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Your Vote Counts
The fast-approaching presidential elections are holding a mirror up to the
citizens of this country. And if we haven't looked at ourselves in a long time, all we
have to do is open our eyes!
What has happened to our country? Americans are supposed to be
independent! We live in a democracy a government by the people in which we
are supposed to be politically and socially equal. Yet, many citizens are afraid to
vote for the person they feel can best hold the highest official position in our
country.
We accept the corruption and deceit of politics as a 'necessary game.' We let
ourselves be led around by the media. We shun change; we worship tradition -
the easy way out! If this 'way' is more secure - then why are we in a time of high
unemployment and rampant inflation?
Why do we constantly look for complacency? In 1775-1776, we didn't follow
the rules and regulations or worry about the security of tradition; because if we
had, we would still be under the reign of King George! (Possibly, the American
people do want another king). But our history characterizes us as a nation of
rebels. Does this disgust you?
We should be thankful for the men at the Boston Tea Party and thankful for
the flower children of the '6os they help preserve our independence. This is the
history of the United States, and it has made us become the most progressive
nation of the world!
So, let's open our eyes! These elections will decide in whose hands the fate of
the country will rest for the next four years. If this doesn't frighten you, then you
have become an apathetic, unthinking robot. Maybe the majority does not want
independence. (Certainly, the 'moral majority' wants independence - if they can
write the rules). Actually, we could all help write the rules!
Let's look at the past four years ...no, let's not - it is by far too nauseating.
There is time for a change - the time is now! It is tiring to listen to all the rhetoric
about why one citizen's vote cannot count.
One plus one makes two; plus one more makes three; plus one more makes
four.... In the aggregate, that 'one' vote makes a difference; an aggregate is made
up of single voices.
Our vote does make a difference it gives the individual citizen a chance to tell
our elected officials what we have thought of their performance.
If that is no longer important - then why not let them pick their own
successors? If that is no longer important - then why do these candidates
campaign? Why? Because they want your vote!
November 4th. we will elect the next president of the United States. No
matter whom you vote make sure that it t the man who you !eel will do the;
best job.
This is not idealism. This is accepting reality -- the need for a change!
We all have a choice! And ifji e ll e seople would vote for who they honestly feel
could do the best job, we may in have a president elected by the people - not
by the media or by tradition!
That one vote may be the only freedom we have left. We can make it mean
something. Vote!
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LETTERS POLICY
Thursday, October 23, 1980
Editorial . /Opinion
--Susan M. Snell
Are Sports Announcers
As I sit down to watch Game 4 of the World Series, I realize that for the next
three and one-half hours NBC's announcers will be relaying so much baseball
news to 60 million people, for which I say, 'Who cares?'
The reason for this editorial is to express how I feel about sports announcers.l
enjoy listening to Joe Garagiola on NBC, Pat Summeral on CBS, and Frank
Gifford on ABC. These gentlemen do a fantastic job of play-by-play announcing
with additional bits of humor added. The announcers that drive me crazy are:
Tony Kubek of NBC, Brent Musberger of CBS, and humbling Howard Cosell of
ABC. The thing that irks me about these gentlemen is their willingness to give
useless information at inopportune times. For example, Brent Musberger asking
everyone if they saw the play in the Alcorn State vs.,litati state football game, lie
knows very well that we didn't. How could we? Tony Kubek, an ex-Yankee second
baseman mentioning the Yankees whenever he can. And of course there is
ever-so-humble Howard 'l'm always right' Cosell. He has the distinction of being
the worst announcer in TV-land. Cosell claims that he built Muhammed Ali;
wrong, Ali built Cosell and he is sorry he did. His use of the simile to describe how
fast an athlete is just shows that words come out of his mouth at uncontrollable
speeds. During the National League Playoffs, his description of Philadelphia
Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox was a 'gangling man with antelope-like strides'
just had me sitting in my seat in a state of shock. Who wants a detailed
description of a man that has antelope-like strides when a fast outfielder tells the
story? Howard, do me and 100 million people a favor, announce the game, don't
rewrite it in a story.
One last note, having lived in New Jersey for many years and growing up with
New York television, I have to say that my favorite all-time announcer is Mary
Albert. I had the pleasure of meeting Mary in New York and he is all of these
announcers, Garagiola, Gifford, and Summeral plus more. His sports reporting for
WNBC is in expertise form and his play-by-play is just as good.
I praise those announcers who do their job, but I bicker at those who can't do
their job correctly
Letter
to the
Editor
Editor
I thought that you might be inter
ested in learning that several students in
the education program have made very
positive comments about the expanded
calendar of events section in the C.C.
Reader.
You and your staff deserve a com
mendation for producing the C.C.
Reader with such a small staff. It is even
more commendable to find that you are
willing to experiment and - 6 - a nge. as a
way of meeting student interests and
demands.
Too Much ?
Nuclear war likely
Campus Digest News Service
Scientists at a forum on the medical conse
quences of a nuclear war, say that a war will
probably break out in the next 20 years.
Some estimate that a nuclear confict will oc
cur by the year 2000, while others say by the
year 1990.
The forum, which was organized in part by
the Physicians for Social Responsibility, em
phasized the medical problem associated with
a nuclear war.
Physicians at the forum agreed that if a
1-megaton nuclear device was dropped on
New York City, it would probably kill 2.25
million people immediately and seriously in
jure an additional 3.6 million. All frame
homes would be destroyed within five miles of
the detonation point and inflict third-degree
burns on those living within eight miles.
Among the animal life that would be expos
ed to the blast, cockroaches would fare the
best. Like every other animal, they too would
be blinded. However, they would survive and
reproduce because roaches have a relatively
high resistance to radiation.
Bob Lesniak
-Kevin Spiegel