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  • October 20, 1994 Western Carolinian Editorial WCU A Lumm Honors Dr. McKevlin To the Editor: Professor Dennis McKevlin was my instructor for two courses, Donne and the Metaphysical Poets and The Arthurian Legend. It wasn't so much that I felt the need to study Donne or Arthur, but I had been given sage advice not to let my four year matriculation at Western slip by without benefiting from Dennis's gift for teaching. Some of the most hilarious mornings of my life were spent in his McKee classroom, taking in the wise-cracking, unfiltered Pall Mall chain smoking patter. (I've stolen some of his material to use in my own lectures.) Some of the toughest mornings of my life were spent in the same place attempting to fill an examination blue book coherently. Coherence was mandatory in those days. And for Professor Mckevlin, so was decency. As Editor of this newspaper, I wrote and caused to be printed in the satirical April Fool's Day issue a reprise of a common English Department joke about "par for the course." I got bruises, so many people thought it was funny and slapped me on the back. Dennis kicked my ass for i.t, in class, and did it in such a way that only I knew I was getting my ass kicked. I never did anything like that again. Professor McKevlin was in an anomalous generation of Western Carolina faculty members who made possible a very decent college education for baby boomers like me who stumbled into Western at an unusual time. He and others who prospered in the brief flourishing of Arts and Sciences under President Alex Pow brought to the school talent, qualifications, and vigor previously unknown at Western. Likewise, he and his cohorts had the integrity to eschew crap like women's studies, mountain heritage, or gay studies that came into vogue later. Those in the English Department whom you quoted in your September 30 issue as profoundly mourning Professor McKevlin's death might have done better by him in life y awarding him academic promotion and pay increases commensurate with his popularity among WCU's most credible consumers, its best students. And a better tribute to him in this paper would have been a literate obituary. Class of 1974 Editor-in-Chief Emeritus The Western Carolinian Student has the Meal Plan Blues As a Freshman at WCU, it is necessary o suffer through many hardships. Some of uSe C»nt be avoided< such as parking where "no man has gone before", or trying p afpease the Freshman Composition roressor who failed William Shakespeare. . And ther> there are those trials that you mistakenly enter into out of freshman I'm0^^6' Y°U just have to learn from them' m talking mainly about that meal plan You chose. V a m I" August' when if came "me to select eal plan during registration, I simply rmrnh *e list lookin8 for the bi8 21 u SmCe * am a bi§ eater' The number WanT higheSt l found- "Ya! 21 meals! l Words'like1":? ,mealS 3S l C3n gCt!" be 1Ke declining" meant nothing to me of mUSf definitely didn't want my number reali7 I*0 dedine an^ l soon be8an to Was *hat mY selecting this meal plan dkrJ* S mistake- After my first few meals I wSS*8*1 »»d in fact, ,1^ up for. Meal Pi i pr°8ram ^wn as ... the Board me? Th°eS anyone have this plan besides know th d°nt feed you on this Plan! l who wea!s not umanyof us-You can te" usuall m cafeteria because we're if anvo Standin8 n*xt to the tray racks, to see y pne left any scraps we could nibble on. start shretty S°°n they're 8oing to have to on it th°.Wln8 commercials with our pictures Price of ^ "F°r ^Ust 35 cents a day'the Marvin. wrPT ,°f C°ffee' y°u could sponsor a 6 "vi_U student, who was stupid enough to get the Board Meal Plan." The other morning at breakfast, I told the lady serving I'd like some waffles so she put two waffles on my plate, but then she stopped and asked, "Are you on board or declining?" When I answered, "board." she took one waffle off! (Judging from her size, I bet she never took any extra waffles off her own plate!) Oh! And the cashier treats you real well too. When you tell her you're on "board," it's just like saying, "Hi, I'm a diagnosed leper." I'm surprised they don't have a designated place for us to sit, like a cage with some straw in it. And try to change lines sometime and go through the declining all you can eat line. They treat it like a federal offense. "Hey! Stop that man! What's he think he's doing! Somebody get security down here we got a "boardee'trying to get more food!" There's people selling drugs on this campus and I get surrounded by a SWAT team because I went for an extra biscuit at dinner. If all of this isn't bad enough, we are also restricted to eating within a certain "Time Zone". That's right! We have to eat our meals at a certain time of day. I tell you what! Why don't they just equip us with computerized collars that make our head explode if we try to eat a meal one minute after our time has expired. That ought to keep us in line. eP J PEL ■» In defense of all sorority women on Western's campus, I would like to respond to recent criticisms about Greek life. I know that those who are not familiar with the Greek system often believe that we buy our friends, party too much, don't care about our grades, and have no respect for other people; however, such concepts are preposterous! To begin with, each sorority member does indeed pay a minimal amount of money in dues to their organization. Contrary to popular belief, this money does not "buy our friends". The dues we pay help support some of the largest female organizations in the world. These dues cover such expenses as insurance, education, scholarships, housing reserve funds, and dues to our local Panhellenic Council. Second, each sorority on this campus is only a small part of a much larger national organization. Each of our national organizations support philanthropies, which our dues also help pay for. The average "sorority girl" on this campus cares very much about helping those who are less fortunate! The sororities on this campus support through fund raisers, wafk-a-fhons and annual dues—such philanthropic organizations as: breast cancer research, the hearing impaired, the American Red Cross, and countless others. In addition to national organizations, each of Western's sororities support many community service projects. Learning the npbility of serving others is something that each and every sorority on this campus deems to be of great importance! Next, I would like to point out that many, many public offices on this campus are held by Greek members! Next time you vote for SGA representatives, stop to consider how many of these people are %> % ^ actually in a fraternity or sorority! Instead of learning only how to party and have a good time, Greek life teaches us all how to be more r esponsible, community-oriented citizens. Most of Western's Greek organizations require that their members maintain a minimum participation in outside clubs and activities, a minimum participation percentage that ranges approximately from 75% to 90%! It takes someone that is very accomplished in time management skills to remain involved in the Greek system and so many outside organizations, while still remembering why we are at school. It is this very idea that brings me to my last thought. For those that think Greeks suffer from low GPA'S, think again!! Of the five Panhellenic Council sororities (Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Zeta, Phi Mu, and Zeta Tau Alpha), three were above the all campus women's scholastic average last spring! It is a requirement for each sorority member to maintain at least a 2.0 to remain in good standing with their organization, and each year more and more sorority women are receiving 3.5 and 4.0 plaques at our annual Greek Awards banquet. I believe that it takes a strong, mature, and very responsible person to be able to remain involved in so many outside organizations and service projects, and yet find the time to make the grades necessary for Dean's List! In conclusion, don't bash Greek life or sorority women until you know what we are all about! We are not snobs or little rich girls who don't care about anyone but themselves; rather, we are caring, giving, and very responsible, involved women determined to give ourselves the opportunity to experience life to its fullest extent! Cheryl Goetz President. ZTA "Reading Level/' Continued the other non-conforming people? are they all your friends? i was just wondering, i did not mean anything by it. please do not beat me with cynicism sticks. i think a feminist column would be good, but only if there was a masochist column, i don't think masochist is the right word, what is the nice word for "man who wants to support his rights?" or the male version of "feminist?" i don't think there is one. that is too bad, but I guess we brought it on ourselves. & to balance that, there needs to be a column by people who let the opposite sex walk all over them, there are lots of those people, too, & they should have their say. but what if someone is gay and gets mad? they will get a column, defending themselves from the religious & heterosexual & nonconforming writers. finally, there should be a column for ethnic issues, but we would have to do one for each shade of person, otherwise someone would get mad. i can not blame them, but it would have to be something more than "oh i am being oppressed" or "society does not understand me." & i guess we would need to balance that with a xenophobe column, but we would need one for each race, this sure is getting crowded. From Page 14. oops, i almost left out political views, where are we going to find room for politically correct cartoons & the sports pages & the news? maybe everything should be in tiny type. i have a last requirement for the columns and letters, i think they should all leave room for each other, they should not hate or hurt on accident, they should be open, they should have real issues, not just old ones repeated each year. so everyone with a column or a newspaper should think about their neighbors & friends, people of all religions have families & pets & jobs, both men & women can be hurt equally, that is because they are equal. & skin tone does not make you better, whether there are more or less people like you. who you sleep with & how you do it should not invite hatred or disgust. & everyone who writes letters should think about the people who write columns & other letters, they all have religions & families & pets & jobs. i hope i do not sound too much like a hippie, i hate those freaks. & i also hope everyone will read my column, maybe next time i will write about an issue.
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