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Show Wednesday March 26 Editorial 1997 The Forum 1 ! M&stminster Wisdom I Dear Mandie and Daisy by Daisy Lee and Mandie Caraway Recently I lime noticed a trend Many of tile smelters out oC classes in Malout It does' I side of Shaw seem to liae a lot I it take a genius to figure out that these students study such I Helds as biology chemistry and nursing. Is it just me or is it I a paradox? They if anybody should understand that smekr ! to ing is harmful to the human body If they faded learn that. to read because it is written I maybe they also faded to learn I on esery park of cigarettes they smclce. How can I trust ny I I body to some doctor who doesit know how to take care of ! hisher own? I Smarter Than Yni Dear Smarter Than You, I I That is a very good question. It is startling, but true. After I receiving your letter, we have begun to notice the same thing. I We have no idea why people who are studying medicine and who know the effects 01 cigarettes would chose to smoke them, j Maybe they know something they arent telling the rest of us. I Perhaps we have come across a hidden conspiracy that has been going on in the medical community for years. It could be that doctors are just telling people that smoking is bad for them so they will stop smoking and there will be more cigarettes for them. Or, maybe they dont care if they harm their bodies because they know how to cure it. We are very confused by this. As a matter of fact when Dr. Barry Quinn was informed that some of his students smoked,I Are thev retarded? Quinn said. he was also shocked. would think biology majors would be smarter than that. We decided to ask a biology major who smokes, because they would know best how to answer this question. We have decided to change their name to Burt to protect the innocent. Burt said, Biology majors have the most difficult classes and the hardest curriculum. As a matter of fact, the biology department has the lowest GPA per capita out of all of the majors on campus. Smoking is a good way to relieve some of that stress. It Burt went on to ask Did a business major write this letter? must be. Business majors dont realize now much easier they have it. Their three credit hour classes only meet for three hours per week. Our five credit hour classes involve four hours of lecture plus four hours of lab per week. Although its still confusing as to why biology majors choose to smoke, it doesnt mean they wont take good care of your body. Theyre not going to eive you cancer or anything. We would like to close this letter oy inviting further responses from both sides of the argument. If youre a hioloey major who smokes or another major who doesnt, write us ana we will post ' the results in a latter issue of The Forum. & J I WitHm. Living tlhne Beatst Amy Hodson Forum staff writer Living in a three bedroom house with five girls is no small feat, but many college students have to deal with situations like this. Recently though, a new roommate moved in and I had to learn about the evil side of human- ity the hard way. It all started with just the woes. usual roommate I clutter can accept Honestly, and a few messes. Were extremely busy after all. However, when dirty dishes have been left on the counter so long that they are becoming Chia Pets, I think that it is time to clean. Another one of my particular favorites is when my new roommate stays on the phone for several hours at a time, never bothering to answer the other line. I remember having a nightmare one night that I had accidentally chopped off my arm and she wouldnt let me use the phone to call for help. Ill never forget the morning when I walked into the kitchen for some breakfast and bumped into one of her friends going through the fridge. Even though I was wearing my pajamas and my hair was sticking up all over the place, I tried to make with adult conversation who he all first of him, asking for a He there sat with. was moment and said, Um, I came with your roommate umm, he stood there searching for her name, Well, we met at the Vortex last night. Everyone has to deal with these roommate problems and I tried to keep that in mind, by cleaning up her mess or asking her politely to do so. My other roommates and I started realizing that we have a crazy one on our hands, when one night she threatened to call her 1 ing lawyer and f ing move out of this f ing place when she found a note on her bed asking her to clean the bath-- room. It was that night that I coined her new name: The The Beast quickly Beast. went from bad to worse. Dishes, phones, bringing Ted Bundy home these were nothing compared to some of the crazy things she started to do recently. One of her scariest was when she episodes tried to run over one of my roommates. Most of us, by this time, had stopped trying to be nice to The Beast. However, one hopeful roommate held out claiming that if we continued to ask nicely, she would improve. One night as The Beast or Bunny Day? Jo Fairclough Forum staff writer an annual Easter Christian festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, held on the first Sunday after the date of the first full moon that occurs on or after March 21. According to Webster, that is. The Easter Ive come to know, doubles as a springtime celebration on which a cute little bunny runs through a sleeping household leaving baskets full of goodies. Easter is a time to buy new pastel colored clothing that will carry us through the summer months, and its a reason - was leaving, the optimistic roommate asked her if she could please clean the bathroom sometime over the The Beast just weekend. slammed the door and walked out to her car. When the idealist followed her outside, The Beast flipped on her briehts, put the car in drive d eggs and and stomped on the gas, nar- to dye clever them decorate roommate. using rowly missing my With that mindless act, it kits that can be purchased in has become war. My three every conceivable theme. Then there are all those other roommates and I met, and came up with a battle adorable fuzzy Easter bunnies We are going to make with the big eyes and the Elan. miserable, she will be droopy ears, who are surOne rounded on shelves by little, pleading to move out. roommate, who is taking a equally darling duckies and chicks, begging to be purchased. So, I asked me daughter. 5 Do you know why we cele multi-colore- See Beast page brate Easter? She looked at me as if I were asking a trick No question. she said slowly. I asked her what she thought of when she thought Bunnies! she of Easter. Easter and said, eggs and looked at candy. Then she me with a very serious asked ana expression why? explained that it seemed many people didnt know why Easter was a holiday ana I was curious to see if she knew. As I explained why Easter was a holiday, her eyes lit up. Oh yeah she said. I remember now. She had indeed heard the story many times, but the festivities had overshadowed the reasoning behind the event. Oh, its not terribly surprising. Many of us are distracted by the traditions and tend to overlook the reason for the celebration. I So whats the point of this article. I have no idea. It was just an observation and maybe a little food for thought, fc |