Show Pam 4 Student Life Friday January 27 197S STUDENT ©FONO©W L 1 'uJ'r fo the LETTERS EDITOR Joked of grenade turns up at paper ‘ Have a wonderful trip ’ To the editor: Student Life written Phil Frank fans will remember a recent "Frankly speaking" cartoon on this page which pictured an KOTC otticer addressing a group of student recruits and same Ae are proud to announce a weapons system with the student soldier in mind the frisbee shaped serenade It wasn't lent: after the cartoon appeared that a uniform clad messenger arm ed at Student Life and delivered an envelope to the editor's desk with some highly interesting contents The envelope contained one small frisbee army green " m color and labeled the "XM-HAccompany the object the apparent reality of Frank's imagination — were operating insti notions for the XM4G a "flying type hand grenade Included in the instructions were the following details i rasp grenade in either hand by wrapping the forefinger and thumb in opposite directions along the curve ( edge — throw the grenade toward the target with either backhand or sidearm motion depending on desirei range and obstruction - As the grenade is released give it a spinning motioi as the internal arming pin is activated bv the inertu force and the grenade will detonate when it stop' spinning - Caution If thrown into the wind grenade tends tc act like a boomerang If armed accidently continue tc spin grenade on top of middle finer until it can be safely disposed of in the commode or a friend's back pocket' As he departed the uniform clad mut tered something about "leaks" m R()TCmessenger which security resulted in the existence of the frisbee grenade being made public It s refreshing to find someone these davs able to take a joke and laugh at themselves It's rare to find someone who will take that joke a step farther and turn it into a inJcldent for s°meone else Thanks to the ROTC for a day bnghtener -- One of i i i lalil-Ahha- K Conrad Walters Try finding out the facts To the editor: you there are many fine institutions in Europe and the Middle East (Tel Aviv for example In one thing you may be correct however If all we've taught you to do is protest about things which you clearly fail to understand then we really have done you a disservice My suggestion would be "(io home before the damage becomes irrepairable!” Fourth you claim you don't have any enemies and so you are buying your amis just to support our arms industry I think you need to go look at where your country is deploying those weapons and you may change your million mind Besides the that you spend on amis is nothing compared to the billions of dollars that your country has in the royal treasury I really can't see how what you spend on weapons could take away from the quality of life and education you could have if your country would spend This letter is in reply to the reply to a rude letter" which appeared in a recent Student Life Vou made a few rather inter- esting statements in your letter that I would like to clarify for you and for all those who because of the CIA and SAVAK were too afraid to sign it h irst you use the word colonization repeatedly without really understanding what the word means This is quite evident because if you knew what the word meant you wouldn't use it as you do Now this may be because of your difficulty with Fnghsh but before you make accusations in a foreign language you really ought to look into what the words you are using mean Second you say that your country is supporting our economy by oil which we plunder as free Well $20-3- 0 some of that "extra" money gets every year from the sale there are several things that need to be clarified here No li ill or more a barrel is definately not free No 2) If we weren't developing your resources you would have nothing at all and No 3 it is therefore really we who are not only supporting your economy but in fact giving you one If you are still unhappy you can always go back to herding goats Third you claim we make you come all this way to the United States to go to school "with a lot of difficulties" You then ask why I wasn't aware that anyone forced you to come here You could go to the U of Teheran the U of Tabriz the U of Shiraz or the U of Meshed etc in your own country If they don't suite laefcy C Cairrvt News Editor: Laure Snow Cnwpui Wire tnixiawwi Own ii T Douf Robmtori Kch loftocco Jo evt ColJwlt s Fsc neison Paul Tay ior Srv’rrvon Entertainment Writers Fdor: Spoils O04mmn C Da Ker Harmon Paul S viey f Stennafei Mtcnaei Constantine Sport! 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