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Page g • Thursday, March 6, 2003 Opinions The Pendulum The Pendulum Establishi-d I!»71- , f-'- A demonstration in demonstration Burn a flag. Defile the Constilitution. Walk out of class. Join a protest. These are sentiments that are a con tinuous part of the national debate. Many people complain that any demonstration against American political institutions is un-American. Those individuals that participate in defiance of are labeled “dissenters” and cast aside. But maybe the constitutional right to demonstrate is American. Recently a basketball player at a small college in New York has recieved national media coverage for some thing she’s been doing all season. Each tiine the National Anthem is played at a Manhattanville College, Toni Smith has turned away in silent protest of American for eign policy. Numerous fans have critici/ed her protest, one veteran acutaily came out of the stands to lecture her. It is that fan that is grossly un-American. How can we live in American and declare protesting wn)ng? [s it not a birth right of all Americans? Protesting is the most primitive form of democracy and has cat alyzed change in many countries throughout history. The French Revolution started due to protesting by the com mon citizens. Perhaps the movie “The American President” puls it best when President Andrew Shepherd says, “The sym bol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, cel ebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free.” The Pendulum Colin Donohue, Editor-In-Chief Katia Baaver, Managing Editor Lindsay Porter, News Editor Jessica PatcheU. Assistant News Editor Eric Hall, Opinions Editor Andl Petrlnl, A & E Editor Kathleen Frey, Features Editor Kristin Simonetti, Sports Editor Tim Rosner, Photography Editor Mary-Hayden BriUon and Ellis Harman, Copy Editors Annette Randall, Business Manager Matt Ford. Online Editor Janna Anderson, Adviser The Pendulum is published each Thursday of the academic year. The advertising and editorial copy deadline is 5 p.m. the Monday before publi cation. Letters to the editor and guest columns are welcome and should be typed, double-spaced, signed and indude a telephone number for verifica tion. 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 t>e trimmed to fit. All sub missions become the property of The Pendulum and will not be returned. To reach The Pendulum at 233 Moseley Center, call 278-7247 or fax 278- 7246. Contact The Pendulum by e-mail at pendulum@elon.edu. Visit our Web site at www.elon.edu/perKiulum. Each individual is enlitled to one free wpy. U.S. should be heavily Involved in North Korea peace process The situation in North Korea is just another cry for help from a country that has finally decided to open its doors to capitalism after years of economic isolation and tension with neigh boring countries. Tlie latest to come out of the Korean peninsula was an assertion to turn any attempt by the U.S. to use force again, their country, North Korea would use nuclear weapons, according to Monday’s USA Today. It’s all talk. North Korea is more about gaining favorable trade agreements and economic boons from its neighbors in the south Pacific, the U.S. and Europe to assert their presence in the region. What better way to get the world’s attention than to cry wolf by calling attention to the building up of a nuclear arsenal? Who says that, anyway? Even Saddam Hussein pulled the wool over the U.N. by hiding mobile weapons centers around the Iraqi desert. Not to say North Korea should not h)c handled seriously but every thing from expelling weapons inspectors to acquiring weapons grade plutonium to testing short- range missiles in waters next to What better way to get the world’s attention than to cry wolf by calling attention to the building up of a nuclear arsenal? Who says that, anyway? Nick Rust neighboring nations is mere fagade aiming for the recognition of the international community as a power for the twlstering of their economy and nation as a whole. The Bush administration is han dling this issue right. Handle with care and search for a diplomatic solution, bringing as many coun tries to the table as well to open talks and bolster relations. Iraq is still the main issue at large in U.S. foreign policy and .should take priority. North Koreans is a country searching for an identity as they are in the midst of a power transi tion with newly elected President Roh Moo-Hyun. Last week the North Koreans’ conducted a short-range missile test, according to Tuesday’s New York Times. Tlie missiles landed hannlessly into the water between Korea and Japan, according to the Times report. Instead of letting North Korea turn into a diversion from the task at hand of Iraq and their struggle to comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions to disarm, the only solution to pacify the North Koreans is to string them along. Open up direct diplomatic rela tions, not just with the U.S. but European nations as well. The U.S. should play a role in the peaceful resolution of any con flict on the Korean peninsula but the major players should be Korea’s neighbors to the south, with China and Japan as the major powers in the region. Contact Nick Rust at pendii- lum@elon.edu or 278-7247. /VC’KT mu Taking? a ?ou 0^ 7He looH euctioHS TtieN \)JCK)lV WHA-T m.
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