The War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 12, Ed. 1, Thursday, March 17, 1983 Page: 2 of 8
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WAR WHOOP; March 17 1983
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III Indians!
Can you believe that we are
actually going to be allowed to
pack a bag head for some fun
times and not have to look at a
classroom for a whole week?
After all the things we've been
through these past couple of
weeks we deserve a break!
First of all I want to command
all of you who participated in the
Jump Rope for Heart. It was
fantastic to sec a gym full of
people of all ages jumping to
music doing aerobic dances
sweating laughing and caring.
Thank you for giving a part of
yourselves in memory of Kyle
I also want to congratulate both
our men and womens' basketball
teams for doing a great job this
year. Track season is starting and
it looks like McMurry's going to
have several names in the record
book.
Golf and tennis arc both under
way too. You will all do great this
season.
While I'm busy congratulationg
everyone I need to include those
who have been recently inducted
nto honor societies. Also Con
grats to all who actually survive
pledge season and make it into
the esteemed position of "Mem
bcr."
And last but not least; congra
tulations to all the professors who
managed to make up enough
assignments for all of us to do
over spring break that we won't
even notice that school is out.
(Actually it's not all that bad.
McMurry's got a lot of soft-heart
ed teachers that believe a vaca
tion should he a vacation. Re.
sides who wants to have a million 1
paper to grade right when ley
get back form spring break?)
By the way in case you haven t
realized it before this moment
today is Saint Patricks Day. Many
of you Freshmen may think that
once you arc in college that no
one would stoop to the childish
act of pinching you if you're not
wearing green. Wrongl
Upper classmen look for any and
Icvery excuse they can find for
some kind of entertainment.
The Bcnnctt-Willson Lectures
are today too. If you arc still
missing some College Scries cre
dits this would be a good time to
make them up. Dr. J. Harry
Haines is a great spcakcrl
1 hope everyone has a wonderful
time during Spring Break. I know
everyone is really looking forward
to traveling somewhere (especial-
ly the band and choir 'cause they
never get to go anywhere HA1)
Speakers win
at tournament
Representing McMurry were
David Sorrells freshman from
Iraan; Jeff Miller freshman from
Wallis; Mary Kay Swift sopho-
more from Toyahj Becky Good-
win junior from Albuquerque;
and Tim Jarrell junior from
Richardson.
The group had 19 entries col-
lectively and Sue Strohkirch
coach was pleased with the
team's performance. Miller ad-
vanced to finals in persuasive
speaking. Ms. Goodwin advanced
to semifinals in Impromptu and
placed third in Extemporaneous
speaking.
Recently the McMurry Forensics
Team competed in the Cougar
Classic Invitational Speech Tour-
nament at the University of
Houston.
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Technology scares the uninformed
In the last issue of WAR
WHOOP I discussed a few of the
economic problems which arc
being raised by the rapid ad-
vancement of technology. This
time I would like to focus on a few
of the other problems this tech-
nology is causing.
It is an unfortunate fact that
when people do not understand
something their first reaction is
not a rational curiosity. Rather
their reaction is usually an irra-
tional mistrust and even hatred of
what they do not understand.
Likewise when people feel threat-
ened their first reaction is to
strike out blindly at what they feci
is dangerous. The explosive
growth of technology has it bad
on both counts.
The principles behind the new
technology arc usually far too
complex for a layman to under-
stand. Only the request of cxpla-
LARRY
KM
nations can be given which
usually gloss over the heart of the
matter. This complexity effec-
tively negates the possibility of a
widespread understanding of the
Eighteen May Term
courses to be offered
Prc-rcgistration for May Term
1983 will be held April 4-8.
Eighteen of the unique and
unusual May Term classes will be
offered during the three wee
mini-term which begins May 11.
Most classes count for three
hours credit and fulfill various
core requirements and major
course requirements.
There will be five offerings in
the English Department this
May. Patrick Bennett will be
offering a "Writer's Survival
Seminar." Gerald McDaniel will
again be offering his "Things
That Go Bump in the Night: The
Supernatural in Literature."
"John Wayne and the Western
Myth" will be the title of a
course offered by Joyce Carroll.
William Monroe will offer a
course on "Alienated Heros
Alienated Texts: American Fie-
tlon After World War II."
Mary Buzan will be team-teaching
a course entitled "Th
Holocaust Through the Eyes o
Elie Wiesel" with religion pro-
fessor Philip Shuler. That course
will count for credit in either
department.
There will be three offerings in
the art education and physical
education departments.
The art department will offer
classes on watcrcolor landscapes
taught by Sherwood Sutcr; calli-
graphy taught by Elaine Hinklc;
and "The Sketch as a Fine Art
Form" taught by J. Robert
Miller.
Education classes will include
courses on phonics taught by
Ann Cook; learning disabilities
taught by Judy Minicr; and B.F.
Skinner taught by David Collins.
P.E. classes planned for May
Term arc an outdoor practicum at
Camp Butman taught by Greg
Feris and Pug Parris; "Nutrition
in Athletics" taught by Bill
Hadlcy; and "Scouting and Game
Preparation" taught by Coaches
Hershel Kimbrcll Rodney Mur-
phy Cliff Odcnwald and Larry
Shackelford."
The business department will
offer classes in "Starting and
Managing a Small Business"
taught by Jacqueling Stowe; and
"Tax Research Techniques"
taught by John Valentine.
Clark Bcasly will teach a biology
class on "Field Entomology." A
psychology course entitled
"Mother Earth and Father Time:
How to Survive the 21st Century"
will be taught by James and
Virginia Vick."
new devices. This lack of compre-
hension thus causes a large
undercurrent of mistrust and
fear. Also this technology seems
very threatening to many people.
It has already taken over many
jobs thus threatening people at
the most fundamental level. Talk
of genetic engineering computer
implants in the brain and ma-
chines that think has the most
rational observers worried. This
threat from technology's develop-
ment adds to the mistrust and
fear of it.
So instead of welcoming the
changes this technology can
bring people's reaction may in-
stead be destructive. People seem
to have a very limited capacity for
accepting change. When their
world is shaken up too much the)
tend to pull themselves into t
shell like a turtle and ignore the
changes going on. In this case
they surround themselves with a
sort of anti-intellectual uncaring
cacoon.
One example of this cacoon is
the current increase in interest in
fundamentalist religion. The
barely literate fire-breathing
Southern preacher with his sim-
plistic clear-cut theology has a
strong appeal to people tired of
dealing with the uncommon diffi-
cult questions which modern
technology poses.
Another example of this cacoon
is television. It is much easier to
go home and turn one's brain off
every night and watch TV than it
is to figure out what's going on in
the world.
This withdrawal into a cacoon is
very dangerous. Not only docs it
allow progress to continue indis-
criminately it more importantly
prevents us from taking advan-
tage of opportunities. It is im-
perative that wc keep our eyes
open if technology is to be to our
benefit. A character in James
Michcncr's book Space put it
this way:
In 1054 A.D. a brilliant light
appeared in the night sky. This
event was observed by astro-
nomers in China ond Arabia. It
was also recorded by Indians in
the American Southwest. Wc
know the light was thcr because
wc can sec the remnants of a nova
now in the same spot near the
constellation Taurus. Yet not a
single record was made of this
spectacle anywhere in the wes-
tern world. No one anywhere in
Europe scemd to even notice
what was surely one of the
greatest sights the world had ever
seen. He concludes: "An age is
called dark not because the light
fails to shine but because people
refuse to see it."
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