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TU orJT The Pendulum It's The Little Things Playing the game. p. 10 ;i-,rr -, / . -I- - r -J . *■ . Thursday, November 17, 2005 •Page 9 OPINION Letters to the Editor Issues concerning the stu dent body, your peers. p. 11 With Love, t rom Ctii A weekly look at another country’s culture and customs Random Chilean Observations Ql^rlie Columnist I Remy habit even in the mother house where she also wear unirorms. —— x/ionv tpll tne that they like it because lives. they don’t have to think about what they When I first came to Chile, I thought that , • h H people would go to bed relatively late. addr'^^"‘ oractice of uniforms for In Spain, people never go to bed at an estin^^* P^icular quirks and other inter- thi | j , jst. To me, early hour, often falling asleep at 3 or 4 a.m. ^^*^8 aspects of Chilean culture. in terms of In Chile, the people generally go to sleep ^ch one really is not sufficient enough it s a way P creating a early. My host family normally goes to sleep to fill an entire column but the hierarchy These women before 11 p.m., sometimes as early as 8:30 nevenheless .he, add to the visual so p.m. understa-ding of what die should , culture is like. Uniforms are relatively important here. Almost all students wear uniforms to schools, whether they be private or public institutions. Im ~ in Latin America. ,™«SU„g|y, many female students wear tw7hev aooear no different from the peo- Sept. 18 was Chilean Independence Day that they appe ^ tradition for all holidays throughout ^ RnXTn »m.s of clothing, I have Latin America is fo, people to get complet^ r J ,tot all nuns here wear their habits ly drunk. I happened to go to a gwcep' store noticed that all nu ^ ^j^ohol on the United States, many orders of breaths of many people, don’t require their members to wear One man spent about $25 on beer. It was Helen Prejean didn’t wear a habit obvious that they were dnnking a lot. habits. Helen rr j America, where there is so much when she came to E y ^ ^ ' T1 udveS W'ar “ ::irCan collar but sintpj, w^^» "“ctiltliSLch of Utin America, has a Sre^tat'she^ required to wear her slower pace in general. People are no^as much of a rush to get to places like they are in the United States. I have learned to not get stressed out if I am late because even if I am late, I am usu ally the first person to arrive to class any way. Many classes start 10 or 20 minutes later than when they are supposed to begin. On the first day of classes, I arrived at my classes on time and thought that I was in the wrong room because nobody was there, but eventually people started coming in ... later. Although the pace is generally slower here, I have noticed a lot of fierce horn honking in the city. People in cars seem to be impatient if someone in front of them is not moving when they can be. I hope that the Chilean society maintains its slower pace in a world that is constantly getting faster. Contact Charlie Remy at opinions@elon.edu or 278-7247. *”^1® and female student unitorms me ' j', simply wear jacket and tie. I spoke to one nun and s^ ^^cretaries and other clerical workers told me thatjhe^sjegui^ ^ i ^ x 171^^ T '17 ^^-7 n"i;r^^im1buracall to hearts at Elon University 01 H J through their growth to but they are too often void of emoti( ties. While the govemment-funded ^ rotted piogram is receiving money, it is i» educational mentors that are t, nearly enough i^*'' %dem on and off the campus. As programs, j home f ^^^^ively participate in building needed. . j^eived is for the neeHv w m the hun- Even the money that is oemg ^ atiH * '^^cdy, taking food to the hun- Even me niojitj money for the sick. Yet, for being their biological fami- ^ us, the -r Uoc nnt Vpeoins children wiui uicu ^ ^ ^ the Is it: there was no one there through their growth to show them and help them understand. Many are emotionally struggling with being taken from thek own parents, or being neglected and abused by their own parents. Some are coping with failed adoptions, faUed homes, faUed lives. Others are discovering mental disabilities and diseases, like having multiple personaUties, schizophrenia, or obsessive-compulsive disor der which have been caused by the disturbing events that took place in their Uves. For those of you woiried about making yet another time commitment to yet another pro gram that will look good on your resume, maybe this message isn’t for you. Or peihaps it is the car'u ’* .*^ possible that we do not realize lies or getting ^ons? and effects of our own P^g*^ ^ L^enjoloyees, foster parents, wS Th® T children within the '^'^tintriec''^? ^®*P®d children in different and most Zyg been overlooked. ^stma. o programs like Operation foster ^ and participation in %rtst„ Adopt-A-Child and the Yourknowledg , P the Sudanese, we have left the program family and ftiend- ^ L^in our lives, but these chU- 'Veii^ it’f t ’ ^ I not surprised? ships that we a unfamiliar home to ^ n„ schools, having to make ^ %sth„ 500,000 children in homes another, chang^ ^ by '""j-ysjpitch in a f ; — Sse tj of America. Just new lrien(kJjany h ^ to Me, ^ .tj^t spend a few hours putting Contaa Rebecca H.IIing at that Zy have a home, it doesn’t mean their childhood tecre- Ttee are all nice gestures, opinions@elon.edu or 278- ■^enthi^^n tin need of help. The govern- function properlyi^^^^^ Ufe, because upawai again, mixed up their priori- ating their un Maybe it is time for all of us to readjust our priorities and come to understand the true meaning of our actions. There are 500,000 chil dren in our own country tiiat are in need of our help. What are you going to do about it? This but tiiey are too often void of emotion. Offer your services to the foster care program. Be a mentor. Be a tutor. Be a fnend. Spend one day, just one day, with a foster child and you'll understand. Some will want to tell you their story, and others will just want to escape it. Either way, you can provide them with comfort, support, caring, love and maybe even a littie fun, something they prob ably don't get much of. You could say this is somewhat of a “call to arms.” Really it is a call to hearts. We are too often desensitized by the happenings of the world around us. Put your whole heart into making a real difference in the life of a child. Just put a smile on their face. Make the world look better. Take the time to get to know a child. It is quite possible that your experiences with them could change the meaning of your life, as it did mine.
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