February 7, 1992
One for the money
I V North Carolina: February 14 in the State of Luv
Jacob Stohler
Staff Writer
If all goes well and our persistent satellite
hookup problems have been corrected, you' 11
be reading this paper with a mere week left
until Valentine's Day.
This particular holiday has many strange
effects on folks, the most interesting being
the courage it gives otherwise sheepish
people to write and send anonymous poetry
to the objects of their desires. Of course, a
lot of people skip the anonymous part and
use the day as an excuse to ask out on a date
that object of desire, or worse to read said
poetry in a public place as a sign of affection.
Yep, goofy people doing goofy things in
public places— that's what February 14 is
all about.
Speaking of Supreme Court Justice David
Souter, some of us have been wondering
lately how the High Court's only un-wed
member plans to spend his Valentine's Day.
All news reports until now have indicated
Action Angle
Making the world safe for budding idealists
Heather Sowers
Staff Writer
Eco-actions
• Save energy. Don't use the elevators
unless you are physically unable to use the
stairs.
• Keep recycling. See the Greensboro
News & Record's People & Places section
for recycling times and places. Recycle your
copies of The Guilfordian.
• War is not an energy policy. Write to
Congress and ask your senators and repre
sentatives to support or sponsor bills that
would stop oil drilling in more fragile coastal
areas, require cars to get more miles per
gallon, to implement more solar and wind
energy use and to stop funding nuclear en
ergy programs.
• Walk, jog, skip, hop, rollerskate or bike
instead of using a car whenever possible.
• Buy recycled paper products, write on
both sides of a page of paper, re-use enve
lopes, and use pencils or fountain pens in
stead of disposable ink pens.
• Carpool.
• Help save the rainforest by boycotting
the following companies whose timber af
filiates are destroying rainforests: Mitsubishi
(Nikon), C-Itoh (Fuji, Isuzu, Fujitsu, Hitachi,
Mazda, Pentax, Shiseido), Marubeni
(Nissan, Canon, Sapporo), Toshiba and
Toyota.
• The old growth forests of the U.S. are
disappearing. Acres and acres of public land
are clear-cut by the U.S. Forest Service and
that David leads a dull bachelor's life. Even
the ordinarily hyper-inquisitive People has
yet to turn up any compromising photos
with the Associate Justice sitting in a boat on
someone's lap.
Well, our crack team here at The Guilfor
dian has found (via reading the New York
Times) what we believe
to be David Souter's
smoking gun of luv.
While researching a
still-unfinished report
for history class, we dis
covered that in the 60 or
so opinions handed
down by the Supreme
Court since David
joined the bench, he has
sided with one other
member every single
time on every single de-
cision. That member? Justice Sandra Day
O'Connor.
Now we don't want to start any false
the Bureau of Land Management who build
10,000 miles of logging roads into virgin
forest per year. Write your congresspersons
asking them to support Rep. Bryants House
Bill #1969 which bans clear-cutting on pub
lic lands.
Vote
Only three states in the union had smaller
voter turnouts in the 1988 election than
North Carolina did. Register to vote now at
the following locations:
• Board of Elections offices at 301 W.
Market St. (373-3836)
• At any Greensboro Public Library
(there's one on W. Friendly Ave. across
from the Quaker Twin movie theater)
• Department of Motor Vehicles
To vote by absentee ballot in the state in
which you live, contact the Board of Elec
tions in your county at least two months
before the election.
Volunteer to help register voters. Contact
the League of Women Voters at 274-0202
for more information.
Think globally, act locally
Whales are not the only endangered spe
cies—entire cultures are in grave danger as
well. There are less than 32 families of
Penan natives left living in the forests of
Sarawak in Borneo and Malaysia, where the
rainforests are being cut at a rate of 2500
acres per day. The natives are jailed and
beaten for blocking logging roads.
Help save the natives of Sarawak and their
Features
rumors here, but it's just that we see 60
identical opinions as, well, more than coin
cidental. Also given the fact that David is
50, unmarried, and until only recently living
with his mother, we think it's possible that
the shy, bookish Justice may have been been
smitten by happily-married Sandra and is
Yep, goofy people
doing goofy things
in public places—
that's what February
14 is all about.
Sou ter/O'Connor get
together, saying only that David was out of
the office and wasn't going to be back any
time soon. "I really can't comment on that,"
home by writing:
Mr. Razali Ismail, Ambassador to the
U.N., 140 E. 45th St. 43rd Floor, New York,
N.Y., 10017. Ask him to help stop the de
struction of the rainforests of Borneo and
Malaysia.
If you are an idealist andyou want to commit
yourself to non-violence I have one wordfor
you—the most important word: start.
—Colman McCarthy
Do you want to start committing yourself
to non-violence? This week's focus angle is
peace actions, but remember essentially,
every action is a peace action, especially
voting and making any effort to save our
planet. However, here are some identifiable
"peace" actions that you may choose to do:
• Write your congresspersons and ask
them to stop non-military sanctions of Iraq.
Due to sanctions the present food supplies in
Iraq allow a ration sufficient for only eight
to 10 days per month. If Iraq was allowed a
one-time sale of oil strictly for humanitarian
needs, it would be able to provide for the
basic needs of its people-food, medicines,
water purification and waste disposal. The
Iraqi people need help now. Write President
Bush and let him know that non-military
sanctions must end now , not when Saddam
Hussein is removed from power.
Write to: U.S. House, Washington, D.C.
20515 or U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C.
20510
• Continue boycotting the Defense De-
now trying to curry
favor with her at work.
Silly wishful
Valentine's Day
speculation on our
part? Maybe, maybe
not. Confirmation
was not difficult.
David's office
in Washington, D.C.
declined to make arv
official comment on
the question of a
THE GUILFORDIAN
his secretary said when pressed on the ques
tion of whether David would be buying
Valentine's Day gifts for any of his col
leagues in particular.
(Remember that in Washington-speak,
"No comment" is just another way of saying
"Yes.") We had our answer.
In any case, since next Friday is still
Valentine's Day, we here at The Guilford
ian decided to put together an itinerary of
events around the state just in case a couple
of out-of-towners were to want to drive
down from, say, Washington, D.C. for the
weekend. We feel these happenings reflect
a broad range of NC cultures and lifestyles,
and that a healthy smattering would give an
out-of-stater the true feeling of Valentine's
Day south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
(Unfortunately, the state's most popular
and undeniably romantic cultural event —
the annual Spivy's Corner Hollerin' Con
test —doesn't get cranked up for some three
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partment contractors from last week's issue.
• If you want to help solve problems
around the world, start with you're own
little comer of it: express your feelings clearly
and directly when you speak with people. If
you are angry with your roommate, tell him/
her—not your neighbor.
• "Think about the kind of world you want
to live and work in. What do you need to
build that world? Demand that your teachers
teach you that." —Peter Kropotkin
• If you want to change our history of war,
you need the knowledge and skills to do it.
Take advantage of these courses offered at
Guilford: Community and Commitment
(IDS 401), Response and Community (JPS
220), Conflict Resolution (JPS 244), Peace,
War, and Justice (Rel 233), Non-violence
(Rel 330), Cultural Anthropology: Conflict
& Cooperation (SOAN 103), Personal and
Social Change (SOAN and Building
Community (IDS 401).
• Peace belongs in political science as
well. If you are in an international politics
class, for example, demand that Gandhi,
King, Dorothy Day and other advocates of
non-violence be taught, not just Hobbes,
Locke and Marx.
• Read Gandhi, King, Dorothy Day,
Jeanette Rankin, Sargent Shriver, Margaret
Mead, Albert Schweitzer, William Penn and
Albert Einstein. For a comprehensive non
violence/peace reading list, and other help
ful information, write to: The Center for
Teaching Peace, 4501 Van Ness StreetN.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20016.
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