when she goes braless. I refuse to say that all women look bad without a bra. With some girls it makes little difference—take Twiggy, for instance! If the no-bra look wasn’t enough, we now have to contend with “Ms.” According to Gloria Steinem, “Ms.” will replace the titles of Miss and Mrs., because Miss Steinem feels women are being discriminated against, in that men are only referred to as Mr., whether married or not. I have news for Miss Steinem and other women’s libbers. While a married man is traditionally referred to as Mr., an unmarried man takes the antiquated prefix Master! Now all you Masters can be prepared in case you are verbally attacked by the weaker sex. That’s another thing. Women, the weaker (?) of the two sexes, have never had it so easy. Who opens doors for us men? Maybe a queer, a faggot or possibly a reject from the Gay Liberation Movement. All a woman has to do is cook a few meals, wash dishes, do the laundry, and take out the garbage. Meanwhile, the man of the house is slaving at work, going to office parties and playing poker on Friday nights. How can a woman go wrong? Being a woman is so advantageous in getting a head start in life. The ideal woman, in a woman’s eyes, is one who marries a rich dope and then divorces him, sucking dry that man’s hard earned wealth. Take Johnny Carson, for instance. His wife recently divorced him and she now receives alimony payments of approximately eight thousand dollars per week — the highest ever! Eat your heart out, Gloria Steinem, because as you, and others like you, continue down the path toward women’s “liberation”, the Joanne Carsons of the world will be soaking up all the bread. Think about it. This is my male chauvinistic opinion. And the flag was still there ... in 72,73,74... The Kick-Dog Intellect By T. E. MARTIN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF In the initial issue of what used to be called “The New Look” Crier, an editorial on editorials appeared. The text of that editorial appears below. Editorials are often the wasted effort of well-meaning but unrealistic editors whose primary objective is to appease their own conscience and provide copy for what otherwise would be empty space. Few, if any, of a paper’s circulation read them, Fewer still take them seriously. No doubt, such will be the case for Crier editorials this year. But to appease my conscience and fill empty space, I will attempt to enlighten you with brief flashes of wisdom and lengthy dissertations on meaningless subjects. There will be pleas for justice and outcries of anger. We might throw in a few commentaries on moral decadence and the upsurge of illiteracy in Yugoslavian leper colonies. A congressman might be scolded, or a Dean asked if he is really what he appears to be. What does television have that a Crier editorial doesn’t have? A public. An aware and concerned student body that doesn’t think Manual Labor is a Mexican Indian. It isn’t that difficult to imagine that perhaps, someday, a realistic and objective editorial will emerge miraculously from the depths of a journalistic quagmire. The “New Look” Crier will endeavor to offer you this year a fresh and candid approach to editorial writing. A series of college oriented comments are planned for the year to bring you closer to the problems, the solutions, and Corning Community College. Reading the Crier will not help reduce cavities or relieve the heartbreak of psoriasis, but it may inform, entertain and educate a curious campus. Are you curious? Read the Crier. It could make an ordinary day a pleasant experience. A man can walk on hot coals, not blink, wince or cry out with pain. A man can withstand the pain of bamboo shoots driven under his fingernails. A man has the capacity to endure any anguish that is imaginable. But he can’t properly mix a quart of raspberry Kool-Aid without becoming uncontrollably frustrated. Beat the wife, hit the kids, kick Fido in the groin. What’s wrong with this man? Why doesn’t he just buy a can of Hi-C? The Stone Age, the Iron Age, the Ice Age, the Dark Ages, the Modern Age, and finally, to round out this semi-hilarious cast, is the Age of Frustration. Man can not cope, it seems. When it reaches the point where it is too much to deal with the Insert tab A into slot B world, then stop the absurdities that you create for yourself. Speaking of frustration, imagine what I must be going through trying to blow a column through this typewriter. Editorials border on the ridiculous. What other literary form goes so unread, is taken so less seriously, creates such hatreds? A man, and I mean a big man, told me the other evening that I was hated because of my views. Now isn’t that something? What a dramatic gratification. Somehow it makes it all seem worthwhile. The editorials that have appeared thus far in the Crier, both by Mr. Willis and myself, have not, as I predicted, reduced cavities or relieved the heartbreak of psoriasis. They have, and as my hero so pointedly states “Make no mistake about it”, served to entertain, inform, and as much as possible, to educate. Maintain your curiosity and keep reading the Crier. It makes an ordinary day just a little better than ordinary. This is my opinion. Brotherhood; people need it! The Crier Published by the students of Corning Community College Editorial Board: Thomas Martin, Editor in Chief James Willis, Managing Editor Anita Gordon, Business Manager Philip Schweiger, Sports Editor Judy Thomas, Layout Editor Douglas Hicks, Photography Editor Henry Bennett, Professor of Philosophy, Advisor News Department: Daniel White, World and National Chief Bruce Holmstock, State and Local Chief Dave Neely, College Chief Dan Gray, Entertainment Chief Vicki Kichman, Features Chief Diane Liddington, Columnist Chief Reporters: Richard Smith, Roger Van Houten, Patti Page, Deb Price, Pat Jones, Jerry Holden, Joe Capariccio, Joan Rozengota, Barb Nelson Columnists: Jim Jefferies, Bob Conboy, Jim Styles, Joan Rozengota Staff Cartoonist: Chip Dundas Photography Department: Jim Fedele, John Walsh, Tony King, John Wiggins, Dan White, Mark Walker, Matt Walker, Glen Mathis, Barb Nelson, Joan Rozengota, Fred Brinthaupt Sports Department: Frank Anderson, Cindy Ackerman, Ray Hughes, Mark Walker, Tom Ahearn Business Department: Suzie Sweet, Cher Palmer, Lynda Hussey, Mary Zulkolshy, Denise Keene Office Crew: Ardith Okrepkie, Chief Hanne Pasko, Sheila Finnell, Pat Jones, Dan White, Deb Price, Mary Hobczuk, Richard Smith, Jerry Holden, Dan Gray Layout: Sally Chamberlin, Chief Circulation Division: Sheila Finnell, Manager Dan Gray, Dan White, Mary Hobczuk, Jerry Holden The Crier is published weekly throughout the fall and spring sessions through the Student Activity Fund. Editorials and columnal opinions are the views strictly of the author and not necessarily the Editorial Board or Administration. Student reaction in the form of letters to the editor are urged and welcomed. All copy submitted is subject to editing by the Editors. page 2 the Crier/February 11,1972 Reader Reaction; Willis Editorial Rebuffed Changing Attitudes To the editor: James Willis’ super brilliant solution to America’s unemployment and pollution problems, in the 1-28-72 CRIER underscores the need for work experience, along with study in education. A few years work in a sanitation department or some of the sweatshops of American industry would cause him to hurry his present editorial contribution to the nearest garbage can and start over. Mr. Willis suggests eliminating all benefits to able-bodied welfare and unemployment recipients thus forcing them to work for a governmental agency at a rate equal to benefits they were receiving. It is not difficult to picture the glee with which employers would greet Mr. Willis’ solution. Relieved of all responsibility to their employees, they would have a field day at the expense of their hapless victims. At this point it is pertinent to ask why there are welfare and unemployed persons. The major reason is the inability of our privately owned, private profit taking economic system to provide full employment for our people. Mr. Willis’ plan would place the burden not upon those who own and profit most from the system, but upon its victims. When people work for a privately owned, profit-taking industry, a portion of the profits from their labor is placed by the employer, in an unemployment insurance fund. Now, when an employer lays off workers or gets greedy for more profits and moves a plant to greener pastures leaving workers without jobs, those workers have every right to unemployment benefits because it is money they earned while working. Certainly, if welfare recipients and the unemployed are forced to accept the conditions suggested by Mr. Willis, then the owning sector of our society, which has failed in its responsibilities, should be working right beside them under the same conditions. It is time to quit using the poor and unemployed as scapegoats and zero in on the real, the basic reason for “the condition of our condition”—an outmoded, archaic system and the advocates of its continuation. Sincerely, Howard Easling Bengladesh Now By RICHARD L. SMITH CRIER WORLD & NATIONAL REPORTER Today, two months after Bengladesh gained its freedom, it is in an economically precarious position. Its port facilities have been damaged extensively, its rail service destroyed, and the spring planting has not been done. The Bengladesh guerillas in their war against the West Pakistani Army helped destroy the rail system. They blew up bridges and lengths of track in an effort to keep the Pakistani Army from moving from place to place. They also contributed to the great loss of life through their attacks on Pakistani Army units. They inadvertently caused many of their people to be killed in army reprisals. The port facilities of Bengladesh are the main way that the country can receive and export goods. When the Indian Army and Air Force attacked the country to help the guerillas they destroyed the port facilities and sank ships of many nationalities. The ships are rotting in the harbor and the facilities are not being repaired or used. Bengladesh needs these facilities if it is to make any money and it needs money to refurbish the facilities. It is caught in a vicious circle. Bengladesh is a country blessed with a warm climate and an abundant supply of water. It is also a country cursed by the gods of weather and war. In November 1970 a typhoon hit the Bengladesh coast. It killed approximately 500,000-750,000 people. It also killed untold numbers of cows and destroyed the spring planting. The guerilla and the Indian war with Pakistan also killed two - three million people and left the country burned and ravaged. The most serious shortage that Bengladesh suffers from is a lack of skilled labor. Before the war most of the skilled positions in industry were held by non-Bengalis. After gaining their independence, the Bengalis proceeded to eliminate all non-Bengalis (an unfortunate and natural reaction of an oppressed people). Because of this, the jute industry, Bengladesh’s largest export, is running at half production. The greatest hope for Bengladesh is their leader, Sheik Mujib. This man is a man of the people. When he speaks of Bengladesh, he speaks of “my country” and “my people”. He exudes the optimism and charisma necessary to make his countrymen work together. If one man is capable of pulling his country together Mujib is the man. America has a responsibility to help the Bengladesh, for the sake of humanity and for their own sake. If the United States does not help the Bengladesh, it will rely heavily on Communist aid and perhaps become a communist ally. The future of Bengladesh is a shaky proposition. If Sheik Mujib can pull the people together, Bengladesh will grow to a proud and powerful country in the Indian sub-continent. If he can not do it, it is only a matter of time before a revolution and the country falls into the camp of Communists. Arlington, Texas (I.P.)—Changing attitudes of college students and the inflexibility of some American institutions are on a collision course that may pose major problems, warns a University of Texas at Arlington sociologist. Notable targets of student discontent today are the university system, government and churches, concludes Dr. William A. Stacey after evaluating data from some 7,000 student interviews during the past six years. “The thing different about the student of today and the student of yesterday is that the student today might be willing to do something about his ideals,” he cautions. “We’re talking about two different generations of students,” he adds in comparing 1965 and 1970 collegians. He be- Soccer Meet In the small lounge on Wednesday, February 1, 1972 the Soccer Club met for the first time of the year. There were sixteen varsity soccer lettermen from the fall season and two other interested students attending the meeting. Leading the discussion at the meeting were Mohammad Kassamali and Dan Gray. These gentlemen explained that the Soccer Club is making an effort to attain membership in Inter-Club Council. Who the team might be able to play, and who they may be able to get into a possible tournament with was discussed. Letterman Tom Martin will be the coach for the winter season. After this, elections took place and the President is Dan Gray, Vice-President will be George Jones and the Secretary-Treasurer will be Arty Maio, all lettermen. It was noted by Dan Gray that any student or faculty member at C.C.C, who would like to join are extremely welcome and please get in touch with one of the officers or go to the meetings, every Wednesday at 1:00 in the small lounge. U.S.School Trains Spies SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (LNS)— What do the following countries have in common—Thailand, South Vietnam, Brazil, Argentina, Indonesia, Laos, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, the Philippines, and Paraguay? They all have military personnel undergoing training at Ft. Huachuca (wa-CHOO-cuh) in southeastern Arizona, near the Mexican border. The training is in the form of a course in “information gathering” at the Army’s Intelligence Center and school. Presently there are 23 officers from other countries, all of whom hold the rank major or colonel. Thailand leads the field with eight students, followed by five from South Vietnam. More than 600 officers from 50 different countries have been trained by the U. S. at the Intelligence School since 1961. The School, which used to be at Ft. Holobird, Md. was recently moved to this desolate spot when public pressure forced the government to relocate it. gan the study in 1965 at Mississippi State University and continued it there through 1970. He and a colleague, Ronald C. Engle, associate professor of sociology, posed the same questions to UT Arlington students for comparison purposes. They presented their findings at the Southern Sociological Society meeting in Florida this year. Responses at both universities followed approximately the same pattern, although UT Arlington students reflected a more liberal attitude. Dr. Stacey attributes this primarily to the urban environment. “The student today doesn’t feel the same kind of hangups that the student of, say, five years ago experienced,” he said. In the survey, Dr. Stacey found today’s students are more concerned with human relations, college administrations, and national and international policy. He discovered today’s students appear to be freer of prejudice and increasingly alienated by bureaucracy. He also found increasing use of alcohol among students, more sexual permissiveness, a decline in religious values and church attendance and a rising percentage who cheat or are aware of cheating in their classes. He traces campus problems principally to two factors, “the failure of the administration to bring up the quality of education and to build the student into the administrative structure.” He does see some encouraging signs that three primary institutions—the university system, government and churches—are aware changes are needed and are working to effect them. But he says the process must be speeded up to avert problems. “I think the churches are changing,” he reports. "Should they make the changes, should they become more flexible so they can provide a service that is compatible with ideology, then I think perhaps they will remain quite effective. But it’s just like the university system. Unless they build into their structures the flexibility to deal with this new generation, then I see other philosophies developing.” Dr. Stacey isn’t perturbed about increasing sexual permissiveness, maintaining it does not represent a declining moral standard. “It’s not a new morality. It’s just more honesty about the morality we’ve had all along. I think we’re finally realizing, both males and females, that sex is not a dirty thing.” Great Decisions Today Americans from all walks of life — and of differing political convictions — are calling for a reassessment of national priorities and greater direct citizen participation in the reassessment process. Some emphasize the external threats to our security and world peace: some believe greater danger comes from within — in our exploding cities, polluted environment, racial and economic inequalities. It is not a case of either - or; the two are inseparable. The nations of the world must learn to live in peace, if they are to devote adequate resources and energies to solving their internal problems. To assess our priorities intelligently, Americans must be informed about the complex issues facing the nation. Only then can we, as citizens, more effectively decide what policies should be pursued, and convey our views to the nation’s policy-makers. Great Decisions . . . 1972 offers you a significant opportunity to learn, discuss and speak out on some of the vital foreign policy priorities of our time. For the sixth consecutive year the Division of Continuing Education and Community Services of Corning Community College will co-sponsor the eight week study program of the Foreign Policy Association Great Decisions . . . 1972. The purpose of the series is to increase the public’s ability to discuss and evaluate key foreign policy issues. The program in Corning will be held in the CCC Off-Campus Center on Tuesday evenings, from 7:30-9:30 p.m. for eight consecutive weeks beginning February 1st. The series coordinator will be Dr. Ruth Mouly. The series will be held in Elmira at the Steele Memorial Library on eight consecutive Thursday evenings beginning February 3rd. It will be coordinated by Profs. Pauline Leveen and Joseph Hanak. Topics and speakers for the series will be: Session I, Feb. 1, 3 — "India and Pakistan: Is There Any Hope for Peace on the Sub-Continent?” —Speaker Dr. Ruth Mouly, lecturer, CCC. Session II, Feb. 8, 10—“Japan, the Common Market and the U. S.: Is a Trade War Brewing?” —speaker Dr. Teruo Kobayashi, Asso. Prof. of Political Science, Elmira College. Session III, Feb. 15, 17 — “The Soviet Union and the U. S.: Toward Negotiation or Confrontation?” — speaker Gary A. Yoggy, Asso. Prof. of History, CCC. Session IV, Feb. 22, 24 — “Chile’s Marxist Experiment: What Does It Mean for the Americans?” — speakers, Donald Roe, Pastor, Big Flats United Methodist Church; Walter Smith, Prof. of History, CCC. Session V, Feb. 29, March 2 — “Our China Policy: How Far and Deep the Thaw?” — speaker Pauline Leveen, Asso. Prof., CCC Session VI, March 7, 9—“Poor Nations and Rich Nations: Can the Gap be Narrowed?”—speaker John Connelly, Instructor of Economics, CCC. Session VII, March 14, 16 — “Guns and/or Butter: What Price National Security?” — speaker Henry Newlin, Instructor of Geography, CCC. Session VIII. March 21, 23 — “Our Crowded World: What Solutions to Population Problems?” —speaker Gordon Muck, Asso. Prof. of Chemistry, CCC. Dear J.T.: Roses are red, Violets are blue. You weren't at layout when we needed you. the Crier/February 11,1972 page 3 Columnal Opinions Eve’s Rib Column Left! Eve’s Rib Column, Right! By JOAN ROZENGOTA Check Out? The Road of Caliber By B. B. HOLMSTOCK Freedom of the press has once again found its way into the spotlight. The FBI has once again put its proverbial foot into its mouth, by conducting another one of its famous investigations into the private lives of people in the public eye. This time the victim was Daniel Schorr, a journalist for CBS news. The issue came to light when Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. (chairman of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights) said that the Nixon Administration had acted with “stupidity” or "duplicity.” Senator Ervin also stated that the White House was "inconsistent in its explanation of a Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry into the background of Mr. Schorr.” Mr. Schorr has worked for the Columbia Broadcasting system for about 19 years and has covered news items both here and in foreign lands. One of the things that makes the investigation suspicious is the fact that on at least five occasions the President and his administration have objected to Mr. Schorr’s reporting. Plus the fact that the "intended” function of Question: How has the “liberalization of the New York State abortion law” fared with the people of the state so far? Answer: Since the State’s Penal Code was Amended in July 1970 to allow abortions within certain limitations, the topic of abortions has been frequently dealt with by the news media as well as a number of courts in the state. Besides the contravertiality of abortions, a number of unexpected issues are cropping up. Recently a commercial aspect relating to abortions was dealt with in the New York State Supreme Court. Question: Is this issue relating to the “medical commercialism” that many people feared would occur if the state allowed abortions? Answer: No. Its abortion infor- mation and referral services. The new abortion “law” created a nationwide demand the investigation was to see if Mr. Schorr was good enough to hold a government job, which up until the time this article was written, he has not been offered. When Vice-President Agnew first began his attack on the press, I felt that it was Agnew himself. But now that time has passed I am convinced that he was just one of the members of the puppet show of which President Nixon is pulling the strings. It seems apparent that the administration wants to use the press as its tool, and if it can’t have it, the government will try to discredit it in front of the public. Besides the embarassment to the government, the FBI has also blundered terribly. A record such as Mr. Schorr’s, a man in the public eye, would be as easy to check out as what brand of shotguns Mr. Hoover prefers. It is my hope that the newsmen of the U. S. will continue to report the news as it happens, even if it might mar the gloss of the Nixon administration. The present day press is certainly far from perfect, but it can never change for the better if the government tries to suppress it. for information on how to profit from this situation and formed commercial agencies to provide abortion information and referral at a substantial fee to the desperate “consumer.” Advertising extensively in the college press and other youth oriented publications, they have sought to give the impression of honesty and openness, yet many have thrived on often hidden referral fees. These fees often exceed $100. Question: What is being done to stop these agencies from taking advantage of people? Answer: Because of complaints by patients against those agencies that appear to be nonprofit but charge fees for referrals and information handed out, N. Y. State Attorney General Lefkowitz sought a court injunction to restrain them Continued on page five By JOAN ROZENGOTA Winter has a marvelous way of covering tie earth's ugliness with just one night’s worth of snow. Overnight the dark, empty woods change into a proverbial storybook wonderland. But it will take more than a layer of snow to hide the ugliness of what recently happened in Elmira. Due to Urban Renewal and the Heritage Park program, many people have been forced out of their homes, having them torn down so that the city supposedly could erect low-cost housing projects, although now the city has sold the property so that another (obviously much needed) motel can be built. But this past week an incident occurred that was as revolting as it was unexpected. When officers came to evict the Jack D. Hall family, they were met by several people who actively resisted them. Still, did that give them an excuse to drag a young boy from his own home with a strangle hold on his neck? Perhaps the only one that reacted with a certain degree of normalcy, was the family’s German Shepherd, that bit a deputy sheriff as the officer fought on the front porch. Obviously this wasn't just a case of a dog trying to protect his master, so the deputies valiantly collared the pup and removed him to the Shelter. (Perhaps for further questioning.) After a few hours of trying to evict the family, County Court Judge Donald H. Monroe issued a stay of execution. But what is the result of all of this? Three people were arrested, Richard Fiske, 39, Amelia Capo-riccio, and Leland Brown 16; and two people were injured. Deputy Wise—bitten by a dog protecting his family, and Leland Brown who suffered a leg injury while fighting police. Perhaps the authorities should look into the reasons why so many people came out in support of the evicted family. But more important, all of us should sit down and think— could this ever happen to us? By WILLIAM J. JEFFERY CRIER COLUMNIST Recently, two police officers were shot in the back numerously until the last precious breath was gone—forever. Many people read of this horrendous, dastardly, unfathomable and incomprehensible cowardice and hastily turned to the gossip columns or the sports page. I would like to address the following to the two dead, valiant officers, something of an eulogy, but more as a tribute. You two men are a credit to yourselves, your parents, service, and country—America. The fact that men such as yourselves still exist and are willing to place your lives on the line in service to country and fellow man attests to the fact that America is still comprised of many great and heroic men. You took the road seldom traveled, the road of serving, the road that is not easy and smooth, the road not traveled by lesser men—the road of caliber. Your deaths are unjustifiable, without sense or reason. Your assassins seek to hide behind the masks of political justice, but they are lice, a pestilence to humanity, spineless forms of a degree that escapes description. I can not condemn them as men, for they are not men, I can only weep at your loss and hope that we can capture your assailants and somehow cure them and other people like them: in this way justice might be served. To lose you is grievious, to not gain from the loss is unforgivable. In Vietnam and on the streets of America you worked for a better world, side by side, black and white, together to the end. How much longer must we be robbed of our most valuable resource—our young, our brave, our finest? You can never be replaced or replenished — part of the rock is gone, forever, lost, and the total mass is forever less. We must not allow these men to pass with a mere shrug. We must salvage what we can from their deaths and strive for a better world, we must help the unfortunate and comfort all men as they tried to do. We have lost too much in this world and it is with sorrow that I feel we will lose more. But, we can not dwindle in pity — or apathetically pass over it, we must be more compassionate and more earnestly seek our ideals, or it will be for us the bell tolls. Answer to this week’s puzzle. Dear J.T.: Two No-No’s you did: 1) You fooled Mother Nature 2) You missed layout HORSEHEADS POST, INC. for Quality Printing LETTERPRESS OR OFFSET REASONABLE PRICES PROMPT DELIVERY RE 9-7233 211 N. Main St., Horseheads JOIN THE CRIER STAFF Draft Counseling Are you having problems with the draft? JOSEPH J. 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As Chairman of the Board, Mr. Wilson now directs a 1,300 inn empire spanning America’s fifty states, plus three continents of the world. The Holiday Inn story is legendary and it all began with a resourceful man with vision and integrity. Mr. Wilson never went to college.) By KEMMONS WILSON In my opinion the most important question any one person can ask himself is how best he can serve and achieve. This for each and every one becomes a highly personal thing. I hope that I am safe in assuming each of you want your future to be successful and that all of you want to achieve. Success and the ability to achieve is basically a personal problem. This must be true because all of us observe success and failure frequently. We see two men start with the same company at the same time, and work with the same product, have the same training, the same supervision, same leadership, yet one man succeeds and the other fails. Because we see these examples all around us, I have long felt the problem of success is a personal one. Others may help us, and may hinder us, but in the final analysis we ourselves are responsible for our success or failure. There are very few “naturals” in any endeavor and we all face the job of developing our effectiveness and efficiency if we are to succeed. How can we go about doing this? Certainly there are many facets to that question but I would like to comment on one area which in my oninion has as much to do with achievement as any other, and applies equally to young people as well as the older people. It is a whole area of “habits”. All persons are creatures of habit. It has been said that we are what we are largely because of the sum total of the habits formed throughout life. Psychologists tell us that less than 5% of what we do involves conscience adjustments to new situations. Habits govern the other 95% of action. So I do want to impress upon all the young people of the world that you now have a chance of developing good or bad habits and this is what will follow you all the rest of your life. We have it within our personal power to set up habits that will make us successful, but if we are not wise and careful we may set up habits that will make for failure or mediocrity. One thing we can be sure of and that is that we will form some kind of habits. We can be sure if we want them to be the right kind that it is going to take some conscious effort to form them. We want to achieve one of the most important habits and that is time control. Time is probably our greatest asset and the more we succeed the more we must accept the responsibility of deciding how to best use of our available time. Time control is an essential ingredient for success in a free enterprise system. I have always felt that perhaps the most important habit of all, particularly for young people, is the habit of maintaining the proper attitude. Success or failure is effected much more by mental attitude than by mental capacity. There is power in positive thinking. Just believe in the opportunity that is available to you. You must believe whole heartily in the importance of what you do. Finally and perhaps the most important of all, you must have a tremendous amount of faith in yourself. You control the end product and the result of that end product is completely dependent on you. No matter what profession you choose, you have the opportunity of rendering a service which is a great and wonderful thing. To render that service in a fair and proper way requires great skill and you have that skill. You have it in your power to do wonderful things if you can develop courage, judgement, integrity and dedication to your job. Questions & Answers Continued from page four from engaging in the referral business. Question: Has the Attorney General been successful in his attempts? Answer: Yes. New York State Supreme Court Justice Sidney H. Asch in a ruling that ordered a stop to the operations of a Manhattan based commercial abortion referral agency wrote, "The law which sought to emancipate women from servitude as unwilling breeders did not intend to deliver them as helpless victims of commercial operators for the exploitation of their misery.” This ruling is expected to effect a number of other agencies that are also being investigated. Question: Apparently there has been some confusion created in the minds of people, if a person would like to seek information and/or referral without paying a large fee who can she turn to? Answer: There are many nonprofit agencies currently pro- Tomorrow Night CCC VETS CLUB Presents Albatross with Maximus Super Kegs College I.D. 9-1 ♦ SODA * PIZZA ♦ $1.50 viding information, referral and other assistance to women with problem pregnancies. Pregnancy tests, abortion information and counseling and other services are available in most cities through the local Planned Parenthood offices. The Clergy Consultation Services on Problem Pregnancies has affiliates in over 20 states and can provide competent counseling and referral at no fee. The largest non-profit service for abortion and contraceptive information and referral is in New York City, it’s the New York Family Planning Information Service: (212) 777-4504. Just recently people living in the Corning area had an opportunity to hear a panel discussion program on radio dealing with different issues relating to the state’s new abortion law. 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By JAMES WILLIS MANAGING EDITOR "We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.” Mao Tse-tung Selected Works, Vol. IV The "Little Red Book” For Mao Tse-tung it was a long and bitter road that led to the blossoming of Communism in China. Beginning in 1919, it took Mao twelve years to be recognized as a viable leader in the Communist movement. Another eighteen years elapsed before China was totally under the Red regime. From that time forward, twenty-two years of isolation passed before the rest of the world was ready to recognize Mao's government of 800 million people as a nation. The Advent of Civil War in China 1921 was a year of dual importance in forthcoming Chinese history. Sun Yat-sen, then President of the Republic of China, established the Chinese Nationalist government, known as the Kuomintang, at Canton. The same year saw the founding of the Chinese Communist party, of which Mao Tse-tung was an ardent follower. Two years later, the double-dealing Russians sent an envoy, Michael Borodin, to China to act as Sun’s political advisor in military training programs. At the same time, however, Borodin carried secret orders to help train Chinese Communist guerillas. This was only one in a series of events which led to the great hatred and mistrust that Peking now harbors toward the Soviets. The death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925 brought the advent of a tremendous struggle for power. Emerging as the victorious party chairman was a young officer in the Kuomintang army, Chiang Kai-shek. For a while, Chiang was manipulated through Moscow, believing that he had the support of Joseph Stalin, but at the same time, Russia secretly maintained aid to Chiang’s arch-rival warlord, Tang Sheng-chi and continued to train Chinese Communist guerillas. In a grave blunder, an editorial appearing in Pravda on March 17, 1927, revealed Soviet strategy in China, predicting that Chiang would have to “swear allegiance to the principles of revolutionary loyalty and to Sun Yat-sen’s teaching of socialism, and submit himself to the leadership of the mass party (under Chinese Communist influence, of course) of the Knomintang. Directly after the Pravda editorial, the Knomintang army went into action and all but liquidated the entire Chinese Communist forces. Mao Tse-tung barely escaped the Kuomintang sweep, being lucky enough to have been in the countryside with the peasants instead of the cities, where most of his comrades met their doom. Meanwhile, all Russian personnel were sent back to Moscow and diplomatic relations with the Soviets had ceased. By 1928, Chiang had taken complete control of China, excepting a few page 6 military warlords that posed little, if any, threat. During the next three years, Stalin and Chiang were at odds with each other, but in 1932, Chiang was forced to renew diplomatic ties with Moscow because the Japanese had begun to establish military bases in the Chinese province of Manchuria. Stalin was more than ready to give aid to the Nationalists as he, too, became uneasy from the continuing Japanese advances. Stalin again revealed that the Soviets were two-faced in their friendship with China. Although Russia aided Chiang with more than $250 million of military supplies from 1938 to 1941, they also bought off the Japanese by selling them the Soviet-built Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria in 1935, and at the same time established control over Outer Mongolia. Stalin complicated matters further when, in April of 1941, he agreed to a neutrality treaty with Japan, which meant that Chiang would receive no more Soviet arms. Pearl Harbor Unites the U.S. and China On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, forcing the United States to ally itself with Chiang’s Nationalist government. It was at this time that President Roosevelt delegated Chiang to be the Allied Supreme Commander in the “China Theater”, to which Stalin and Winston Churchill grudgingly agreed. This action eventually led to Nationalist China’s becoming a sponsoring power at the United Nations. During the War, the Knomintang found itself fighting on two fronts—the Japanese on one hand and the rising Chinese Communists on the other. The Communists, by Mao Tse-tung’s own proclamation in 1937 were to be devoted to “. . . seventy percent expansion, twenty percent dealing with the Kuomintang and ten percent resisting Japan.” The Chinese Nationalist and Communist forces were supposed to be united against the common enemy, Japan, but in 1941, Chiang’s troops eliminated the Chinese Communist New Fourth Route Army. This action and others brought forth sharp criticisms from the United States and Russia that Chiang was more devoted in dealing with the Communists than he was with the Japanese. Japan Surrenders In August of 1945, the Japanese surrendered, leading to a renewed battle between Chiang and Mao for China’s leadership. The United States proposed a coalition government but Chiang refused, and in 1946 a full-scale civil war broke out. As one detailed report shows: "The reaction of the American government was to put an embargo on further military supplies to Chiang Kai-shek. As there was no Soviet embargo on arms going to the Communists, the American action had a onesided effect on the civil war, and has been described as the civil war’s turning point.’' In November, 1948, the Nationalists, in four separate battles with the Communists, had lost thirty-three divisions — 300,000 men and 230,000 rifles. Smelling the sweet victory close at hand, Mao pushed further and further, and on October 1, 1949, he proclaimed his "People’s Republic of China". Mao Tse-tung had become Master of China. How Did Mao’s Support Swell in Such a Relatively Short Time? Certainly, the American embargo on arms to the Kuomintang army played a great role in the outcome of the civil war, but Mao’s support had gained tremendously by 1945. This expansion, coupled with Chiang’s diminishing respect by his own people would have inevitably led to a Communist takeover, regardless of any U.S. interference. This fact, plus the advent of Pearl Harbor were great advantages to the Communists. Robert P. Martin, Directing Editor of the International Staff of U.S. News & World Report and former China correspondent, explains the situation in an interview appearing in the December 13, 1971 issue of U.S. News & World Report: "You have to look at the situation in China as it was in 1941. Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung were supposed to be allies in a united front against the Japanese. . . . The Japanese had pushed Chiang’s armies deep into the western and southwestern parts of China. The main Communist base was in the Northwest, but they were also expanding their so-called liberated areas into North China, all the way to the Yellow Sea. . . . The Japanese, for their push into Southeast Asia, had to pull some troops out of Central and Eastern China — the areas most exposed to the Communists. Chiang’s forces, on the other hand, were far away. Furthermore, later on they were to be given the job of helping to reopen the Burma Road, to get American supplies from India into China. So the Communists more or less had been given a free hand to build up bases and organize peasants in North and East China. The Communists began sending their best regulars into Manchuria even before the war ended. By the time I got into Manchuria, early in 1946, you could- n’t see any armed Japanese anywhere. The Russians had disarmed them and turned the weapons over to the Chinese Communists. When the Nationalist armies finally entered Manchuria, after the Russians withdrew, they found the Chinese Communists in fairly solid political and military control. The Nationalists threw their best armies—including the New First—into Manchuria, and in less than two years the Communists had chewed them to bits, and at the same time picked up a lot of their American equipment. . . . What I’m saying is that the Pacific war speeded up the Communist take-over. It gave them the opportunity to send their roots deeper and wider into key areas of North China, and after that into Manchuria. It was in Manchuria that the critical battles of the Chinese civil war were fought. And the Communists won them. If there had been no Pacific war, the Japanese sooner or later would have had to make peace with Chiang. That would have strengthened his hand. But I think it’s rather useless to speculate on what might have happened in China under those circumstances." The Chinese Communists, under Mao Tse-tung, far out-classed the Nationalists in discipline and motivation. Chiang’s forces, like the Japanese, were very unsuccessful against the guerilla tactics used by the Communists. Instead, they were content to occupy the cities and communication lines, leaving the countryside to Mao. Chiang’s problem was that he spread his army too thin, trying to hold all of China, never bothering to establish a major starting-point base of operations. Politically, Chiang was again at a disadvantage. After eight years of fighting the Japanese, China desperately wanted and needed economic aid, for it was a starving and devastated country by the end of the war. Nationalist areas were hit extremely hard by a runaway inflation. To make ends meet, government officials and Kuomintang army officers became corrupt, much to the ex- pense and hatred of the peasants. Meanwhile, Mao's Communist-held areas were soothing the peasants with land-reform programs that didn’t rely on a “money economy”. In light of these facts it is easy to see why Mao gained the mass support of the people. Nationalists Flee to Taiwan In December of 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his tattered remnants of the Kuomintang government took refuge on the off-shore island of Taiwan. The policy of the United States at that time, under the leadership of President Truman, was to keep out of China’s internal struggles, including Taiwan. The Korean War Breaks Out On June 25, 1950, about five months after the United States adopted its “hands off” policy in China, the Korean War broke out, causing Truman to reverse his decision to stay out of Taiwan. Communist China had sent “volunteers” to aid the North Koreans in their attempts to overthrow the American-held South Korea. The United States then realized that Taiwan was highly important as a strategic military outpost. The Korean War was the primary cause for a complete shattering of Sino-American relations for the next twenty years. China Becomes Isolationist The Korean War and events that followed, such as the U.S.-Taiwan defense agreements in 1951 and 1954, drove Mainland China and the Western World further apart, resulting in Mao’s increased dependency upon the Soviet Union as a “big brother” ally. Here was another problem, though — mostly from ideological differences between the two Communist giants. The Bolshevik revolution in Russia had consisted of an overthrow of the government by the working class where China’s revolution was one by the peasants. Stalin had a habit of looking down on Mao’s attempts to overthrow the Kuomintang, believing that a people’s revolution could not be spearheaded by peasants. U.S.S.R 1—Shen-Yang 2—Inner Mongolia 3—Slnklang 4—Tibet 5— Kunming 6—Canton 7—Foochow I—Nanking 9—Peking 10—Lan-Chou 11—Chengtu 12—Wuhan 43—Tsinan SOUTHEAST ASIA Hong Kong the Crier/February 11, 1972 Part One: The Civil Strife Sino-Soviet Relations Stalin was not to be trusted, as Mao well knew from past experiences. Moscow’s double and often triple-dealings with China caused a great deal of resentment from the Chinese Communists, but it wasn’t until after the Korean War that Russia and Red China finally split. Mao Tse-tung felt that he and Stalin were full-fledged partners in the movement to spread Communism throughout the world. When Stalin died in 1953, Mao naturally assumed that he, as the sole surviving partner, was to lead the Communist program. The only problem was Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin’s successor, who attempted to make China subservient to Moscow’s will and demand. Mao refused to be pushed around and forced the Russians to turn back their mining interests in Port Arthur, in Manchuria. Moscow was denounced by Peking as being a “nationalist” regime and not adhering to the principles of Communism. 1957 found Mao faced with much grumbling and dissatisfaction from within the party and without, arising from Mao's 1952 Five-Year Plan’s failure, and so came forth the “Hundred Flowers” pronouncement. Under this program, all dissenters, comprised of a majority of intellectuals and party members, were requested to bring their complaints before the Party. Unfortunately, all those who complied were mercilessly purged. In 1958, the United States and Mainland China came close to war over the Chinese off-shore islands of Taiwan, Quemoy, and Matsu. In effect, the Russians said that in case of an American invasion of China, it would honor the Sino-Soviet treaty with military aid to China, but any difficulties with the U.S. over the offshore islands would be China’s alone. Outraged at the Soviets, Mao declared that Russia, concerned only about its national interests, was backing down to the “running dogs of imperialism”, the United States. Convinced that he could only expect the worst from Moscow, Mao launched his Great Leap Forward campaign in 1957, designed to boost agricultural output and to institute the miracle of “instant industrialization” in order to release Peking from ties with Moscow. The program forced peasants into communes and in a short time 90 percent of the people were living in more than 1 million communes. The Great Leap Forward also promoted backyard blast furnaces. The entire program was a failure however, as the furnaces turned out unusable steel and deep ploughing in the countryside damaged soil-moisture content. A great dissension arose from the people, and in 1959, this pressure was instrumental in Mao’s Chairmanship of the People’s Republic being shifted to Liu Shao-Chi, although Mao retained his leadership of the Communist Party. That same year Russia cancelled its agreement to help Peking produce the atom bomb. Khrushchev later cut economic ties with China and withdrew all Soviet technicians who had been helping to industrialize the mainland. If Stalin was thought to have snubbed the Chinese Communists, Khrushchev was even worse. During a long meeting in 1958 with Hubert Humphrey, Khrushchev denounced Mao’s agricultural and communal programs, while at the same time praising Eisenhower, setting the stage for a U.S. visit. Naturally, Mao became highly alarmed, thinking that an anti-China block was to be formed by the two big powers. Event after event led to a wider gap between Moscow and Peking. In 1960, Russia withdrew all economic support from China. Two years later, Peking-trained guerillas entered Laos, India and Thailand, creating international incidents. In 1963, after a bitter feud of press attacks against each other, Peking refused to sign a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in Moscow. The following year was a hectic one, as Red China was formally recognized by France, the first non-Communist power to do so. During that time, Khrushchev was ousted, China exploded its first atomic bomb, and Premier Chou En-lai took a seven week goodwill tour of ten African countries, denouncing the Soviets as trying to make Third World nations (all non-white) subservient to Moscow’s way of thinking. The Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution In 1966, Mao launched the “Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution”, one of his several and greatest periodical purges. The intention was to rid the party of Mao’s opponents, particularly Liu-Shao-Chi. Mao also intended to do away with the party system, which at that time was based on the Russian Communist party, and form a pure Chinese or Maoist party, but he felt the only way to do this was through a violent and destructive revolution. And indeed it was violent and destructive. Army lieutenants, whom Mao could trust, converted selected radical youths into what was known as the “Red Guards.” Officially launched on Aug. 18, 1966, at the Gate of Heavenly Peace, the Red Guard movement hit mainland China like the worst tidal wave imaginable. Coinciding with this movement and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Mao replaced Liu Shao-Chi with Lin Piao, named as Mao’s eventual successor. By this time the country was in turmoil, much worse than the earlier civil war with the Kuomintang, as more than 120 million youths ravaged the nation. By the middle of 1967, China was near anarchy. The Red Guards had gone berserk and began fighting with everyone, including the People’s Liberation Army. Transportation of all kinds was disrupted. Entire railway trains were even hijacked. Utter chaos prevailed. Chou En-lai had originally supported Mao in his attempts to rejuvenate the party through the Cultural Revolution, but Chou became personally concerned when he heard of a planned attack by the Red Guards to eliminate him. As one China observer put it: "That seemed to be carrying the Cultural Revolution a hit far. It was carrying the Maoist spiritual rivival to the point where, having become completely irrational, it could endanger the security of Lin Piao, head of the armed forces, and Mao Tse-tung himself.” The army was immediately called into action to put an end to the Red Guard movement. In the first few months of 1968, it appeared the Red Guards had sub- sided and that a calm was at hand, but there was suddenly a new swing toward radicalism, followed by fresh violence. The leader of this “new” Cultural Revolution was none other than Mao Tse-tung’s wife, Chiang Ching, an “ultra-leftist”. Systematically, Chiang Ching began eliminating high party members until her name was ninth on the honor list of the party’s hierarchy. A description of the elimination of the Red Guards is as follows: "By the time Liu was stripped of all titles in August, 1968, innumerable other changes had occurred. Of the sixty-three active members of the Chinese Communist party’s Central Committee, forty-three had been removed or degraded. Of the seventy-two alternate members, fifty-six were out. Of forty-five first party secretaries and second party secretaries in the provinces and regions, thirty-six had been purged. Hence, rebuilding the party at the provincial level became the main business of the Ninth Party Congress. On October 1, Chou En-lai, who had plainly been taking the moderate side, was publicly listed third after Mao Tse-tung and Lin Piao in the new order of rani. Previously, even though he was Premier, Chou En-lai had been lumped in with all the Politburo members. It seemed to some observers that what was happening was that Lin Piao and Chou En-lai had struck up an alliance in order to rescue Red China from breakdown and possibly from civil war. By 1969, the People’s Liberation Army had got things quieted down in Chinas border regions, and had begun to dissolve Red Guard units in the other provinces. Once disbanded, the youths were packed off to work on the land, under army supervision. Those who resisttd were accused of being "class enemies”, and an undetermined number were killed.” Like many of Mao's programs, the "Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution” backfired. Instead of securing Mao’s political position, as was intended, his power was reduced to the extent that the formation of a Triumvirate was possible. This Triumvirate put Mao at the top as the great spiritual head of the country. Directly under Mao were Marshall Lin Piao, eventual successor to Mao, and Premier Chou En-lai. It may never be ascertained just how many Chinese people died from the internal struggles in China, dating from the Communist - Kuomintang civil wax through the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution. In a 56 page report, titled “The Human Cost of Communism in China”, compiled by Mississippi Democrat James 0. Eastland’s Senate Internal Security subcommittee last August, Mao Tse-tung and his Communist followers are blamed for the death of between 34,300,-000 and 63,784,000 Chinese since 1927. China and Russian Troops Clash in Border War Aside from internal woes China was having complications with Russia over territorial claims. In August of 1968, the Czechoslovakian independence move was squashed by Russian troops. Following the uprising came the "Brezhnev doctrine”, stating the right of the Soviet Union to "intervene whenever it considered the established party system of another Communist country to be endangered”. In effect, Russia was saying that it would send in its troops to throw out any Communist government that did not adhere to "Soviet leadership.” In March of 1969, armed clashes between Russian and Red Chinese border troops on small Chilichin Island in the Ussuri River marked a high point in Sino-Soviet relations. The Amur-Ussuri frontier, located in eastern Manchuria, might well have perpetrated the softening of Peking’s attitude toward the United States, especially since Moscow mobilized a million troops on China’s borders. A survey of the situation shows that now "the Soviet Union is establishing a massive military base in Outer Mongolia for what evidently is a strike force. Tanks, planes, and rockets have been stationed there. Permanent barracks have been built for Soviet troops”. In light of this latest Soviet threat, the U.S.-Russian SALT talks, the dwindling American involvement in Vietnam, and an increasing threat of Japanese industrialization it is little wonder why Peking began to woo the United States for a better relationship. NEXT WEEK: Part Two: American Involvement with China The U.N. Admittance and “A Speculation on President Nixon’s ‘Journey for Peace’ to Peking” When the smoke had cleared from the Great Proletariate Cultural Revolution in 1969, China’s leadership had changed somewhat. From left to right: Mao Tse-tung, Lin Piao, and Chou En-Lai, the number one, two, and three men in power respectively. Fighting broke out between Chinese and Russians in 1969 over territorial rights to Chilichin Island on the Ussuri River. the Crier/February 11, 1972 page 7 The Crier Sports Volume XI—^Number 16 CORNING COMMUNITY COLLEGE February 11, 1972 Due to a recent office party, we regretfully report that there is no sports page this week. Sports Editor Phil Schweiger was last seen entering a cab on the lower east side with a Spanish dancer. Sportswriter Frank Anderson developed an acute case of dysentery after swilling a case of Muskatelle and wolfing down a pound of moldy potato chips. Our staffer on the basketball beat, Cindy Ackerman, hovered on a twentieth-story window ledge for seven hour and fifteen minutes before she did a spectacular triple-twist, flip into a double gaynor to the pavement below. Ray Hughes struggled for a little over an hour before he submitted to the brutality of three retarded orderlies and donned a worsted-tex, 32 % polyester fiber straight-jacket. Mark Walker and Tommy Ahearn dueled for the affections of a certain staff typist until both succumbed in a pool of printer’s ink. Until the ramifications of the party are rectified, the Sports Staff will remain as primary targets of the Bureau of Missing Persons. Tune in next week, when the Crier will disclose such hot material as: Why President Nixon is keeping the Redskins from a Championship; What Y. A. Tittle means to the Bay Area Bombers roller derby team; How a can of Coca-Cola saved the career of Vida Blue; and a week at home with Willie Stargell, as told to George Wallace.