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  • Voices The Western Carolinian Page 2 Thursday, September 7, 1989 Dear Students and Carolinian readers, Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm Christine Faris, and I've been appointed editor of The Western Carolinian for the 1989-90 academic year. If this semester has brought you to Cullowhee for the first time, welcome; I hope you'll become a weekly reader of our newspaper. If you're a returning reader, I hope you like the few alterations and additions. By implementing one such addition, the "Student on the Street" segment, I intend to expand involvement in the paper. Without such involvement, The Western Carolinian will not be the success I know it can be, for it will not truly depict the student body. After all, this is your newspaper, the students' voice. Therefore, I encourage you to give suggestions. I welcome feedback, both negative and positive. I am just beginning my editorship, and before it is over, I know that, together, we can make our campus paper into one that will be appreciated by and advantageous to its audience, ji When you feel we should address a certain issue, speak up about it. ft is my goal for the Carolinian not only to be newsworthy, but also interesting. I need your assistance in accomplishing this. Let me know what you'd like to see. What do you think is important? Who would you like to see in the paper? Additionally, remember that this page will be devoted to "Letters to the Editor." You are free to address any issue you feel should be heard. Here is your chance to speak out, to make us aware of issues of importance. Letters, rebuttals, and opinion columns will all be considered. I look forward to a successful fall and I look forward to hearing from you. Until then, good luck with all that you pursue. Editorially yours, Christine E. Faris The Western Carolinian is published weekly by Western Carolina University's Publication Board. It is an independent student publication that receives its funding through student activity fees and advertising. The Carolinian is printed at The Waynesville Mountaineer, Waynesville, NC. A Proposal to Wrestling Fans A Vote for Jesse Helms From Jon A. Mayhew For the next few lines, I am going to make a proposal to all of you readers. Keep in mind that this is a great possibility - a serious possibility as well - and not to be taken as a joke. Those of you who met me during the second summer session know that I am a fan of Professional Wrestling. Those of you who know me also know that I am trying to incorporate wrestling updates into FM radio. My question for you is this: How would you react to a four- minute wrestling show, on a weekly basis, over the campus radio station? Now, I cannot take input from just a couple of people. I would like a lot of response on this. My motives include the fact that I feel wrestling has a place in FM radio. Furthermore, not doing a show of this kind would be cheating many campus listeners out of something they like very much. Let me sift through this garble for you. All I want from you readers out there is a letter stating how you feel about Professional Wrestling, and whether you would support a wrestling show if it were aired over the campus radio. I would like to see just how many people are interested or uninterested in the sport. Here is my address: Jon A. Mayhew, C/O Wrestling, 303BB Harrill. Please send all letters through campus mail, and get these responses to me as soon as possible. I would really like to know. My findings will be reported to you in a future letter to the editor. Come Join the Party on Long Branch Rd! -Name Withheld by Request Working on campus allows one to hear the gripes and praises of WCU. The primary gripe is that there is nothing to do in the evenings. The residents of Long Branch road have a solution for this. About 8 p.m. any evening, bring your pillows and lawn chairs, or just sit in your cars, and listen to the sounds of speeding cars, burning rubber, loud stereos, and screaming and yelling. This is really fulfilling to those of us who work all day. This is not to say that all drivers and students are actors in this seemingly endless barrage of noise, but a chosen few seem bent on end-, ing their lives. One in particular has a motorcycle that performs better at midnight than at any other time. To hear him is pure joy and watching him put his head down and blast off is awesome. Rambo couldn't do it better. As for the parties, they are probably the best yet. The language...wow! My family has the finest list of four letter words in Jackson County. Those of you who participate in this strange ritual might better concentrate on using your parents' money for education rather than burning rubber, and let your neighbors rest. Thanks P.S. The cycle just burned off, and nobody looked. From Steve Jones Jesse Helms's legislative record in the months before the 100th Congress adjourned was breathtaking. Helms participated in 27 winning efforts and eight of his amendments and resolutions were passed in a single day. "I don't recall anything like it," says Assistant Secretary of Denfense Margo Carlisle. She added, "I doubt that one North Carolinian in five understands the extraordinary legislative ability of their senior senator." The measures passed included an amendment to the crime bill imposing mandatory 20-year sentences for the possession of crack cocaine and mandatory revocation of parole, probation and supervised release for those convicted of possession of illegal drugs. Helms was also able to get needed foreign policy initiatives passed. A ban was placed on the transfer of satellite missile-launching technology to Communist China until China stops sending missies to the Middle East. The United States taxpayer is to be compensated for damages to national security caused by those who violate national security export controls. Marlist Ethiopia was sanctioned economically for com mitting genocide by starvation on its citizens. Colorado Senator Bill Armstrong stated "From abortion to foreign policy, Jesse Helms has led the fight on many of the most important issues in the Senate in this era." Armstrong added "Of all the Senators on either side of the aisle, Helms is probably taken the most seriously." The liberal media in and outside of North Carolina hates Helms because he is a conservative they have not been able to bully into silence. In an age of pork-barrel compromises, Helms stands true to his principles. Helms performs his charity without fanfare and television cameras. Helms is up for re-election in 1990. I predict he will win despite the negative image the media in North Carolina creates of him. The loyalty of his supporters in North Carolina and his thousands of supporters outside the state will see to that. Former Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole, wife of Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole and herself a North Carolinian, calls Helms, "one of the most respected legislators of our time... a man of enormous integrity." I am proud to call myself a Jesse Helms conservative. Greeks, Indys Need to get Together From Michael Jones Something was recently said to me that is weighing heavily on my mind. The gist of this is that "Greeks are the dominant force on this campus." The source quoted to me that "Greeks" comprise 45 percent of the student population (which I don't believe is correct, the most reliable figure I have heard is 20%) and used the fact that in the Student Government Association, NO independents held key posts. This may be true. The person also stated, in backing up the claim that Greeks are the dominant force on campus, that the parties are Greek and that participation in campus organizations is either purely Greek or that Greeks are the leadership in most organizations. This could beastrueasnot, since I am not acquainted with ALL 200 organizations on WCU's campus. BUT, Iresent the attitude that "since we are the majority here, WE are what matters." I am not one to normally get into campus politics. I participate in WCU, and I believe that you would be hard puttofind many students that participate in campus organizations any more than I do, but I like to leave the politics to the people who can work within the bureaucracy better than I can. And here's the ironic part... in spite of the comments of this cocky person who obviously thought well of him/herself, I still have much respect for the Greek system and for what it stands for in principle. Brotherhood is a concept which I can, in theory at any rate, understand and even appreciate. My point is this... Western Carolina University, due to factors such as location and inherent attitude, enjoys a strong Greek population. However, I do not believe that this makes a brother or a sister any better than any "Indy" walking the streets of Cullowhee. This attitude does more to hurt the Greek system than perhaps any other aspect of Greek existence, including the reputation for being irresponsible. I hope that Greeks don't think that I'm trying to slam them or their system. I am not. I would ask something, however. Next time you hear a brother, sister, or anyone else involved in the system exhibit this' particular attitude, please stop him/ her. Unfortunately, people have a tendency to generalize and this re-i fleets on you. We are all of the same species here. Were I not involved,- and heavily I might add, in other organizations, you COULD be calling me a brother. I would also like to ask something else of you. Try to get the Indies involved in the campus. You do have a lot of pull, which I would like to see put to good use. If they don't want to join your fraternity/sorority, then ask them to get involved in other ways. There is no fundamental reason for a line of any sort to be drawn between Greeks and Indies, therefore, include the Indys. Consider them. Not necessarily in brothers/sisters meetings or even at strictly Greek functions, but there are other aspects or your life where they might fit in. Most importantly, I hope that you will keep the 'big picture" in perspective. We are all parts in a BIG clock. And while the clock may work without a few parts, it will not work as well. _^ * * * FUTMo S|KlSE50S" -1 OUR M7KS7- EtlPAHGEffi) SP£C/£S: CCtOM&MN' JUDGE. .:'■'. ■': .'■'' '■:■'•■■.,': •.. ■ tern Carolinia welcome; torial inp from students, fat and staff matters c public int mMMm:mwmWmm est. Pleas adress cc sponden< 66 ■ Cullowhee, N.C 287 .. >Jw::::::w:.. WwWwm The Western Carolinian reserves the right to refuse publication of offensive or otherwise unsuitable mate rial. WW
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