Editorial
Times are still changing, but college campuses are quiet. The
war still goes on in Vietnam, The C.I.A. still overthrows foreign
governments, farm workers and coal miners still strike, the
military-industrial complex has just produced its latest
"Ultimate Weapon" the B-l bomber, but somehow The Cause
has faded away.
The biggest crowds seen on campus recently have been the
streakers and beer busters. While inflation and the tight job
market are enough to send anyone in search of distractions, we
are distressed by the apparent lack of social awareness on
campus. Optimism about the reorganization of America has
given way to pessimestic acceptance of bad times ahead.
We are experiencing a revival of the "good old days" of the
50's, concentrating on grades all week and raising hell on
weekends. It is our feeling that the social irresponsibility of the
50's was a primary cause of the turmoil of the 60's. Too many
students are unwilling to join the organizations that work for
social change. Progress cannot occur unless people are willing
to commit themselves. Work for a political candidate, join the
Biophile Club, write for the Guilfordian, fight for student rights.
The possibilities are unlimited.
Our democratic society cannot maintain itself without
dedicated young people who question and rebell. If YOU don't
do it now, we will all pay later.
--D.A.G.
J Vegetarians
The practice of eating
animals is causing suffering
and death to animals, to us
through meat-related disease,
to the planet through the
accumulation of insecticides,
and to the twenty million who
will starve to death this year.
Vegetarians Leonardo Da
Vinci, Leo Tolstoy, G.B. Shaw,
Francis of Assisi, Gandhi,
Thoreau, and millions of
others have refrained from
eating meat because it is an
innocent slaughtered animal,
unjustly raised only to be
butchered and eaten. Ethical
vegetarians believe that the
eating of meat violates
reverence for life, nonviolence
and the spark of soul in
everything that creeps and
crawls.
Every pound of meat
represents twenty one pounds
of grain and grass fed to the
animal. Cowfc, pigs, and sheep
are protein factories in
reverse. Henry-.Kissinger,
Edward Kennedy, Hubert
Humphrey, The New Yorl
Times, The Washington Post,
and churches everywhere are
asking Americans to cut down
on meat out of the concept of
feed the hungry. The world
has only twenty seven days of
grain stored.
The American Cancer
Society has labeled meat the
No. one cause of intestinal
cancer. The American Heart
Association has linked animal
fat to America's soaring rate
of cartiovascular disease,
since meateasters "heartbeats
are 72 per minute on average,
while vegetarians" are 58.
Trout Fishing at Guilford College
by M.J. FROST
You know, I used to always
wonder about what I would be
when I grew up, somehow
thinking that that timeless day
would never come. Well, I still
don't think it's coming, but
my reasons have changed
considerably for thinking that.
When do we grow up?
Recently I've pretty much
come to the conclusion that
growing up, down, sideways
or any other way, is all in the
head and is probably no more
essentia] as an end in itself
than any of the other sundry
functions that we perform
throughout our numbered
days. It s funny - I meet
people twice my age all the
time who are "grown up",
and somehow I often end up
Vegetarians get life insurance
discounts from British Life
insurance companies.
-A Herbivore
Justice for
Farmworkers.
Boycott
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United Farm Workers
of America (AFL-CIO)
P.O. Box 62
Keene, Ca. 93531
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thinking about I don't want to
"grow up" if thats what its all
about. So many people just
seem to settle into a kind of
gimme-me-more existance
forgetting all about the
freedom and spontanaity that
was once there; in some of us
it's cut out and dissected and
put away in some dark corner
labeled don't touch. Schools
do there best to educate it out
of you, and its a rare student
who comes out of the system
less than a little scarred.
All of this brings me to the
point I started out trying to
make. It seems that we in
America have such a strange
attitude towards growing old,
as .though the mere appea
rance of a wrinkle or a gray
hair signalled the end of our
days as useful human beings.
On the part of many young
people, this attitude probably
stems from this loss of
freedom and openess that in
truth in suffered by many of
those "old people". One must
realize however that this is not
the fault of the people
themselves but rather. is a
manifestation of America's
preoccupation with superfi
ciality and physical beauty.
Not only is this filing away of
the elderly themselves, but it
deprives the rest of us from
the contact we might have
with these folks. Some of the
most valuable talks I have had
come from those who have
lived a long and full life: it's
not always pleasant, for along
with the happiness and
fulfillment you find in some
there is often as much pain
and bitterness. It's beautiful
though; life in itself, as a
constant experience is so
fascinating and exciting that it
seems a shame to decide that
once we hit a certain age we
might as well hang it up.
People tend to live up to what
is expected of them, and the
ultimate tragedy is that many
old people believe within
themselves that they are no
longer worth a damn to
anyone.
We are surrounded by
stories...people are books and
only wait to be opened and
N^T^IOKING^
25 years ago the worst they could tay was
"Nice girls don't smoke" or "ItH itunt your growth."
Wow we know:
Woman who smoke are dying of lung cancer and other
smoking-related diseases at twice the rate of women who don't.
The*e deyt there't no such thing as a dumb reason for not smoking.
read, interacted with. Are we
all so sure that we will be so
young and pretty forever that
we can lsugh at those who are
no longer? After all, it is our
hearts and minds that grow
old, not anything else...For
myself I know that I want to
grow old with dignity but still
with the sense of the child, the
willingness to learn, to create,
to live free. The saddest thing
of all perhaps are those that
wallow in their youth and dye
their hair, learn to talk "hip",
blah blah woof woof...don't
quit, the best is yet to come.