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SCRIMSHAW' Personal Viewpoint Trend of Destruction "How Will We Stop" by Dave Cleveland At least once every school year, this column sets ebout the task of Seers and prophets have been ~uman population has been rising ,Some people are not overly trying to convince people to stop vandallsing school and personal using what ever special wisdom or since the beginning of history. And distrubed by the prospect of property. Usually, the point is made that there is probably a small knowledge they possess to predict now, with farming and medical worldwide starvation, and the minority of hellraisers who are ruining things for the rest of the students. the future for eons. History has techniques imp~oving, the world's death of most of hU'!Ianity. They We've suggested that students keep an eye out for violators and that the proven most of these prophesies population is r-ising ever faster and point out that the United S~tes IS school instill hero.nne policy toward vandals, but the problem has con false, but those still unproven faster. But what is not increasing the largest f~ocI producer In the tinued togrowat an alarming and disheartening rate should not then be ignored. is available resources. We can use world. We will be able to feed Isolated instances of vandalism are one thing but WMC has nothing less In 1978 Thomas Malthus made land better, but we cannot create ourselves not matter what happens than a trend of campuswide destruction. This is much more than a few one of the most famous predictions new .. land. We can usc chemical to the rest of the world. Why should drunken binges; It Is, as Dean Mowbray states, an "attitude of abuse." in history. His belief was that fertilizer, b.ut we cannot create we worry? Mowbray has the right idea but it all gets lost in practice. With his latest ?uman population would always more chemicalg when the mines Why should anyone worry? It is a policy of no open section parties, he has dealt only with the effects 01 the Increase faster than agricultural run out. Perhaps we can farm the COld, cold so~1 .who can consi~er problem and not the cause. This move simply puts a bend-aid on an open production would, so that seas, but even the seas have limits. the de~t~ of billions of people with sore, covering it up but doing nothing to heal it. Stopgap measures rarely humanity was forever doomed to How long can the world's eq.uammlty. Not the. mere two do anything to solve problems and often, as in this case, they only serve to . poverty and starvation. In more population grow? million Jews who died in the worsen the problem . recent years, Paul Ehrlick, with Holocaust. Nor the Twenty million The obvious example that comes to mind is last week's couch burning his Population Bomb warned that Even more important than how Russians who died ~n the eastern in the quad. Scrimshaw was just as guilty as the rest of the campus in our ever-Increasing population long we will grow is, how will we fro~t. This is a different scale concentrating more on the what than the why. The people involved should would eventually overrun the stop? A nuclear war would do the entirely. If ~e overrU!~ our food be dealt with-nobody can condone blatantly illegal acts-but we should earth's resources. These prophets job, but I hope we can avoid such s~pply, a major crop failure could not stop there; it's all too easy to obscure the purpose, conscious or not, and others have sounded much the mass suicide. There is another kill half the people III the world. behind the demonstration by brushing it into the background and same theme-a limited planet euqally drastic possibility, which Billions. Frightening assuring each and every shocked trustee that things will get even tighter cannot support an ever-growing can be observes in a herd of deer. Is there an answer, a way to stop if it ever happens again population. What is their warning? When the herd gets too large, it such a trage~y? We ha.ve a word, The biggest cause of the" attitude of abuse" comes out of a much larger They warn us of mass death and doesn't have any problems at first. and the wor~ IS population control trend throughout educational institutions away from liberalism. This starvation, and perhaps the There is plenty of food during most But populatlO.n control is only a causes a rebellious attitude among students when they realize that the worldwide destruction of of the year. But come winter, when word. No na~IO~, no .people h~ve liberties they had taken for gra.nted were now a thing of the past. This civilization. food is hard to find, most {If the managed to hm~t their population then brings a vicious circle Into play once the students begin to react What gives these predictions deer simply starve to death so that growth. No nation may ever be against the policy, causing the administration to clamp down even such importance is the apparent one year's large herd become the able to. But we have a choice. We tighter. inevitability of the disaster. next year's small herds. can try to limit ourselves, or we Which brings us back to WMC. . can let nature do it for us The next step will probably be taken by the administration in the·form of some sort ot statement from Dean Mowbray, but students don't have to WMC Concert Info~"" sit idly by waiting for him to either revamp or just reiterate his policy. Despite his feelings to the contrary, this is a matter to be taken up by the tensive list including both The Dirt whole school community and the students in particular. The issue here is Faculty by Julius Reubke. Band and Sea Level who were The recital is open to the public polled as the second and third with no charge. :~w~~:~h~asorfT1:~~ :e d:~~Si~~o:ye~i~S:~v:~~~ti~~;e~~I~s :;;:~t~~~: pr~!~~~r ~f ~~~~\t a~~~:~~ choices in WMC's Spring Concert - SGA Survey. Ohers listed were Vassar ::~~~~;~ :~d::s;d:i~~e~n~d:~~~~o~h~;:ra~ :;;~il~:th~ed:~~~~~;h~~: ~~~~~n~ f;c~:~::r~~~;~;ta~~: Clements, Henry Gross, Michael WMC's Fall Concert Committee Murphy, Dr. Hook, Jesse Win- ~~~~~ 1~1~~~~e~:h;~~I~c~~~ t~~ ;:~:~c~h~o s;~1~;~e~~ ~:~~!Sc;~s~~:;:u~ ~~~dZ~~leg~cto~;;nn:ngin 8 :~~.; is presently working on the up- coming concert by searching for a ~~:!e~~%in.Jeff Walker, and n~~~haan:S o:lsn~~.~s~fnf:~::s~;~I~s~eC:dl;:~:t~olume to our voices. Not a M~~O~~~ C~:O~~the selections band to meet wiLh the approval of The concert will be held in Gill the student body as well as the Gym sometime between mid- The committee ~~~%t~:t::~~: ~;:u~:n~_~:u~.n :::h;ua=-.:~:~ W:~ldre~:I:n:~b~~ t~~r;:.· ~!~i~~;"~r~~~~~'an~YFu:UaeU:~~ $5200 budget. consult with booking has October and the beginning of begun to Senseless vandalism such as ripped out speakers, burnt couches and torn Minor," by J.S. Bach; "Battalia agents who provide Hsts of groups December and will not necessarily up phones can onl.y hurt t.he cause of mutual understanding. Un- Imperial," by Juan Cabannies, fall on a Friday or Saturday night within the set price range. The first ~ince the committee's top priority· :~:I~~~;e!~,~:e~::;II;~h~o~~~:~ :~e~~~:se::r~n~~~~::~ ~~:~:~:~: and "Sonata on the 94th Psalm," middle agent compiled ~n ex- IS the best band possible. ~e~~~~:~:~~~~~~~~sh=~~~s:~:~-~~~~~~a9~~ed~~~~.diSagree in principle For Males Onl" WMC should not be a jungle but then again it shOuldn't become a concentration camp. While it \s neither at the present, current attitudes Setting Things Straight and actions will force the administration's hand. So, then, the force which should be shown is one of concern, intelligence and persuasion. Don't let the school think the students at Western Maryland don't care and don't by Tom and Jerry life. Or perhaps you've heard of knowledge, they require that sense· want to get involved in decisions thai affect them··let them know that you Females are forbidden to read our reputation as the best advice- of security we radiate. But most of do. You just might be amazed at all you can accomplish further. Please take your big noses givers concerning females in the all,)hey haven't learned our fancy And folks, let's try to keep the phones in one piece. OK? western hemisphere. Most likely and remove them from this article. gimmicks and fake romantic lines just looking Editor's Note Females article, are not welcome within you were other than news, sports, for yet, and are thus fair game to all something this males upperclass should look and elsewhere for their entertainment. and other peoples opinions, but Now for the male pecking order Beginning October 1, 1978, Scrimshaw will accept ads from campus Got it? Good! decided to read our article Basically, the older you get, the organizations for it nominal fee of $5.00 per ad. No ads larger than a Many of you are probably lowly anyway. higher in the order you get. Seniors quarter page will be accepted. If space is limited, ads might have to be freshmen, reading this article to Let us set the pecking order get their pick of the freshmen crop reduced or postponed, if possible. If your organization wishes to take out pick up a few scraps of wisdom straight so that none of you Jowly Juniors can choose from the few an ad in Scrimshaw, please send the copy to Scrimshaw, intercampus from the minds of your more ex- freshmen males will interfere with which are left behind by the mail. The deadline is Monday for Thursday's paper perienced and wiser brothers in the upperc1ass males. First, the seniors. Sophomores get only the female pecking order. Sophomore, droppings, the bottom of the Junior and Senior females are barrel. Freshmen males? They generally off-limits. They either have no position in the pecking have a BBH moyfriend-Back- order. Sorry, guys. Maybe you Home), have a guy at WMC, or should have brought your girl from they don't really care to have one. back home (GBH?]. H they did desire one they would Using this pecking system all probably hang a bright red arrow males wi!! eventually be able to above their name on their door date the girl of his dreams, his with a piece of note paper beneath goddess, his one-and-only true it requesting you to sign-up for a love. Even you, you lowly fresh- date. On the brighter side, open man, may someday graduate to season has just been declared on the tap of the order. So to all males, freshmen females. Freshmen as this 1978-79 hunting season is females admire the maturity of the officially opened, good luck and uPPerc1ass male. They feed off our E:ood hunting Scrimsh.w Editor-ln·Chief M.nilging Editor "MetI-HoVI.e ' Nilncy Menefee News Editor Sports Editor Chris Bohaskil Business Milnilger Jim Teramilni Sue Quinn Feature Editor Cover photo Ad MiinilQCr Tim Windsor Scott Dahne J~m Wellmiln Photography Editor lilyout Scott Dahne Bill Spring Dilve Cleveland