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by J. Sanlei _
In Hitler's National Socialist Germany and _ in the Cambodie of Pel Pot- and in thousands of other temporal hells in the annals of infamy, there historically has been
continues to be, one 7 group of individuals per-
twistedmindsofafeW’ menwhonotonlyhad,
A stopped the "danger" of . thinking within themselves
seCuted not for‘their 50-“ a ’
called "trace" nor for V their political convictions and moral principles per se; but rather for . commission of the one "sin" above all others ‘ which causes tyrants to tremble LE. When the Fev. Dartin Luther King shouted "I have a dream", racists ' the‘worldcver should have shock with the sure ” knowledge that the dream would not die with the man, for the thoughts of and women cannever be murdered. Like Joe Hillin the old union song, these thoughts and dreams live on to organize. - r 'Ihe Nazi bastards di (may they rot in hell) not because they were defeat—ed in armed conflict; no, the real tragedy is that millions lost their lives -. in struggle against what had been a corpse since birth. 'Ihe Nazi leviathan had been still-born in the
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' TEESPASSEIB W by Kent Walker , students, at UPEI were puzzled recently when ~they saw" the Student ‘ Union Barn being torn down and then rebuilt in the center of campus. What was the reascn for this? . , The Student Union Executive was conducting 1 an experiment; would the students visit The Barn more often if it was centrally located?
but also had sought to root out thinking itself. They called their rise to power a "triumph of the will" in order to flaunt the anti— intellectual issue of their cause. 7 Likewise the Soviet Union, which regularly sends members of its own critical intellegensia
’ to mmtal institutions,
‘ of a cross.
seeks desperately to quench the power of thought in their land. Ccmmunist Moscow (like Hitler's
Berlin) is built upon unstable
ground indeed, therefore, fears the earth—shattering power of thought among the masses. It too has be- came a corpse; but no ordinary cadaver is the - USSR, for, like a vampire, it endlessly seeks after human blood. . It was once believed that a vampire could be brought to its knees at the display Yet, for the majority of the civilized _ western world, the cross
«has been left to tarnish,
having long since lost it's once uncontested
. sway over Western souls.
Moral, philosophical, political and yes,
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chipped away at the very foundations of the earths free societies (North America's included).
Thus we are being faced with theincreasing power of Cermunist (foremost Soviet) tyranny, just as almost by the hour we ourselves are losing' strength.
To this fear may be added the very real threats of coup, revolt , and fostered by our own inaction and blindness frem within 133 naticn is entirely secure from this danger. Lisbon, Madrid, Paris, Rome, London, Bonn, Washington and even Ottawa may became targets for the enemies of liberty should not democratic forces act swiftly enough to restore, preserve and extend free- dan's defences. Fran Australia to (Austria, , Western weakness in this task only further in- creases *the potential of world war and all inclusive world violence. Abeyance of our sacred responsibility with regard to liberty carries with it'a punishment not only swift and sure but befitting the crime — slavery for all generations
The study showed that
they would. A large increase in student activity occured in the
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moved. Conclusion: relocate the Barn and
‘ there willbe more
student participation. Confused? You can relax now. This is merely a fictitious story, but the thought is worthwhile . What _if The Barn-were centrally located? Could it be done? Think for
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a minute.’ What centrally- located building was re- Right . Manorial Hall. What would it be like if the StUdent Union was located on a floor in Memorial? Is it that impossible? All the main events (like "Guiness") could still be held in The Barn or the Gym. A floor
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THINKING AND TYRANTS
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l 2 than“, . .1 l. Dr. Fernando Vidal, and Professor Gary me- public lecture will be heldin the Dr. MacKinnon Lecture Theatre at Holland College.
The topic For the evening will be "Revolution in
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This past Spring, I attended the graduation exercises of a well known New England prep—schood. The key-note speaker was a moral—theologian from the Yale Divinity School. He warned that unless we, the people of the Western World, reassert our loyalty toward intellectual and spiritual strength, which are the fabric of our liberty, we will, in a short time, became the best "educated", best fed and best clothed concentration camp in human history”
The purpose of university is to endow the society in which it functions with the greatest re- source imaginable -- thinking women and men. Freedom, unlike tyranny, can only survive within' a society built upon reason. Therefore, each of ,us at this university who makes the decision to become critical thinkers and reasoned human beings to the highest height our de- velopment and labour can become volunteers as well in the .army of liberty, soldiers pre- pared to wage (the good fight with our minds) . Civilization is in our hands - or rather, our minds”
involvement.
The Barn is a great place, but let's face it, it is old and poorly located, expensive to heat and there is a great amount of wasted space. ’
We're the ones that attend the University and pay the money. Shouldn't our opinions be asked for and considered with everyone else' 5?
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