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THE METEOR
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Ectitor,
One of the first impressions
a new student acquires on coming to VES, is that football is "the sport."In other words, foot- ball is King. It reigns high and mighty above soccer and cross country. New students are re- quired to go to all Varsity foot- ball games, not soccer or cross country meets. Pep rallies are called just for tbe football team.
This utter ridiculousness has prevailed at VES for many years. The announcers have con- tinually lauded the defeats of
football in chapel, while gtv- mere pittance to wins by teams.Oneoftherecent
DECEMBER 16, 197i
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When u
lioe would be, "What a gtoup of stereotyped .tudent.l" Take our clothea for eumple, all cotton khaki• and button down ahirts are om-
Our eoata are uaually navy blue aDd our ahoes are almost 100'111Beana.b thi.lapartofinctividualilmthatmatters?Themanner iD which we dreu ouraelvn il oae which we feel is beat. It takes a
penon to uaume that wearing a certain style of dress makes iDdividual.
If there il anything that one grows tired of, it is someone, or poup boosting their individualism on the basis of Led Zeplin or the
Geea. Tbia aimply makea no difference.
Being aaound peraon, one that uses the mind he was born with, is
aomething that come from within. A ense of interest in the world around ua ia important to the development of one'a individualism.
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ila hard word to define.lt is the process of being everyoae elM on earth.
outaider loolu at the VES community, his fint impres-
sports themselves. Second, fall receives more attention than do soccer bas only come into being the other varsity sports in fall in the last two years, and is not particularly cross country sinC.: teebnieally a varsity sport. And 1 It seems 1.ixon A aeirtut E4ltor: Tom Urquhart
Sputa Editor: Mike Croxson
Art E.dltor: Marshall Bowden
Gaeat E.dltullla: Mr. Ainslie, Mr. Sager
Reporters: Hallet Ward, Tommy Moore, Tom Bauer, Kerke Johnson.
Larry Jones, Allen Hayes, Erie Supertran, Richard Quillen. Carter Kemper, Kirk Rice, Jim Bowden, Marshall Bowden, Ben· bury Wood, Skipper Hines, Randy Meador, Doug Huszti, Chris Connell, Tom Milstead, Garrett Jeter, Watson Jordan.
John Vanderayde, Tom Bauer, Howard Moye, Ted Hunt, Mike Peterson
Edlter: Jackson Bowman
T,.,..ta: Marshall Bowden, Bobby Pulliam, Garrett Jeter
Can-a: Steve Templeton
Pr11f Mra. James, Tom Urquhart, Sambo Dixon.Mike Crox·
son, Mr. Somerville A4tiru. Mr. Somerville
TbeMeteu staffwouldliketothankMra.RashforhavingInspiredher
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in a country which has been the country, on the other hand, Now the U.S.S.R.'s military
hu bad a winning tractitlon,over- strength, which was infantile put three years. Yet VES compared to ours 30 years ago, is
still tries to ingrain the thought beginning to eclipse America's that "Football Ia King" into power.
others. Football is not king. Tbis Today , there is another trea- I not 1969 but 1979. We are not ty, SALT II, which has been
dominant. Can't we just face before the Senate for some time. r ality? We cannot live in the It cannot possibly pass the
world of 1969 forever. I Senate without several revisions hope that in the futur , VE will made. It seems that the nation
it eye and s e th truth. football is extinct. It should over and give the other sports the praise that is long
wants peace and security, but · tinue to keep halfsensible people
and the
portoffootball had been discredited. After much r arch and thought, I have not
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expect a person to get wound up ·. .
and excited over a ten second
football over all else in the fall? Let me pose a question· bow
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·manyt1meshaveyou,oranyone splrtm or e hs neth t tb ·else ever seen a cross country
seems a s arne
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creator of the editorial h·f t· ·
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h ,meet on television as a major
as so ,produ t" ? AI 1 ll
t d cIon so,peasete me
mThiu.c ~~ ~rm!a IOnt_miscons. rtue f. about "Cross Country Today on
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everything from "football" pep 1 a~ M ear . ~~w:hn er u pro-
rallies to his somehow demented gr · Y poi~ IS at, foot_ball . has been bred mto the Amer1can
1dea that the cross country team soei"et th 1 11 •
h ·.., t d"· It Yas ea sportJUStas as a wmlllng ra 1t10n. seems basketb . . th .
t e recent past, ut w1t 1 eas . ht· M b' f tball . k"
urdities wa the football
ams praise after being 1 e e ones presen e m an- K" F00tball th All A .
dy's editorial, it is no wonder. mg
I will agree that football fall sport.
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- mer1can Mike Croxson
agreed on
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