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SCRIMSHAW Positions Open, Stabilize Our Population But No Volunteers Worldwide overpopulation would Personal shan. America needs the rest of obviously be a disaster for the world. We need the oil, the civilization. More and more Viewpoint' minerals, and the market for our It's now the beginning of October and the SGA is stilt accepting ap- resources would be diverted to industry. OUf affluence could not plications for a number of student-faculty committee positions whIch merely feeding teeming millions of. exist without the rest of the world. should have been filled before the end of school in May. The fault for thls the world'snumbers of the hungry lies wtth the students thouqh, not with the SGA. They ask for applicants in continued to grow, our resources Dave April, not because it takes so'iong fo fill the positions, but because the would be strained to the breaking Foreigners, too, will object to student body should be represented on tnese committees from the very point and beyond, until, unable to Cleveland these policies. We will be accused 1 beginning of the year. This way they are up-to-date with the group's Support the masses of people, of interference, arrogance, racism ectlons anc won't slow d.own the proceedtnqs by having to be filled in. civilization would collapse: and genocide. We will be in- Unfortunately, althougn students would probably complain of rights hand. The United States is the terfering arrogantly, but that being taken away if these positions were. eliminated, no one seems willing richest country in the world, the should not stop us from saving to accept the responsibility of such a position. The only requirements are The destruction of civilization is world's largest grain producer; humanity. We can disprove the sometimes students of a particular class or with a certain GPA. Certainly hardly a worthy goal. But with the and exports over half the food on accusations of racism and these qualifications aren't too nard to meet. Duties of committee population of the world growing at the-international market. With our genocide by taking immediate members are not that demanding. Meetings are usually about an hour an ever faster rate, such a disaster food and our riches we can afford measures to limit our own long, and most only meet once or twrce e month, if that often. In return for seems almost inevitable. to set up an aid program, linking population. food thls tittle bit of time, the SGA representatives would be given a voice in it g~~~i~g, !~~ and development aid to matters such as setting standards for college admissions, course and w!~~'s :~~:~on national attempts to control The most difficult problem to be credit hour approvals, setting the school calendar and class schedule, will soon pass the point where our population. dealt with is the specific programs cnoosing editors of student publications, etc. The chosen students report resources cannot support it. The to be taken to limit population. r to the SGA Executive Committee on the proceedings of their respective solution also is clear. We must This program would have to believe that tax penalties for every meetings in order to inform the student body of administrative decisions, stabilize our population, reach replace aU our current aid child past the first, combined with like the controversial $95 Overload Charge. ZPG (zero population ' growth) and programs, and be supplemented a maximum upper limit for the do it soon. By getting dynamic students to volunteer for such committees, the SGA by even greater expenditures. number of childrenallowed, would not only have a representettve on hand, but ideally would have an Rich as we are, the little we give perhaps enforced by mandatory active member who would be able to speak for the students and get in There are several ways we can for aid, when spread throughout sterility. Whether these are the vetvec with the workings of the College. do this. One involves worldwide the wcrkf has but a small effect on means we use or not, we. have a voluntary restraint, while others the economy of most nations. We challenge ahead, and we must involve some form of constraint. must be willing to sacrifice much, meet it. The trouble with the voluntary so that our aid rewards for Scrimshaw method is that·if any significant population control are Significant, The problem the is clear, Editor-in-chief Managing Editor portion of the population and we must make punishment solution is not overly harsh. and Why, Meg Hoyle refuses-for religious, severe, even up to total trade Nancy Menefee - phf los oph ica l" '. or political _ sanctions against a recalitrant then, have .we ncractedt As a News Editor Sports Editor reascns-« to restrain itself, it will nation" nation we are blind, ..anq·deaf, and Chris Bohaska . Business Manager Jim Teramani eventually outnumber the rest of hide from the truth cOnfronting us. Sue Quinn the people and cause the same The people, you 'end rne and Feature Editor " Cover photo Ad~nager problem all over again. Americans will attack this plan anyone else who will listen, must ultimate an Tim Windsor Jim Wellman as excess a giveaway, as But far not clear our eyes and open our ears. of altruism. layout How else can population growth This plan is selfishness in the long We must find the will and the Photography Editor Bill Spring be stopped? We have the tool at backbone to act. Or condemn Scott Dahne term, though selflessness in the billions to death. OaveClevefand Letter to the Editor Dear Edit,or, first and second floor. If you wish, I would like to take this space you can anonymously put it near I and ask the person permanenlly Whiteford 202 or if you have the or persons for guts, you can hang it back in the' responsible l dragon the first-floor Preacher Preacher Section where it right- borrowing fully belongs. to kindly give it back! The Dragon means a lot to me Thank You.' because I painted..it, and I am sure Sincerely, it means a lot to the preach."_sOf __ w_'_nd_Y_G_,,_"' -, ~.