The Daily Utah Chronicle from Salt Lake City, Utah • 2

THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Monday, Ja Funds Needed Choir May Refuse ToipP By Claron Burgon A Capella President The University of Utah A Cappella Choir was recently invited to perform an exclusive concert in conjunction with the BYU Symphony Orchestra at the National Music Education Conference in Las Vegas. The concert, termed as "Utah will be attended by the leading music educators of the country. This is indeed a profound honorfor the choir, the University, and even the State of Utah. Wouldn't itbe a shame if the choir couldn't make the trip to Nevada? This may be the case, however, if the University 'administration does not allocate rrtpre funds for the travel costs. In the past, the ASUU has exclusively born the' financial burdens of the Music Depart- a soiution Pres in fact, reali7in 'TaI' of the Pbi from hisComi, The Problem fa thCTe has beeta Music Departmen tinning the IT could fe in aiding the 10 represent the tj Jt ran be shown t.

p0 that allocations thV sand drarfi Pense of the musical, dents in music are of this injustice flieC0 The purpose of tl5 is to on- The the problem it, Av that the student am; aktr. trative organizations an can rapidly reach a gether. jVfStm( ment, even going so far, at times, as to provide money for purchasing instruments and music and building maintenance materials money which should come from department or maintenance sources. ASUU funds are limited, but because of lack of financialaid from the proper sources, the Music Department is forced to rel on theextendedbut short arm of the ASUU. Skeleton Budget The A Cappella and Concert Band requested $6,000 of the ASUU allocations for travel costs for their regular concert tours.

Due to the war and other factors, the two groups have only been granted $4,000 which isn't enough, in view of the factthat a skeleton budget was submitted by the groups in the first place. (The A Cappella alonehadsacrificed $1,200 before submitting its budget tc the ASUU). The administration was made aware of the group's problem, but still has not come up with Peacenicks Protest Naoalm Contract i By Charles Perrin Clausen When the Department of Defense awarded a contract for napalm during Christmas vacation to a Redwood City, California, chemical corporation, a wave of peace demonstrators descended on the p'ant to protest the manufacture of such an inhumane weapon. The last time those demonstrators singled out a weapon as inhumane they eliminated the offending item from service but the results were not exactly what they had anticipated. Viet Nam is honeycombed with tunnels.

The Viet Cong use those tunnels for everything from a hospital to a miniature fort andfrom them kill many Allied soldiers when they aren't cleaned out. Early in the conflict the U.S. forces adopted the policy of using non-leath- tear gas to flush the VC out of their holes alive with only minor discomfort. The practice also allowed the civilians that are often taken by the VC as hostages to be separated from the soldiers without harming them. It seemed to be one of the few truly humane ways of fighting.

Weapons such as that are uncommon in the gentle art of killing your fellow man. New Cause Then the demonstrators discovered a new cause gas warfare. Immediately, the world over, cries of protest were raised that the capitalists were using gas on the poor defenseless South Vietnamese. The government attempted to explain that the gas used saved lives and thatit left no lethal effects, but the demonstrators' fury could not be stemmed. By drawing an analogy between the gas used in Viet Nem and the horrors of gas warfare in World War I the tear gas was forced from service.

But the problem of the in thetunnels did not disap-- pear. They still had to be got out. It was really no problem to got them out from the caves A hand grenade or a stick of dynamite tied to a gasoline can worked like a charm. Toss one in and the VC inside ceased tobe a problem. They also ceased to be.

Our humanitarian peace demonstrators were happy now that no Viet Cong were suffering from Allied tear gas. There is only one fly in the ointment. A lot fewer of them live under the present system. Now the peacenicks are after napalm. In war there are some targets that are best suited to certain weapons.

If the need exists it will be filled and if napalm is withdrawn something else will be used to replace it. And the chances are, that as in the case of the tear gas, the substitute will be more unpleasant to the recipients than the jellied gasoline now used. Disease, Not Symptom The demonstrators should concentrate on the disease, not on the symptoms. The disease is the state of the world that makes this country fight dirty little wars as the price of staying out of WW in. Albert Einstein was once asked what the weapons of WW TTT would be.

He saidthat he did not know but, "World War IV will surely be fought with stones." Whatever those weapons are the demonstrators are sure to dislike them intensely. Yet by hampering our military they are leading us toward WW III as surely as Neville Chamberlain brought WW II on the world with his weak stand at Munich. The place for the peacenicks to concentrate their efforts is in finding the solution to conflicts between nations by other means than arms. When they realize a nation in our position in the world must stop aggressions, whether it is through "Wars of Liberation" or from "National they will do more good than they are now doing. The GI's battling it out in the swamps have enough problems without having' those they are fighting to protect taking away the tools they need to stay alive and Stabbing them in theback with harassments.

3 Editorial Greek Week; IsIt Worthwhile? It's a big clay for beginnings. The Utah State Legislature begins today, the National Congress will begin its 90th session and Greek Week gets off to a start. This meeting of the Legislature may fundamental- ly change the University of Utah by the way it treats appropriation requests and tuition increase drives. The National Congress, by its view of social programs, research, aid to education and even Medicare will also have lasting effects on the institution. Greek Week, far from doing much to change the school, will be met with absolute indifference not only by the majority of the campus but by a fair proportion of those in the system itself.

Why a Greek Week? Who needs it? According to a spokesman, there are three reasons for holding the annual affair: 1 to have fun; (2) to bring the Greeks closer together as Greeks and (3) to sell the Greek system to the rest of the campus. According to this spokesman, the week does not attempt to do anything forother students or the campus asa whole since the Greeks do a good deal forothers during the rest of the year. Since the Greeks claim to do very little, it would be hard for us to chastizethem for not doing much. And since they are doing their very little with their own money, we can hardly ask them not to do it. But it does all seem rather a waste of time.

Those who participate in the week'sactivities will have limited fun, since a main drive fostered on the row is the desire to win and only a small percentage can win. We can hardly see how they could be brought any closer together, short ofhouses. They already go to the same dances, run the same committees, live on the same streets and marry each other. As for selling themselves to the rest of the campus, the Greeks aren't likely to do this either. Except for a limited number of freshmen and some mores, the campus has largely made up its mind on the Greeks one way or theother already.

Andthe only-thing- they'll be doing this week they don't doall the time will be holding a college bowl-typ- competition and building snowmen on their lawns. They already spend a goodly amount of time playingbridge, they're the ones who patronize most of the regular dances and a queen of something or other is chosen on the row and by the Greeks nearly every other week as it is. Not to be destructively critical, we hope the Greeks are successful in their efforts this week. We hope they have fun in organized pursuit of their regular activities and we hope they can be more successful than they have been in the past years so as to show us they can be effective. We can't help but add, however, that we're much more impressed when one of the houses gives a party for poor kids or contributes to the Community Action Program.

Perhaps palmier days will seea Greek Week during which the entire group gets together on some such activity. AVa yT TVi'l1 51- I If 30 Kir M(u. revised V7U THE MAIL BOX Editor: The question of capital punishment is important not just for our society, butforall societies throughout the ages. By means of the record of history, it becomesclear that, for better or worse, we are getting more civilized. In the evolution of justice, this has meant a lessened severity of the law.

The vengeance of chieftains and priests are no longer within our understanding of justice. Trial by ordeal is a thing of the past, and even the methods of punishment have become fore "civilized." Crucifixion, and burning at the stake, are no longer accepted, and it is now possible to confine criminals under reasonable conditions. This would not have, been feasible to the of Moses. We have finally begun to consider not merely the wrongs of the criminal, but his rights. In fact, the older forms of justice are today not merely intolerable, but they would be inexpedient in our society because our security in society depends on our assurance in justice before the law.

The presence of "cruel and unjust punishment" would be disruptive to the degree of civilization which we have obtained. And the evolution will continue. The question of capital punishment is not simple, and it may be necessary to consider it from many such as the morality, or the expedien- cy. But whther we can afford not to have capital punishment depends the answer to another question, "How civilized are we?" Philip Busey Editor: I would like to use the Chronicle Mail Box asa means to thank publicly everyone who has helped to launch the University's new system of registration. I especially want to thank the Registrar, Mr.

C. A. Reed-er- for the countless hours he has devoted to the task of producing workable winter quarter schedules for as many individual students as possible. Thanks also to the fine staff in the Registrar's Office, and to the personnel of the Machine Accounting Bureau and the Computer Center, the Division of Continuing Education, and the Accounting Office. Thanks are due as well to department chairmen, department secretaries, General Education counselors, members of the faculty, and most of all to the students of the Univer- sity.

The Chronicle has helped too, with frequent coverage of the registration story. Naturally we have had some problems getting underway. Most of these problems were the result of our goal to make registration easier for everyone, and for a great majority of students we reached this goal. We are now working to solve the problems encountered on the maiden voyage for Maximum Advance Registration, and we expect to have a number of significant improvements in effectforthe spring quarter. J.

Boyer Jarvis Dean Editor a telephone conversation on Tuesday, January 3rd with Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy's secretary at the Kennedy Foundation in Washington D.C. (she alsoassists Mrs. Kennedy as chairman of the President's Committee on Mental Retardation), I found she was appalled that the people in Utah were so barbaric as to stand by and allow a mentally retarded victim of disease, (Darrell Devere Poul-sen- be executed at sunrise on Monday, January 9, 1967 at our Utah State Prison.

Mr. Poul sen was denied commutation by the Utah Board of Pardons on December 28, 1966. He has the mentality of an child. To her knowledge and mine we knew of only one other case where this has happened. Pvt.

Ed Slovik, a mentally retarded Puerto Rican-America- boy was executed by the U.S. Army in Michigan on January 31, 1945 for cowardice. In World War II approximately 40,000 formal charges of misbehavior in the face of the enemy or desertion wcj erred against Amerie: diers. Of these, in general court-mar- victions: 49 death were approved by ff- authorities but only was carried out-- vjk, who. was a frigj iua tiementally retarded Clearest evidence fc; death penalty is not enforce military ifh safeguard nationa matters is the simple i the Navy has not exec hoU, before one since 1849, War.

(if 1 Knowing what a George W. Lamer. about his background, in the i mer judge Advocate in Wag and who now man of the Uta of Pardons, I be feeling as at the Boar pardon Poulsen his death senten out possibility that now knows by in the land of where Utahns t0kiUJ 5 geanCeWar' Alister is 0 the Death execution. 1Ehe Bailultoh (Ehronidc Published dallyduring fall, winter and spring quarters except during test week by the Associated Students of the University of Utah. Entered as second class matter in the Post Office at Salt Lake City, Utah.

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