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  • Editorial 3 Western Carolinian/June 10, 1982 Western Carolinian Comments... I arrv Hardin First things first... welcome to Western Carolina University. This is our first paper of the summer and there were questions as to whether we could even get a paper out. Remodeling, rearrangement in staff, and the unknown factor of who would be here this summer have all had their effects. However, even with all the problems and unknowns, the Western Carolinian will put out a paper each week of summer school. There are mans events taking place around this planet to make comment on, including war over a rock down south of us and another war going on ovei in North Africa(the middle east). Being a veteran ol Viet Nam I know the horrors of war; however, there is an issue that overshadows the events taking place even these war torn lands. ihe threat ot nuclear wai hangs over lhc head ol every single person in the world, as well all other life forms. This threat is not just dooms day rhetoric, it is now a basic tact ol our existence. I his fact has brought numbers of people the world over out to protest and demand total disarmament of nuclear weapons. I hese numbers have been close to a half a million in Japan and the hundreds of thousands m Europe, I hose in Japan know of the effects ot nuclear weapons first hand, the Europeans do not want to know. At this time there are close to 7,000 American nukes, plus what England and France have, plus some 3,500 that the USSR has in the limited area of Europe. If 1 were living in Europe 1 might be upset that two super powers were on both sides and both had weapons in their arsenals that could end life as we know it today, if not all together. It is estimated that there is ten times the ex plosive power in just one SS-20 Soviet missiles pointed at Europe than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Not only this most American military installations are in, or near, large cities that are now targets for the USSR. As one looks at the real effects of nuclear war and the position Europe and the world find themselves in it is no wonder people are becoming more than simply upset. All the other issues that face us humans start taking a backseat to nuclear war. I am not so idealistic that 1 believe we can do away with war, our track record indicates war has been with us since we first started leaving records of our existence. I am not sav ing that war fs okav, only that nuclear war can onlv result in losers, no winners. If we have to fight among ourselves at least let us to it in a manner that does not threaten all life. II we are not able to settle this issue ot nuclear war, then all the other issues reallv do not count. It is a dav ol survival, and we can survive if we speak and tell our governments. "NO NUKES". It is time we all laced this reality and dealt with it in a logical and sane manner. It is time for all ol us to stand up and be counted as some one against the threat of nuclear war and the end of life as we know it. As some one much wiser than I once said, "If not now, when? If not you, who'" WE'VE NNE IT.'! WE'VE HARNESSED 6REEDII X>YDU REALIZE WITHTW ENER0. SOURCE WE CAN Western Carolinian Editor-in-Chief Larry Hardin Business Manager Jim Stewart Associate Editor/Design Jim Buchanan Features Editor Charles Sosnik Production Supervisor Jennifer Passalacqua Production Annette Sykes and Toni Saddler Photographers Mike Husky and Jim Stewart Ad Design Keith Roddy Writers Rick Schutz, Darrel Beck, Joey Miller, Toni Saddler Commercials Out Of Line? by Jim Buchanan A few things that I just had to get off my chest: Why, oh why, are the Republicans running their current series of ads? The campaign features one commercial that shows several teary-eyed people sitting around while a man reads the "will" that the Democratic Carter administration left the Republican Reagan administration; i.e., runaway inflation, high unemployment, etc. Well, I haven't noticed things getting better, and in fact, the state of the economy/ country seems to get worse every week. Reagan has failed for two years nowfwith a republican congress, I might add,) and the Republicans have chosen not to take the'blame, but lay all that is wrong with this country at the feet of the Democrats. Accepting responsibility for one's mistakes is apparently something the Republicans do not care to learn. This definitely shows a lack of class. After all. Carter did not run ads saying the legacy left by Nixon was one of shame and mistrust of our government, or that no one to this day knows what Ford did in the interim. Another example of this kind of politics is the blast Tip O'Neill got when he came to Asheville to campaign for the Democratic opposition to Bill Hendon. Suddenly, everyone forgot Hendon's role against the Appalachian Regional Commission, and instead attacked O'Neill for being "the epitomy of the big-spending liberal." The stress was always on liberal. Very few facts were thrown out against O'Neill, but the blasting continued all the same. 1 will not say that I agree with Mr. O'Neill or his tactics, but 1 will say that I certainly do not agree with the Republican strategy Emotional, highly charged rhetoric is the order of the day... ...Another ad campaign that has turned many stomachs recently is the new "Taster's Choice "campaign, which comes on like a spot for Ballantine books, replete with lovers whose feelings are hurt and good coffee to help them make up. I like coffee a lot, but often think more of my date than to kiss her after three cups... ...what on earth is going on with our gas prices? Usually some turmoil in OPEC signals a price increase, but OPEC has been unusally quiet of late. Still, gas prices have been going up around the area recently, without a word of explanation from the oil companies or a peep of protest from the media. Well, PEEP! Here goes my personal therory; raise the prices for the summer. This is usually what happens, although the demand for gas increases during the summer, and theoretically prices should come down... ...let's have some letters, folks, and see what Cullowhee thinks. 19 varieties of Variety is the spice of life. footlong Subs Subwich We Deliver 5 to ? hours 11:00 AM to ? Located Old Highway 107 in Cullowhee 293-5669 n
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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolin...

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