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From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Newsgroups: net.college,net.misc
Subject: Re: Suicide Pills at Brown Univ.
Message-ID: <624@loral.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 15:22:09 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  5 15:22:09 1984
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Summary: 

In article <1243@drux3.UUCP> anita@drux3.UUCP (HornAI) writes:
>A similar proposal was just voted down at CU in Boulder, CO.  It just goes
>to show how conservative college students have become these days.  You
>would think they could see how important making a public statement against
>nuclear weapons is.  I get the feeling that nothing is of importance if it
>doesn't affect them right here and now, unless it has to do with making money.
>Ugh.                Anita

	Can't agree, Anita.  Maybe they just have other ways of dealing
with the problem than these theatrical gestures.  What it "goes to show"
is that the sixties-style approach of contriving a scenario for show
is not always the most effective way to get things done.

	Nuclear weapons are not really a problem, but a symptom of
a problem: one man (or woman)'s hatred and distrust of another.  Somehow,
tear-jerker approaches like suicide pills and such don't impress me
as means to change people's perceptions of each other.


-- 
[     I am not a stranger, but a friend you haven't met yet     ]

Ray Simard
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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