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Page 2 Editorial Homecoming celebration is more than just a Greek thing, it is an event for everyone Every year Homecoming comes and goes with success. Students rally together to support their re spected organizations, help a good cause, and have some fun in the name of school spirit' However, every year a portion of the population goes unnoticed at Home coming. A common miscon ception amongst much of the stu dent body allows this happen; only Greete can participate in Home coming. This is simply not true. And the perpetuation of this misconcep tion leads to a yearly observation of this editor: freshmen don’t get involved in Homecoming because freshmen aren’t Greek. We believe it is important for everyone to know that each stu dent on this campus is invited to Opinions get involved with the homecom ing festivities. No matter what your organization, no matter if you chose to participate as a class, a hall or a group of friends, the message is this; participate. Don’t let another homecoming go by without being a part of the Quiz Bowl, or the Banner Competition, or the election of the Queen and King. Don’t assume you aren’t invited or wanted at the Home coming festivities. And don’t de lay getting your group registered. Freshmen- you are a part of the Elon community. Take this chance to get involved U.S. foreign policy cultivates terrorism in harming the innocent Andrew Holmberg Columnist As the United States wages war on terrorism, the American people sit back and watch in com fort assuming good will eventually overcome evil. It seems-to me that most of the American popula tion doesn’t seem to care why there are people in this world that want to see Americans suffer. We just seem to think that they all must be crazy! There are reasons why terror has come from across the globe to the land of the free because of this na tions narrow self-interest in regard to its foreign policies. Our govern ment acts in ways that benefit us, but sometimes they end up hurting others. To understand why this incident happened, we must look at what we did to anger the terrorists. Since the Gulf War, the United States has imposed sanc tions against Iraq, which have caused 1.5 million people in Iraq to die. Most of these vic tims are women and children. Taresa LaRock, Editor in Chief jenn’rfer Guarino, Managing Editor Elizabeth Sudduth, News Editor losh Davis, Opinions Editor lason Chick, A & E Editor Katie Bonebrake, Focus Editor Justin Mazzola, Sports Editor jessica Vitak, Chief Copy Editor Lauren Vilis, Business Manager 7012 Campus Box Elon, NC 27244 Newsroom: 278-7247 Fax: 278-7246 E-mail: pendulum@elon.edu The Pendulum is published each Thursday of the academic year. The advertising and editorial copy dead line is 5 p.m. the Monday before pub lication. Letters to the editor and guest columns are welcome and should be typed, double-spaced, signed and include and telephone number for verification. Submissions are also accepted as Word documents on disk or by e-mail. The Pendulum reserves the right to edit obscene or potentially libelous material. Lengthy letters or columns may have to be trimmed to fit. All submissions be come the property of The Pendulum and will not be returned. The U.S. sanctions don’t allow the basic living necessities to the people of Iraq. This includes wa ter and a basic food supply. Be fore the sanctions, Iraq was a prosperous nation because of their abundant oil supply. In 1998, the Iraqi government rebuilt the largest water treatment facility in the country, but it was soon blown up by U.S. fighter pi lots. Poor drinking water is the leading cause of death in Iraq. We are doing this to hinder Saddam Hussein, but I am sure that Saddam is living well. The sanc tions only hurt the innocent. The United States currently has 20,000 troops in the holy lands of Mecca, which are there to watch over U.S. sanctions. They are imposing their ways on the Muslim world, which angers many of them. We also supply bombs and weapons to the Israe lis who then use them to kill Pal estinians. By supplying the Israe lis with support, we have been angering the Muslim world as our bombs kill innocent Pales tinians. Over the past 20 years our bombs have killed people across the Middle East. If we watched and heard about our friends and family dicing because of U.S. policies, I don’t think that we would like the US very much ei ther. We created these problems and it looks as if we will solve Oct. 25.2001 HoOSeGueST BliQUare '■7^0-M0"ss ^ONT LeAvewer iDwetsr oNTrte BfflHROOM FLOOR Don t pinisH OFF, THeoRANeeauice^ NOT TELL AWroNe DONTMAKe L0N6*t>i e CALLS DON T 3er Yoorhost^ ENTiRe country BIASTCD TO sMiiHeReeNS Hx^MPer ■ The views and ideas expressed in Opinions are not necessarily those of The Pendulum, its stajfor Elon University. LETTERS Student proposes that the U.S. stand for peace To the Editor: Here’s something for every body to think about: If you take something of mine. I’ll take something of yours. If you threaten me. I’ll threaten you. And if you hit me. I’ll hit you back. This is the game we like to call “Eye for an Eye.” In the past few weeks with the terror ist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and the US attacks on Afghanistan, we have been drawn into the ‘eye for an eye’ game once again. You might think we could only play this game for so long, but truth fully the world has been play ing it for decades. This, my friends, is why so lutions to peace have been so hard to find. We’ve been play ing ‘eye for an eye’ for so long Write to The Pendulum Letters are welcomed from all readers. They must include name, title and phone number. Maximum length is 300 words. All letters are subject to editing and will not be returned. No anonymous submissions will be printed. ■ E-mail: pendulum@elon.edu ■ Mail: 2850 Campus Box that we lack the vision to see the solution, which is probably right in our faces. White House, Pentagon, Washington, America, Europe, Asia, everyone, don’t you think it’s time we open our eyes? The solutions to peace are out there. Marcus Collins Student them the only way we know how: violence. We trained Osama bin Laden, and it is ironic that many of the weapons we provided for them in the fight against the Soviets are the weapons they are using to fight against us, now. Our past violence is breading more vio lence. The time has come for us to understand this problem and try to fix the issues that are creating terrorism. This will be an important piece of the war on terrorism, which I hope our gover,nment doesn’t overlook.
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