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I Fife I! The ERA: : Over the past few years, people have been quick to argue the pros and cons of ERA. In fact, some of these arguments have become so heated that some of our United States were literally torn with strife from the issue, which seems to pit men against women. mis is wnai 1 can i understand. Why is this such a burning issue? I can't believe there are people who think this is so important that it should be included on ii ? r 4i inc piaiiuuii ui llie Republican party. | EARNED RUN AVERAGE has nothing to do politics, it's a baseball term. It's simple. You just take the total number of innings pitched and divide it into the iiiuiiuci ui cat irau runs APP1L1 O micron D National Lc Hnnnr finH Requirements j i)60ormorehc 2) cumulative 3 j 3) significant c academics, < media, and oth Applications / rack near Ir floor Rusell Hoi Career Plann I .eiher f YMle.cse | Deadlin* pjjpH * " 6atote (u) some misc allowed. Then simply multiply the number by nine carrying the result tw< decimal places. To ? t ? ' * " * i3 una so iiuru in a i linas tc be a controversial subject' They're trying to get ai amendment passed thai would make this basebal formula part of the con stitution. I'm not sure of the details, but 1 think what pro ERA suDDorters are trvinc ? J ?* to do is to make sure that thi* pitching computation u formalized. ERA failed because a fev states couldn't gathei enough votes to support Vm measure. So why are the] still listing ERA in tlx newspapers and on basebal games to develop pitching statistics if it failed? And if women are w concerned with ERA, ho* { NOW! elta Kappa ^adership ety : )urs completed t.OGPR x>ntributions to arts, athletics, er activit6s Available: jfo. Desk, 2nd jse ling - 2nd floor 5 9-19-80 IT] HUiMJ rtQ ReSTOURAHT and 5RLOOH ^ I onceptions r come none of them are , playing baseball? Sure, they ) might be baseball fans or wives of baseball players, ) but I havp vet coo ? ? ? ? * W ^ v?v vv OVV CI ? woman play in the major i leages. Women can be so t strange sometimes, fighting 1 for a cause that has nothing to do with them. NOW ABORTION, the } draft and other issues are i being thrown into the frav. i When we start mixing these things with America's 1t favorite pastime, confusion r occurs and I think this is 5 what has happened to a large f section of the public. Think i of a city that doesn't have a 1 baseball team like I > rr?? l save $1 I (with this coupoi i Call now. wearer serve you. 799-< ' mmm m The U I LET YOUF CONTACT PROGRAA I JOS. SCHLITZ I Washington, D.C. How does e ERA apply to the residents of that area? There are only 26 major league baseball teams (although there are little league and minorleague ball games to contend with.) If everyone's so concerned with all that, why g don't they just go the ^ commissioner of baseball and ask him to explain the ERA system? He knows it . better than anyone. _ With all this attention HirArtAH to PPA i ^ ?? W uim, M. UtllUV WC 1 need to give statisticans | higher government positions. They can spend all ? day figuring out ERA. USC's J sports information director c Tom Price would be perfect v in that job. Maybe we could r make him vice-president of J ERA affairs. \ THE ONLY people that should be opposed to it are Atlanta Braves pitchers, t After all, ERA has made c them look bad for years. In t fact, the Braves are t probably the force behind 1 trying to defeat ERA. It's C Ml on all cuts &sty Aeonian Hairsty eady 0705 *21 ??loiter expires Sc ANNOUNCE ni versity of SCHUTZ CCH nffB FOR INFORM Gordan I 777\ SCHLITZ COLLE( * FOR PARTY PLAI MS THROUGHOUT Mid-State Di ?.0. BOX 5886 7 Columbia.! ? m BREWING COMPANY, Brew C I960 JOS SCMtlTZ BREWING CO MIL* mbarrassing for them. w, th IT'S A shame that people fo an't get their facts straight. sl i man has a 1.89 ERA and to eople complain. He gives P ip six earned runs the next 11 ;ame, his ERA ballons to a' .78 and they still hate him. ci iren't people ever satisfied? w ir . i una 11 nara ior anyone to F1 tispute my arguement that ai ERA doesn't belong in politics but back in baseball. ** f anyone feels strongly pro- ai ERA, instead of marching iround or debating the facts, ust get a calculator and ti ompute some figures. That p /ould make things a little tl nore peaceful. If people are E gainst it thnt'c fino ? o???" ?) V A?*v, WUI C7 here's reallv no reason fnr it ii o be in tne constitution. rj e Next thing you know p tiey'U be trying to get a a onstitutional amendment to y an night games or change j( tie name of the major eagues to NOW (Non)rganized Work). And if ^ Ies mffiS- , _ /->..!! ? - - / ^oiiejje ?ireei (ne> ?IG FOR ' South Care IATION CALL: Pettit, ill M77 f-r # # 3E REP BE YOUR FINING AND FOR S THE SCHOOL YE/ Istrlbutors amI <%*3 audiioiiu at. >.C. 29205 ere of: imhrdiriA tMMwrAw MWEE. WIS ANO OTHE* MEAT CITIES e're going to let people do is, then we might as well rget about our love of th* x>rt. Starting pitchers will ave to be elected by the ..li:- i?* nunc ueiore a game, leaning that they'll need bout two or three days to ampaign. Demonstrations ill be held outside Ktarliuma i protest of teams whose layers wear tacky uniforms nd team mascots will have > include both male and ;male species of the nimal. LET'S NIP this thing in tie bud. Before any more eople start making fools of lemselves by claiming that IRA is alluding itself to qual rights, we have to ifnrm thpm nf tho fonJc Wn ? w- ... ?> %/ * vr* HIV AUVVO. ilU ight.s are being violated, xcept the right of an honest itcher to give up a home run r two or to bean a batter in le head when he feels like And there isn't anything rrong with that. " i I Professional f j style to suit | j \ny Lifestyle | I :l to Burger King)" >lina CAMPUS SPECIAL I . I ERLANGER BEER