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Voices Thp. Western Carolinian Page 4 -rwdav. April 13, 1989 Martha EDITOR cAfee The Silent Knife by Frederick Mason This is an article about two types of people. One type is the kind that is seen as inferior, the other type represents some people who see the others as inferior and tries to make others see the picture the way they see it. For all purposes intended, this article is about racism. Now you probably sighed deeply, thinking, "oh boy, another general statement about society." It seems that we can talk about blacks, whites, segregation, and racism all we want, but if it doesn't involve the immediate area, that being WCU, then we don't think much about it. If that's what it takes, then on the February 13, 1989 WCU Intramural basketball poll as posted by the Intramural Department . For men the top five teams are: 1. GRB's 2. K-Squad 3. Pi Kappa Phi 4. Physical Force 5. ROTC As it stands, the number 1 and 2 teams are black and the number 5 team is predominantly black. According to the February 9th edition of the Western Carolinian, the top four teams were the same, the only exception being that ROTC was sixth. The Finals were held on February 22, so there should have been one more poll to let the teams involved know where they stood at the end of the season. However, according to one of the Intramural assistants, there was not a poll because they forgot to do it. Therefore we are all in the dark going into the tour-' nament. Let me pause again to inform you about tournaments. A tournament is designed to bring the two best teams to compete in the finals. In a tournament all qualified teams are put into brackets to screen out the weaker teams to get the best teams for the final. What is important is that each bracket must be equally balanced. The ACC Southern Conference and NCAA Tournaments are perfect examples. 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CALL ANYTIME For A Free Brochure (800) 346-6401 •* ] RAINBOW MOUNTAIN CANDY, LTD Located in Dillsboro - next to The Jarrett House 586-9075 ^Chocolates * Candy *Columbo yogurt We Will Sell Candy At Wholesale Prices For Organizations Who Need To Raise Money For Benefits 'What A Sweet Way To Benefit Your Cause' brackets then the games follow as such, considering there are eight teams: In the first bracket, the number 1 team plays number 8. In the other bracket, number 2 plays number 7. We go back up to the first bracket to have number 3 play number 6 and in the second bracket the 4th and 5th teams play. With this method both brackets are evenly matched so the end result will have the best teams in the finals. This is the general rule of all tournaments whether local, state, national, or global. Usually the finals consist of the number one team playing the number two team, but upset can happen, like Maryland defeating N.C. State in the ACC Tournament (in this case, a numbers defeating a number 1). Still, it's based on the fact that the best team won. If you put a number one and two in the same bracket, along with number five, the brackets are not equally balanced and thus a false champion is made. Incidentiy, they are not "champions" just winners. Another point is about a "bye". In the case of an uneven amount of teams in a tournament, to even the games up, the top teams are awarded a bye, which means they automatically advance to the next round because they deserve it. Now back to the case. With the information given, here is how IM designed their "tournament". To begin with there were two "byes" awarded, which should have gone to the 1st and 2nd placed teams. Such was not the case. In truth the 2nd placed team received a bye (K-Squad) but the second bye went to a number 6 team. Hardly deserving. Next, of the the three Black or predominandy Black teams, ranked 1st, 2nd, and 5th, they were all placed in the same bracket. You may say to yourself, "Well, maybe they lost to somebody else". Here's my answer; GRB's and K-Squad never lost a game during regular season, so they remained 1 and 2 respectively. Whether or not there was a poll, they should not have been moved, no matter what the other teams did. During this tournament, GRB's played ROTC to which GRB's won. The next round happened to have the GRB's against the K-Squad, the 1st and 2nd place teams in semi finals. Eventually the GRB's went to the finals, but they lost...or did they? It seems that the GRB's played in the toughest bracket, and proved to be the best team, therefore I see them as the Champions because they earned it. Still, IM adds insult to injury by having a "consolidation game". This is nothing more than a sad joke. For this game the K- Squad was involved, but what this means is that IM is saying, "We'll give you blacks a pretend championship game to make you feel good even though we cheated you out of a T-shirt". Still, thev lost. in the toughest bracket, remained two through most of the season and were defeated only by the number two team of the year. Now you might say that if these teams were really the best, they would have won the championships. I say you should wear a victim's bandage to feel the pain. Only then will you understand what these guys are going through. Anyway, another year of supposed "fun and recreation" has spoiled to prejudice. In conclusion, let me say that acts like this should not be tolerated. It makes me very upset to hear that a Black team had to sign up for intramurals by using a white person so that the assistants won't be able to recognize them and put them in the same league. I thought we had come pretty far from 1968, when a certain skin tone carried a penalty. In this editorial, I am not asking for equality, no I couldn't do that in a hundred years. Instead, I am demanding it. I refuse to ask and therefore yield my right for something I know in my heart that I (and many others) deserve and that many people like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Jesse Jackson have fought for. If you refuse to see black and minorities as equal human beings then I have every right to refuse to see you as a person, because you lack the qualities to fit such a category. So let it be written, so let it be said, so let it be done. FMA Hosts Annual Fashion Show by Shields Brewer STAFF WRITER The FASHION MERCHANDISING ASSOCIATION of Western Carolina University will be hosting their annual spring fashion show Thursday, April 20 at 7:00 PM in the Hospitality Room of the Ramsey Center. "THE SIGN OF THE TIMES" will feature the latest in spring fashions for women and men. Cost of admission is students: $3.00 and non- students: $4.00. Tickets will be sold in advance and at the door. Dear Editor: TKE's JUST SAY, "NO!" For years TKE has been the victim of many unfair rumors and myths and much stereotyping. I should know; I am a TKE. Generally we just try to let such remarks fall off our backs and go on with life. But after a recent skit by a sorority in which we were portrayed as "nothing but a bunch of potheads," I felt it was time a few things were set straight. One myth that is constantly circulated is that TKEs party very hard, in fact so hard that their parties are unsafe. I wish I had a dime for every girl who has told me she was warned her freshman year not to go to the TKE house. I do not deny that we party hard. I am very confident we have had some of the wildest, most enthusiastic and best parties on this campus. This does not, however, make them unsafe. At every party we provide designated drivers. We also have members walking around polic ing the area. If some unforseen trouble does occur, we do not hesitate to call the proper authorities. After all, we want proper control. In fact last semester we had a party investigated by local police and the sheriff's department. They said it was one of the best run parties they had ever seen. The most popular myth of all is that TKEs are a bunch of "druggies." First of all, there is not a fraternity on this campus that noes not have some drug usage somewhere within its membership. TKE does not condone the use of any drugs. On the contrary, our bi-laws have strict policies and rules against their use. In the past few years we have sponsored many billboards with anti-drug messages. How has our fraternity fared in all the big drug busts that have gone down in recent years? Many members of other fraternities have been busted, but have you ever heard of a TKE being busted? No, because no TKEs have been busted. If the blatant abuse of the law was occurring as many rumors would have people believe, then surely one of he "druggies" would have been busted by now. In addition to sponsoring anti-drug messages, we have also tried to promote responsibility when drinking. We have sponsored billboards of this nature and for two years we have sponsored an Alcohol Awareness program. This year we co-sponsored the seminar with Sigma Kappa sorority. For some reason too many people seem to ignore such efforts. People also seem to ignore the fact that we raise money and support groups such as St. Jude's Children's Hospital or the American Heart Association. It too seems many fail to notice our support of local families during Cullowhee Cafe (Esta6CisfiecC 1948 293-3226 MANAGER Randall and Cindy Spencer NOW Introducing Weekend Sat and Sun 8 am to 2 pm ALL YOU CAN EAT BREAKFAST AND FRUIT BAR Plenty of home cooked food ! Come give us a try! Visit our Drive thru now open Mon- Fri: 7am- 8 pm Senior Citizen Discount As children we have all felt the pressure to learn new things and to prove that these new things have indeed been learned. This was accomplished through "Show Mommy how you can do times such as Christmas and Thanksgiving. I guess it would really upset some people to believe we're not such bad guys after all. On April 4,1989 the Zeta Omicron TKE chapter celebrated thirty years of existence. TKE did not manage to survive in such a competitive Greek environment for so long by doing nothing but partying and "smoking pot." TKE does not pretend to be spotless, but we know and want others to know we have been judged and treated touch to harsh. Our members want the students, faculty and community to see TKE fairly for what it really is; a group for the betterment of individuals as well as the community. Remember TKE says NOPE to DOPE. Pierre D. 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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 Carolinian in 1933.

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  • Date original: 1989-04-13
  • Date digitized: 2019-09-18
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