DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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4 p.m.: The highlight of the October Moratorium was, without a doubt, the Memorial Service held in front of the tibrary. The speaker for the evening failed to appear clue to confusion over transportation, but the service provided a fitting conclusion to the Day's happen- ings. After the ceremonies, involving a crowd of 200, an upperclassmen summed it up by exclaiming: HThis is one of the most meaningful things i've seen in a long time; llm glad to see DePauw students get together on somethingtoronce. Ed. Note-The following article is a partial reaction to a DePauw Viet Namw-View from the left junior's trip to the November march in Washington, DC. The Peace Movement is dead. It died in 1968 the night the Chicago Police charged demonstrators in Lincoln Park. The movement was buried in October 1969, when Judge Julius Hoffman sentenced Bobby Seale to tour years in prison for attemptingto defend himself. Amerika, under the Nixon-Agnew regime is supporting a dictatorship in Viet Nam. At home, with only a pturality of votes and in the name of freedom, our ruler denies us what was granted the Ku Ktux Klan thirty years ago: the right to peace fuily demonstrate past the White House. With its predictions of Viet- ence in Washington the government made a calculated effort to intimiv date our citizens. Vice-Ruler Agnew has made an open attack on free speech, and the news media is being threatened by the FCC. The 'tleaders of the itconspiracy are jailed. labeled communists, or both. The issue is no longer Peace, but Freedom. Power: it the Freedom movement con- tinues to use the tactics it is using now, it wili not succeed in ending the war. Peace marchers and col- iege students tto paraphrase Stewart Alsopi have pieced them- selves into the rote of villians in the Amertkan politicat scene. What they hate Nixon and his policiesl is automatically defended by the tlSilent Majority ; what they want tpeacey is automaticaily rejected as inherently evil. Nixon knows this and in tact plays on it. The Hposi- tive polarization! which Agnew seeks wiEl mean a right-wing reac- tionary destruction of the Hvocal minority. They would not seek po- larization if it was not to their advantage. Nixon's poiicy is Law and Order while Mark Rudd calls for violence to prevent violence; both sides make their appeais to the use of raw power. Thus, neither side can be trusted, for their end result would be either total suppression or total revolution. which negates the personal freedom upon which their arguments are based. The only way to combat these forces is to subvert their influence through appeals to Freedom. This has been part of the nature of the Freedom Movement. Group: Non-violent selteawareness is the strongest instrument available for 29

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demonstrations as abetting the enemy in Hanoi. aiding and 2 p.m.: One of the most widely publicized events of the Day was the discussion of the war with two members of the faculty in the LibraryAuditorium. Though the meeting was origin- ally set up to be a conversation among representatives from several departments, it turned out to be a debate between Dr. Michael D. Lawrence, assistant professor of political science, and Col. William Hendrickson of the ROTC depart- ment. Over 200 students gathered in the library auditorium, projection 28 room, and hallway. Soon after the debate started, students outside of the auditorium began chanting: uMove! Move! Move! Move! A proposal was then made to switch the meeting to Meharry Hall or outdoors, but was rejected by the participants as the debate was already underway and was beingtaped. Lawrence, advocating stepped-up withdrawal from Southeast Asia and Hendrickson, representing the military side of the conflict, con- fronted each other with inquiries and opposing views, later answer- ingquestions fromthecrowd. While the debate was taking place, about 50 students staged an un- planned sit-down protest and serenade at the ROTC building. This expression of anti-war senti- ment was entirely peaceful, and did not distract anyone else from his regular business. However. a few of the construction workers across the street, Hsuspended their usual business on the new science building, becoming curious onlookers. One of the Moratorium leaders at DePauw remarked that this incident was indicative of the en- thusiasm a'nd spontaneity displayed by many people, saying. HThe apathetic students of yesterday are the activists of today.

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the defense of our Freedom; it is the attitude expressed and gener- ated in the last two moratoriums. It was achieved through emotionai stimulation and the use of rituats in an essentially religious experi- ence. This first became apparent to me when Keith Schroerlucke con- ducted the memorial service here, in October. Those who participated witl never forget experiencing a feeling of involvement and deep emotional identity as members of a real community. A conservative friend of mine expressed his con- cern to me over this Hreversion t0 the oEd-time religious appeal. What I suspect really atarmed him was the potential power which the liturgical dialogue displayed in its creation of a strong sense of pur- pose. I experienced this group identity Uagain in November at the Washing- ton Monument. There were weil over hait a million peopie presentea number far beyond the compre- hension abilities of any one individ- ual. Of course E can not explain the emotional charge in hearing10,000 peopte chanting PEACE NOW, or the way that chant IiteraEly echoed off the wails ot the government buliding on Pennsylvania Avenue, but this is only the first stage in achievingself-awareness. In Washington, the crowd was non-vioient. At DuPont circle, they displayed their discipline by self- lnduced commands to ttWALK rather than run when they were gassed. At the Justice Dept. they made an honest effort to be angry, but tailed: a youth in a gas mask was seen giving the peace sign to a policeman in a gas mask. Good 30 humor, similar to that of a llveiy footbatl game. prevailed. The crowd maintained this attitude even after having been heavily gassed on Con- stitution Avenue. They moved into the intersection of 12th and E cas- ually joking with the Army lVlP who was assigned there, and proceeded to block traffic and wait for police. When the police came En force from F, the demonstrators gave ground with littte resistance. The police too were admirable and gave no cause for anger. When attacked with rocks and bottles they retatiated with Tear gas and Pepper gas. but neither side made a serious at- tempt to hurt the other. Both sides were restrained, yet the issue was Arlo Guthrie expressed it clear. most accurately Saturday, when he said, ttYou know, we dldnlt even have to show up today. When they put machine guns around the White House we'd proved 0ler point? Action: What has happened with the Freedom Movement is ditticult to explain. Middle ciass youth are be coming radically alienated trem their social institutions-tar beyond the understanding of our nation's leaders. It is a religious and cul- tural phenomenon which will have a greater tong range impact on the United States than five Viet Nams falling to the Communists. lts po- tential will probably be manifest in one of three possible directions: D