2 Opinion Thursday; February 21, 1991 Editorial: I LETTERS TO THE EDITORS I A Veritable Potpourri Of Things I Hate To the Editors: to point out a problem in society that by Jonathan Smoke, Co-Editor One of the main reasons being a huge stack of mail in- As a group of freshmen who had is best approached in a humorous man- ner: Jonathan Smoke, however, chose For those who apparently love acronymns more than life cluding ads and articles which somehow got placed in The competed in Scholar's Bowl competi- tions to use his power as an editor not to itself, I'll add one more to the list: A.P.O. A.P.O. was Southwestern Review box and finally delivered to the pro- for several years in high school, we decided to form a team to compete write legitimate satire but to nurse his a title given to me last year by my closest friends who per name and box three months later. I also hate it because in the Rhodes College Bowl tourna- own bruised ego. Rather than giving whole-heartedly believed that I was Always Pissed Off. my name begins with an "S" which usually means no mail ment last weekend. We felt that we our team and all of the others credit, case in point was the "This School Needs an Enema" on Mondays till 4:00 P.M. though most every other letter Their had a good team going in, and were he instead stripped the tournament'of last school year. of the alphabet has its mail before noon... article I wrote both proud and excited to win the tour- any serious merit and apparently tried Well, I've matured a bit and learned to be properly - Perhaps even more frustrating to a senior doing nament and the right to represent to take away our pride in a legitimate apathetic, as is the required norm for students who wish research at our school is our library's periodical section Rhodes in March at the Mid-South accomplishment. to graduate from this blessed institution, but time and again system. Maybe you haven't experienced this yet, but if your Regional College Bowl. We are fairly sure that the coverage little things come up that bring the old me back up. As one research includes articles in journals or magazines for the We did not enter the tournament in would have been much different had of the final things I write for this paper, I thought I would past year, there is no way in hell you'll find it in our library order to gain recognition. However, Mr. Smoke's team won rather than mention a few of the things at Rhodes that annoy me the because that time period is the mysterious void in which we had hoped that our school's paper ours. That is the true sadness of the most. issues are being bound. It therefore turns out that all would acknowledge our hard-earned whole affair. The Sou'wester's - Number one on the list is the President's Roundtable. research you do here better be less than six months old or victory. Understandably, not many primary purpose is to inform the people attended the tournament itself, students I wrote an almost entirely unbiased article on last week's more than eighteen months old. of campus news. Hopefully, meeting, but that does not mean my intense hatred of it so The Sou'westerwas really the only the individual egos and feelings of the has gone away. For one thing I had a wonderful view of - Now a few words about the Rat. To my chagrin and outlet for people to learn about this editors will not affect their reporting campus activity. of news in the future. that last meeting from a short row of chairs behind an probably everyone else's is the average ice cream selec- Thus, we were saddened Trey Harrison EMPTY seat labeled for some person named, tion. If you like nuclear/neon tutti fruitti, you're probably and angered to see the coverage that Col- Charles Schafer "Daughdrill". The only person in the audience with me happy, otherwise, you're probably screwed. And if you lege Bowl received in your paper last Steve Stanley was my associate, Stinson Liles, and apparently one of us happen to be lucky enough to get a decent flavor, you risk week. First of all, no real article Sam Woods was a representative of the campus newspaper. There are life and limb trying to get it out of the negative two hun- appeared--only a short narrative under and nine of them dred and seventh three point fifteen degrees celsius freezer. ten student representatives on Roundtable, the guise of satire on the Rhode'ster actually made it to the meeting that day with only one of I also really love the engineering that went into the design To the Editors: page. We those nine being an hour late. of the salad bar - condiment bar - milk machine - cereal read with interest the graphic thing - coke fountain - section. Furthermore, this article was writ- descriptions of the College Bowl bat- -I hate people who don'tknow the name of their cam- ten by Jonathan Smoke, a member of tles in last week's Rhode'ster, but as pus newspaper, especially if they find a need to refer to - Finally, I hate the fact that unless I care to buy my the team that we beat in the finals. No witnesses to the "final double Ar- it. I've seen -people call it The Southwestern, The supplies at our monopoly priced campus bookstore, I'm direct reference was ever made to our mageddon", we noticed a glaring Sou'Western, and even The S'outhwestern, and these peo- forced to drive two thousand miles to the nearest K-mart, team until the last sentence, although omission from the column-the team ple include Deans of this college. Walmart or Target. The only things conveniently located several derogatory inferences were which was defeated here was - In a related issue, I hate the mailroom with a passion. near Rhodes are Exxon stations and a Zoo. directed at us, labeling our team as in- Johnathan "I lost on Jeopardy" experienced youth while our op- Smoke's -own! Well, they say that ponents were somehow supposed to be where there's Smoke, there's fire, and wizened and moral. that was certainly true in this case. Let PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT Satire does serve a purpose, but only (Continued on Page 6) APPLICATIONS FOR EDITOR AND ASSISTANT EDITOR The Sou'wester POSITIONS ON THE SOU'WESTER FOR THE The Sou'wester is the official ELIZABETH ORR student newspaper of Rhodes Col- JONATHAN SMOKE 1991-92 SCHOOL YEAR ARE NOW AVAILABLE. lege. It is published every Thursday Editors throughout the fall and spring semesters with the exception of S. STINSON LILES holidays and exam periods. The of- Associate Editor They May Be Picked From The Publication fice is #10 in the Briggs Student Center. Staff meetings are held there each Tuesday KRISTIN RUDOLPH Commissioner's Door at 108 Voorhies. night at 7:30 and all Business Manager students are welcome to attend. JENNIFER SLEDGE Photography Editor Interested parties are encouraged JASON PARRISH to write letters to the Editors, which Sports Editor may be delivered to the office or MARC BAKER sent via campus mail. Any letter for Arts Editor publication may be edited for clarity, TREY WHITE length, or libelous content. Cartoonist ELIZABETH SCHAEFFER Student publications at Rhodes are Circulation Manager governed by the Publications Board GAYLA BASSHAM - the Editor-in-Chief and Asst. SUSAN EWART Editor are the elected representatives BILL JORDAN of that Board. The opinions express- CHRIS KOLKER ed in editorials and featured columns BLAKE WALKER are those of the editors and con- THOMAS JOHNSON tributing writers and do not CHRIS POLLETTE necessarily represent the official SCOTT JOHNSON Mriylw1 viewpoints of Rhodes College. KIRSTEN WITT LAND! MATT PRESTON National advertising representatives J. B. CORMIER are CASS Communications and American Passage. The Sou'wester is a member of the College Press Service. SThe Sou'wester Rhodes College 2000 N. Parkway * Memphis, TN 38112 " -- 726-3970 Forum 3 Thursday, February 21, 1991 Is There Representative Government At Rhodes College? Not In The Student Assembly! by Bill Jordan McPhail Hunt asked the Assembly to terested parties (most there to support fool" and that it is a term which is nor- the opinions of the students being The Student Assembly has proved undertake a random survey of 200 the change). The information was met mally used as a classifier for grade sought. The Assembly did not desire once again that some of its members, students to determine the feelings of with opposition by Representative level, not sex. In fact, the term is nor- to hear the feelings of the general stu- who claim to be representatives, are the campus. Again, this request was Darby Moore, who did not believe the mally used as "Freshman man" or dent body because they feel that they completely ignorant of the general denied. The Assembly then asked me information to be very representative, 'Freshman woman," and usually not know what is better for us than we do. feelings of the campus and that they to prove that such support actually ex- since Independents were not included to imply a specific gender or inferiori- No amount of evidence presented have a very skewed concept of the isted to change the term, and the (even though the Assembly refused ty.