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'Let one hundred flowers blossom; let one hundred school^ of thought contend." The Student -INSIDE Women Fight P. 5 Last Sky P. 6 Guitar Greats P. 8 Exam Stress insert Volume $3/Issue 13 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (December 2, 1988 •"*••• 'Foul Language' Delays Sequoya Printing By Khaled Mattawa Williams is not required to complete'the Echo Editor told The Echo, "We just don't print that situation by asking the printer if the story kind of word. The rollers and the gears should be edited so he could go on with work because no actual contract was A local printer has refused to print the [of the pressl would fall on the floor if we the printing. signed, said Robert Mayes of UTC's Fall issue of The Sequoya Review, UTC's print these words." She also asked Langley if he would purchasing office. student literary magazine, because a short Haney said he did not have any other accept any changes in the story to allow The work order was done by a verbal story contained what the printer called reason for refusing to print the magazine the magazine to be completed on time. agreement on the telephone, said Mayes. "foul language." saying that "it's just a policy we have." Langley said he contacted the printer, According to Mayes, work orders or The upcoming issue of the Review Review editor Millie Bentley said the and added "they wouldn't tell me the contracts that exceed $500 are not contains a story by Michael Langley, a printer had not informed her or the basis of their objections." binding unless they are in writing. The senior English major, that contains the university's purchasing office of any The printer's action would delay the work order of the magazine is estimated words "fuck" and "asshole." "specific standards of obscenity or production and circulation of the Review. at $3,800 for the magazines's two issues. Jim Haney of Williams Printing, the pornography to base this [the refusal] Williams had already completed about "If we had a written order, then we Airways Boulevard company that won on." ' $700 worth of work before discovering would have had to force them to the contract to print the 40-page issue, Bentley attempted to rectify the the objectionable words. complete the work," said Mayes. Asked The owner. Earl Williams, decided to why his office had not processed a written cancel the work order on Nov. 23, five order for the magazine, Mayes said, "The days after the magazine was first reason this was done by telephone was submitted to the company. The magazine because she (Bentley) was in such a was supposed to be delivered to UTC on hurry" to get the magazine printed. Dec. 2, Bentley expects that it will be two Langley said he believes in the story weeks before the magazine comes out. and "was shocked" when he knew about Bentley, who was informed of the Williams' decision. He said the words problem Monday, has contacted a second objected to by the printer are part of the firm. Target Graphics Inc., to print the dialogue and are central to the characters magazine. The first firm, Williams of the story. Printing, received the job order because The short story is set in a summer it was the lowest bidder. The owner tennis camp where a tennis instructor falls offered the completed work for free to in love with one of his troubled teenage Bentley to be used by the second printer. students. But so far Target has not accepted the order. Langley said the Williams' decision UTC is not required to pay Williams "tells me that the printer is working with Printing for the work it has done. And a mindset that is not of this century." Tim Buffington (left) and Jody Miller practice their bullseyeing skills in Coach Underwood's archery class Monday Credit Cards: The American Nightmare By Brian Hicks bills have made many credit card holders students cannot make the minimum While there was no break down of The Student Echo afraid to open their mailboxes. payment on their credit card bill, the clinic estimates on how many of those people College students are the latest targets Professor Anne Swift, director of Iowa puts them on a debt proration plan and were college students, it appears the of credit card companies looking for new State University's fiancial planning clinic, teaches them to trim their budgets and problems with credit cards are universal. members. And while it used to be a says there is a growing awareness of the strengthen their available income. Many people apply for credit cards student's dream to have his own credit problem of students abusing credit cards. While Swift said the "ideal" would be without knowing such basic facts as card, for some it has become a nightmare. "We're seeing students list credit card to establish programs in financial planning interest rates, membership fees, or even Credit card applications lie scattered on debt as a problem on surveys," Swift said. that dealt primarily with credit card abuse the required payment frequency. Swift campui>es throughout the country. Today "It's a growing concern on campuses on all campuses, but added that most said although students need to learn to the average college student receives no now. Whether it has just recently become universities, including UTC, have no such be more responsible with credit cards, it less than two applications for credit cards a problem or whether people are just now program. would be good for companies to include in the mail every semester. The admitting to their financial problems is not An Associated Press story that ran in some information on responsible usage of solicitations list the benefits of having clear." The Chattanooga Times on November 14 their card. credit cards (money to fly home, Tht financial planning clinic at Iowa said there are "more that 100 million U.S. It would appear that owning a credit vacations, school books, etc.), but they State is a unique program made up of consumers who hold more than 800 don't mention the drawbacks, such as seniors and graduate students who plan million credit cards and have outstanding finance charges and monthly bills. These to become financial advisors. When balances approaching $150 billion." Continued on p. 2 2 Student Echo/December 2, 1988 Mandela Speaks on Living with Apartheid By Faith Johnson Africa prescribe where you may live, even at this moment that I am very Assistant News Editor blacks is education. "They have used where you are going to be born, where education to keep us without adequate comfortable around whites." UTC's greatest event this semester has you will go to school, where you may skills," Mandela said. "So we can be In contradiction to the South African been the presence of Maki Mandela, work, where you will die, and where you called pitied people anywhere in the government's view of her father Nelson eldest daughter of jailed South African will be buried," Mandela said. world." She said the first thing the Mandela being a communist, Mandela activist Nelson Mandela. She spoke to a She said that if you are black in South government did when apartheid came said, "My father never has been a crowd of over 600 people as a part of Africa you learn about apartheid at a very into power was to create separate schools communist and never will be one. He has UTC's week-long awarenes of apartheid young age. "I was 9 years old when I was for different ethnic groups. been and still remains an African "It's an inspiring feeling to see so many to understand what apartheid means to Mandela expressed that while people of all races concerned about the the black people who live in South Nationalist." She rhetorically asked "If education in South Africa is compulsory someone is fighting for the transformation black people in South Africa," said Africa,"she said. Mandela told a story of and free to white children up to the age Mandela. "It really shows that American when she and her mother, Winnie, went and for the restoration of injustices, does of 18 years old, it is not the same for the that make him a communist?" people are indeed a kind and generous shopping: when Maki reached down to black children of South Africa. people." play with a white baby in a stroller, the Mandela is currently in the United Apartheid became a national policy of child's mother pushed her to the floor. Apartheid has had an effect on States as a Fulbright Scholar at the racial segregation in 1948 with unfair laws One of the major tools used by the Mandela's trust of other races. "I grew up University of Massachusetts-Amherst to blacks. "The unjust laws of South South African government to oppress the suspicious of whites," she said. "I can't say working on a PH.D in anthropology. v^arQS continued from front page card is a double-edged sword, having a credit card while 9°ing to school can help build credit record that will enable him or her to receive loans in CPU) RING SALE the future. But if he or she gets behind in payments or becomes unable to pay bills, his or her credit history is ruined for years. Experts say college students are being targeted because they are young and inexperienced, and are likely to spend a lot of money (meaning higher interest charges and more profit for the company), but Swift says that 60 OFF 18K companies are merely being "optimistic" about students.