North Park University - Cupola Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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North Park made simple. Here are four North Parkers you know all about. You know the Covie, that close- minded evangelist who spends all his time in Bible studies, prayer groups, or singing in a gospel team. You know the Black, who wants to be separate and always gets special treatment--someone to cheer from the stands but ig- nore on the street. You know the Jock, loud and obnoxious,who talks of nothing but sports, is drunk at a party every weekend, and comes to school only to play ball. And you know the long-haired, indifferent Freak, who spends most of his time in his room smoking dope and listening to wall-shaking rock music. What's more, since you know all about these guys you don't have to listen to what they have to say--unless you happen to agree with them. And of course you don't have to love them. You can just chalk up North Park's problems to one or two of them and go about your busi- ness as usual. lt's nice and simple. But it's all wrong because you really don't know them. -os? ,fy x,gwa+L7ieN' v 'f l 4' Pm -. .slits ' 4 .Qs '- ve' : M i. b. For all you know, that Covie isn't as closed-minded as you have taught yourself to believe, but puts his faith to work every after- noon playing basketball with inner city kids. For all you know, that Black is part of a black student association not to set himself apart, but to educate a group of peers whose skin and experience happen to be different from his own. For all you know, that Jock finds more gratification in teaching a child to crawl than in going to parties, and came to North Park primarily to go to school and then to play ball. And for all you know, that Freak has done a lot more serious thinking than most of us, and takes the time to talk with people who are avoided by others. The point is, you don't know. And most other people don't either. Maybe it's time to look beyond a label or a stereotype and see each other as people with a common experience. Give the other guy the benefit of the doubt and you'll discover he isn't as different as you thought. Together we can do it. Alone we can't. Th t' ' I t BUi'tiSsiTuT We need each other 'U Il

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5 EJ C5 5 .1: ... E O 3 s: -9. 5 -Q ci.. ... -C En E 5 WITH FRIE D LIKE U TH EY DONIT N EED TH E E I CONGRESSMAN4 I House Office Building I Washington, D.C. I Dear Mr. Congressman: I I strongly urge you to use your vote to stop the I killing and the senseless spending in I Southeast Asia. Let's end the war, and bring I all our troops home - nom I Name I Addre I City St t Zip L-Hn-111111-1 'I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I .I I L They're our friends, our allies. So we went all the way to Asia to protect them from the Communists. And the South Vietnamese will never forget what America has done. Heres a small list of our achievements in Vietnam: 0 We've killed more Vietnamese civilians in the last six months than the Communists have in 16 years. 0 We've killed - and are still killing -so many children, that one out of two doesn't live past the age of five. 0 We've dropped the equivalent of ZW Hiroshimas on Vietnam every week. 0 We've destroyed so many villages, 6,000,000 South Vietnamese are refugees in their own land, living in conditions more horrible than any slum in the U.S. 0 We've destroyed 3570 of their forests. 0 We've destroyed half a million acres of their crops- enough to feed 600,000 people. 0 We've supported 300,000 Vietnamese prostitutes. 0 We've exposed thousands of our men to a new habit -drugs. 440,000 to 50,000 veterans have already returned as addicts, according to a report in The New York Times.l v We've fathered thousands of illegitimate children, without providing for them. 0 We've literally destroyed a proud centuries-old culture. Haven 'Z we done enough ? Have we the moral right to destroy a country in order to save it? And is it worth the more than 300,000 dead or wounded Americans we've lost in Vietnam? We think not. If you agree, send the message below to your Congressman. Only Congress can cut the purse strings that keep this war going. Let's get the Devil out of Vietnam and Southeast Asia now, before this terrible war destroys us, too. Help Unsell The War: A P iect of Clergy and Laymen Concemed, 537 W. 125th Street. New York. N. Y. 10027 A . 201