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A noble intention but unfair.
I That's the way we describe
I something that's occuring
H which both students ?r?H
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alike despise: Saturday classes.
Beginning this summer,
students were practically hoodwinked
into taking classes two
Saturdays during the first
summer session. It's not that
the information wasn't printed.
I The front page of the class
schedule says that, at the left
hand middle of the page in
small type. In fact, the registrar's
office was kind enough to
put an asterisk by the
information.
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9 Saturday classes keep
Now that the smoke is begin ng
to clear from the Israeli
^mbing of Iraq's nuclear reacjwr,
it seems appropriate that
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Let's admit it. Students are
not interested in reading every
last syllable of a classs schedule.
They are only interested in
finding out when their classes
meet and according to the inside
schedule, where students
look to pick out course numbers
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t?im tmn? umes, mere is no
mention of Saturday classes.
So the situation was and is
like this: some faculty members
are giving special quizzes and
tests to make sure students
attend Saturday classes while
others don't require that
students attend and in fact,
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the significance of this act be
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they'd rather not be in class
themselves.
Now this foolish measure has
some fine intentions. To make
the schedule better for teachers
to gain certification for advancing
their careers is one of
the best reasons to push the
schedule back and start classes
at a later date. But USC
professors have the ability to
compensate for the time, making
every class minute more
accountable to themselves and
the students. Too many times,
precious minutes of class time
are wasted because of poorplanning
professors.
One logins to think that the
registrar's office was indeed
thinking of a cause which would
help education in this state but
they seem to be doing it by only
looking at one side of the issue.
How can Saturday classes be
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faculty oppose the measure?
This was something not only
done in complete secrecy but
without much foresight. Certainly
students will be forced to
attend the class or miss needed
material and more than likely
will not put up much of an argument
to the measure. But it
is another in the line of gross
infringements of student
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Israel's action was right or
wrong, a major point has been
lost beneath the deluge of analysis
and condemnations. The
simple fact is, a very dangerous
precedent has been set.
It is much easier to take an
extremely unpopular action
after someone else has done it
before, than it is to be the one to
lake such an action first. Although
Prime Minister Begin's
judgement was wise enough to
call for the attack before the
plant was operational, will the
next nation who feels threatened
by a neighbor with the
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ujr uuiiii nucurar
weapons Ik? as responsible when
they are forced to make a
similar decision.
There are currently al>out 240
nuclear reactors operational or
nearly operational throutfh-out
the world, everyone of which is
capable of producing bomb
grade material. Kvery nation
that own* such rauilitfes also
has enemies, none of which are
particularly thrilled with the
idea of having a nuclear device
exploded within their own territorial
boundaries. Would it
not now be just as easy for a
country to carry out a similar
?tt.r on an operational react
would provide inaur*t
such a country would
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rights. The student senate was WMmM
not consulted, the student body gy
was not consulted and probably
the faculty was not told about mm j
the change until classes were Hig
just al>out ready to begin. WM
Just when are the people who ""'"ffilfi
run this university or have any
IH)sition of DOWer or inf1n#?nnr> B
going to take into consideration SfeflRBB
that students are not just ?
provided for the rules that ^ \
administrators make? They are
supporting this university with
their tuition money. USC :
should be thankful for the peopie
who attend this university. "
Student input, that's the important
thing. Not just one or
two students on a faculty com- ^eat (
mitte but everyone. It's called a raping Ou
democracy. fashion ^
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attack? Is it more equitable to his friend
destroy a reactor in another very brief
country, even if it means that the water
thousands may die from the were acco
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tacking nation remains safe? down-stre
who were
The most disturbing aspect foratelep
of this event does not lie in the >8 when th
event itself, but instead, lies in sort of cor
the over thirty years of history here, and 5
that has brought us to such
precarious place in time. In None of
order to create what military of any kii
experts call a stable balance of nightmare
power between the Soviet time wash
Union and the United States large area
that will ensure everyone's two hours
safety, governments have bystander
created a technology that has out of nec
now gotten out of hand, and can telephone,
no longer he adequately water's su
regulated through peaceful
means. In order to provide what There ii
the power companies and oil was a fis
monopolies call safe, econ- weather,
omical, and cheap energy for waR f??hi
aurm and future (feneration*, mat* int.
maniacal fnduntry has b?en would no
created, with nn mnmnm
anything but a marketplace
that is ignorant enough to ac- After a
cept such a useless and danger- people be<
ous technology. Such a suicidal except a
direction must be immediately Have we,
reversed, because if it is not, the selfish liv
future will not be one filled involved i
with peace and security, but ann we ^
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r day began like any other
at left us all dumbfoundec
ir old boy drowned at the
ning ourselves on the r
ng this particular tragedy
1 and forgotten. The rea
ieling inside was not only
died right under our feet
witnessed by us that after
f people who no longer car
e briefly relate what happ
about seven p.m., when
nty yards away began ho
had gone under the watei
pause of about fifteen se
searching in the vicinity ol
mpanied by no more thar
own from further up th<
am, feeling for the boy wi
on the shoreline to help in
hone and call a rescue squj
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cerned manner, these pec
itood there.
those standing idly by off
id; they only stood siler
as we realized that the s>
ed the body down river, i
we had to cover. In the e
lator In) <Viu nnoKiin or?>
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eager to assist, but by th
essity was forced to aba
while his companion was
rface.
^ one man who struck me
iherman, casting his lui
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?re?ted in Mtdiiiif fish
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1 with another cMt of hia
uch an experience, we all
?me so conditioned to de?
threat against their own
as a people, moved so f
es that it has become tab
n someone else's life? Thi
lay never arrive at them,
ith the ability to reason
[\c an assumption that we
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iaturday afternoon out at the
day at the river, hut ended in a
1 and confused.
spot directly behind where we
ocks, and the circumstances
were such that they cannot be
son we were left with such a
due to the fact that a human
but because another tragedy
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e about one another. To clarif.
ened.
a young teen-ager swimmmj
llering for help, claiming thai
but had not surfaced. After
conds, the five of us went int
f where the boy went down. W
1 about four other people wh<
3 river to help. As we wade<
th our feet, we yelled to other
anv WAV thov (?nnlH "
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id, or join us in the water. Th
:e. Instead of reacting in son
iple just stood there, and stoc
ered suggestions or assistan
it. The scene soon became
viit current could have by th
apidly expanding the alrea<
nd, the l>ody was found abe
ad that was called, not by
e drowning boy's fridend, w
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dying somewhere beneath t
as particularly nauseating. \
e and w\?o enjoying the fii
and reached the point where x.
o help us, but no, he wa? mui
than Mvincr orimmm,? iil?. H.
ImmI for hf?~?MNCiet*#oe, tout only
lino.
! wondered, have the American
ith and destruction that nothing
life can move them to action?
ar into ourselves and our own
oo to allow ourselves to become
? answer's are not easy to find,
but to call ourselves a superior
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have to re-evaluate.