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Want A Good Haircut? Splurge! Go To A Salon!
I’ve never been one to care flatter your face. As my locks
much about what my hair looks became more and more unruly, tures. When I chose a style, she
I’m really gonna pay $40 - $50
While playing with my hair,
justto have someone cutmy hair!” Margaret asked me how I like to
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But it was explained to me that
salon professionals can give you
a haircut that will accentuate and
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style it, what kind of products
and brush I use, and what I would
like done. She then suggested a
few styles and showed me pic-
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told me how it would look as it
started growing out and showed
me pictures of cuts that I could
try when my hair got a little
longer.
Margaret was like an ency-
clopedia when it came to hair
care. I was amazed. A delightful
woman, Margaret kept me enter-
tained by telling personal anec-
dotes and showing interest in me.
She washed, cut and styled my
hair in about 20 minutes, de-
scribing the process as she went
along. When this sorceress of
hair follicle-ology was finished,
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Contributors:
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Editorial:
"What’s The Big Deal About Marijuana?”
Dear Editor,
“Come, follow me” is the
invitation Jesus gives to his dis-
ciples in the first chapter of
John’s gospel. This invitation
calls the disciples to develop a
closer relationship with Him
through His teachings. There is
no set of expectations that is
handed out as a “how to follow”
manual; only a sincere desire to
experience God’s love and
friendship.
This idea was brought home
to me a few months ago while
discussing the spiritual life with
a student. He attended a church
service at which the youth of the
church had witnessed in front of
the whole congregation the
ways that the Lord had touched
each of their lives. The student,
whose spiritual life was seeing
new growth as a result of that
spectacle, was struck by the joy
and happiness these young
people had in their lives. He left
that experience with a desire to
further explore God’s invitation
to him.
This story reminds me of
the many ways God can be
present to us each day if we slow
down, look around, and listen.
The voice we hear is not outside
ourselves. The internal voice
helps us recognize God’s pres-
ence. Our society often draws
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Let me get something
straight. Conservatives want
small government and more free-
dom — not just for corporations,
but for people, too. While con-
servatives certainly don’t con-
done moral depravity, we feel
that people should have the free-
dom to choose whatever they
want to do, as long as what they
do doesn’t harm anyone else or
anyone else’s property. This is
my interpretation of the conser-
vative doctrine, and why I con-
sider my self a conservative.
Given this, I have a question:
What’s the big deal about mari-
juana?
I live in San Marcos, which
has been a hotbed of pot contro-
versy for years now, so I’ve heard
both sides of the propaganda.
After being bombarded with in-
formation (and disinformation),
I am for the legalization of mari-
juana.
First of all, marijuana has legalizing marijuana. Imagine if
many industrial and pharmaceu- everything that’s bad for you was
tical uses. That little plant can made illegal. Cigarettes. Alco-
supply fiber for rope, clothing, hol. Pizza. Mexican food. Cof-
and paper, and it can do it more fee. Sugar. Red meat. Butter,
efficiently than trees can. Mari- Loud music. What kind of life
juana seeds can be used for live- would that be? George Orwell’s
stock feed. In the world of medi- 1984 — that’s what kind of life
cine, marijuana’s active ingredi- we’d have. As it is in this coun-
ent, THC, has been used to treat try, if you don’t want red meat,
glaucoma and to ease the pain of you don’t have to eat it. If you
cancer patients undergoing che- want a steak every once in a
motherapy. while, you can have one. If you
Secondly, I don’t believe want to eat greasy half-pound
that the recreational use of mari- hamburgers three times a day,
juana is as bad as many people you can do that, too. It’s called
say. Sure, it kills brain cells, but INDIVIDUAL CHOICE and IN-
so does alcohol, and so does DIVIDUAL RESPONSIBIL-
sneezing three times. Marijuana ITY. If you have high blood pres-
is not physically addictive; it is sure and you choose to eat Mexi-
psychologically addictive, like can food and cheeseburgers ev-
video games and soap operas, ery day anyway, that is your
Whether marijuana is a gateway choice. Sure, the government
drug or not is debatable; I’d have could make it illegal for anybody
to say that the average teenager to eat unhealthy foods and tell us
who wants to try LSD wants to that, thanks to the government,
do it out of curiosity, not because we’ll all live long and fruitful
he/she smoked a joint. (Where’s lives, but that would take the fun
the logic there? I smoke pot; ergo, out of living, wouldn ’t it? If my
I should do other drugs, too? one-pizza-a-week and two-beers-
Right.) And people who are all twice-a-week habits caused seri-
for economic improvement ous harm to my neighbor and/or
should think about this: selling his property, I wouldn’t do it—
marijuana cigarettes over-the- and if I did, I would expect to be
counter to people of a certain age reprimanded for it. But since eat-
would create factories, which ing a pizza and drinking a couple
would create jobs; plus,we could of beers on the weekend while
tax the hell out of marijuana, just I’m in my own home doesn’t
like the “sin taxes” on alcohol hurt anyone but myself, it’s okay.1
and cigarettes. This same principle can be ap-
Finally, just the principle of Continued On p
the matter puts me in favor of b
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like. I mean, I wash it every day the idea of getting my hair cut by
and blow it dry to straighten out a master of the trade became more
the moronic little curls, but I’m appealing. So I manipulated the
not quite the type to bother with cheezy excuse for a holiday —
styling products and appliances. Valentine’s Day — to get my
The local Pro-Cuts usually suf- boyfriend to pay for my visit to
fices when I need a trim; and I ’ ve the salon!
never paid more than $10 to get What a treat! I walked in to
my tresses chopped. So that’s the stylish, 6th St. salon, Carpe
why it amazed me when some- Diem, and informed the cute re-
one suggested, while I was whin- ceptionist that I had an appoint-
ing about how I wanted to change ment with Margaret. Minutes
my “do,” that I try a professional! later, my beautiful red-haired
“Yeah right,” I thought “Like stylist called me up to her chair.
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