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. . . . . . . . . . . .-- ' . . . . . IC 0 0.0 1 8 13 2 2 ".. , . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . - . . . In conclubion, the letter, i n a classic cxatnplc of pot calling kettle black, the University of Arkansas chapter states, "Both NO'S have degenerated all political discussion into the chanting of mean- . ingles 8 slogans and ,empty rhetoric. ct . - I In analyzing the rignificsncc? of thi 8 - letter i t m u s t be con- ceded that had it not favored th% SWP point of view it would not have been published. Further, tho University of Arkansas SDS chaptcr is believed to be a most insignificant onc,(in a recent national mcm- bership list of SDS from a rcliable information source, not one mem- . ber of SDS in Arkansas was known and the University of Arkansas has not experienced'significant student demonstrations in rccent years). the dawning of the age of more radical splintering. * . .pr - None the less, the University of Arkansas SDS "happening" m a y herald I *To.the Social Scicntist, slum riots, likc hurricaocs L o the . meteorologist, run in seasons. The riot season cnded on Labor Day and now thosc who count thcni and mcasurc tlicir intcnsity s e a r c h for the reasons why s u m m e r 1969 was briglrtcr by a city mile than thc past scvcral s u m m e r s . The conseneris, as rcportcd in the iicws iwcdia in tlrc past - several weeks (including for instance Timr Magaziiir- - I2 Scplknilwr: Ncw York Timcs - 7 September; T h e Econoniist 23 August; Moynihan speaking for the administration and widely published), sccnis to be that the w o r s t is past and if cornplaccncy doesn't s h in, stcady im- Riots havc o c c u r r e d and have stayed, as in the past, in the black ghettos. h a w not cxpandcd (as oft prcdicted and/or threatcncd) to tlrc whitc suburbs and thcy Iiavc not, by any popular mcasuro (number, sizc, cost, blood, dcath) reached the proportion of tlicKing riots of April 1968 or thc mid-spmmer outbreak of 1967. - provcmcot can be hopcd for and m a y bc even txpcctccl. They Social theor.ists beiieve that tlic reasons why arc? complcx and irrflucncccl by a number a l intcrrclatcd varial,lc-s that ahc~uld I>c rcgardad a s a h s i c fcirrnulation for advancing and accelcrating hlac.k/whiLc? rlia- Iopw atid ccppcration i n coming ycars. Tlic goal (rsl.rll11islrmcnl o f racial liarinoily antl rclslivc equality), sittiply statcvl, i s -to cut tlrc Nt*yZrr) in'on hie riplitful pic*cc* o f qic! social, economic antl 1x)liticaI act irjn. Tlic problcnis arc nrany antt + i ~ r i c u l t . S W i l l e s s tlian 2 pcrccnt o f sVil'lrc~ con- struction trade union m c m b c r s are Negroes and tho university populalion remains far below a rcprescntative racial ballance, cti! . . . 7 ' , A- - P-: ... .- . t -. . . . . .- I