University Daily Kansan
Friday, November 13, 1970
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Forum Topic Is Vietnam
By KATHY KRUGER
Kansan Staff Writer
The South Vietnamese people have a tremendous desire for the fighting in Vietnam to end the war, and in the war, Eric Wright of the American Friends Service Committee and the Faculty of Arts of the university陪日葵during a ceremony.
Wright returned to the United States in July after spending three years in the Quang Nga province of South Vietnam and in the Quaker rehabilitation and Children's Day Care Centers there.
IN HIS SPEECH, Wright said he considered his years in Quang Nga an important time and it is one of the reasons there. He said that since his return to the University he was reconnected with America and is regaining a perspective on his Vietnamese experience through talks to various groups.
Wright's major motivation in speaking to groups is whatseveral of the Americans just before they left country. They said: "You are going beating us. You mustgovernment and tell them whatis happening to us and to ourcountry and ask for an end tothe war."
Wright discussed three impressions which he gained during his three-year exposure to the
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war and its effects. He said that these might seem familiar to the American public, but that they are important for what with what's happening there."
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THE FIRST impression was that the "civilian population of South Vietnam bears the brunt of the war," and that Quang Ngai province may be an extreme case, it is fairly typical of what is happening in peasant lands in Vietnam. Since 1966, more than 70 per cent of the villages in Quang Ngai province have been killed primarily by American soldiers.
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He did say, however, that most of these villages had been used by the soldiers in the NLF) and North Vietnamese troops as bases. Wright saw how the NLF had moved from the country to the city, where his first night he was in Quang Ngai. That night the NLF took over a jail and let out all the political prisoners.
The response of the military to the presence of the NLP in the villages has been to remove the village from the people in refugee camps along the district highways. The villages then are destroyed and the area becomes a free fire zone, anything that moves is a target.
WRIGHT SAID that many injuries resulted from these incidents, but many of the people were unwilling to leave as they would be in a livelihood (rice farming) and removed from their cultural environment. They were juried by bombs or artillery fire when the village became a free town.
The tremendous family loss that is occurring in South Vietnam shows why Wright said, but it is difficult to cite a case an incident in which we had no chance.
her three and nine-year-old sons, her three and nine-year-old daughters down in path and triggered an attack on path and killed, the woman lost both legs above the knee, the nine-year-old daughter injured in her back, the three-year-old suffered a nerve injury in his leg. Such incidents have been reported.
"TERROR IS USED by both
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bighight is right (a word
in the Government) to control
the people and move them under
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The second impression that Wright discussed was the social, economic and political disintegration of the South Vietnam conflict. The uprooting of the village culture as responsible for much of this.
Prices are rising in Vietnam, while much of the population is well-off. The tremendous flow of relief agencies country has led to much graff and corruption. Identification and information papers must often be burgled.
While in Vietnam, Wright said he saw draft resistance in a different light. The draft there was the only force for the duration of the war. Young Vietnamese are subject to both the official South Vietnamese draft during the day and the North Vietnamese draft during the men for guerrilla warfare during the night. Young South Vietnamese will often buy idification papers saying they were drafted in order to avoid being drafted.
Wright said that when Saigon troops came into a group of volunteers from Laos for documentation papers, they were met by hostile fire and five policeemen.
his friend for a day without pay. It seems the friend wanted to use it to cut off his trigger finger. Wright said the Center was sympathetic to the boy's feelings, it suggested that he be more even means of avoiding the draft.
There is little chance for opposition to the Saigon government, especially to the communist party, a support of a coalition government. Wright said Those who do the job must be "a communist" and imprisoned or a political prisoner. Wright said there were now more than 36,000 Vietnamese and thousands in Vietnam, many of whom were mistreated, and that this figure did not include prisoners of war being detained for interrogation.
Wright's final impression was that "tremendous desire of the theater and an end to the fighting." This feeling is especially prevalent in his many family ties with the NLF. Wright said (the Viet Minh encamped there) that he had French controlled Vietnam, and feel they have little good life.
IN AN OTHER CASE, a young Vietnamese boy who was working at the Negal Nepal Center requested Center to hire pender wanted the Center to hire
Qung Ngai is six miles from MW Li and Wright said he could menace Vietnam people and the American people might regard each other as enemies. There is "little enforcement," Saigon government" in the villages, and while under Viet occupation, he learned to live with communism.
Weight said that the Vietnamese nationization fighting—which the Vietnamese people want—but either shift the responsibility for them.
"America is going to have to realize that the war isn't ending in Vietnam," Wright said.
From all appearances, the late student representation of the university and the special University Senate meeting
By MELISSA BERG Kansan Staff
Ebert Urges 50-50, Will 'Wait and See'
The Senate approved overwhelmingly the amended section 3.4.2 of the Senate Rules and
Bill Ebert
But the most outspoken student proponent of 50 per cent representation has adopted a "wait and see" attitude.
Regulations, which gave students 20 per cent representation on academic committees, and insisted student motion for 20 per cent representation.
Bill Ebert, student body president, said in an interview, "We're not kidding ourselves: there just wertn't enough interest in keeping the big role of student among students died down.
"Twenty per cent passed because faculty and students thought that was an effort," he said the university "was afraid a greater percentage would take away their rights."
Ebert said that although the
group that spearheaded the drive for 50 per cent was discouraged with the outcome, it was not giving up.
"It TAKES TIME for students to take MAP tests of 50 cent per segment," she said. "It takes time to realize that our present education is meaningless."
Ebert said that the issue would perhaps mean more to students than it does to faculty, burdened with requirements and find that the basic nature of learning is a matter of experience.
Ebert said he didn't know when the low student response rate would be publicized of the 50 per cent issue or to student apathy, but it will.
"The response just wasn't broad enough," he said.
NO FURTHER attempts will be made to bring up the issue this semester. We would like to see students gain 50 per cent representation next month.
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Although he would like to have his goal accomplished before he left the job, he also has a particular drive to have himself associated with his passage just ahead.
"A spontaneous groundwell of opinion from the students themselves is necessary to accomplish this objective," he said.
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