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The Pendulum Thursday, October 17, 1985 U.S. wisely retaliates against PLO hijackers 1 aa week, four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. There were 97 passengers aboard the ship during the two-day ordeal, including a dozen Americans. Leon Klinghoffer, an American who was confined to a wheelchair as a result of suffering two strokes, was shot in the forehead and his body dumped overboard. Reporu from the ex-hostages reveal that the hijackers had shuffled passports of the American passengers to compose a “death list,” with Klinghoffer being No. 1. The four gunmen surrendered after making an agreement with Egyp tian officials to transport them out of the country. But Thursday night, before the terrorists reached their destination, their plane was in tercepted by United States Navy jet fighters and forced to land in Sicily after leaving Egypt. The n>en were arrested upon landing. Mohammed Abbas, who accompanied the terrorists on the plane, was released in spite of a warrant issued on Friday by a U.S. federal judge charging Abbas with piracy, conspiracy and hostage taking aboard the cruise ship. Italy refus^ to hold Abbas on grounds of in sufficient evidence, deeply disappointing the U.S. State Department, which apparently believes that Abbas was the mastermind behind the hijacking. Although “friendly” countries like Egypt and Italy have not ex actly been cooperating, the U.S. has made an attempt to combat ter rorism. There has been much criticism about President Reagan say ing so often that he was going to retaliate against terrorists and then essentially doing nothing but talk. And there will certainly be criticism about this effort to curb terrorism. What everyone must realize is that terrorist activity is difficult to deal with because of the involvement of innocent people as pawns or hostages. Innocent lives will nearly always be endangered in retalia tion attempts. Fortunately this time there were few iniwcent people involved except for the Egyptian flight crew. One might argue, however, that we still had no right to endanger that flight crew. But realistically, the crew probably had matters under control within the plane as part of the agreement to get the hijackers out of the country. Reagan wisely saw the situation as a chance, with good odds, to take action against the terrorists. Perhaps the success of this mission will help curb the ever-increasing terrorist attacks against United States and its allies. -fly Jane Kidwell Police chief commends all for parade To the students of Elon College: I would like to take this oppor tunity to commend those involv ed in the Elon College Homecom ing [>arade for a job well done. It was very evident that many hours of planninjg had gone into the event. The “spirit” of Homecoming could be felt and seen by the actions of the students and faculty prior to, during and after the event. This department has also received positive remarks from several of the townspeople who were in attendance. Problems arising from the parade were minimal, consisting of traffic congestion from school buses and tractor-trailers travel ing the two main roadways. It is the feeling of this department that the event was such a total success, bre^in^choo^piritno^ri campus, but also in the commuB ty, that we are already makii plans on how to eliminate the tn fic congestion for next year Homecoming parade. Again, many thanks for i well done. Dan W. Ingl Chief of Polio Elon Colkj Professor disapproves of advertisement To the editor: Outrageous! That is one of the more subtle and respectable ad jectives 1 can use to describe your decision to run an ad titled "Writer’s Block Cured" on page 7 of The Pendulum. Oct. 10, 1985. 1 am appalled at The Pen dulum 's lack of responsibility demonstrated by carrying an advertisement for ready-made term papers. While you are at it, why don’t you see if you can teach students how to get ahold of test banks, answer keys and other “educational aids”? I am aware Peanuts* by Charles Schultz that such term paper catalogues are available and advertised in many national magazines and newspaspers. But for a college newspaf)er to carry an ad for them in unconscionable. Like many other colleges, Elon is in the midst of a movement that is trying to emphasize the impor tance of critical and analytical thinking. The research/term paper is one of the major tools be ing used to accomplish that goal. We attend workshops on writing across the curriculum, devise strategies to get students to begin papers early in the semester, hold personal conferences with students about their projects, read and reread rough drafts so that they can be resubmitted, prod and plead with students, and use a variety of other techniques to develop this most important of skills. And you have the audaci ty to undermine all of this by run ning an ad promoting ready-made term papers. Have you thought about the possible consequences of pro moting such a "service”? First of all, using ready-made term papers is plagiarism and therefore a violation of basic college code. Aside from the ethical and moral implications, it a student gets caught using such a paper, he or she will at the least receive an "F” for the paper and possibly face expulsion from school. Se cond, this practice is a dis- fncentive for students to do serious work and is unfair to those students who are serious. Further, I doubt that parents are thrilled when they read that their child’s college newspaper adver tises ways on how to cheat his/her way through school. Please exercise a little more caution and some common sense in your selection of adver tisements and think about what the consequences of your actions might be. Laurence A. Basiri Assistant professor of sociotoj u;H6N WU'RE FE6LIN6 600r YOU CAM 5ir UP 5TRAI6HT IN BUT IF H'OU'RE A^AP ^OU 5IMK DOWN ( TME mapper ) 1 4'OU SET.. J / TRE LOLUER^ \H0[} SINK 7 H'OUR BEAN BA6... 1 ~lf ^ / ^ N FMtiXe Svn*ule Inc The Pendutum Staff Editor News Editor Arts Editor Emphasis Editor Sports Editor Photographers Ad Manager Advisor Jane KicM Frank islfij Paul Hani Loukia LOJfc Brian E. BatcheH Paul Har« Joe Coco Michele Lashie Bob Nowi The Pendulum welcomes letters, limited* 250 words, from our readers. Longer rnatem may be submitted as option articles All W ters submitted must be signed, and a pnom number gK/en so that the tetter’s validity can be checked. The editor reserves the rigtn'( edit for length, libel, good taste and accuraof The deadline for submitting material is 2 p Monday Our office is located in 102 William son Avenue, phone 584-2331 or 584-246/ This paper is published by the Com munications Media Board of Elon College Founded on October 14, 1974, as the stu dent newspaper serving the Elon Colley community The Pervjulum is published ead> Thursday during regular terms except for tt« examination and holiday periods. The Pefl" dulum is printed by The Burlington Times-f'Jews
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