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To try to reassure you D little bit, there are several important diferencesfrom the CMUpaper that reduce our likeliness 10 get too bitchy. The first and foremost is that we were designed from the very start as views that appeared in his recent that sprung to life while I was Praise and Warning article on ‘gun control undergraduate at Carnegie a noncompetitive, inclusive an concedifig the Nazi activities Editors: Mellon. It started just like the magazine determined to open against the Jews in the Warsaw Review but transformed into a up debate at Georgia Tech; the CMU newspaper, in ghetto uprising. If a handful of I just thought I’d write to mean-spirited rag, rife gripe firearms in the hands of those commend you on a fine second with name-calling and other fundamental contrast, adopted confrontational stances with the people defied the Nazi death issue and on your recent SGA words. I never enjoyed angry machine for a brief moment, funding. I found the Review to reading that paper, and I don’t established newspaper, trying what if all of the residents had be informative and to cover a think it served many people’s to provide alternative interpretations the same news been armed? Then the holocaust wide range of topics and views. needs. Try not to follow this of Overall, the writing was good, events. would have never happened! trend. I and Iespexiallyenjoyedhnkin “Power comes from the barrel and Babb’s interview of the some Luckily, we’re not trying to do Lastly,I’dliketopointout of a gun,”saidMao. He stripped homeless folks. The poetry and irony in your presentation of that. Although there will certainly be occrisional all weapons from the people. art work were great, too. Keep thestatisticscornparingmilitary some overlap between and The Communist China has one of it up. spending with social spending. our Technique’s topics, our the strictest gun control Eisenhower used those same emphasis will continue to be on programs in the world. The As a writer for The Technique, type of figures in the 1950’s to the non-newsy aspects of students of the democratic I foresee some evolving roles justify building up our nuclear movement didn’t have enough for the two journals here on arsenal in his defense policy Georgia Tech life. Wedefinitely guns. The guns that were campus. I see The Technique called “massive retaliation.” share your concern for becoming negarive, provided by some units of the as Tech’s current news source, You nuclear weapons were too so see, People’s Revolutionary Army keeping people informed of cheaper than the expensive please keep us honest; poinr far were refused because it was campus happenings. The conventional (I think that’s out our good and bad points as arms intended to be used as Review, on the other hand, still true today), thus freeing up weevolve. Thanksforrheletrer. justification for the PLA lo seems to be Tech’s money to use on social and declare war on the students. “magazine”- a perioUic economic programs. Ironically, However, as it turned out, the publication where important I don’t think that you intended PLA fired on unarmed students campus and community issues advocate nuclear and, to arms, anyway. are discussed and people in fact, it’s conwary to today’s More response to express their views. I believe 1 I have more fear of the organized your editors used words to this weapons. effect during your funding . I rhisletter to the editor has been oppressive forces who insist on protecting me from injuring review. To me, the two publi- Again, keep up the good work. edited to increase readability cations are complimentary, not (2nd Correct errors of SpeIIing myself by taking away my I lo& fowud to reading issue freedom of choice, than fear of competitive. I can only hope three. and grammar. Great care has that The Technique and the been taken to assure that the random criminal acts. May I Reviewwork together to provide content and style are suggest that Mr. Meridith and Sincerely, all Gun Prohibition groups read Tech with the information it Mike Emmerth uncorrupted. needs. (Edited by Matthew C. Kramer) the novel 1984, and decide for Our,response: I. themselves if that’s the society I would like to warn you, Yourpointsare very well taken, Lettek to the editor: that they prefer? however, not to follow the lead especially the one about of a similar “alternative” (for avoiding excess negativity in I am writing this letter in Tsang Y. Jon lackofabetterword) newspaper &hefuture. One of ou? staffers, response to Mr. Meredith’s P.O. 34397 THANKS. Boatwright and How To Be A Computer In preparation for our October 10 meeting Geek in Four Easy Steps with the Undergraduate and Graduate Stu. (Or At Least Look Like dent Governments (USG and GSG), we Lunsford Praised solicited a number of letters of supporr by Benjamin Hendry and Larry Sampler One) from faculty. Although we didi’t use the letters at any of our meetings with srudenr Steve Lunsford and Jim Boatwright by Ian Smith, gt4018c@prism senators, we want io explicitly recognize earned a measure of our respect at the the efforts of our faculty supporters. Here October 10 meeting of the USC by Maybe you’re a really cool kinda guy or is one of the letters, which affirms our exhibiting a commendable level of gal, but have thesenagging doubts that you efforts and is representative of the pieces tolerance for opinions that they considered can’t really fit in at Georgia Tech without we received. Thanks again to everyone tobe not necessarily in line with theirown. being able to sling computer jargon around who helped us to get funding. Both Steve and Jim, themselves USC at boring cocktail parties: Well, let me To the members of the Georgia Tech representatives, admitted that they “hated give you some advice: you can really have Student Government: the North Avenue Review from front to (gasp!) some fun by using the resources back”, yet realized that their own available to you (for FREE - thanks, Clyde) I am a professor at Georgia Tech and am perspectives and biases should not on the GTNET.