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PAGE FOUR STAFF 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 ||n| 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 Westc.fxmrgian The Official Student Newspaper of West Georgia College JOHN THOMAS C Editor-In-Chief lAf W If Managing Editor \ CSS* 1 \.\&r News Editor Sally Roberts Sports Editor - John Travis Activities Editor Richard Collier Staff Photographer Mark Velkov Tvpist JaneHitlin Circulation Manager Mikeßoonev ROBBY BOULIS Business Manager Reporters: Suzanne Bibb, Chris Costley, Nancy Daugherty, Kathy Franklin, Kathleen Kennedy, Steve Kathy Ginn, Alfie McMillan, Rebecca Moore, Alan Pruitt, Jeanna Sargent, David Wright. THE W’EST GEORGIAN is published weekly during the school year, except during final exams and vacations. Subscriptions are available at $3.00 per calendar year. Mail payment in advance to Box 5, West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia 30117. Editorial opinions expressed in the West Georgian are not to be interpreted necessarily as those of the faculty, ad ministration or student body of West Georgia College. Un signed editorials are the opinions of the editorial staff and are not to be confused with news stories. Signed columns and cartoons are the opinion of the authors. 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.