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Page 2 SCRIMSHAW Friday, September 17,.1976 EDITORIAL: Letters to the Editor Let it be Christmas Once a lone woman ~ame. from Perhaps Scrimshaw can point Dear Editor, to such tactics to have an effect Election. Make up for those across the ocean on an ururugrant toward these dreamers' fun- A lot of upperclassmen returned upon the election. Unfortunately, students who can onfy show their bo8t.He.rwr~edfacewastopped damentals (imagine a course early last weekend to help make these same students may not even concern for their country by rip- by. graying hall' and .crossed by a called Basic Vision _ practicum in this year's freshman and transfer vote in that same election in turn ping down what already exists. famt. moustache, while her hands hwnanization and freedom? credit students feel welcomed and having no effect upon the direction Please do your part, no matter cerrted only a cloth seck. or non-credits) comfortable here. I can't helpbut that this country's policy, both which candidate you are planning Traveling with Irish poor .- foul Perhaps ...perhaps think that much of this effort was foreign and domestic will take. on voting for. Students aren't mouthed men, hungry children, not...ultimately, though, the life is destroyed by a certain group of It is to these students that I really all bad--are they? women too often pregnant - she in the effort to change and to about 30, male upperclassmen request, that I implore to register Sincerely, came from a land of magic. reCreaie. The life is in the attempt awaiting the freshman and trans- to vote for the November 2 General ,Jeffrey Robinson the cafeteria Though insane, her land had love, (however unsuccessful) to love. fer females outside Saturday nights. and Friday last though remote from the world, it The life is in the dream. The group's applause and rude was the world. She gave away the based on each woman's Adv ocacy' magic in her sack to everyone who Some practical notes: there will comments appearance" was not • Black "external would accept it, but her magical, be four major sections of Scrim- only blantant male-chauvinism but Student insane gifts of love were especially shaw this year. The first section is W'III you for those who refused her. straight news. This includes also displayed a sense of uncivil on Union: rudeness to the new students When she reached New York she reportage, investigation, advance campus. I do hope that the fres~- began to explore the alleys and pubJicity, etc. We would like to man and transfer females will Thrusting Ahead streets. In the slwn areas she was make this years' Scrimshaw a excuse the more immature surrounded again by men arid very, -very. excellent news paper. segments of our total student body. share? Wendy Merrick women who yelled on the ourtside IT there is anything at all that the Respectfully, In 1973 fourteen Blacks, as they cried inside and by street paper may do as a service to the Chris Holmes Don Rabush five upper classpeople and urchins who seemed to make campus in terms of printing news, nine fresh people joined. trouble all day. She walked those providing coverage, giving streets dispensing magic and publicity. etc. we are interested. Dear Editor, Remember when you were in together to form the BSU. warmth - perhaps a smile, perhaps We will be looking for, but are, of Once again the immaturity of elementary or junior. high school Those bitter and angry a look, but always listening in- course, open to suggestions, some students on this campus has and your assignment every fall came together with those fently as her questions wee an- comments, and criticisms. Please been exemplified with explicit was to write "What I Did On My lost and lonely hoping swered and always seeming to be help us be the best news paper we clarity. For the umpteenth time somehow to find the sincere. possibly can. individuals" who have =:roo:~c:at~~~?c:~~r::~: Or _strength to make Blackness Looking hour after hour, day The second section of the paper disagreement with philosophical or or swimming or riding bikes. just stop a minute and think of natural and visable for f::~~~:O~~h~;~~~o::e~ :a::ffa~~~i~n~f c~=e:~d ~~e~ ~~~~~~~~~~cePf:s~~~:~u\~ things you did this past summer! Western Maryland College. poor she found none, for the beaten This includes editorials as well as means in order to change the ~ ~~:s~~;~!~~!~ Yfo':li:: We all c.lash~d together among the beaten she found none, several regular columns written by opinions of others. Uninhibitedly of mostly fighting among lives looking for evil and perversion she starf members on topics such as these moronic characters have and boredom mark the and other ourselves .. We were prac- saw none. At last she came to a the Presidential elections, student contributed to that great cesspool many mentally retarded tlcally lost, losing faith that bearded priest. Born years before life at WMC (what does it really of knowledge known as the Great developmentally disabled persons. in that very slum, when she mean around here to be a man? or Sea of Ignorance, not acting for the Here on campus your life is full of there would ever be such a discovered him he was working, a womant). and other creative and first and, I'm sure, not for the last. ~n~:r.~~c:~~a~k~g ~i~ef~~ day, but we' ~ent on. ankle deep in mud, his hands were valuable areas. You may ask, to what I am In 1974we presented to covered with wet cement. He was Scrimshaw's third section is the referring? Well, it was only a share some of your life? Western Maryland College rebuilding a porch support for a campus communitys' response to minor incident, one that most our first Black weekend and house long run down. Asking him the paper. Those responses may people would commonly brush-off Someone really needs you! A for all that she had not found he take various forms (be creauve . without much difficulty. But I feel new, brighter world is possible for in 1975 we began having looked at her carefully and then .think up a new way). The most someday there will be an end to mentally retarded people through grill parties to introduce stepped out of the mud. After common forms are letters to the these types of "minor incidents" active involvement of college ourselves and a part of our slowly wiping his bands he took her editor and Personal Viewpoints. and feel that there are a great students like yourself in a volun- Blackness. Both rather to another street some distance The difference between these two number of people around who feel teer movement called Student away. is that PV tend to be more essay- the same way. Advocacy. This tyPe of volun- minor but for us 'it was In this neighborhood there were ish and more in-depth than letters The specific example that I am teerism can help these people great victory for we were churches instead of bars on the to the editor. PV will be limited to referring to occurred between adjust to the "real world" and find beginning to be heard and corners and the houses were en- three typed pages double spaced. Thursday and Friday of this week. their places as contributing, seen. closed by green lawns. The Any and all responses to the paper Thursday afternoon two posters productive members of this This year we have children in those houses could read short of violence are welcomed and advocating the re-election of community. and write and someday would go to should be either given to a staff President Ford were placed on What is student advocacy, it's a planned several cultural college. "Here", said the priest, member or mailed to Scrimshaw, bulletin boards inside the student one-to-one relationship between events dealing with Black "here are the poor, here are the Box 3A. Responses should be center and the cafeteria lobby. you and a developmentally art, literature, dance, and beaten and impotent, here is the signed. We will print what you They were put in the positions as a disabled "protege". Within this theatre. We are also hoping perversion and evil. Here your have to say though, of course, we means of showing support for the close human relationship, the to present several speakers gifts are most needed. Here your are confined by printing space and President by a certain number of advocate (you) and your protege magic of love and candor, of schedule. Bear with us on students on this campus. It was can plan any types of activities expressing different views hwnaness and craziness, is most those ...all letters and viewpoints also present. to give potential Ford that well give the protege practical ofthe Black problem. Along absent and most sorely missed. must be submitted by Tuesday of supporters a contact with which experience and new exposures to with these activities we Bring your sack and yourself here each week in order to appear in they could speak with in order to what is available in life. What hope to join with the ad- to these the poor who seem rich, Friday's paper. Please do write... find out how to become involved experience and new exposures to ministration, faculty, and impotent who seem powerful, the The fourth main section is a sort within the American democratic what is available in life. What perversion and evil done by of guest writer section. That is to processes in this campaign year. experiences you ask? A visit to The students to find the root of churches and well educated nor- say these pieces are written by Unfortunately it never ac- Hill- A walk to Harveystone Park, the problem and open a mals. Bring your life here." people who were invited to write on complished those purposes. a football game, shopping at a local path to a better un- shopping center, an icecream derstanding. We are in- Perhaps Scrimshaw can share ::I~~!a~n s~~l~~~'s!:e:r ~ po~~~inw;~eh~~u;f~~ ~~':;~~ cone, a birthday card, or even just viting the whole West- gifts of craziness and magic, of printed later in the semester either appropriated by a telephone call to let someone minster community to all fairness and (sometimes painful) between a Marxist gentleman from unauthroized sources or van- know that there is another person candor at Western Maryland. Baltimore and Dr. Harper in the dalized on the premises. In other in this would that really cares. BSU's sponsored events, Beyond sharing maybe the paper Econ departmenLEd Caryl, who is words, one was stolen and the other U you want to share some time and are asking-everyone to can respond to the same bits of a student as well as "house father" had food thrown on it and was then this year with a developmentally join with us in ending racial hwnaness evidenced elsewhere on in Whiteford, will write on Jesus thrown in the nearest waste disabled person contact Don problems at WMC campus such as the groups and Christianity as impetus toward basket. Rabush, Education Dept described in this issue. Maybe the both freeing individuals and This problem is no attack on Mr. paper can respond and encourage hwnanizing political structures. Ford's opponent in the election- sensitivity to and involvement Dr. Jones .tn the Chemistry only in a very small minority of his EDITOR IN CHIEF with 'other people, this school, and department will write a piece on- supporters. For that matter those the world on the part of everyone in computers, which are a specialty "people who took part in this ac- John Springer the WMC community. Perhaps of his. A friend of mine from nvity peobably did not support any MANAGING EDITOR Jeff Robinson Scrimshaw may encourage in- -Pennsylvania name of Andy will candidate in the election. More BUSINESS MANAGER volvement based on a deepeninE also be writing. Anyon~, anyOD~ likeJy they are members of that David Range awareness of our identities as may write for Scrimshaw - greater number of apathetic SPORTS EDITOR Carlton Harris women and men who have im- whether they have any connection students throughout the country NEWS EDITOR Meg Hoyle portent and valid comments to with WMC is not important - they who refuse to take part in any LAYOUT Paul Hewett make about the world. Perhaps may be students or faculty or staff campaign. Rather they feel that Scrimshaw may encourage in- or "outsiders" ~ the paper is an they are doing their "duty" by Special thanks to: based If you know someone egos upon the fact volvement _untapped on very a growing but in- open forum. - invite them - your mother inflating their their bare hands (three Don Rabush Mandy Numsen I ..................................... ----... awareness to say real with things of our that they can rip down an entire to poster power perhaps? to write. mostly John Wheatley Wendy Merrick Have a good. y.ear .. .let us know "Whoopee, whoopee, cheers: of our change all and fluence JimWogsland Gregg Mason the whoopee"). surroundings. Maybe paper when we screw-up, ok? But cut us a I to Fortunately break are a greater - we'll there do the we best can plant seeds of committment a crazy dream of us in can ... Come and see any nwnber and realization of level-headed students of '-i all that of us. J S person ...feel free. who presumeably would not resort is best in each