Rider University - Shadow Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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student government and we'Il end up as we were be- fore, with no part in the important phases of the Col- lege, he said. Also, I want to see the Student Senate, especially under the new system, get moving. The senators take the jobs and then they don't bother to work. According to Atkinson, too many of the senators have a gripe and want to set up a committee and then when the committee is set up, they don't want to work on it. We have to get them moving somehow. They want the job but then they don't want to work. If they take the job, they better start being prepared to either work or give up the job, he said. Both may be somewhat idealistic. People's minds can be changed but it takes a long time and in a college where you only have a particular group here for four years, that may not be enough time. But if you can get a program in where you start with the freshmen and mold them so that by the time they're juniors and seniors they have an idea as to what they're doing and where 'it's at,' then maybe things can start happening. You don't do everything all at once. But with careful planning, things can start moving and then watch out! si 93

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ticipate in the making of College policy. After all, we are paying for our education here, we should know where the money is going and what we're getting. Finnegan blames the administration for many of the campus problems. Administrations are the usual scape- goats, however, in student gripes. But Finnegan sees Dr. Elliott CFrank N., president of the collegej in particular as the cause for some of the problems. Some of the decisions last year during the strike could have caused some violence. The difference among the students exists only in the minds of some people, Finnegan said. lf they would look at students as a group, then maybe they would see the common ground. You must see the source and then deal with the problem and you can't see the source unless you look at the total community. What some of the adminis- trators are doing here is turning student against stu- dent. They say 'Look at the long-haired radicals, the leftists, the blacks on the Student Senate.' People then look and they begin to think that if these people notice this, then maybe there is trouble brewing, Dr. Elliott, I don't think, is too keen on student power or students getting too involved in academics, finances or policy-making at the college, he added. Atkinson, while sharing many of Finnegan's views is more of the push type who wants to see things moving. One of the prime goals of Atkinson's administration is to try to get rid of the student apathy that he sees on the campus. This year it's really bad. We have to get out and get them moving and open the channels of communication so that they don't feel they're being left out. This is the year that could make or break student government on the campus. lf we don't get better stu- dent activism, then we may find ourselves without a real i ll, I N l Vi.

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Voice Cf Campus Conservatives Not as 'Flight' As imagined by Frank M. Lorenz Young Republicans Club President Our time is one of confusion, polarization and frustra- tion. Stating and communicating anyone's position on an important issue is a difficult task. What follows is my attempt to communicate my view which concurs with many young conservatives on issues which concern all of us. The issues to be tackled are Vietnam, the draft, abortion and the prohibition of drugs. I take the liberty to start with Vietnam. Whenever pos- sible, the United States should help democratic nations to maintain their right of self-determination. Hopefully, this help will include at least armaments and troop train- ing. The United States should not assist any nation to the extent that such assistance interferes with its own domestic tranquility and welfare. Because of Vietnam, New Left revolutionaries Cwho are saying much more than give peace a chance J are gaining support. Economic resources that are very much needed here are going to Vietnam. Thousands of Americans have died. We must leave Vietnam, not be- cause we are not justified in being there, but so that we l can deal more effectively on the home front with po- verty, pollution and crime. President Nixon seems to be withdrawing the troops and showing consideration for the South Vietnamese people, whom thousands of Americans have died for. His policy seems a just one. The basis of my position and that of many young con- servatives is the value of human life. There is no greater right than the right to life, without which, all other rights become insignificant. If a human being has no choice as to whether he will chance dying in a war or staying home, his other freedoms are meaningless for he has no right to life and is subject to involuntary servitude. The conservative alternative-a voluntary army-would work if four conditions were fulfilled. First, the pay scales should be raised. Secondly, mili- tary service should be open to qualified people without bias toward sex or age. Thirdly, limitations on the num- ber or percentage of people employed during peace time should be set, keeping in mind the dangers of a professional army. Finally, we should only make a troop committment when deemed necessary by an over- whelming number of qualified people. No matter how morally justifiable a troop committment is, it can't be made with a voluntary army when too many qualified people see only a senseless war as the end result. If anyone in society is to have the right to life, the child in his mother's womb should also not be ex- empted. If a child inside his mother's womb can be re- garded as an insignificant potentiality or human being, then any other group may be found too old, too retarded or too black in the years that would follow abortion on demand. Those who originally thought the unwanted insignificant may find themselves regarded as unwanted in a time and society where for them it is too late. When people choose to disregard the sanction of human life, as the abortionists do, they open a Pandora's Box filled with unknown havoc. I f X XX f ' ' l nl . l ' ffl L tl . if - 1 El ' ,jlfli Eng Aga? . a t ' f f - - if - F 1: ' l .-225 2 71. ' ii ' Tiff? i . ,'.Z'5, f V !,, . -'I I .. ff'fV'f.ix49'. 32 f' 'F A 9 LHR ill! f iw, 1 I . yt- .gy flu f A ., T 1 ,l ff-X X -fiiitil ,gf niffgff'ff-'.gfj?yg7-i'1v,2.fyj if 'H l ,J 'QM' it T J Q,-1 :, '1 1.1 ffwf i. X 1 Biggs f f ' ,'-X' 4 v If if is tygllu4!fi,'i?4lL .X X Q - ' il iq its wwf M214 . . f . .gi .. ,,,-fpf ' -. A '- .. V lt! ii-x-2'Tl :fell 4 .:-'ai1 'l:'7-0f,'iz'l Qg'l'?:Z,-Z Q ' ' I . .. 1- 41531, ,,,l.V. 5 .-.,,.f . ffjff M... ,f 'tie' F X - - 'if X ' - x Z X 1 as x , jf -slits 94 2