Creighton University - Bluejay Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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An exhausted freshman takes a breather below while right, Geri Keane and Leo Schumacher prove that three legs are better than two, especially in a three-legged race. Kathy Ryan, Nancy Horan, Sally Mach and Anne Paulsen, below, survey the picnic from their lofty spot on the jungle bars.

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McCarthy visit sparks Welcome Week activities Eugene J. McCarthy, former Democratic presiden- tial hopeful, spoke to 400 Creighton students in Upper Brandeis to round out Welcome Week activities. The former democratic senator from Minnesota, said, America is discovering her military, moral and economic needs. But, he warned, future programs in these areas must recognize these limitations. McCarthy jokingly compared the scholastic ethics of Watergate defendants James McCord and E. Howard Hunt to Jesuit teachings, which brought a rousing response from the Jesuit-taught students. McCarthy recommended strict curtailment of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Armed Services Special Forces. He said these agencies had caused suspicion and mistrust in other countries by their secret and often illegal acts. The former senator, who was a candidate for the democratic nomination in 1968 and 1972, said Ameri- cans have been forced to revise their Cold War concept of infinite American power and moral righteousness. He said the United States had expanded militarily until we could kill the world two and one-half times. It ' s good to learn your limitations if you have been living with illusion, he said. Disillusion is a part of wisdom, but we can ' t lie in it. McCarthy said we must rid ourselves of problems like poverty, discrimination and unemployment before we can criticize other countries on moral grounds. He said he thought college students were less polit- ical now than in 1968, when he sought the Democratic presidential nomination. The end of the Vietnam War and the draft have removed the personal burden from the college students, making them less militant, McCarthy said. According to McCarthy, the Cold War also convinced Americans of their role as moral leaders of the world. But, he said, after My Lai most Americans would be slow to claim a monopoly on righteousness and good- ness. At least, he said, we have made the moral judg- ment by ourselves that the Vietnam War was wrong. Currently the senior editor for a publishing firm, McCarthy has continuously written for magazines and authored several books on political and govern- mental topics.