Dear Doug: 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     I hope this is the final 
     
     letter I write concerning 
     
     your poor attempts at face- 
     
     saving. 
     
    

    
     I feel that my attempts 
     
     to bring quality into your 
     
     articles is a waste of time, 
     
     and serve only to bring you 
     
     the limelight you so des- 
     
     perately seek. 
     
    

    
     Please do not consider 
     
     this insulting, but I do 
     
     not consider you worth 
     
     wasting my time or ink on. 
     
    

    
     I care not how you address 
     
     your mother, where you live,~ 
     
     or even that you exist. Nor 
     
     do I care that you close a 
     
     letter with "by Doug Gallantfl 
     
    

    
     The main consideration is 
     
     not the horse, but the dis- 
     
     posal of the droppings with 
     
     which it fouls the road. 
     
    

    
     I feel that you have 
     
     mistaken the attention paid 
     
     to your droppings as some 
     
     reflection of your impor- 
     
    

    
     ,ftance, rather than of your 
     
    

    
     'lack of taste or timing. 
     
    

    
     ' No, Doug, I do not care 
     
    

    
     ‘to consider you important. 
     
     However, I do care when 
     
    

    
     an egotist is given the 
     
    

    
     chance to talk dirty, 
     
    

    
     reassuring himself that he 
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
          
     
         
     
         
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
        
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
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     need not defend his position 
     
     at any other than a name— 
     
     calling level. 
     
    

    
     Or when a person suffering 
     
     from verbal diahhrea risks 
     
     censorship of the Cadre for 
     
     sensationalism or status. 
     
    

    
     I care when someone attacks 
     
     me on a personal level, and 
     
     at the same time proclaims 
     
     hypocritically that the Cadre 
     
     should not be a battleground. 
     
    

    
     Let me remind you of a — 
     
     point you made in your 
     
     October 27 letter: Only 
     
     three letters which pro— 
     
     tested your language have 
     
     been received by the Studedt 
     
     Union. . 
     
    

    
     Three letters compared to: 
     
     a student population of fiftenn 
     
     hundred is not in itself 
     
     significant. 
     
    

    
     However, three such letters 
     
     compared to the number in I 
     
     support of hnrestricted pro- 
     
     fanity (not to be confused 
     
     with freedom of speech), which 
     
     was zero, or to the number of 
     
     voices claiming support of 
     
     unregulated obscenity (one - 
     
     yours) is certainly an 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘overwhelming majority. 
     
    
   
   
    
     That is all I wish to say. 
     
     I have given you the oppor- 
     
     tunity to waste a column 
     
     telling us all how wonderful 
     
    
   
   
    
     SUNJAY 
     
    
   
   
    
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     .t 9 : 30 Rm. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     you are, to belittle Quakers,Q 
     
     myself and other decent people 
     
     and most pitifully, to convince 
     
     yourself that by accomplishing 
     
     this you have justified your 
     
     existence. 
     
    

    
     Come off it Gallant, 
     
     smarten up - more people are 
     
     on to you than you let your- 
     
     self realize. How can you 
     
     possibly expect to convince 
     
     us that constructive journal- 
     
     ism consists of dedicating a 
     
     column to your own unproven 
     
     accomplishments, belittling 
     
     your_challengers,and evading 
     
     major issues? Do you feel 
     
     that much attention will be 
     
     paid to someone who cannot 
     
     or will not defend a stance 
     
     by anything other than 
     
     catcalling? v 
     
    

    
     I must at this time cease 
     
     feeding the furnace of your 
     
    
   
   
    
     ego by reminding you that you_,' 
     
    
   
   
    
     are merely the horSe, and V 
     
     while your droppings may ’ 
     
     remind people of your preé 
     
     sence, it is the displeasure‘ 
     
     with which we view these 
     
     accomplishments that you 
     
     misinterpret as awe or marVel 
     
     at the entity Which taste- 
     
     lessly releases them. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Randy Walford.