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April 8, 1971 The Carolina Journal Page 7 Oxy^n Giver A blade of grass. Using the rays of the sun as its source of energy, grass synthesizes carbon dioxide, water and minerals to promote green growth. In the process, it takes pollutants from the air, filters out dust particles, and gives off oxygen in return. In fact, actively growing grass on a 50 by 50 ft. plot releases enough oxygen to meet the needs of a family of four, day by day. The world needs more such greenery. Copies of this message available from Scolts, the grass people, Marysville, Ohio 43040, No reprint permission necessary. A Student View The American Dream (Continued from page 2) society. Because we fear the changes technology demands we make in basic social constructs such as the work ethic, we relegate our technology to an enforced inpotence. We embrace technology only so far as it serves existing structures and concepts. But when technology begins demanding that we rethink the validity of tradition, we begin to run scared. We ignore the lesson of a true technology — that it, in its best sense, functions always to continuously incorporate an ever-changing reality. By helping us to live within the constant flux of contemporary life, technology can humanize and make visible and less frightening the forces of change. There is an incredible beauty about a technology which can represent all the possible choices one has in dealing with reality and the continual conscious effort one must make to incorporate change into even the most basic life patterns. We must learn to apply, in a technological sense, the idea of working with all possibilities, all elements, all truth, all reality if we are to survive our expanded, intensified, mindblowing ,.. AHD MlTUE 0£AliTffUL FtOPlE EAT AT \4ARV'&,f\ND-rHEaACE1D GET YOUR diomk -niE Good v^ill^tmat'S k GAS. ^iou) (LWlCXS,AklD VoU usteiOto 'GAose 1% mp, VOV) GoTotHG glasses, those Girds 6liDU)TlT€\R (VHKJPS OMlIlE 'teTRV~\iOiW6-U)OODS SCEIME. k)oi» VooR'BESt fflAJ0R,SU)E6-n6,lS ’CAUSE OOITA AEL TAAt \m9r KELATIUO MiDAa.mV SWiMG (AAV), I oaEAM.TOV Su)me.’ avid look.Kip, about GRSAP •• Dow’T Eood APoOM). A DOLLARS WOI6 AviD m QilEOS. V)0 SEPVKi AiiD AIL 1AAT 0A22, IT GIVES VOU A FEU) EKI^AB^LlS Amjn^To... At North Carolina National Bank, balances under $100 are charged 12i per check. Over $100, no service charges. Come see us. Or send your Dad. NCNB Free Checking Account Service F.d.r.t n.l.rv. Swl*" * ''•'O*'' environment. We live in a world that offers us no illusions about our role in society; we must either take the responsibility for what we have created or become the victims of our own creation. Either we confront change or the dragon Change will devour us. We no longer have even Santayana's option of repeating the mistakes of history, for we in this nuclear age risk eliminating history altogether. I know a lot of people — the president of my college and the governor of my state, for example — who would much rather I concentrate on something safe like the good-looking guy in my junior seminar than on something as risky as the future of the world. But the future of the world happens to be my future too. I'm getting a little nervous now that we seem not to have made the world safe for democracy or even for ourselves after all. I do worry too much but mostly because a lot of people don't worry enough. A lot of people watch the news at 6 and again at 11 and feel nothing. A lot of people talk about Vietnam and poverty and air pollution in a strange, detached, uncaring way that seems more horrible to me than any college student calling a policeman a "pig." I care. I care so much about what happens in this crazy global village of ours that I find it incredibly ridiculous that I be expected to sublimate my concern for some very real problems to a tradition that happens to have been around longer than I. Our task is to see and to see what is, not what we want to see or what we have been told we should see there. Our world is an imperative. In order to answer that imperative, we must have a hard, clear vision of the reality of that world — a vision apart from an illusionary heritage or the concept of an improbable American dream. Our task is to see or what we have been told we should see there. This vision does demand a revolution. But revolution is neither an obscenity nor an epiphany but a fact of life. We are constantly a part of a world that is changing, moving, yes, revolving during every split second of time. The changes that wrench many of us are merely the natural movements of this revolving life force. Our technology is no monster but merely the manifestation of this same life force. And we are no strangers in a strange land but creatures of the living revolution of an imperative world. im Located at 5100N. Tryon St. “the Loft” ‘*So you missed the 49er party at “the Loft” last week? Don’t cry! There’s always a good time to be had at the Red Lion Tavern.”
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