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EDITORIALS
Re: Cancer(?)
The editorial entitled “Cancer in Our Midst” that appeared
in the November 11 West Georgian has inspired much com
ment and criticism from some students and notably the
writers of the NEW PAPER. Accordingly, the newly elected
staff of the West Georgian would like to establish our
viewpoint toward crime on this campus.
We reject the notion that West Georgia is experiencing a
rash of criminal activity and feel that crime on this campus is
not a cancer, spreading wildly out of control, but rather it is
limited to a small number of individuals who commit violent
or nonviolent misdemeanors and crimes.
Although we deplore these incidents we do not fear them as
part of anew and dangerous trend. What we fear is alarmism
and the consequences it entails. As President Franklin
Roosevelt said, “all we have to fear is fear itself.”
UPC
In the Nov. 12 issue of The West Georgian, a black student
criticized the Union Program Council for “overlooking the fact
that there are no black periodicals in the student center lob
by.” The student seemed to feel that blacks at West Georgia
were being deprived of knowledge of events concerning blacks
outside the college.
In an attempt to meet the needs and interests of black
students, the Union Program Council is now reviewing Black
magazines that will be ordered for the Student Center.
We commend the Union Program Council for their
responsiveness to this request and appreciate their concern
for the individual interests of students.
Campus Choice
Grumblings and angry mutterings have been heard
around campus lately with the discovery of the sudden and
mysterious disappearance of a regular WEST GEORGIAN
feature, the ever-popular “Campus Choice.” Realizing that
she has become a virtual institution at West Georgia, we
feel that we have a moral obligation to the Choice’s many
devoted fans to justify our peremptory actions in disposing
of her.
Campus Choice has become, we think, somewhat of an
anachronism. In these days of Women’s Revolution when
women are demanding to take their rightful places as
serious people, the image of frivolity advanced by the
Campus Choice feature (or “Childish Choice” as one reader
labeled it recently,) is in direct conflict with aims of
equality and social justice. This bit of “cheesecake left
over from the 1950’s angers and insults many who resent the
“dumb blonde” stereotype of women. It certainly does
nothing to awaken consciousness of women’s need for
dignity and respect. Like many seemingly harmless
traditions. Campus Choice grates upon the sensibilities of
today’s liberated society.
Boost the Bravest
If bv chance you are looking for something exciting and
inexpensive to do this weekend, we urge you to take in the West
S Braves basketball game this Saturday night. It will be
Saves fl“t home appearance and their only home stand
this quarter.
Already the bustling Braves have tucked three
wins under their belt, thus indicating that this couWbeonly
beginning. Perhaps a winning tradition is on verge of
setting in, so let’s show people we are proud of being par
West Georgia, let’s show people we are winners. Truck it o
over to the gym tomorrow night and support our Braves.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
Campus Perspective
When Polo Journied Far,
Surprises Were Awaiting
BYHWAS. HAHN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
OF MATHEMATICS
Somebody said that if a
Western man sees a beautiful
scenic lake, he compares it with
sparkling eyes of a beautiful
woman ; whereas, if a man from
the East sees sparkling eyes of a
beautiful woman, he compares
them with beautiful scenic lakes.
A woman or a nude is
frequently an artistic object in
the West; she never was in
Oriental paintings. Instead, in
distinguishable people are drawn
as part of the grandeur of nature,
with a poem usually praising its
wonder and a man’s longing for a
hermit life to meditate within it
and thus to forget 108 worldly
concerns caused by ego, vanity,
desire, jealousy, greed, power....
One might say that the
Occidental culture is man
centered and that of Oriental
yearns for nature. The West built
inany towering churches in busy
streets for the mercy of the
dynamic and humane God; in the
Orient, serene temples foi
meditation were built in deep
mountains.
MARCO POLO
When Marco Polo visited China
in the 13th century, he must have
seen many amazing habits of
people there in a completely
different culture, independently
nurtured, and prospering for at
least thirty centuries. The use of
chopsticks, the delicacy of
swallow’s nest, silk-making in
duced from silkworms, a saw
made to pull rather than push,
finger counting with the thumb
first, the reading of books in
downward lines from right to left,
the addressing of letters in the
opposite order, greetings by
holding their own hands instead
of shaking other’s hands, and not
saying “excuse me” for an
inevitable sneeze but ,ivoiding of
blowing nose in presence of
people, etc.
In the Orient everybody writes
his family name first and his own
name last, because the family is
more important than its member.
Individuals are mere bottom
atoms supporting the super
structure of the society. “Human
being” is written in Chinese by
two characters meaning “man"
and “between.” This emphasizes
that a man does not exist without
society. To keep peace and order
of the society, Confucius taught
an absolute loyalty and respect
to parents and the emperor, and
all the necessary ethics between
men. In writing letters people use
adjectives such as the most
humble i, written in half size of i
for I, or “ignorant i.” Fur
thermore, nature in the form of
famine, flood, or plague is so
overwhelming in the East that
people become passive and
fatalistic. No wonder why people
should dream of another chance
in the cycle of incarnation.
WESTERN SOCIETY
In contrast, an individual in
Western society is the very raison
d’etre of the society. Indepen
dence seems to be a higher virtue
than harmony among men. So
they write I in capital letter, like
God. and write their own name
first. The first name comes first,
for without I there is no world and
no life. The Western man thinks
himself as the center of the world
with the gift of conquering nature
by rational understanding of it.
Technological advances brought
the industrial revolution which
destroyed feudalists society and
gave birth to the imperialistic
European nations.
After eating up Africa like a
piece of steak, these European
nations rushed to the Orient in the
late 19th Century with guns and
provocations. The languid
Orientals trembled under roar of
guns mounted on ironships and
almost subdued and perished by
the superior power of the Western
men. The Orientals paid dearly
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for the lesson. It has become an
irony of history that Japan has
become one of the most in
dustrialized nations, and China,
with a vast regimented mass, one
of the most militaristic.
Is it worthwhile to acquire
“guns and butter” in the price of
the Oriental philosophy of
spiritual enlightenment and
peace of mind? Are the world’s
leaders wise enough to avoid
nuclear holocaust in the midst of
power struggle? Does man have
a choice or has he no longer any
control over his fate?
AN ORIENTAL’S IMPRESSION
OF THE SOUTH
Oriental: I find that Southern
men are gentle and honest, but
many women here are strong
willed besides being most
beautiful and intelligent. Why?
Southern Man: Is that right?
Let me see. May I assume you
have read “Gone with the -
Wind”?
O: Yes. More than once. To find
out why the South lost the Civil
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DECEMBER 3, 1971
War though Robert E. Lee won so
many battles.
S.M.: You see, after losing the
War between the States, many of
us got subdued, just like Ashley in
the fiction, and this made many
of our women a Scarlett O’Hara.
Of course we got some angels,
too, like Melanie Have you ever
seen a woman driver overtaking
you on the road?
O: Why, yes.
S.M.: That’s Scarlett.
0: Ah, so.
S. M. By the way, why do you
live here?
O: I like it here very much.
People are nice and hospitable.
Besides, I built my own temple in
the woods to forget 108 worldly
concerns caused by... Anyway
you don’t have such silly worldly
concerns. Do you?
S.M.: Oh, I can’t say we don’t.
We have some. You see, we look
at all strangers as yankee carpet
baggers.
O: Is that why you stared at
me when we first met? You
stared at me as if I wore a
strange mask on my face.
