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  • Perspectives If life is indeed a beach, as John Candy meekly reminded us this summer, then change must be represented by some bodacious sand spurs, an occasional crab and a turned up bottle cap or two. Change is merely a jellyfish upon the moonswept shores of life that's what I've decided. To a sociologist it represents simple deviation from the norm, to a piggy bank a good meal, but to average Joe college from Podunk, change represents a tremendous pain in the posterior. My roommate of last year, one Mr. Christy, who is, through birthright, an affiliate of the local cablevision conglomerate, has departed. With him, I was certain, exited stage left a venerable year-old ritual; a tradition which more than anything else helped to induce these writing, Be them as they is, babs. Whether credibility is thereby lent to the given ritual is certainly debateable, but I choose to think so. Self confidence is a big deal in this business. Pizza. On a weekly basis Mr. Christy and I repaired to the local pizza parlour, kicked back, ate pizza and philosophized. Open discussion and heated debate. A verbal symphony in pepperoni minor, right there in front of God and everybody. We discovered early on that pizza pie, minus the little fishes and devoid of anything bearing resemblance to an olive, was quite conducive to clear thought and deductive reasoning. As a matter of fact, we soon found that pizza, when appropriately washed down, imprinted upon one's personality the air of a master rhetorician, and helped one to argue pretty damn well besides. From these late night soir'es sprang, for better or for worse, much material to be included within this, my supposedly personal and yet less than private sounding board. But what of it this year, I thought, as Mr. Christy pushed off home, and I moved in across the hall with another friend. I needn't have worried. My new roommate, a Greensboroite named Rudd — Captain Rudd he's called now. due to his recent superheroism, extravagantly moralistic rescue of a drunken freshman damsel — has already lumped to fill the shoes of his predecessor. We sat this very evening in the parlour of a local pizza place reknowned for the durability of it's delivery cars. Waxing coherent as the evening progressed, we discussed issues ranging from the scant pros and abundant cons of life with our R. A. Paul the Figurehead, a great American and profitable racketeer, to the monetarily hampered and thereby scant' possibility of a road trip in the near future. As I sat back, with a full belly, and ' listened to Captain Rudd explain his theory of rattlesnake relativity within southern religion, I couldn't help but think that change isn't always so bad. Welcome back to Western; and for those of you that are here for the first time, just remember not to look too hard for something to do. You'll only get your drawers up in a wad and exhaust yourself. RANDY ROSENTHAL BUSINESS MANAGER: CHERYL DAVIS NEWS EDITOR: SHERRA ROBINSON FEATURES EDITOR: GRAY ERLACHER PHOTO EDITOR: TONYA LAMM DESIGN EDITOR: JEFFERY RICHARDS Asm. DESIGN EDITOR: ANDY AT KIN ENTERTAINMENT ED. PETER PHILLIPS SPORTS EDITOR: BILLY GRAHAM PHOTOGRAPHER: ERIC BARKER DESIGN STAFF: ANNE CAMPBELL CHERYL PRINCE WRITERS: N. LOYD RACHELS CHRISTOPHER GEIS BRAD KIMZEY JOE REED REGINA Mc DAN I ELS KAREN SUE HOWARD SANDY DAVIS STAN MURROW BRYAN DEVINNEY JOHN A. GORE JAMES UTT BARBARA ROSENTHAL PROD. CIRCULATION MANAGER: DANELLARNOLD Dear Students, Welcome to Western. Congradulations to all the returning students for making your spring or summer semester grades, and congradulations to all the freshmen for making Western Carolina your first choice in a university! I am looking forward to a very productive year. It seems that some early goals set by SGA are materializing. Firstly, I would like to thank Randy Rosenthal and his staff for allowing me the opportunity to use this forum, The Western Carolinian, to inform the student body of the activities at SGA. zsecondly, I would like to John McCracken of Business Administration for their help with obtaining the four new microwave ovens ion Brown and Dodson Cafeterias. I encourage all students to take advantage, on campus and commuters, to take advantage of these new appliances. I am looking forward to working forthe student body in order that we may all have a successful year. I hope in the future I will be able to relay additional accomplishments which SGA and the administration have aschieved forthe students. SGA is here for you! Become aware of the many opportunities we offer, good luck, and have a good year. R. Todd Davis REFORM OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM By Randy Rosenthal EDITOR IN CHIEF Over the past millenia, humanity has discovered the survivial advantage of a somewhat ordered society. Those groups of people that transcended chaos to become civilized did so by establishing laws to insure the survival of the group. Ever since the dawn of civilization, leaders have created laws that they felt would protect society from ultimate ruin. As many years and centuries have gone by, and societies have become colossal beasts, we have emassed countless, complicated mandates covering virtually all aspectsof human existence. To date, the United States government has compiled over ten thousand volumes of federal legislation. Remember: ignorance is no excuse for the law, so start hitting the books now! The earliest laws sue has thou shall not steal and thou shall not kill, obviously have survival benefits to society. A culture would not survive if people were going around killing each other or taking each others' property. Early laws were clear in focus, the originators knew from experience that civilization was endangered by acts such as murder and theft. In our modern world we have so many laws that we must produce record-breaking numbers of new lawyers each year just to meet the load created by exorbitant amounts of legislation. Our focus has become distorted. We do not, in most cases, create laws that are designed to insure the survival of our society, but rather, to promote the beliefs of legislators and to formalize moresthatwillchangein time and thus be unnecessary to put into law. I believe that perpetuating these extranneous laws can only undermine the stability and survival of our culture. Laws that are based upon "morality" such as some drug laws, blue laws, and laws prohibiting certain sexual practices to mention justa few, create an atmosphere of cynical contempt for the law. Marijuana laws are a good example of how a distorted focus in law-making can result in public attitudes towards the law thataredeJiterious to our legal system. Many, many millions of Americans, from all socio-economic classes, use marijuana regularly as a personal decision despite the fact that it is a serious crime. These people: doctors, lawyers, teachers, businessmen, mothers, fathers, students, clergymen and countless others, are felonious criminals in the eyes of the American legal system. When productive members of society are put in the situation of seeing themselves as "out laws, "the very, foundation of our social structure is shaken. We can not afford to create a populace that feelsabsolutelyjustified in picking and choosing the lawstheywish to obey because the laws they feel they must break reflects more of the social standards of the day rather than a society. It seems as if the legal system seejsthis problem of contempt for the lawand responds by becoming more severe in terms of the enforcement of those laws and conviction ofthe law-breaker. All this has done is spend lots of money, incarcerate people who could otherwise be doing their own part in the social machine, thus further indermining our social structure. I have afewsolutionsforthisdilemma. One idea is to devise an ongoing large-scale purging of all of our federal law codes to eliminate redundancy, anachronistic legislation, and unnecessary laws. . This would reduce the total number of laws that we all are responsible for knowing (alltenthousand plus volumes), and provide a mechanism for monitoring the type of laws that are passed. Another suggestion for the legal system is to make clear distinctions between violent and nonviolent criminals in prisons which only serve to isolate "dangerous types" from society at large. I propose that non-violent criminals be dealt with in a totally separate system from violent criminals. Isolated communities could be set up in the far reaches of Alaska. Private industries could set up businesses and non-violent criminals could move with their families to one of these communities, work at one of the myriad of jobs possible in a business, and serve their time while learning to be productive members of society while enjoying some degree of freedom without breaking up a family. This type of system could save us a lot of money in the long run. We can be creative in reconstructing our legal system. The 1980's is a time forchangeand reform. We must rise to the challenges that face us with fresh ideas and optimistic outlooks. If we can eliminate our citizenry criminals, we will be well on our way to a vei v bright tomorrow.
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