Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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Art Buchwald How Peace was won Washington — The Vietnam- ese war, after a brief absence, is back in the news. President Nixon is g oing to Midway Is- land to see if he can get President Thieu to agree to what President Thieu sup- posedly agreed to before Mr. Nixon made his speech. President Thieu is going to Midway to get President Nix- on to say what he said on television is not what he real- ly meant. And they ' ll prob- ably come out of their confer- ence with a joint statement Saying they are both resolved to have an honorable and just peace in Vietnam and that their meeting was very help- ful. Then President Thieu will go back to Saigon and say that President Nixon assured him that he would back the Saigon government and would not support any other form of government. President Nixon will go back to Washington arid assure the American peo- ple that as soon as Hanoi comes to terms, the South Vietnamese people will be able to choose their own destiny. • • • This will cause consterna- tion in Saigon, and President Thieu will demand to see Am- bassador Ellsworth Bunker to have him clarify what Presi- dent Nixon said when he got back. Ambassador Bunker will as- sure President Thieu that President Nixon has the in- terests of the South Vietna- mese Government at heart, and nothing President Nixon said changes the desire of the United States to see that the elected government of South Vietnam is protected in any peace settlement. President Thieu will then tell reporters that he has been assured that he is head of the legal government of South Vietnam, and nothing the Uni- ted States says will have any effect on what the United States agrees to in Paris. This will cause some dis- cussion in Paris, and Ambas- sador Henry Cabot Lodge will ask President Nixon if he can proceed in trying to negotiate the settlement despite Thieu ' s hard line. Ambassador Lodge will re- ceive instructions to proceed toward a settlement despite Thieu ' s hard line. Ambassador Lodge will re- ceive instructions to proceed toward a settlement according to President Nixon ' s original five-point program. When Lodge follows his or- ders, the South Vietnamese delegate to Paris will fly basic to Saigon and report to the South Vietnamese that the Uni- ted States is trying to sell them out in Paris. • • • President Thieu will cair in Ellsworth Bunker and demand to know what the United, States is doing in Paris. Bunk- er will assure Thieu that Am- bassador Lodge is only doing what Thieu and President -Nix- on agreed upon at Midway. Thieu will tell Bunker that he and President Nixon did not agree on anything except to bring the war to a just -and honorable finish. Bunker will then cable President Nixon that he needs help in reassuring Thieu ' th ' at the Saigon government ' s in- terests will be protected. President Nixon will send out Secretary of State Rogers and Secretary of Defense Laird to mollify Thieu about the United States ' intentions. After their meeting, Presi- dent Thieu will report to his Cabinet that he has the prom- ise of President Nixon that under no condition will the NLF have any role In a fu- ture South Vietnamese Gov- ernment. • • • This story will leak to the press and President Nixon will be asked to explain how President Thieu s view of ne- gotiations differs from his. President Nixon will say that the views of the United States, and the South Vietnamese are the same; the United States will continue to stress that the South Vietnamese people must decide their own destiny and that they are the only ones w ho can say what kind of gov- ernment they want, whether, it be the present one, a neutral- ist one or even a coalition with the NLF. Thieu will immediately de- mand a meeting with Am-» bassador Bunker. Meanwhile, back on Ham- burger Hill. . 4

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SASS Swarthmore Afro -American Students ' Society Swarthraore College Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081 Demands SASS has always insisted that black students be consulted and involved in all aspects of deliberation on matters involving black students. Not only does the Report of the Admissions Poli- cy Committee violate this principle, it has several other faults. First of all the report included in its tables information taken from the confidential files of black students and attempted to put this information on public display. Second, the report mal- igned and questioned the integrity of black December 23 i i ISr organization, a questionable position for a document supposedly Mr. ' Courtney . Smith: cruiting more black students. Finally the College Marlached the problem from the conservative, overly rigid viewpoint of an institution primarily concerned with the preser- Toi ' the President of Swarthmore College: We cannot accept either the first or second edition of the report of the Admissions Policy Coro. Merry Christmasifcnt and Enrollment of Negro Students. We tEnclosed are the clarified SASS demands you requested some time ago. If you fail to issue a clear, unequivocal public acceptance of these non-negotiable demands by noon, Tuesdays t January 7, 1969, the Black students and SASS will be forced to do whatever is necessaryYtpj obtain acceptance o,f game. We further demand : ; take positi(aigned) to incre the enrollment of black students in order to achieve the criti- cal mass necessary to sustain a viable healthy black student Specifically these steps shCllnton A. Etheridge, Jr. f a s Chairman, SASS so-called risk black students for the academic year be- ginning September 1969. Significant defined here to fall cae ahbetween ten (10) and twenty (20). b. negotiations with institutions presently conducting summer enrichment or reinforcement programs for entering freshmen so that risk students accepted by Swarthmore for the ac- ademic year 1969-70 may attend such a program. c. negotiations with several quality private secondary schools so as to arrange that risk students accepted by Swarthmore for the academic year beginning i n . September 19 9 ma y ave the option of attending such a 3chool for one year prior Co entering Swarthraore with the students total expenses for that year paid for by the College. d. the designing and implementation in academic year 1969-70 of a post enrollment ' support ' program that would be avail- able to black students after enrollment and that would take special consideration of risk students mentioned above. Such a package shall be designed by the Admissions Policy

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Parrish Hall Parrisb Hall Annex DuPont Science Building H,cks Hall Bartol Foundation President ' s House Whmier House Friends Meeting House Student Arts Center Pearson Theatre Wilcox Gallery Trotter Hall Beardsley Hall Martin Building and Animal Labor- Sharpies Pool Hall Gymnasium Scott Foundation Building Scott Outdoor Auditorium Sprout Observatory Clothier Memorial McCabe Library Students Observatory Fraternity Lodges a Kappa Sigma Pi b Tau Alpha Omicron c Phi Sigma Kappa d Delta Upsilon e Phi Omicron Psi Bond Memorial and Lodges Benjamin West House Worth Health Center Tarble Social Center Sharpies Dining Hall Lamb-Miller Field House Clothier Fields 1 Gymnasium Barn Service Building Healing Plant Hockey Fields Tennis Courts Hydraulic Laboratory Dormitories A Dana Dormitory B Hallowell Dormitory C Wharton Hall D Willets Dormitory E Worth Dormitory F Palmer Hall G Pittenger Hall H Roberts Hall J Athlon House K Woolman House L Robinson House M Mary Lyon Buildings P Professors ' Residences Q Employees ' Houses