Editorials
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” - Voltaire
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Black Christmas: A Pagan
Holiday
Kristina Goodspeed
The following is a movie
review to the recent movie
release of Black Friday.
What does a university
sorority house and an insane
asylum have in common?
Billy lived in both places
The movie begins with
holiday meals being passed
out to psychiatric patients in
a mental ward. Santa visits
even the crazy people, and
seeing Billy’s name painted
on one of the padlocked doors,
inquires from the guard about
the man’s supposed death.
No, Billy is safe in his room
decorated with Christmas
lights; just like his house the
night he murdered his parents.
Only now his home is
housing for a sorority at a local
university. The girls are having
their Secret Santa exchanges,
but tensions rise as not
everyone is in a holiday spirit.
One girl complains, having
drawn Billy’s name, and the
group debates the Christian
meanings behind our now
commercialized Christmas.
That’s when the phone
calls start, and a few girls
go missing; the caller ID
showing their cell phone
numbers. It’s soon figured out
that Billy has come home for
Christmas this year, and he’s
brought along his one other
living family member - his
sister and daughter, Angus.
The house residents must
escape alive, and even when
theydo,theordealisn’toveryet.
It’s questionable whether
Black Christmas is truly scary,
but horror may be an accurate
term. There’s a lot of blood
splatter and stomach turners.
It’s not a film one’s younger
siblings (or one’s mother for
that matter) need to see. The
acting, however, is decent.
Do We Think?
Part 2
Bonnie Riehl
I know that my article “Do
We Think?” in the November/
December issue of The Lance
caught the attention of pretty much
everyone who picked up a copy
of the issue. I know that many of
y’all were caught off guard and
angered by my words, ideas, even
implications that were never there.
I am not apologizing for my words
and ideas, but 1 do apologize that
readers of The Lance are angered
by my article. I wrote my ideas and
words down and they were published,
and I stand behind them. Again, this
is not an apology for what I have said
or a retraction of statements made.
This is an apology for angering the
students here at St. Andrews who
do think and were subsequently
insulted by my inflammatory words.
The whole point of “Do We
Think?” was to be inflammatory.
to get the attention of the readers
and encourage them to think on
the issues 1 mentioned and begin
to form opinions on those issues. I
freely admit that when 1 first came
here in the fall of 2003, I had no
opinions at the time on any of the
issues I mentioned. 1 perceived
myself at the time as a very neutral
and naive person, diplomatic to the
letter. If you had come up to me and
asked me what I thought of the War
in Iraq or whether or not same sex
marriage should be legal or not or
what 1 thought of stem-cell research,
I would not have been able to answer
you. Thus 1 would have come off
as someone who doesn’t think.
Look, 1 know there are going
to be readers who will submit
their own writings and completely
destroy my argimients. 1 invite
them, really 1 do. I want to be
Baseball and Steroids
Kevin Tooley
proved wrong, 1 want my arguments
to be completely destroyed. Because
that tells me that there are readers
on this campus who do think and
have opinions or ideas, and are not
afraid to share them. That’s what
my message was, basically. Why
are/were you all silent on so many
issues? Why? Voicing your ideas
or opinions is not a bad thing, it's
not forcing anything on anyone.
2006-2007 Lance Staff
Editor in Chief
Danielle Heider
Contributing Editors
Kristina Goodspeed
Kevin Tooley
Mathew Peak
Jake Nelson
Greg Gray
Mark McGwire was bypassed at
his chance at the Hall of Fame in
January 2007.
Major League Baseball
began testing for steroids in 2004.
The summer of 1998 was the home
run chase between Mark McGwire
and Sammy Sosa. That’s when fans
began to suspect athletes of using
steroids. At the time, there wasn’t
any testing for steroids. At the 2005
congressional hearings, Rafael
Palmeiro denied using steroids.
Although, once he was drug tested,
the results were positive for the
dangerous performance enhancing
drugs. In a tell all book, Jose Canseco
admitted to injecting himself and
Mark McGwire nimierous times
with a syringe containing steroids.
If I had to vote for the Hall of
Fame, I would vote Mark McGwire
in because 1 don’t know if he truly
used performance enhancing drugs.
This season coming up, we will
witness the biggest Home Run record
breaking, when Barry Bonds hits his
756"* home run. There was a report
published that stated Bonds had used
anabolic steroids. Bonds admitted
that a teammate injected him with
what he thought was an antibiotic.
Baseball officials will not suspend
Barry Bonds, yet they will suspend
other players for drug use. Baseball
officials should take action against
Bonds or any player that fails a drug
test and not just look the other way.
This disregard for discipline sends
the message to young fans that it is
ok to do, use, or take whatever you
have in order to win. The Baseball
Commissioner is at fault because
the sport has an image problem and
he needs to take responsibility. The
baseball league has a problem with
the steroid cloud and they don’t
know how to get rid of it. Steroids
are known to have killed people.
When will the players be satisfied
with giving it their all and not
having to always have a superhuman
advantage over everyone else?
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