The War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 17, Ed. 1, Thursday, February 19, 1976 Page: 2 of 4
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WAR WHOOP
February ! 1976
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ORBITING
OUR MICROCOSM
Focus: Oil
by Gary Famsworth
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$ue' Pasa?
by
Cheryl
Striley
Several years ago this nntion
wns trented to n bo coiled 'oil
embargo" by the Arnbinn oil-
producing countries. The result
of that embargo ore still being
felt by the United States' popu-
lation. Some of the results arc infla-
tion fuel shortages and general
overall grumpincss on
everyone's part. Recently the
possibility of another oil em
bargo has been presented once
again ns an economic lever to
obtain political means and ob-
jectives. What would this do to
the nation? We still are not
energy self-sufficient to the
point that this would not effect
our foreign policy. Therefore
this week students were asked:
What do you think the Ameri-
can reaction to another oil em-
bargo by oil-exporting countries
should be?
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Cathy Weaver Sophomore Medical Technology "If there was
another oil embargo by oil-exporting countries the American reac-
tion should be one of logic. It should not be retaliation in the form of
military strength. Our reaction should be one ofcalm assurance and
dignity. We should arbitrate a settlement with dignity
not childlike pride-through hostility.
Allen S. Mnuldln Junlbr Prc-Mcd major 'The United States
should rctalliatc by reducing trade of products such as wheat steel
and other minerals and agrarian foodstuffs with any country that
holds an embargo over our heads. Also in that event we should turn
our oil interests to Alaska and off-shore drilling as well as to coal
and othtir new sources of energy and strive to be golf-sufficient. I
believe nationalism would be to the best interest of the U.S. and not
imperialism policemen expecting every nation to give in to the good
American dream."
Bill Dnlch Junior Prcd-Mcd major "The United States has
every right both morally and politically to respond with drastic
economic retaliation. As the bread box for the world it doesn't seem
unlikely that we would obtain results from slamming the lid on
-their fingers for a while. I think that with approximate trade meas-
res we could emphatically say "no more" without a threat of viol-
ence. Beth Adcock Junior Elementary Education "Americans
would react negatively to another oil embargo at first as they did the
ast time. But another embargo could force us to find and use other
energy sources. Actually we should find alternative energy
sources whether or not we have another oil embargo."
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Mark Scum Sophomore
Biology major "If an embargo was imposed the U.S. would not be
in a position to do much about it. I do believe we are far too depen-
dent on imported oil. Our surplus is not as low as we arc made to
believe. If we could decrease our dependence on imported oil the
embargo would not effect us as heavily."
Jon Gates Freshman P.E. mujor "An oil embargo would be a
hazard to our country but it might open some eyes in the country. We
have a larger surplus than we are lead to believe. This is so the oil"
companies can make more money. The automobile companies have
had devices that would double the gas mileage of our cars but they
don't want them on the market because of the oil companies.
Another embargo may just be what we need to get the American
public to pull together and correct all this mess."
Mary Strieker Sophomore Voice major "I believe that it
would be a very ridiculous kind of idea to take place. The United.
States may have oil.but not enough to keep us satisfied. We need the
oil and on oil embargo would be dangerous to our economy and cars.
Steve StumctH Sophomore Music Education major "This
country needs to become energy self-sufficient now develop what we
have now. The price will be expensive but what is the alternative?
We can get some of the money through taxing gasoline heavily. That
could conserve supplies while giving money and incentive. If wo are
self-sufficient what harm can an embargo do? If on embargo comes
before we are ready we should only buy what we need and dive into
our task with more enthusiam. We should at no time do anything to
provoke the Arabs such as using arms or increasing the price of our
exports to offset the balance of payments. This would only
create feelings of hostility."
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Well I certainly hope my life centers
around those fields because it
flourishes in imperfection which is in-
evitable and avoidable and I hope it is
therefore pardonable or at least toler-
able. For instance haye you ever gotten up
in front of a large crowd of people to
speak and no words came or your tongue
got carried away with itself and the re-
sult was a bunch of nonsense. The
printed medium is sometimes no better
because what you intended to say comes
out misspelled run together or trans-
posed. The word which you corrected on
proof comes out correct and the twelve
other words which were supposed to
complete the sentence somehow disap-
peared between the proof and the
finished product.
So I glance through the finished pro-
duct and the same sensation hits me
that I realize must be hitting every
other reader Somewhere there's a fool
between or behind these lines.
That's ok. I keep telling myself things
will shape up and they don't but then if
the War Whoop came out perfect that
would be too great a shock for the read-
ing public and the writing public to
take.
I admit that my own race for the
world's champion spelling title fell by
the wayside when I was only runner-up
in the fifth grade junior spelling bee
but with that in mind my point of view
from the inside of the operation looking
out tells me that champion spellers are
rare in our business anyway though a
few couldn't hurt.
That analysis even includes comput-
ers. In fact two weeks ago the compu-
ter which spits out our paper refused to
correct any of the mistakes which we
did and do occasionally find: in other
words it broke. The "perfect" machines
have their obstinate unproductive
moments too.
Amidst all the human and mechani-
cal problems there are the occasional
ity) I'm usually happy.
But imperfection multiplies like rab-
bits; you turn your head and more of it
creeps in which is probably very evi-
dent on the five tests and one paper I
had to do in tho span or this week: I
promise J thought finals had slipped up
on me without warning when that
phenomena of testing cues suddenly
struck the brain waves of our faculty
simultaneously. MY own e.s.p. reveals
that when the results of those "projects"
make themselves known this week I'm
going to be glad my suspicions of the
semester's end were only a fantasy:
I'mgoing to need double time to regen-
erate myself.
In this state of mind I contemplate
writing my suicide note this afternoon
instead of this column and jumping off
the banister outside the office (You
know it isn't true!) Suddenly my mind
recalls a rendition of Hamlet performed
by Fonzey in television's "Happy Days".
That was something I just happened
to catch during the Christmas holidays
on a rare occasion with television.
The antiquated words of
Shakespeare's "Hamlet" echoed
through Fonzey something like this:
"To Bo or Not to Be. Now let me tell you
folks . ... Its a lot better being than
not being. You better dig what you got
now cause you ain't gonna have It
forever."
As graduation approaches more
quickly for some than others of us we
can ponder just how true that is and as
we challenge ourselves to keep our nose
to the struggle of living it even though
things may come out wrong we begin to
realize that the synonym for our imper-
fection nnd failure is: human and that
it's how we're meant to be.
Calming down and thumbing
through a favorite book I Touch the
Eurth the Earth Touches Me I rurl
across a few quotes by Hugh Prather
that rebuild me: "Today a friend wrote
me "do you think you are a mistake fust
mistakes which slip in completely over- because you made one?" and "My day has
looked because despite its casual become a fraction happier ever since I
weekly appearance putting out a realized that nothing Is exactly the way I
newspaper is a fast furious and mind- would like It to be. This Is simply the way
boggling process. life Is and there goes one battle I don't
Its a good thing that I've never really have to fight anymore."
been a perfectionist; if something just
gets done (which is often an uncertain- On to Happy Daysl
According to their character men are
what they are but acording to their ac-
tions they are happy or the reverse.
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Ruth Blankenshlp. Freshman Pre-Nurslng major-"If there ft! ?" ' " a nra'
was another oil embargo the American people would probably not " Inl T nS u"
pay" any attention to it at first. A prolonged loss of the oil resulting in "? A" " 3?" ?
decreasedgasolineavailablewouldcauseustostoptravelingtoany tu d 8lvon tto e
place we want. People are somewhat sensible and could take tho ?U8tc. UoP;( "n?.or t0 Dr'
. problem stride. Karpel or Mr. Hmkel.
Vicky Putman Sophomore Social Welfare Major 'The first
reaction would be for the Americans to want to comply to their
demands but as we. start looking to find new sources of energy we
can turn to those other sources. This will require more research so v
in the meantime we'll probably have to negotiate Right now
atomic energy is being used to a large extent and this source con be . i
used to make us independent from oil exporting countries. "WT "rC 7T
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Edlor Cheryl Strilay
Assistant Editor Liz Oleaster
sP't "Itor Kit Klmbrall
Star! Wilton Donna Day
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Gary Famsworth
PhotoBraphcra Oary Cloud
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Business Manager Was Brown
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