News Scrapbook 1969-1971

Thousands Indicate War Views Here (Continut>d from Page a-11 Or. Herbert Marcuse, con- and with medicine," said Dr. professors on_ the different as-1men are mjured and killed in\ dif r d on Junior college troversial professor of philoso- Paul Saltman, provost of Rev- pects of the Vietnam war. the war zone. I campuses: only a handful were phy at UCSD, told students at elle College. He was the only A scheduled one-hour "work "There must be a wider un-1 inv lved at City College, a re- the La Jolla campus. UCSD administrator who spoke. stoppage for all San Diego t lJ' de ia ding of the war devas- por{ed 700 turned out !or demon- ''Demonstrations have al- He described the Vietnamese students and nonstudents" a 1 r: ~. . " . · str~ions at Mesa College and ready changed the views of a war as immoral and character- p.m. had no apparent eflec on tati~n, she said. These figur_es dozens of students watched a maJority of people m the United ized with graft and corruption. chool operations. ?on t tell half the story. T~e J..u_l- demon~tration with a black cof- States," he said in urging stu- ''This \\ar is in :some sense t pokesman for the Student mg must stop:· · our Po 1(; 0 n is fin at Palomar Coll ge. dents to jom demonstrations most fundamental problem in Mobil!zation Committee w~ich .!!::21umarutarian position City college students wore when they are formed. society today," said Dr. Francis orgamzed the moratormm' bl11ck arm bands for peace. "When the system (of demon- Halpern, a UCSD professor of events. estimated that academic © About 5 per cent of the students strations) starts to escalate, physios. "We can't solve the oth- act1v1t1es on campus "were there appeared with the arm then escalate yourselves," he er problems until it is ended. about half shut down." barids The moment of silence said Halpern urged the UCSD slu- An estimated 2,500 students for e Vietnam dead called for Mario Savio, who was the dents to move the protest off crowded into Montezuma Hall • For HEART FUND MEMORIALS: 121 p.m. was largely ignored leader of the free speech move- campus next month and get for the afternoon meeting which at t e City campus. ment at UC &rkeley m 1964, 1,000 to take part in a march up featured a brief speech by Jea- S(milar demon. !rations in• called for an end to the war and Broadway in downtown San nette Reisbord of Los Angeles,, Call: Memorial Secretary volved hundreds at .\liraCosta urged UCSD students to start Diego. executive director of the Com- ' 291-7454 College in Oceanside, Gross• thinking about a new form of Most of the 1,100 students at mittee of Responsibility. I moot College and Southwestern government. the University of San Diego at- She cited numerous war sta- College. "I would like to see us replace tended some phases of the ob- ti sties in support of the com- or Send: P.O. Box 3625-M San Diego, Calif. 921 03 ''You hRve ucceeded In g t- fear, famine, disease and pesti- servances there, which included I mittee's charge that more inn- tini this administration jittery, ' Jenee with freedom, with food a Mass for peace and talks by j ocent civilians than fighting :1 1___________,

r a num Day activ,11es were held in Revelle Plaza where tables were et up to offer antiwar literature and where s~akers discussed the war. The U.S. flag was lowered to half- ·tafl at II a m. \\hen the rall} be- gan. ajor speakers at lJCSD in- cluded Paul Saltman, provost of Revelle College; Herbert l\larcuse, professor of ph iloso- phy; and Mario Savio \\ho led I 5)

ides /, .{,r llc1pant wore black or Y.h1te armbands · hroughou the da 1 , the flow of traffic on the county's rec ts aral h1ghwa~ s was pnnKled with turned on head- Ii hts. A count by Evening "'ribu'1e reporters hoY.ed that rrJughly one vehicle in six had n adl!ghts nr, The largest student .\1orato- r L n Day demonstratmns were o the campu ·es of th!:! l mverslly of California at San Diego and at San 1)1ego State C liege Anl!Y.ar activities d " cro\\8s of between 2,500 anc: 3.000 at each campus.

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one room of San Diego • adjacent room "as cro"de!,1 with about 80 who 11atched the game on colt,r televis10n. The series game al ·o dre\\ a large au di€ ce at Grossmonl College. · One group of some 250 stu- dents demon trated at the :'.1a- nne Corps Recruit Depot late yesterda} afternoon. Another group of 12 to 15 appeared ear- ly in the evening at the , ·aval Training Center carrying can- dle~. There 11 ere no inc1 dents during either demonstration. At CCSD, the maior :',1orato- te Aztec Center. an

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Bth s·des Demonstr te In ounty Rallies, Lights Illustrate Area War Concern CONTIN~ED FROM P I the 1964 so-called free speech mvvcment al the University of Cahforma at Berkele:;. Conf11ct Called Cancer Saltman said the Vietnam war 1s a cancer '·which w1ll lead tu Jltmrate destruction of man and technology. He iaid the war is m1moral and char- acterized b; grdt and corrup- tion. "We are seeking unrcalisti- cal'y to impose our will on othe1 pe pl · for economic or !l'oral or fnanc1al reasons:' Saltman said. l.ircu e u ged students to JOIII L' demonstrations when 'Slop the Insanity' "Demonstrat1ons have ai- r ady changed the views of a rn,1Junt:; of people in the L 111\ed States, ' he asserted. •·Someone must stop the in- s mty that is gomg on in Viet- nam. I hope that these mora- toriums and other demonstra- 'ions continue so those with eyes to see and ears to hear will eventually learn what is happening." Savio charged that the war is a result of a "sick" Ameri- <:an soc1etv. "Anyone who believes this war is just an accident - a IT' stake - is as much a part ol the problem as the war it- self," he said. •·we must work to cunv'nce those who will re- main unconvinced that the \\ ar is a product of our society.' Conclusion of Week an Diego State was the end of Stop the War Week there, sponsored by the Student :',!ob11ization Com- m1ttee. College officials said scheduled during the day were held. although some faculty members said they had can- The program at most of the 1.600 classes The main Moratorium ob- servance at San Diego State was a mass meeting of some 2.~00 students in Montezuma Hall at Aztec Centrr. The stu- dents entered the hvll in a pro• cession from the lawn tidJa- cent to the Jibrarv where there had been other acti\ities. L. A. Woman Speaks l\lam speaker was Mrs. Jea- nette Reisbord of Los Angeles, e ·ecutive director of the Com- nnttee of Responsibility. She have been killed in Vietnam thnn military personnel, and 11dded that there i a crucial shortage of doctors to care fo the sick and y,,;unded. A t: ey marched tn Azle Cen er. students chantrd the r(• OVAi of A r IC m troops from Vietnam and sang peace son s. ' '11-"Jiaht \ igll s ude'lt at the l'nh er Iv of s~, Q1cr2 h .1 hcl1i. " , r 1ght c, ndle 1ght v r,J aid more they occur. celcd clas ·es.

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members and close friends of the bride and groom. The new Mrs Shortell lived in Fallbrook since childhood, graduated from the Convent of the Sac red Heart in El Cajon and later attended the Univer- sity of San Diego. Recently she has been employedinSanDiego. She is the niece of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Capra, of the Red .\lountain Ranch, and grand- daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. .\Iyron Warner, who came to Fallbrook in 1939. Her na- ternal randfather, the late Frank W!lkins, of Los Angeles, was a frequent visitor here for man, years. Mr. Shortell, a graduate of Boston College, Massachusetts, is employed by Computer Serv- ices Corporation He recently was assigned by his company as Senior Advisor to install a computer s, stem for the Royal Netherlands Navy, so the young couple's wedding trip was to their new home in Apeldoorn, a suburb of the Hague, in the Netherlands, where they expect to spend the coming year. On their way to Europe they visited the groom's mother, who was unable to travel to Cali- fornia for t)Je wedding.

Announc ment has been made in Fallbrook of the wedding of .\hss Kathryn Warner, daughter of Mr. and 1rs. James M. Warner, long Um res1d nts, and Robert .Jose-ph Shortell, son of Mrs. Albert E. Shortell and the late Mr. Shortell, of Salem, .\lassachusetts, which occured in San Diego on Thursday even- ing, August 28, 1969 Attendants at the service were ~iss Kalie Straub and Dav id E'lllS, both of San Diego. Rings for the ceremonv were earned by Claire and Marie Bruch ('()IISlllS or th(' bride and twin ,1:i.11 hters of l\lr. and Mrs. William Bruch 'Lulu Capra) of Fast Lansing Mich. Th b;id 's gown was a short wh te chiffon model and with 11 she wor a shoulder length veil, fm1 hed with a flat bow and streamers or ribbon , Her flow rs were a corsage of orchids. .\liss Straub's dress was in aqu:i with a matching corsag anrl Mrs. Warner chose a jacket dress of rose pink. The white satin pillows carried b, thP. twins were d •s1gnt>

campu a.ward student union where some 2 000 persons gathered to urge withdra\\al of troops from Vietnam.

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war were held throughout the day in the college's patio. Stu- dent attended the discussions durmg free periods. Free Period Staged Moratorium Day speakers were challenged during a pro- gram at Palomar College, San Marcos where the activities were held during a "free peri- od" between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. A student, Rich ::vicGuckin, 19, of Escondido, interrupted an antiwar speaker in the t·ol le c t ia, saying: "I b<.'· heve m my Pre 1dent and love my country, and 1f lh«t m n' l'm a .quare, o be ,t. • He dre11 a loud cheer from many stud nt eating lunch :_.-,,,= ~~~-~

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from 500 lo 1,000 students. The sociation served beans, Roy L. Stafford, associated student president and a ~fa. rine Corps veteran o Viel- nam. said the rally was held on a humanitarian basis, rattt- er than a political one. "I am a super capitalist and a business major," Stafford said. "There is no question that our system of government i the best in the world. I all for the \\ar when I \Iii over there. But now I'm fed up and want to see n e11d to that waste of human life. ' Classes met as usual at Ci ta- 'Our System Best'

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campus, speakers a r g u e d against the war at a gathering in the Greek Theater. Faculty speakers were Dr. Sidney Warren, chairman of the polit- ical science department; Dr John Somerville, professor of philosophy, and Dr. Warren Briggs, profe sor of religion. An estimated 300 students out oft 1e university's 1.800 en- rollment attended the gather-

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