October 21, 1968

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EDITORIAL

PAL Y!"Beat Paly" is the battie growl of the Cou ­

gars and these words shake Cubberley duringthe annual- Spirit Week which starts today andculminates with the special Homecoming acti-vities this Friday. ,

Two major activities which fill Spirit Weekare the daily noon rallies and the constructionof floats. Both of these activities involve inter-"

class competition. The class with the mostspirit at the daily rallies receives the SpiritStick which is used to light the bonfire on Thur­sday nighc The class which builds the bestfloat is awarded the float trophy .

These are the major activities of Spirit Weekand the main purpose of the inter-class_ com­petition is to promote school spirit for the "BigGame" against Paly. This spirit will decidewhether the Vikings or the Cougars. win thespecial Spirit Trophy.

A selected group of adults judge the schoolsfor their enthusiasm and conduct before, duringand ·after the game. Imporant points which areconsidered·· are the reverence paid during thetraditional playing of the' National Anthem, theunity of the rooters, the control the spirit lea­ders have, and any incidents either preceedingor follo,wing the game. '

During the week show your class spirit butdo not forget that the class spirit helps in buildingschool spirit, The better the school spirit thebetter the chance for Cubberley to win backthe cherished spirit trophy. So let's go Cougarsand BEAT PALY!

BERNICE SAKUMA, Editor

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To the Editor:Is everything black and white?

This letter on paper appearsblack and white. Are all peo­ple black and white?

Our student body president,Tony Pitre, seems to have im­plied so in a recent assembly.There, he indicated that blackstudent representation in stu­dent governmen ,was a neces­sary and just action. I agree;yet he made no mention ofother minority groups.

What about the shades ofgray? There are many otherstudents at CubberleYI who arealso tied to minority racialgroups. Distinguishing blackstudents as being one separategroup IS segregation.

Other members of minority

By ERIK JOHNSON*If anyone word.! need be

chosen to define the politicsof State Superintendent ofPublic Instruction and Senateaspirant Max Rafferty, theword would be "logical."

Examining his domestic andforeign views, one finds naughtbut stark, realistic positions,in contrast to the sometimes'frightening, oftentimes absurdpolicies of his Democraticopponent in the November elec­tion, Former State ControllerAlan Cranston.. Whereas Mr. Cranston ad­vocates an unconditional, haz­ardous "immediate halt" ofall American hostilities in thewar in Vietnam, Mr. Raffertywould promote only that cease­fire which entailed the guaran­teed compliance of the opposingforces, a step toward peace notovertly threatening our armedforces or the civilian popu­lation. Because of this sortof careful, logical foreignpolicy, Max Rafferty offers theAmerican public' greater trustin the decisions of the UnitedStates •.

On "law and justice" (MaxRafferty's own phrase in placeof the echoed and hollow "lawand order" >, Mr. Cranston slylyevades presenting a workableplan for freedom from domesticdisorder, pausing only to repeatagain and again the shallowliberal dogma that intends tosolve national strife by" attack­ing the causes of violence." Notso shortsighte'd, Mr. Raffertyoffers the 6nly realistit alter­native to th~ riot as a way ofsolving problems -- the ballotbox. "A riot is not an argu-

By DAYE THIEMANNUnlike the 1968 Presidential

election, the race betweenDemocrat Alan Cranston andRepublican Max Rafferty forthe California Senate seat con­trasts two men of widely dif-fering ideas. _

Alan Cranston advocates anunconditional bombing halt as ameans of establishing our goodwill. in the Paris negotiationstoward North Vietnam. He ad­vocates free elections, withALL parties represented, sothat we can establish a gov­ernment that the Vietnamesepeople support. Cranston doesnot advocate, as does Rafferty,a seven-day ultimatum to theParis negotilltors and then fullmilitary escalation, includingatomic bombs.

Cranston supports the grapepicker's strike, stating that hedoes not believe that" Califor­nians want their dinner tablessubsidized by the poverty ofthe people who pick their food."

Cranston supports bothFederal and State laws requir­ing licensing and registrationof all firearms, as well as con­trols on interstate gun traf­fic. He believes in curing thesocial and economic conditionsthat cause riots, rather thanindiscriminately dealing outpunishment and retribution.Cranston believes in a type oflaw enforcement in which riotsare not to~erated, but he doesnot advocate law inforcementas an end in itself.

As shown by his record, AlanCranston is an honest, original,creative man. He does not makeblatant lies about Republicanvoting records, as does

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As shown by his record, AlanCranston is an honest, original,creative man. He does not makeblatant lies about Republicanvoting records, as doesRafferty, who cites bills thatSenator Thomas Kuchel votedfor where such bills neverexisted. Cranston resignedfrom a job as a governmentexecutive to enlist as a pri­vate in World War II, ratherthan acceptirig a deferment forflat feet. Rafferty, who hasnever served in the armed'forces nor fought in a war,calls young people with longhair "cowards" and "draft­dodgers" in every speech.Cranston does not mouth con­ventional party rhetoric, buthas his own ideas for construc­tive remedies to today's prob­lems. Cranston has somethingnew, something that Californianeeds now.

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gray? There are many other solve national strife by"attack­students at Cubberley; who are ing the causes pfviolence." Notalso tied to minority racial so shortsighted, Mr. Raffertygroups. Distinguishing black offers the oply realistic al£er­students as being one separate native to the riot as a way ofgroup IS segregation. solving problems -- the ballot

Other members of minority box. "A riot is not an argu­groups who have also felt con- ment, any more than a bulletsiderable prejudice have not is a ballot," he states.singled themselves out! Why? It is Max Rafferty who firstBecause they know they advocated the plan which is noware equally represented in mimicked by his opponent andschool government along with most state and national poli­everybody else! Shouldwe have ticians - that of tax incentivesseparate black, brown, yellow, to persuade corporate Interestsred, and white representatives? into the ghetto areas.It seems Cubberley is in a sad While Mr. Cranston againstate of affairs if any students, hastily endorses state andblack or otherwise, cannot get national gun and gun - ownerequal rights or equal repre- registration as an answer tosentation without having to form the crime rate, we see thea separate group with a sep- strength in Max Rafferty's log­arate representative! ical approaches and especially

I thought we people strove in his refusal to permit thefor integration, not segrega- disarming of the public - ation. The only real way we result of the rash and hastycan have equal rights, free- policies of Alan Cranston.dom, and most tmDor.tantlY. We can conclude that Maxpeace, here at Cubberley or in Rafferty is the only thought­the world is to have one group ful, patriotic, intrinsicallywhere prople identify with capable and rational man toeveryone, not just themselves! join George Murphy as' the

Mike Lee, Senior junior senator from California.

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cently provided those studentswith the right to vote in a timespecifically set aside for it.It placed the importance ofclass elections where it shouldbe, a place where voting wouldnot shove more immediate mat­ters out of the way. It alsogave the voter the right of pri­vacy, which was greatly lack­ing ip preVious elections.

In conclusion, students werenot led "by the hand'" to ad­visories and forced to vote.A ballot was given to allpresent and those that Wishedto vote, d.id so; those thatdidn't, did not. In fact 8% ofthe senior class, or roughlyforty people, did not vote. Thissmall· number could be calledapathetic, but surely not thelarger number who last yearwere deprived of the chanceto participate in a fair elec­tion system.

Steve Coniglio,Elections' Commissioner

The Catamount

BERNICE SAKUMA, Editor

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~Voting hassle' aired

and BEAT PALY!

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To The Editor:I would like to respond to

the editorial comment madeby Mike Hamilton in the lastissue of the CATAMOUNT.Hecharged that the new votingsystem, set up by myself aselections commissioner, didnot decrease apathy among thestudents even though a higherpercentage voted than ever be­fore. He claimed, using a dras­tic misquote of Kenn Russell,that the students followedKenn's attack against studentgovernment and voted him intooffice for it. Nothing could befurther from the truth.

In the first place, Russellnever used such a phrase nor.did his position warrant the typeof interpretation given byHamilton. Kenn noted to thesenior class that the electedofficers he had known in thepast, had not conveyed, to theclass as a whole, a willingnessto do more than the duties ofoffice. Russell told the assem­bly that he· would try to not belike this.

Secondly, the election was thefirst to elect officers by amajority of the classes. Itcannot, therefore, be comparedto the minority-vote electionsof' the past. These confusing,disrupting, and disorganizedvoting polls hid true classfeelings in a cloak of what Icall "voting hassle", a systemthat allows only a small min­ority of highly spirited, coura­geous students to wake throughthe mess to vote. All others,who ranked things of impor­tance higher than waiting aneterriity in line, did not receiveballots.

The election policy used re-