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S GNOA39 Z86V 831NVAA I have just finished reading your premiere edition. And, for the most part, found it very enjoyable. However, if your magazine is to be of use in attaining your goal of "exploring the boundary between fact and fiction" then when dealing with fact you must insure that that is what you're stating. One glaring example of printing non fact as fact is the article on "'Limited' Nudear Warfare: Kiss Your Ass Good bye." The artide purports to being a discussion of limited nuclear warfare when in fact she is discussing strategic nudear warfare. Limited nudear war fare, at least in all artides and discus sions I have knowledge of, is the use of tactical nuclear warheads of limited power, (generally in the kiloton range) on the battlefield or in rear support BEgono PUBUSHER Durand W. Ach£e ASSOCIATE PUBUSHER Jeff Dickey EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Judith Sims ASSOCIATE EDITOR Byron Laursen DESIGN DIRECTOR Catherine Lampton PRODUCTION MANAGER Chip Jones ILLUSTRATOR Dan Eicholtz PRODUCTION Art & Design OFFICE MANAGER Christopher Thor OFFICE STAFF Cathey Halley Roxanne Padilla TYPOGRAPHY Composition Type, Inc. ADVERTISING OFFICES WEST COAST 1680 North Vine, Ste. 900 Hollywood, CA 90028 213/462-7175 National Salas Director Robert Osberger EAST COAST 134 Lexington Ave., Third Fir. New York, NY 10016 212/696-0994 Marketing Director Larry Smuckler Sales Manager Howard Jacoby MIDWEST Tobin, Kreitman Assoc. 4753 North Broadway Chicago, IL 60640 312/561-9334 Marketing Director Ray Tobin Sales Manager Maureen Riley ©1982 Alan Weston Publishing, 1680 N. Vine, Suite 900, Hollywood, CA 90028. All rights reserved. Letters become the property of the publisher and may be edited. Pub lisher assumes no responsibility for unsol icited manuscripts. Published three times during the school year. Annual subscription rate is $4.00. To order subscriptions or notify change of address, write to Beyond, 1680 North Vine, Suite 900, Hollywood, CA 90028. CONTRIBUTORS G. BATZ is from Bloomington, Indiana, now residing in Southern California. Batz dosely follows the work of Dr. Flanagan, uses many of his inventions and plans to visit Cairo, Egypt with him in the near future. KIEL STUART (Beyond Reason) is a writer and artist living in Stony Brook, NY; she's head of the North Shore Women's Alliance and edits a publication titled Undinal Songs. areas to destroy military targets, not strategic ICBM's used against cities thousands of miles away, as Miss Sims describes. The feasibility of limited nu dear warfare, and the prevention of es calation to strategic exchange are highly debatable. But let us at least keep our terms straight rather than further douding the issue by saying one thing when meaning another. D. Bruce Graff No Address Ms. Sims apologizes for any confu sion and adds: 'The piece was not a discussion of tactical vs. strategic nu dear warfare—it was simply a response to governmental consideration of any kind of nuclear warfare, limited or otherwise, by detailing how ill-prepared we are for the devastating effects. There is no reason to expect that nu clear bombs will drop everywhere in the world except this country; I chose to illustrate the effect of these bombs in a way that would make us most dearly understand — by citing the ef fects of single (limited) nudear explo sions (a one-kiloton and a 20-megaton) on American cities, and by showing how the U.S. government has done lit tle or nothing to prepare us to survive these attacks it so casually discusses. "Art Buchwald recently told a Hol lywood Reporter writer, ‘Aren’t you frightened at the supposedly sane pro posal of limited nuclear warfare, which the administration's discussing seriously these days on Capitol Hill? Does that mean if we don't win, well give up, and that if the Russians don’t win, they’ll quit, because we said the war fare would be limited? Maybe it's time to lock the doors of the sanitarium.'" IVI ay I propose a new solution to the Rubik Cube? I don't know how legitimate it is, but I found it through natural curiosity. and I suppose that makes it somewhat legitimate. Like most people, I twisted and turned it and became aggravated—but then curious about how it works — I mean on the inside. The instructions said not to turn violently, so I grabbed it and twisted hard—and it came apart in my hands. Reassembly into desired form was quick and enlighteningly suggestive as to a more kosher solu tion. I decided later this was perfectly fair — if you don't think so I refer you to the fable of Alexander and the Gordion Knot Karen Roothaan No Address I have just perused the Fall 1981 issue of Beyond, included as a supplement to the Minnesota Daily, University of Minnesota. I would like to point out, since you proclaim Beyond to be written for us, its readers, that fifty percent (perhaps more) of your audience is female. Your sexist language in the "Input" column is, therefore, both exclusionary and offen sive. May I suggest that you purchase a staff copy of The Handbook of Non- sexist Writing by Casey Miller and Kate Swift (Barnes and Noble paperback, $3.95), to aid you in addressing all the members of your audience. Christine Mack Gordon, Editor University Computer Center "Oh, no!" groaned publisher Achte. "Oh God, how could we?" lamented editor Sims. Associate editor Laursen looked sheepish. Art director Lampton hid behind her Exacto knife. "Cm inno cent, I think," she said. We welcome your comments, com plaints, suggestions, and praise. Espe cially praise. Send those cards and let ters to Input, 1680 North Vine, Suite 900, Hollywood, CA 90028. 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