The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, April 26, 1985 Page: 2 of 8
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Sincerely,
Sara Rushing
Julie Tunnell
To the Editor of the Megaphone:
This is a letter to reply to the graduating
sophomore .who wrote about conformity
last week.
Conformity is an issue that every one of us
has to deal with. You are right absolutely .
everyone has to deal with it whether yOu
like it or not. You may then end up being a
non-conformist. Independents, greeks,
maids, professors and workers in this cam-
pus represent a micro-America. But is
America really a melting pot? We are talk-
ing about greeks, independents, minorities,
democrates, republicans, etc. Then we are
talking about little minds making
judgements among themselves. This is sad
but very true. Well “let’s appreciate life
and the wonders of it,” you said. I like the
idea because Life and Living will
predomiate, however, I feel it is my respon-
sibility to get involved if I see injustice. I
like nice words but I also love and like to
see actions. Yes my dear friend deeds not
only words. To take responsibility for my
actions and to accept the consequences of
them implies a lot of courage. Here in
Southwestern they say they want to en-
courage the growth and development of the
individual student. It is very ironic to find
out that if you do that you are left out or
you simply have to leave. The easiest way to
pass by S.U. is simply do not rock the boat
just go along and smile. I am sorry but that
is not the truth for the majority of people in
this world. An example of this are some
S.U. students who have to work 40 hours a
week and go to school. You may be think-
ing “well maybe they should not be here.
They should work and save money first.”
This is not a case of a choice. This is a case
of survival. It simply means that if I do not
work, I will not eat. My dear freind life is
very rough, and it is not as simple as it
sounds “let’s all share." Mother Theresa of
Calcutta once said, “It is easier to help
those who are not with us right now than to
help those who are sitting next to us.” This
is true because the easiest thing to do is not
get involved.
I think life is beautiful. The more I strug-
gle the more I love it. Every experience
good or bad helps me to grow even more.
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A non-traditional S.U. student
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Brett Matthews *88
David Steinberg *88
our student body, but our future
society as we go forth ill-equipped to
improve society with a shallow
education.
I think that before we students
leap to criticize the university
administration, we should take a good
long look at ourselves.
Are we nationally mature?
— Megaphone
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To the Editor,
I want to sincerely thank all those who
helped make the recent party to raise funds
for world hunger a success. The names.are
too numerous to list here, but your efforts
— great and small — are appreciated.
Whether you realize it or not, you have
made a difference by your actions.
Somewhere in the world hungry children
will be fed; perhaps illness 1— even blind-
ness — as a result of malnutrition will be
prevented. You have touched others in a
concrete and positive way. You have
demonstrated that even as individuals,
there are things we can do about the most
serious and seemingly overwhelming pro-
blems of the world. And, no doubt, some
of you have been changed slightly by your
efforts to transcend your own personal in-
terests for a larger vision of social respon-
sibility and a shared humanity.
I will not be at Southwestern in the Fall,
but I fervently hope that the students of this
university will not passively wait for things
to be organized for them. There is no
reason that such an event — a semester par-
ty to raise money for some good purpose —
cannot be planned and executed by the
students themselves. Why not make it a
regular event where every group on campus
can forget petty sectarian rivalries and
cooperate for a larger goal?
Let me also take this opportunity to say
good-bye to the Southwestern University
community. I thank my colleagues for their
intellectual stimulation and their
camaraderie. I thank the staff and ad-
ministrators for their friendly support and
frequent assistance. Finally, the students I
thank for paying their tuition. I wish you all
the best in life. I leave with a soft spot in my
head for Southwestern.
Gary Kline
Political Science
To the Editor of the Megaphone:
We would like to exchange our bushes in
the “Bush for every student” campaign for
a tenure-track position for Mr. Diaz-
Miranda.
the option to have each student give up a
dollar in cash, the preferred method is
sacrificing a lunch through the meal plan
system. Only after considerable effort
should you resort to the donation of one
dollar. S.A.F.E. has found out that many
schools have done similar programs and
have been very successful. THs shows the
concern of students across the country and
deals a blow to the “students are apathetic”
argument but the situation in Africa calls
for increased efforts. The important point
concerning our proposal is that we are try-
ing to unify all of the students in a common
goal and if we all pull together, we can raise
a very large sum of money and make an im-
pact in Africa that could save millions of
lives. If everyone donates at least a dollar,
we will raise 10 million dollars. •
We have sent out three letters: one to the
student council president, the college presi-
dent, and the chaplain of every school in
the country. By the end of the week, a letter
to every college newspaper will be sent. We
have also been actively working with
C.A.R.E. which has sent letters to all the
radio stations informing them of our ef-
forts and has created an advertisement for
the school newspapers in the New England
area. While C.A.R.E. is concentrating on
New England, tb: American Red Cross and
Save the Children are working on the na-
tional level. We met with President
Schubert of the Red Cross in Washington
and he is contacting their 200 major
chapters across the country. These local
chapters will in turn contact the area
schools and help spread the word. Save the
Children has sent out letters to all the cam-
pus newspapers across the country and the
combined organizations have over 800
direct contacts which they are currently get-
ting in touch with.
Our idea is to saturate each school with
as many letters and different angles as
possible. One particular angle is the media.
We have received great support. S.A.F.E.
has been interviewed by local and national
media. S.A.F.E. has been written up by
USA Today, UN, the Boston Globe, Man-
chester Union Leader, and have recently
been interviewed by the Christian Science
Monitor andAP and expect articles to be
printed soon. We have also had interviews
with Voice of AmericaQistening audience of
over 45 million people), WEEI and WHTT
in Boston, and WGIR in Manchester, New
Hampshire.
The purpose of this letter is to further in-
form you of our efforts and to encourage
you to join us in our efforts to save millions
of lives. We hope that you will contact your
student council and administration to get
the program started for April 25th. Please
print this letter so we can reach more
students.:
It has been a privilege for me to be
your Editor this year.
by Brent Farney
Am I going out with a bang or a
whimper is the question I have faced
most often during the past week - a
question to which I still am unable to
give a concrete answer. »
But give me credit, I tried to answer
the question.
Well, I figured, I could go on and on
about how callous student reaction
has been to the plight of starving
peoples until a beer bust was thrown.
Or I could comment on how much
potentially creative time of the
Freshman was sapped by self-con-
gratulatory fraternity and sorority
rites. Or I could have written a
stinging warning to returning stud-
ents who may well be bamboozled
again by the shenanigans ' of the
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Then everything fell into place:
with the right tools, one can do
anything.
It didn’t take long for me to draw an
analogy to education as being a tool
that will be vital in determining the
quality of our lives and the lives of
those around us. And from this
analogy I drew a somber conclusion:
too many students here are settling
for substandard educational tools,
doing just what is needed to ‘get by’,
pursuing, in short, the game sensation
of the '80s, trivial pursuit, sacrificing
depth of knowledge for breadth of
knowledge.
This is what I consider the most
significant problem facing not just
To the Editor of the Megaphone:
.Students Against Famine in
Ethiopia/Africa or S.A.F.E., an orgainiza-
tion that has existed for only three months,
has already achieved great success. Our
goal is to unite all the colleges and univer-
sties across the country in order to raise a
large sum of money for the starving people
of Africa. There are over 10 million
students within the 3,500 schools and we
are trying to tap this tremendous resource
of college students.
We propose that, on April 25, 1985,
every student across America give up a
lunch or the monetary equivalent (approx-
imately one dollar). We realize that a nor-
mal luch costs approximately $2.50, but
because of the overhead and other lunch
program expenses, the net donation is ap-
proximately one dollar. Although you have
groups who brought the likes of Josh
McDowell to campus. Or I could have
taken up a hot issue: the question of
whether or not the administration is
practicing double-speak when it
comes to minority enrollment. Or I
could talk about how a Mariano in
your classroom is worth more than
none and some shrubbery.
Instead of juggling these hot
potatoes, I have opted to discuss tools.
That’s right, tools. Last weekend I
saw a gardener slashing away at
unsightly grass with a gas-powered
professional weed-eater, the kind that
works, not the kind my family had
which constantly jammed and made
the miserable job of yardworkeven ”
more miserable.
The Megaphone
____ Staff
Editor
L. Brent Farney
Features
Ben Jackson
Jay Huddleston
Photo Editor
Jasper Wesseling
Production
Gerald Cantor
Heidi Lewis
Elaine Marshall
Special Thanks to
Marty Curtis
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