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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?
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by Kathy Wies
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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.
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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
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MSC Great Issues,
Black Awarenes
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meeting of the MSC
The topic for SCC
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Media and Its Ini
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News; Fred W. Frii
umbia University pr
University law profe
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vivorofoneof the G
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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
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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
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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.”
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