Thursday, April 14, 1983
THE LANCE
And We Think Life Is
Rough At St. Andrews
Just a bit of information to enlighten you and make
you appreciate life at St. Andrews...
All of us complain about minor hinderances that af
fect the way we live, eat and socialize here at tame St.
Andrews. Well if you think we have problems look at
these characters.
The Yanomamo tribe is a primitive group of people
who live in the rain forests on the Brazil-Venezuela
border. They live a fairly peaceful existence except when
they are awake.
The Yanomamo men believe in the strange practice of
beating their wivesat the first inclinationof insubordina
tion, whether imagined or real. A common punishment
for the males to do is to rip the bamboo earrings right
out of the females’ earlobes.
BILL LIDE
But the males are not the only members of the
Yanomamo tribe who are unnecessarily brutal. If a
Yanomamo woman has a female child she will
strangulate it and all other female offspring, until she
has a son. The female tribe members are also allowed to
kill all unwanted children regardless of sex.
It is not wise to be a Yanomamo’s friend either. When
one tribe invites another tribe over for a friendly feast it
is understood that there will be certain “friendly” com
petitions held. The favorite sport is a primitive chest
pounding duel where one man takes a large stone and
slams it against his friendly neighbors chest as hard as
he can. If the opponent is able he then slams a return
blow until one of the men sinks to his knees.
Those neighbors who are tired of chest pounding ex
ercises enjoy the relaxing pastime of smashing each
other over the head with bamboo poles. The rules again
state that the loser is the first to hit the turf. Talk about
migrain headaches.
Not all Yanomamo dinner guests are not so for
tunate. Some Yanomamo tribes invite their “friends”
over only to massacre all the males and gang rape all the
females. Most Yanomamos are aware of their guests
possible intentions, so they come prepared and often at
tack first. Nothing like staying one up on the neighbor.
When we compare our compartively meaningless
troubles of no hot water, no heat and continuous ad
ministrative wranglings to the life ending troubles of the
Yanomamos we can only appreciate the tame society
that we live in. After all, we only threaten to blow each
other up with nuclear bombs.
EDITOR’S NOTES: This week was election week and
we at The Lance would like to thank those in charge of
running the elections and congratulate the winners. It’s
all yours Rick. Next week we are running a poll over the
idea of having classes four times a week so start thinking
about how you feel about the change in scheduling.
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Sports Editor Rick Hanna
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Science Editor Greyton Flanagan
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Should Europe Accept The Pershing?
One of the major struggles
in the world of politics and
nuclear arms is the one over
whether the U.S. should
deploy Pershing Nuclear
missiles in Western europe as
a deterent to the Soviet
Nuclear build up in Eastern
Europe.
The peoples of Western
Europe have organized and
carried out several large scale
protests, the most recent one
was during Easte,r that have
had great effect in influenc
ing their governments, who
at the time, are still in favor
of deploying the Pershing II
their
countries.
Albert Lefler: I think
nuclear weapons are insane. I
think that everyone knows
that nuclear weapons are in
sane. Those things could go
off!
Bart Yount: Yes, deploy
the Pershing missiles. As a
human I detest all nuclear
arms, but the govenments are
no longer humane, be it the
U.S.A. oor the U.S.S.R.
They only understand force,
therefore the only way to
elminiate nulcear arms is to
keep peace with the competi
tion until both parties realize
and agree that it is futile to
go in this direction. That, of
Space News
What About The Soviets
By GREYTON
FLANAGAN
The American public is
kept up to date on NASA
space efforts fairly well, but
what about our counterparts
the Russians? Is the common
man on the street really
aware of what goes on in the
Soviet Union? A lack of
communication from inside
the USSR to the outside
world could be the cause for
this, but the Russians like it
this way. Of course our
government claims to have a
good idea as to what goes on.
The government has a host
of Soviet space experts who
make it their job to know
what goes on.
Assistant secretary to the
Air Force, Tidal W. McCoy
is one of these Russian space
experts. He claims that the
Soviets have put a great ef
fort into space, much of it
for military purposes. But
unfortunately for them, they
have misdirected their space
program and not made the
best possible use of their
resources. For example, the
midsdirected resources that
have been put into expedible
launchers, while we have
developed a space shuttle.
“They seemed to have gone
through a period of
bureacratic inertia when they
didn’t make any advances or
breakthroughs. The Soviets
tend to make slow, incremen
tal improvements to oldf^r
existing technology.”
McCoy mentioned the
SALYUT space station as
another example of the
Soviets hesitant policies.
“There is nothing that they
are doing with their
SALYUT that we cannot do
with unmanned systems.”
McCoy also says that
NASA doesn’t want to be a
mirror image of the Soviet
space program. “We hope
they keep putting money into
less productive areas.”
According to McCoy the
U.S. has also shared too
much technology with the
Soviets. He claims that some
U.S. companies have sold
technology to third party
countries who have in turn
sent the goods directly to the
Soviet Union. “The Soviets
have all sorts of tricks. They
request information on the
premise of being interested in
making a purchase, then
subsequently request more
and more information,
bleeding the company dry of
it’s technological expertise—
course, is if we do not have a
third world war in the mean
time.
David Saunier: We should
in our negotiations with the
Soviets in Geneva better
understand the Soviet posi
tion and perspective. The
Soviets are understandably
concerned and counting
British and French missiles
aimed at Russia as well as the
Pershing II missile, we
entered to deploy. When we
understand their perspective
better we can make proposals
which will be found more ac
ceptable.
and then they may not even
buy anything!”
What does the USSR do
with the information it picks
up? One of it’s developments
is the creation of the In
tersputnik satellite com
munications system. This
system coordinates various
activities with the Interna
tional Telecommunications
Union and other global
organizations. Intersputnik
members consist of:
Bulgaria, Hungary, East
Germany, Cuba, Poland,
Afghanistan, Vietnam and
Yemen. The Russians also
have achieved the feat of the
SALYUT spacestation and
ASAT. ASAT is an orbiting
attack satellite which is still
believed to be under testing-
Out of all the information
the Russians are said to have
pilfered, they still have not
really capitalized on it at all.
They plague themselves with
their own heavy hierarchy w
government. Who woul
think that red tape has it s
own advantages, especially'
someone else is afflicted wit
it. Therefore the Space Shut
tle remains the ultima^®
development in man’s con
quest of the final frontier.