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Page 2/The Battalion/Tuesday, September 13, 1983 Letters Yuri can’t cry wolf again Editor: The MSC OPAS Theater would like to present a sensational play, based on Jonathan Rapid’s famous book Bonzo s Bed time Story. (Location of production: somewhere in Afghanistan.) Act I: Little Goldy Lock is skipping and singing merrily, on her way to her Grand mother’s house. When she gets there, she receives a handful of yummy-yummy can dies from her joyous Uncle Yuri. His smile glares like a shining sickle during harvest. Act II: The people of Lilliput gather in multitude. They are chanting, “Down with Uncle Sam! Hurray for Uncle Yuri! Such an exciting festivity. They even burn a cloth of red, white and blue colors. Act III: It is full moon. Three happy little Korean pigs are building their happy little huts. Uncle Yuri now turns into a big bad, bad wolf. He huff’s, he buffs, and he blows their airplane away. Act IV: It is morning. Uncle Yuri now transforms into the little Jack Hornet with panpipes in his pocket. Wiping the pie crumbs from the corner of his mouth, inno cently he says, T didn’t do nothing. Hon est. A good little boy I am.” (Intermission: the audience is excited, waiting to see the conclusion. Will the good poeple of Lilliput realize the truth and be on guard? Or will they continue to listen to the little black bear who cries wolf?) Act V: ????? Liem C. Du Why no Naval Science? ..§0 MUCH fORlHE puRseiomu- NOW BWCfc WWf RtfSOMe VEW Tough rhetoric.. by Kathy Wies Battalion Sta oals for Project C igram designed t( Jaint freshmen with iial Student Center c re approved at a M eting of the MSC Vice President ol Personnel, Denis jlir program has a do 1 First, it will enablt ttees to recruit actr retain their iim b program through t leas A&M. ■Secondly, it will pr< Editor: Letters, Sept. 6, reports that Cdr. Van Dyke tells Mary Ann Wiley she mustn’t take Naval Science 101. When? Who? Why not? How? WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Harriet Martin Vodka boycotts not enough; No more ballet or wolfhounds MSC OKs by Dick West Juvenile deliquents more, better attention by Children’s Express United Press International NEW YORK — People think that pover ty is a direct cause of juvenile delinquency. A child psychiatrist told us there is more to it than that. Because people need material things they would ao violence, they would steal. But Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis said a com bination of things will put a lot of pressure on children and coulcf cause them to be come juvenile delinquents. jspi New York City. She is the author of “Vul nerabilities to Delinquency. She’s been doing research on violent children and the causes that affect juvenile delinquents. Dr. Lewis compared delinquents with non-delinquents. She looked at their medical records. She found that the delin quents had more accidents and injuries, ‘especially head injuries,” than non- delinquents. They had bigger hospital re cords. She also found out that many of their parents needed psychiatric help, too. A lot of the children have injuries be cause parents physically abuse them. Sometimes the parents hit them on the head or smash them against the wall and that effects their brain and their central nervous system. That might cause them to be fidgety in school and not be able to con centrate. Some kids can’t read because of that. They’re hyper. “And these prob lems,” Dr. Lewis said, “are often associated with aggressiveness. ” Juvenile violence is a major problem in today’s society. But Dr. Lewis showed us how kids are being put into reform schools and mental hospitals with not too much thought. From her study, Dr. Lewis found that black children who were violent and com mitted social crimes were usually sent to reform schools but that white children were “recognized as disturbed,” she said, and sent to hospitals. There was a prejudice somewhere along the line whether it be by the police, the judges, or at the hospitals. “Likewise, if you re a girl and you’re very disturbed and aggressive, you have a better chance of being sent to some sort of treat ment like a hospital. In our society we tend to tolerate more aggression of boys. A vio lent boy is less likely to be recognized as disturbed, less likely to be given treatment, and more likely to be punished. ” Dr. Lewis also told us that "when young children behave very aggressively, they are likely to receive a careful psychiatric eva luation. But a lot of older kids are just put into reform schools for “conduct disorder. ” She called this “a diagnosis which is a kind of mishmash — it doesn’t tell you much except they don’t like the way that kid has behaved. “We found that 59 percent of the juve nile delinquents who were sent to a secure unit in a Connecticut correctional school had previously been in a psychiatric hospit al or residential treatment,” Dr. Lewis said. “It’s very sad. It tells you that at some point lots of people knew they were dis turbed. You have to wonder why they didn’t recognize it when they were adoles cents. ” • Since a lot of adolescents had a record of being in mental hospitals, maybe the hos pitals weren’t doing such a great job. Dr. Lewis explained that “as kids grew older, they became more of a threat, but not more violent — the same behavior was more scary because the kids were bigger. The hospitals and treatment centers became frightened and discharged the kids without good follow-up and without good care. Hence, this group of youngsters eventually got into difficulty and wound up in a correc tional school. United Press International WASHINGTON — Apart from whatever it is the U.S. government is doing, many private citizens have taken it upon them selves to register displeasure over the Ko rean jetliner incident. Mostly, these unofficial protests have taken the form of refusing to drink anv more Russian vodka. Some cocktail lounge lizards have even gone so far as to stop ordering black Russians. time, we all must ife s pleasures for the people’s idea of a sacrifice some of commonweal. Eat no more Russian dressing. Many patrons of salad bars have been known to top their handiwork with Russian dressing. perlbnner, male or female, dancini Russian style, be enough of a hard turn your head or close your eyes fe remainder of this segment. I’ll agree a sauce consisting chiefly of mayonnaise, chili sauce, pickles and pimentoes may well add zest to a hand crafted salad. That is no way to make the Soviets aware of our anger, nowever. You can tell when it’s overbythewi music changes. Deal no Russian solitaire. Since the Russian bassoon, a , . -i . i l ’ l. former president of I strument similar to a bass horn, alrei . .ii .. .i obsolete, it may be superfluous to» and Arthur Mlller that American musicians blowonlylt Until such time as the Soviets formally apologize for the attack on the airliner, they have vowed to stick to margueritas. Pouring out 27 bottles of Russian vodka, as one Maine barkeep did, is all very well. But liquor boycotts are bv no means the only we have of getting back at the Russians for downing the aircraft. Here are a few other measures by which we can show the Soviets we don’t intend to let the attack go unprotested: Play no more Russian roulette. Although emptying a six-gun of all but one of its bullets, spinning the chamber, putting the end of the barrel to the temple and then pulling the trigger may be some Eschew Russian dressing for the dura tion of this crisis. Stick to oil and vinegar, or something. Watch no Russian ballet. A high percentage of ballet dancers in this country are wont to leap about the stage in the manner developed early in the cen tury at the Russian Imperial Ballet Academy. Between sets, however, there couli temptation for band members to kit by dealing a few hands of Russian 1* kind of two-player solitaire also bn “crapette. ” I personally find a characteristic emph asis on dramatic, symbolic or interpretative pantomine through rhythmic plastic move ments and postures quite entertaining. These, however, are troubled times. If, while attending a ballet, you see any I sav, cut it out. And the same goes for taking baths, which are defined as “prolonged osure to steam” followed by “friction cold plunges.” In particular, don’t give yourRffl wolfhound a Russian hath. Finally, you can express your iKl removing your Russian hoots, espffl before getting in the shower. by Kathy Wiest Battalion Sta Speakers for the Went Center Sti ference on Nation MSC Great Issues, Black Awarenes pproved at a Moi meeting of the MSC The topic for SCC Mil be held Feb. 15- Media and Its Ini Society." The ipproved were: Wa ite, former anchorm News; Fred W. Frii umbia University pr University law profe Speakers also wer for this fall’s Great I rams. William Same vivorofoneof the G centration camps in ill speak about and human rights. Charles Clements ican doctor who w< civilians in El Sab present his interpi U.S. policy in El Sab ie and be Being there when lightning strikes It takes a politician to run again by Arnold Sawislak “A fair amount has been written on how nothing helps antisocial behavior,” Dr. Lewis said. But any program that tries, to treat these very disturbed, very violent kids, and is unwilling to give them support into young adulthood is going to fail. Slouch by Jim Earle United Press International WASHINGTON — When Rep. Morris Udall was considering running for presi dent again earlier this year, an old friend and former aide wrote the Arizona Demo crat a memo in the form of a poem urging him to forget it. The rhyme scheme and meter weren’t all that much, but the advice was heartfelt. He told Udall that he believed no one would make a better president, but implored him to pass up the temptation run again. There is no indication whether the poem was decisive in Udall’s decision not to run, but the former aide and a lot of others who knew and liked the gangling congressman were happy he made it. They simply didn’t want to see Udall become a latter day Harold Stassen. That should be no suprise inasmuch as McGovern is one of only two presidential candidates who ever got beaten worse than Goldwater. But his comments in the inter view illustrate how a politician, even one as thoughtful as McGovern, can explain away rejection. “I don’t feel like a humiliated loser from ’72,” he told T. R. Reid of The Washington Post. “I think the people who got humili ated were the winners. I feel fully vindi cated by history after ’72.” Nixon’s disgrace may make McGovern Battalion Rcporl Texas A&M student: n outlet for their ci rtistic talents can a lays with the Aggies articipate in the prod ind the scenes. Usually about 100 s ion for roles, but t astsize is II people, feel vindicated, but it takes an Olyn! Venck, assistant diret class leap of logic to translate thatii ^eater arts section, sa belief that the voters are pantint students who fail another chance to send him to the W art, he said, join th< House. And, in justice to McGoif idp with the sets, ligl sense of reality, he did tell Reid, TffljP ume s. into it in the hope that lightning willstl Tk A je pl So as the thunderclouds of the 1984 > jze a student naign form, McGovern is scanning L u geared toward for the lightning. It probably won tW Jrtsmajors sometime , but it takes a special kind of person namely, a politician — to climb to the? in hopes of being there when theblii flash comes. by Mitch Clend Even though some who have lost pres idential races have made successful com ebacks (Grover Cleveland and Richard Nix on, for two), in general anyone who has his shot at the presidency and doesn’t accept the negative verdict of the electorate risks being regarded as an egomaniac, a fanatic or an idiot, if not all three. Making a strong first race, as Udall did in 1976, may confer the benefit of the doubt for a second attempt. But someone who is soundly thrashed the first time out is ex- S ected to accept “the will of the people,” as id Barry Goldwater after 1964. That does not mean Goldwater’s example has become the norm in politics. Perhaps more typical is the post-defeat behavior ofa John Anderson, who lost in 1980 as a candi date for the Republican nomination and the presidential race as an independent. Anderson, and other politcians before him, obviously choose to see past defeats as start ing points rather than finish lines. Such positive thinking, within reason, is regarded as commendable. At some point, however, it transcends optimism and en ters a realm that most people would associ ate with fantasy. “Ijust had an unbelievable nightmare that I was at a football game. A team came from behind to lead the game with a field goal in the last minute of the game, and then refused the points to take the penalty instead. Your mind plays strange tricks on you when you’re dreaming. All of which leads to the subject of George McGovern. The former South Dakota senator and 1972 Democratic candidate intends to run again in 1984 but told an interviewer re cently that the most compelling argument against the decision is the risk of ridicule, “the fear of just looking like a Don Quixote.” The Battalion USPS 045 360 Member ol Texas Press Association Southwest Journalism Conference Editor Hope E. Paasch Managing Editor Elaine Engstrom City Editor Beverly Hamilton Assistant City Editor Kelley Smith Sports Editor John Lopez Assistant Sports Editor JoeTindel Entertainment Editor .... 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