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Wednesday, October IB, I9K4
THE RED AND BLACK
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Harry Montevideo, General Manager
Melissa Jordan, Editor In Chief
Clarice Makemson, Managing Editor
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An independent «Indent newipop- no I affiliated with the Vniuer»it\ of Georgia
Opinion
Give Reagan a solid gold playpen
Here’s to you
Though many students probably are not aware, this is National
Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week Although the University has
no organized plans to promote the event, we urge all students to
act on their own initiative and consider the importance of
responsible drinking
The University has a reputation of being a “party school,”
where drink-and-drown bar promotions, keg parties and all-night
rounds of games like Quarters, Ole and “Pour Beer on Your
Head” abound. The social pressure to drink — often to excess — is
enormous But think about it. Do you really want to drown? Or
pour beer on your head? Or worse?
As mature, intelligent college students, we must realize that
abusing alcohol only causes harm to ourselves and endangers the
lives of others BAACHUS, a University organization that pro
motes responsible drinking, will hold its own alcohol awareness
week Oct. 20 26
During that week, BAACHUS will sponsor events such as
voluntary breath-alcohol testing at the Vanderbilt game,
responsible drinking presentations at sorority and fraternity
houses and dorms and lectures by a variety of speakers. Any
students interested in helping organize the local events can attend
BAACHUS’ next meeting, Tuesday from 4 toSp.m. in Room 138of
the Tate Center
We applaud BAACHUS’ efforts, and encourage all students to
drink responsibly — during alcohol awareness week and
throughout the rest of the year
After Secretary of Labor Ray Donovan was
presented with a 137-count indictment last week.
President Reagan asserted that the sleaze factor
resides wholly on the “other side," mumbling
something about “baseless charges Of course, the
president's claim is not entirely true, but he is a nice
boy We are used to his problems with the facts
Getting his story straight is just a hootin' hollerin
problem for him
I wonder why the Washington press corps is so
tender with Mr Reagan They coddle him like a child
and give out lavish praise when he demonstrates the
most fundamental understanding of an issue The
election, however, will apparently not be decided on
issues
Walter Mondale would be wrong to mention the
sleaze issue: there is not a sleaze gap Gender is also
not an issue, and the gender gap is also not a gap
There is only one important gap in this election, and
that is the idiot gap Walter Mondale seems to trail
hopelessly among this large segment of the American
body politic
Walter Mondale's problem is that, unlike Mr
Reagan, he's just not an idiot's idiot Foolishly, Mr
Mondale would prefer to focus on adult issues, not on
style Mr Reagan’s clones would much rather not
have thought forced upon them, thank you very
much Mr Reagan said the deficit would just go
away, so why worry - ’ A population with little respect
for the facts will sooner or later find a sleazy
politician capable of slithering down to its lowest
common ground This politician, the American
version of the true idiot's idiot, seems well on his way
to a second term
As the president once said, between gasps I am
sure, “Well (gaspl, the truth is igaspt, there are
simple answers ' Well, the truth is, there are a lot of
Sheldon Kohn
idiots out there While all of the president's fans are
not necessarily idiots (surely some of them are just
good old-fashioned greedy types i, all idiots appear to
be his fans Why, there's enough idiots for Mr
Reagan to cause a real dipsy doodle
Never before have we seen such an idiotic
morality, a morality so consciously hypocritical This
new morality builds nuclear weapons for peace
because war is peace Then they say we can no longer
afford compassion or opportunity for all The idiots
call this progress However, some of us are not
deceived by Pharisaic respectability, for behind
every Jerry Falwell there is a Ronald Reagan
The idiot gap is just about rim-high full of folks w ho
are surprised when Mr Reagan is surprised 1 bet
they learned something surprising when he was
“surprised" to learn that "they're all individual
countries" way down yonder in Latin America Jim
Bob. 1 bet you were surprised then
The idiot gap could not care less about education
another adult issue Mr Mondale has foolishly raised
When you say, "prayer in school" and "tuition tax
credits," you speak for the idiot gap Since ignorance
is strength, they do not see a need for a bunch of
subversive elements running around free Mr
Reagan plans to give them a w hole new sub class to
exploit; every slave will have a slave Educated
people as opposed to trained individuals, tend to hold
liberal views The idiots elected Mr Reagan to give
"them liberals" hell, not to make more of them
Nothing scares the idiot gap more than the thought of
a procession of freedom gone wild
Do not mention ethics to the idiot gap they never
heard the word Do not mentionpassing the buck, for.
contrary to etiquette, they pass everything left
Walter Mondale is also foolishly attempting to make
Mr Reagan somehow accountable for his record
That is just another dipsy doodle The idiot gap holds
that Mr Reagan should be left alone
Actually, the idiot gap would have much preferred
John Wayne, but Mr Reagan is the last of the true-
blue, red-blooded B-movie men Well, the truth is,
there are simple answers for those who equivocate
war to peace, ignorance to strength, and love to hate
I suppose idiots just naturally prefer volume to
substance
A second Reagan term should be an idiots' dream
come true, all the kids should have a great time
Maybe the taxpayers can give Mr Reagan a solid
gold playpen for the Oval Office
It is really all very simple The President is alwavs
correct he is always Right No matter what he says,
he simply does not mean w hat he means He is such a
good boy Well, the truth is. Mr Reagan is just about
the second worst doggone president we ever had He
is just a real dipsy doodle There are no simple an
swers, just simple people
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a graduate in the English depart-
Mondale will seek a brotherhood of the world
TO Till*. EDITOR: lacking m charm wit and mra?? vir **
TOTIIK EDITOR
It’s actually happened and I'm
afraid Americans have now seen Mr
Reagan shaken up verbally hy a man
who until Saturday was considered
lacking in charm, wit and pizazz Mr
Reagan appeared visibly shaken by this
new foe ( aught up in a campaign of
(tod. mom and and apple pie, our
president appeared terribly unnerved
by the fact that his opponent didn't go
for his jugular
Mr Reagan is so well liked, just as
we all want to love our country, that
someone attacking him can't help but
seem cruel It wasn't an act - Mondale
is a warm and loving person In his 2D
years in the Senate he has consistently
been concerned about the victims of
our staunchly capitalistic society
In 1968. Mr Mondale's mentor.
Hubert Humphrey, attempted to
convince the American people that our
nation should be ruled by strength
through compassion Richard Nixon
also said he wanted to end the Viet Nam
War; only he wanted to do it by w inning
the bloody thing
It's sad and scary that the same
mentality pervades our country today
Mr Mondale seeks a greater
brotherhood of the world's people. Mr
Reagan has repeatedly assumed a
sword-rattling, tough guy stance For
example, he has meddled in the in
ternal affairs of Central and South
America, bearing the banner of the
150-year-old Monroe Doctrine to justify
our actions
It seemed too unlikely to be true Mr
Mondale is presidential And he might
just win The lines are being clearly
drawn, the candidates positions made
known The American people, it seems,
will soon proclaim to the world which
course we wish to pursue I only hope
and pray that a majority of Americans
will vote their consciences and not their
billfolds
STEPHEN R WEST
School of Journalism
Why should we register
our parties with police?
REAGAN EXTENPING TIES
TO THE SOVIET UNION
TO THE EDITOR
Why should anyone have to register
with police — or with anyone else for
that matter his intention to have a
party with or without live en
tertainment^
I assure you the police w ill know quite
quickly the location of any party Can
you recall the last time you didn't see a
policeman cruising Lumpkin Street or
Milledge Avenue on a Saturday night 0
What good would going to the police
station three days in advance to get a
permit do"*
It seems to me once a new noise or
dinance is finally voted on it will
become common knowledge among
party givers I'm sure they will abide
by the rules instead of facing stiff fines
that could have bought another keg
Registration of parties seems to be
just another stupid ordinance for which
there is absolutely no need
If fraternities and other party givers
would make honest attempts to stay
within the limits (whatever they may
be», it wouldn't allow some socialist
minded individual the un needed idea of
registering parties If we have to
register parties, what will we have to
register next 0
BRENT HOFFM AN
Senior. School of Journalitm
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One good term deserves another
Having been a Ronald Reagan supporter since 1976
when I first realized the Republican Party was
capable of offering an alternative, it ia gratifying to
see that the U.S electorate is once again poised to
elect Ronald Reagan by a margin of landslide
proportions
I look forward to reliving the excitement of the I960
victory, when stale after stale was filled in tor Mr
Reagan There will be exceptions, no doubt, with the
People's Republic of Rhode Island immediately
coming to mind, but in the vast majority ot states
producers outnumber parasites much to the dismay
ot Walter the Whiner and his electoral prospects
Despite all of the good news in the polls and
projections based upon a state by state analysis. I'm
not satisfied with the current situation Perhaps I am
just plain greedy, but I will not be happy as long as
anyone other than Mondale's family and union bosses
plans to vote for him
The reason for this is really not so much greed as it
is a disbelief that anyone couid rationally choose Mr
Mondale How is it passible that any sane individual
could compare Mr Reagan's record of ac
complishments with the failures of the Carter-
Mondale administration and not conclude that Mr
Reagan must be re-elected’
It is no surprise that Mr Mondale's campaign is
avoiding any talk about the facts, and has instead
launched a series ot vicious personal attacks upon the
president What is a surprise is that there are still
otherwise normal people who intend to vote for
Mr Mondale
An inspection of the key points ot the campaign
makes this point much more eloquently than mere
rhetoric.
We are faced with a choice between a proven leader
confident enough to appoint capable subordinates
and a political hack who is a puppet to special in
terests
We are asked to choose between a party that
believes in the growth and prosperity ot the free
enterprise system and a party whose poll tics-of envy
economic policy strangles the productivity of our
nation
We must decide whether we want a foreign policy
which protects and promotes U.S interests or one
which blames America for the ills of the world
Can our country afford a candidate who. for
political expediency, promises everything to
everybody’
Can anyone imagine Walter Mondale having the
backbone to make the tough decisions that may not
be popular’
These are but a few of the reasons why President
Reagan stands head and shoulders above Mr
Mondale
Imagine the consequences if the positive leadership
of Ronald Reagan was replaced by a man whose sole
criteria for his vice-presidential selection was to
placate the feminists w ho endorsed him
What would happen it Mr Mondale got elected and
the union chiettans called in their lOU’s?
Could our revived economy survive four years of a
man who believes expropriating even more money
from hardworking taxpayers should be the cor
nerstone of economic policy?
Does anyone seriously believe the cause of world
peace would be served by a candidate whose record
of appeasement is so clear that he received the en
dorsement of the Soviet Union’s official state
newspaper’
Is there any hope that Walter Mondale could lead
this nation when he represents the ultra-liberal wing
of a party that has drifted tar to the left of the
American mainstream’
It is no wonder that the "San Francisco'
Democrats have lost the allegiance of traditiona
Democrats across the country A partv that lives of
the support of special interests (easting at the public
trough w as hound to lose any middle class backing
While all factors and issues point to Mr Reagan as
the clear choice thus election, by no means should this
constitute a ringing endorsement ot the incumbent
While the rate ot grow th in federal spending has beer
cut, it is still growing at an alarming rate Oui
defenses are in better shape than thev have been ii
years, but occurences such as the tragedy in Lebano
show quite clearly that our intelligence capabilities
have not rebounded from the short-sighted reslric
lions instituted by the Congress in the 1970s
Many issues remain to be addressed In some case
the Reagan administration has started in the righ
direction only to back off in the face of criticism frorr
entrenched interests
One thing is clear, however In the areas where th<
Reagan administration has fallen short, to view i
Mondale presidency as a viable replacement is ver
much akm to jumping out of a frying pan and into thi
nre When viewed in terms of issues like the deficit i
more accurate analogy would be jumping oft a col<
stove and into a blast furnace
For the sake of your future, and mine, vote for Mr
Reagan America cannot afford to replace a leade
with a lackey.
Dan Mitchell ii a graduate in economics.