Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 7, 1996 Page: 2 of 18
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win over Notre
this year, gave their imitation
DONALD KAUL ofte Visigoths sacking Rome.
Even less did Yankee fans
resemble those scholar/specta-
tors in Morgantown, W.V.,
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who. during a football game last week, dropped a trash can
on the headof a visiting coach aa he attempted to leave the
stadium, then surrounded an ambulance carrying an in-
jured opposing player and tried to overturn it
Nor did the Yankee players remind one of the football
players at Rhode Island University who, piqued at a couple
of their teammates’ exclusion bom a fraternity party,
smashed down the door of the frat house and began beating
up people.
The difference between mature professional athletes
and unseasoned scholar/athletes just out of adolescence,
fessional team and the
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Soccer by the sea
baseball and football.
and
Baseball is adassy sport, agame of precision, grace
elegance. Football is a game of violence. Period.
Is it based on the theory that it is entertaining to watch
big guys beat up on little guys. Tune into your average
football game and listen to the chuckleheaded announcers
make gleeful noises every time a hulking linebacker levels
a quarterback who is innocently attempting to play catch
with a receiver.
“Hoo boy! He really rang the quarterback’s bell this
tune,” the former player/part-time analyst/full-time moron
will exclaim. Thin is one tough fella.” He’s talking about
the linebacker, of course. The quarterback is some kind of
sissy for succumbing to unconsciousness.
Little wonder that the sport draws more than its share of
bullies, barroom brawlers, wife-beaters, psychopaths and
homicidal maniacs. And that’s just the players; the fans are
football fans-
worse. A good percentage of football fans - the ones who
cause the most trouble - are, to use the technical term for
them, “drunken bums.” They fight, they throw things, they
set fires and overturn cars.
But I don’t blame them; they can’t help it The weak-
minded are incited to riot by the very nature of the game.
When the V-chip comes on-line, we can only hope that
football games are equipped with them so that concerned
parents can make sure their impressionable youngsters
don’t watch. 'til.
, The people who run football, particularly professional
football, know what they’re selling. They levy fines for
“unnecessary roughness” and other antisocial behavior,
but when they make up their videos to the sell to the public
For the first time in several years I watched a soccer
game Sunday afternoon. My nephew, my "part-time kid”,
and a bizillion of my favorite island
kids are on the team, so I took advan-
tage of an incredibly beautiful fall
afternoon went into the great out-
doors to watch
The team is the Makos for boys 16
and under. Most of them have been
playing together since they were four
years did. Let me tell you, they are
beautiful to watch! I was told that
Sunday's game was not their best,
and they lost by one goal. They
Mary Henkel playedateam thatbeatthem the first
game of the season, that they came
JUDSON back and trounced a few weeks later,
South Jetty Editor and Sunday, most of the second half
3-was played on the opponents half of
the Held where the Makos pummeled the goalie, but just
couldn't get die ball into the goal. Hey, scores aren't
everything.
Spinoff
I don't really even understand soccer, but these guys play
so well, that it wasn't hard to figure out what their roles
were, even if I didn't know the rules. What choreography!
It's like watching music!
Part of the beauty was the setting. It was at Roberts Point
Park along the Corpus Christi Ship Channel. In spite of a
fence (that is relatively inoffensive to the eye) six balls or
more went into "the drink" during the course of die game.
Most were recovered thanks to a daring Matt Sherwood
who was willing to brave the chilly waters and, once wet,
even chillier wind as he emerged from the water. (That's
what brothers are for -- right Robert?)
Parents and a few fans lined the sideline in lawn chain
or just standing. The whole game lasted maybe an hour,
and it was an hour well spent. The season goes on for the
rest of the month, and while this week’s soccer schedule
didn't meet deadline to get in this edition, there are games
played every Saturday and Sunday at either or both the
Roberts Point Park field or the field next to the Little
League field on Station at Beach Street Teams are formed
for kids under 6 to under 16. If you like kids, sports and die
great outdoors, I highly recommend a dose of soccer.
child-
’s knowl-
hundreds,
’s virtuosity. So
the arts,
sadmira-
made since his time,
during and
of the
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With his love for
an fancy Jefferson’s
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I lack Van
then this
sciences and philosophy, I can
don for the advances die world
especially in the field of
sincetheendofWWH.lt
Sage of Mondcello
Panama Canal.
Aboard our jet returning from the Canal Zone, he would
surely expect me to apprise him of the America ofl996. I’d
not dare attempt being very explicit. Should I even risk
telling him that people from every comer of the world are
becoming citizens of the land he did so much to bring to
existence-people, even a majority of whom today have
never read his Declaration of Independence? And as well,
others whose crucial claim to citizenship is of ho more
substance than the happenstance of their being natives of
one or another of the 50 states. Worse perhaps, they and
nearly coundess others are not familiar with the single long
, which so many ancients of this house in the new
century, “learned by heart” in the earliest childhood: the
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i to the Constitution. Should I dare tell him of the
mockery we have made of the Bill of Rights which has
become almost forgotten except by students, scholars and
coundess others who regularly endeavor to twist it to
avaricious ends?
Then on the brink of unloading my ambiguous i
die United States in the autumn of 1996 might I no
views on
might I not feel his
finger on my shoulder, the signal of his departure? I don’t
Letters, to .the
Get it together
they always include the hits that brought the greatest fines Eleven years ago this was a <
and suspensions. crashlanded on the town beach.
Eleven years ago this was a charming fishing village. I
suspensions. wiashlanded on the town beach... it’s gone now... it’s been
Not that baseball is perfect, mind you. There’s the tramped. No one offered me a program of the cast of
spitting, for one thing, and the indescribably stupid man- characters in the melodrama. The scenery has changed
agement of the game for another. As one TV executive put radically. It has lost its charm.
it recently: Shortly after I arrived and decided to stay, and appointed
“This is a game where you get a 10-day suspension for myself your town poet I’m Mary Goldsmith’s poet. I’m
spitting on a ball and five days for spitting on an umpire.” Kenny the code’s poet, SeAor Cortez’ poet, Big Jeff the
But, as the Series demonstrated, it can be a game of great town paranoiac poet. Cliff Strain ’ s poet; all the people who
suspense and drama and, when played right, quite beauti-
ful.
And it has to be if it is to survive that awful management
which, even now, is threatening to send the game into
gridlock once again by rejecting the labor agreement
worked out by its own negotiator.
That sort of thing is one of the reasons why the TV
ratings of the Series this year were down 11 percent from
last year, third-worst among World Series. It still beat
ratings for the National Basketball Association finals last
year, though, and that’s supposed to be the hottest game
do the work of this town's, poet
I’m Mayor Sherrill’s poet. I’m all the people down at
Shorty’s poet. Bless them all. I’m Pippi’s poet.
Our main problem has been and that is our government
is not responsive to all the needs of all the people. This
takes it to: Taxation without presentation.
We had a very good leader in Dale Bietendorff. He
moved. Probably got tired of all the intramural scrimmag-
ing.
I’m the Allen family’s poet and hard as it is, Wes
full of good will, have no peace. Joyeuz Noel to all and to
all a good night, or is it morning? Hmm!
Francois
Zen Monk Poet
Honor service to country
World War II united our nation is a common dedication
to preserve our freedoms with liberty and justice. Today
we are at peace. Some have stated that we no longer are
united in dedication to our country but have divided into
many special interest groups. Veteran’s Day isan occasion
both to honor those who served in our Armed Forces and
those who are united to serve their country today in many
ways.
The Port Aransas posts of the American Legion and the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, together with the students and
faculty of our Port Aransas schqols.askyou to join with us
Monday at 11 a.m. at the Jerry McDonald Field on Alister
Street.
William L. Lehman, Chairman
Veteran’s Day Committee
miracles this nation is in for another four more years of the
fellow from Arkansas. There, something I don’t believe. In
brief it is my confident view that the lad will trip some-
where along the way. Even though she is the smarter of the
two, I suspect Hillary will be fust to be caught out One
proficient in the dubious art of bang slick is sooner orlater
bound to stumble.
To return to the fantasy of a couple of paragraphs bock.
Unhappy though Jefferson might be with the Nov. 5
election, there can be no question but that Bob Dole would
have been his man, something too easily said. Here today
the great Virginian would have no regard for the unfortu-
nately ignorant pretenders to Christianity, the extremists
of maniacal conservatism of what is so commonly articu-
lated as being of the political far right. Embracing that
maniac lot will in time be recognized as the real reason for
Dole's defeat
There has seldom been a week in my adult life when I
have turned to Jefferson, if only to read some of his letters.
Possibly above all else I might wish today for myself the
opportunity to visit the collection of his letters at the
Library of Congress. After that an assemblage of those
letters published, as best I recall, some 30 years ago by
year, though, and that’s supposed to be the hottest game
going.
Neither of them matched ratings for the Super Bowl,
however. Another sign of the dumbing of America.
This is an open letter to Bob Dole.
Bob...You and I have something in common. First,
i m me Alien family s poet ana nara as it is, wes
Borders’ poet.
Whether you like it or not has no bearing on the matter,
corporal. A friend tells you what you need to know. When
they do it’s a brave kindness.
Now. Jim Sherrill you need to start leading. It’s time you
started making noises like a leader. A lot less ceremonials
veteran s uay committee
Family matters
Just to keep the record straight:
Wes Borders is my father, Jacque Borders is my mother,
and Mikki Borders is my wife.
It’s easy since we all have the same last name.
letters "published, as best I recall, some 30 years ago by
Princeton University.
MORE SAFE THAN any prediction about Slick, the
certainty that “Living and the Dead,” by Paul Hendrickson,
Washington Post reporter, will become the best regarded
book of 1996. For the author, writing the book was a soul-
. . _ _. .. , . *,. „ TnHvrrt------—- wrenching ordeal for nearly 10 ymmIfcndrickson is
we re the same age. Second, I, too, know something about and special meetings and lot more leadership. Now Mary Also for the record, the two letters to the editor last week himself an unusually interesting man with a captivating
losing...I’m a Dallas Cowboy fan. My heart goes out to you Henkel Judson, it’s time for you to graduate, confe out of were from: Ron Faulkner, the spouse of Mary Goldsmith background. Early in his life he entered a seminary to
today. I admire you as a man who has served his country the closet. You should not be a member of Chamber of and Carolyn James, the sister of Mary Goldsmith. prepare for die • — - - - -
in many ways for many years...and always well done. Now Commerce etcetera, etcetera. It compromises you. Yes the Chuck Borders
publisher is correct. Mediation is in order. First: a morato-
here’s some advice:
Get some sleep. Ninety-plus
hours non stop at your age. Bob, is
gonna take a little recovery time.
Say, six months. So sack out.
Throw away the pinstripes and
go to denim. Also, those new
wrinkle-free slacks are easy going
and are fairly inexpensive.
Go to movies. You probably don’t
know it but you’ve been able to get
Port Aransas
rium on hostilities. Secondly: a town meeting, (Roberts
rules of order) everything out front. This secret governance
must cease and desist
This is where it’s at: I am disappointed, disgusted and
ashamed of/with you. Just because you don’t get paid
doesn’t excuse a thing.
Maybe if Mary “G” got paid she could afford to make
meetings and she’s the best of the lot and don’t get me
going on term limits. I’m saying, clean up your acts or I will
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prepare for the priesthood, but after seven years he found
he was not for that life. Later, following graduation from
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advantage of the reduced rates for
us “more mature” folks.
Let it go. You’be been sucking it in for years now.
Nothin’s more comfortable than to relax those muscles
that hold the stomach in. Out ain’t nothin' but pleasurable
Get grumpy. You’ve done a pretty flood job of that in the
bully, Wes.
Last but definitely not least, next month is the celebra-
tion of the birth of the Jesus Buddha. Peace on earth to all
those who are of good will. It means that without a heart
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past., especially when you were a vice presidential candi-
date. Go beck to that People expect it of those our age.
You’ve no PR people to restrain you now...so let ’em have
it wheh they need it
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a Midwestern college, he became a newspaper reporter, a
condition that lead to academic confrontations with the
Vietnam War, which in turn led to a lengthy study of those
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troubling years and the role which
(President Lyndon Johnson’s man in Vietnam) attempted
to define himself in his own book last year.
The Hendrickson book is the work of a masterful writer
which is fair and objective from beginning to end, ignoring
prejudices, past and current. With that, I am obliged to
confess the inadequacy of this effort to describe such a
notable book*
ACKNOWLEDGING my Unhappy political assump-
tions as of the hour I write, do hope and have faith that the
GOP has retained its majority vote in the Senate and
Congress. I did help with my not very enthusiastic vote for
Senator Phil Gramm.
listened to mambers who had spoken m both American
English and Spanish at an Mftlkr meeting. Three things
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