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FKBRLARY 15, 1982
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Are You Aware?
Don’t you think we go to a
great school? St. Mary’s
College. We’re in a great
location... Hillsborough St.
What more could you ask for?
We’ve got it all. Beer joints,
restaurants, and thousands of
guys just down the street. St.
Mary’s can boast of several
attributes, their largest and
most impressive being 500
great girls. We have super
teachers, great
administrators (especially
our good-looking president).
We even have a mean Dean
(huh. Circle?). We have a nice
car, even if we do get tired of
lasagna and tator tots.
St. Mary’s has a variety of
intersting classes to choose
from, nice dorms, great dorm
moms, understanding dorm
counselors, the list could go on
and on.
However, while St.
Mary’s might be the continent
we live and breathe in, it’s not
our world. How many of us are
capable of carrying on an
intelligent five minute
conversation about Reagan’s
plan for a New Federalism? I
certainly can’t. How many of
us know about the anti
abortion marches in
Washington in late January? I
wouldn’t go so far as to call us
uncaring, I would much
rather use the word un-aware.
By now. I’ve probably got
the hairs on the tock of your
neck looking like they were
starched with Faultless Spray
Starch. Stop and think. Have
you heard any girls voicing
their wish to become more
aware? Would you like to
become more aware? It might
seem hopeless, but where
there is a will, there IS a way.
Many people can talk
intelligently about the Global
2000 report and what it means
to us. 1 know Dr. Coffey can,
she’s my environmental
teacher. Many of us know
about the Soviet invasion of
the poorer Central American
Countries. Many of us know
(hat communist countries are
less than 1.500 miles away.
The question is... What does it ■
mean to us?
OK. you’ll say. Who cares
about Cuba or Nicaragua.
We’ve got enough problems
here in the U S. Sure, we do.
Look at South Florida. In just
ten years, their population
has increased from 1,267.000
to 1,745,000. Wow. What are we
going to do with all those
people? And that’s just not
Florida. Just take the time to
look at N.C.’s statistics.
Sure it’s deserving. Sure
it’s sCary. But not thinking
about it, or not bothering to
become aware of the problem
is even more scary. The
growing apathy of college
‘students concerning the world
situation is. well,
overwhelmingly SCARY.
Sometimes I’ll sit down
and think about my future,
which hopefully will include a
husband, a child or two, a nice
house, and especially a
career. But then I’ll read
Time MAgazine and read
about the growing wave of
unemployment in the U.S.
Maybe I’ll be one of those
unlucky individuals having to
depend on a church for my
food, college education or not.
Even if I do have kids, their
problems will be quadrupled.
By then, there will be
approximately 6.1 billion
people on the earth. Where
will we fit? How will we fit?
I’d certainly like to become
more aware of the situation.
Wouldn’t you?
There is a way. The first
step is to turn off the Three’s
Company and THINK, FEEL,
MOVE. Action is the key word
here. The second step is to buy
a subscription to a magazine,
or newspaper, or stop by the
library and read theirs. It's
cheaper. We can encourage
talks, where students during
dinner can sit around a table
and DISCUSS. Maybe a
teacher could monitor the
discussion. We can write
letters to our Congressmen,
and get involved with what’s
going on. Perhaps THE social
studies department could
offer a current events series-
or more could be covered in
class. There are many
solutions.
Let’s get out and move
girls. Sure, the world is our
oyster, even if it is
overpopulated, polluted and
thousands of other , things.
Let’s become aware. For
those of us who are far behind,
it might take a while to catch
up, but I truly believe it’ll be
worth it.
The Bdlles
StMary’s
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PHONE: 828-2521
900 HILLSBOROUGH ST,
RALEIGH, N.C. 27611
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