Midnight
Madness will start things right
This column represents the views of the
Old Gold and Black Editorial Board.
In the few short weeks since the student body returned to campus in
August, new Head Men’s Basketball Coach Skip Prosser has been witness
to three significant changes designed to return the basketball team
to the hands of the students and inspire more school spirit. Following
a revamped ticket policy and a proposal to rearrange student seating
in the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum is the return of Midnight
Madness to campus for the first time since 1996.
Drinking
age should be lowered
By Keith Helsabeck
The
U.S. policy of limiting alcoholic purchase, possession and consumption
to those over 21 but not over 18 is in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment
to the Constitution’s guarantee of “equal protection of the
laws.” The state of North Carolina is guilty of violating this
requirement of the Fourteenth Amendment because it does “make”
and “enforce” several laws relating to a policy that abridge
the “privileges and immunities” of certain U.S. citizens as
compared to those enjoyed by members of other arbitrarily chosen demographics.
University
members divide themselves
Andrew Whitacre
As
far as I know, I’m one of only a few people from the university
to have seen the World Trade Center wreckage in person. I say this,
of course, not to brag – to do so would be nothing less than a
mortal sin. I say it rather in the hope that someone else in our community
has seen what I have seen and can perhaps corroborate or expound upon,
in these pages, what I’ve recently experienced.
Monuments
represent America
By Will Wingfield
The
ground shakes. A marvel of modern ingenuity falls to the ground, its
greatness never again to be seen by human eyes.
A
satirist changes his ways
By Matt Wilson
Ladies
and gentlemen, I have seen the error of my ways. And on the advice of
Joseph Bennett (“Focus on material wealth is harmful,” Sept.
27) I have decided to become a real journalist. It’s true. I went
to a conference last week called “Stop Being so Darned Imaginary!”
(but of course, Mommy and Daddy paid all the expenses) and now, my friends,
I am real. Here’s what I learned at the conference about being
real, journalism and how shameful I should be for not having had a lobotomy
several years ago.
Rule One: Never, by any means, be funny.
Students’
ThinkPads are often a source of headaches
By Ryan Eanes
You
may have noticed (but probably did not) that I was not featured in the
Old Gold and Black last week. This is not because I wrote a controversial
and highly offensive article that could not be published, although I
am certainly capable of doing so. Rather, it was because my ThinkPad
was out of service.
The
CIA and FBI need to cooperate
By Doug Hutton
Let’s
face it – somebody’s intelligence system screwed up along
the way. Though right now I place my full faith in our government, I
cannot in my right mind believe that the CIA or the FBI or the NSA or,
for that matter, the Scotland Yard, didn’t miss something along
the way. Honestly, four planes don’t normally get hijacked in one
day without advance warning. That’s just my humble opinion.
Fencing
can broaden horizons
By Jay Cridlin
All
my life, fencing had just been something you put up around cattle. But
that all changed Oct. 2 when I donned a mask and went en garde with
the Fencing Club in Reynolds Gym.
Military
technology has the ability to save some lives
Chris Plumblee
The
U.S. military has now officially revised its strategy to move away from
the traditional “win two wars or regional conflicts” to perhaps
a more unusual goal, that of winning one conflict decisively and only
halting the adversary in the other theater of conflict. This shift in
policy has its roots partially in the bombing of Sept. 11, but also
in the new realization from the Pentagon that the new conflicts in which
the United States may be involved may be bigger in scope than previously
considered.
Fur:
industrialized cruelty
By Jeff Kramer
Recently,
a friend of mine was searching through the Winston-Salem Journal’s
classified job listings and came across a disturbing ad. Our local Belk
store in Hanes Mall is seeking individuals experienced in the fur industry
to fill positions in a “soon to open Fur Salon” run by Henig
Furs. This ad serves as a reminder to anyone concerned about animal
welfare – the fur industry, with all of its associated cruelty,
is still active despite the best efforts of animal rights activists.
Food
service workers can be our friends as well
By Elizabeth Turnbull
Every
day we pass blindly by the bodies seated at the cash registers and order
our food from faces behind the counters. But these are more than warm
bodies filling a needed job, more than blank faces taking orders. These
are people – people who fill my day with warmth and caring.
