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Some Meredith students subscribe to the misinformed notion that the United States is fighting for democracy. Whose democracy? Kuwait is far from a democratic nation as we know the word. Other students have said that we are fighting to protect Americans. When asked, "Protecting Americans from what?”, they respond, •'From Saddam Hussein.” Iraqi SCUD missiles admittedly have a long range, but it's highly unlikely that Hussein would target his missile launchers across the Atlantic. The point being, many Meredith students seemingly haven't bothered to try to learn what the purpose of the war really is. For women in general, war is something in which only men participate. Our involvement is attached to fathers, brothers, uncles, husbands, and boyfriends who are serving or who may be called to serve. However great the impact, it is only peripheral to us. We cannot begin understand the Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome that Vietnam vets suffer and will surely be suffered by returning American soldiers and POWs of the current war. Some of our students still believe they attend a "girl’s school" and comply with its complementary attitude that girls do not question authority: If President Bush says it’s OK, then we must be doing the right thing because he says so. Whatever the right thing is. The girls' school mentality says, “I’ll just go on to class, rK>w, thank you very much. Mr. Bush doesn't need me to attend a rally (or, for heaven’s sake, organize one) to show my support of his decisions.” Conversely, those who protest the war haven’t been very vocal, either. They seem resigned to the fact that voicing a dissenting , opinion can’t make any difference. While it seems unlikely that Bush would hold a press conference along the lines of "Well, lot’s of you don't seem to like what's going on over there, so we're pulling the troops out of the Gulf and sending them home,” one only has to go back a micio-distance in the course of history to see that public opinion about the Vietnam War made a very big difference to one president’s political career. In times of crisis, we women of this campus seem to turn inward rather than outward. Our signs of activism are passive at best. We wear ribbons, we pray, we watch television, we 'talk to our roommates. In the olden days, women were supposed to stay home and be wives and mothers, not bothering their simple minds with politics and such. The first students who filled Meredith’s campus were ratherforward'thinking activists for their day. They wanted to be doctors and lawyers, run for political office and publish their opinions. They wanted to make a difference in their own lives and in the lives of others. We can do the same today. Cant we? The Meredith HeraUi Published every Monday during the school year. Edltor-iD-chlef Julia Haskett Business Manager Jane Kennedy Managing Editor Kim Peeples Advertising Mani^er Kathleen Thomas Advertising Sta£F Muffett Brinkman Copy Editors Jane Kennedy Kathleen Thomas Patricia Underwood GLASS SECTION Freshman Editors OPEN Sophomore Editor OPEN Junior Editor Jane Kennedy Senior Editor Kim Peeples Non-Resident Editor Lee Connelly WINGS Editor Kathleen Thomas Graduate School Editor OPEN ACADEMICS SECTION Academics/Faculty Editors Art, Music, Speech Patricia Underwood & Theatre Biology & Chemistry Mary Beth Owen Business 6 Economics Susan Mowe English Catherine Hait Education OPEN Foreign language Jane Kennedy Health, PE 6 Dance JarileMuUis History & Politics OPEN Home Economics OPEN hUemational Studies Janie MuUis Psychology OPEN Religions'PhUoscphy OPEN Sociology and Sociat Vork OPEN ADMDaSIHATKm SECTION Administration Editor OPEN Student Servkci Editor Julia Haskea STUDENT UFE SECTION Spofti Editor Elizabeth Baitlea Entcrtahimeot Editors Patricia Underwood Features Editors Patricia Underwood Kym Spell Nicole Rivenbaric NEWSSECnON Campus News OPEN Local A International News Julia Haskett ARTSECTHMS Photography Editorial Cartoonists AftsCrblc Layout Advisor Jiilia Haskea Kym Spell Pam Mazwdl OPW Julia Haskea Janie MuUis Becky Bradshaw The Meredith HeraU Meredith College 3800 HUtiborough Street. Box X133 Raleigh. NC 27607-5296 Drop box: beside box office, Cate Center ^mpus offlce: Second floor Cate Center Phone: 829-2824 Printed by Hinton Press, Mebane, NC Display advertising rates available on request. Editorial Policy ‘Ihe Mendith Hemld is pubUihed by Meredith College durlitf the if.ariBiTL! year. Ihe paper Is Ainded by the College and thteugh adveitislng. The Hemtd ratalns the ri^ not » pubUth msMtal ooMalning peaonal aoacka, iiauto, ridkule, or IMeus ttm- nenti. AD leoen 10 (he editor ffluit be signed, aWnuih die BMher^naswwiUbewiihdd from pubUeaten if tequMcd The opialeoa ei> piewed In editorial GohBBm and ictten to ihe editor do notneeeMatUy rcAea chose orihecoUegeadnlniamlon, bailty, or student body. TrScTBkBMii OGiU^ r Page 2 Janttary 28, 399J
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