Collegian (Hurst, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 29, 1992 Page: 5 of 12
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Opinion
Collegian / 5
Wednesday, January 29, 1992
Letters
1
Students reflect feelings on foreign investors
(The two following letters are in response to a
letter to the editor by Tim Conner which was
printed in the Dec. 4 edition of the Collegian.)
Dear Editor,
I would like to point out some blatant
errors written by Randy Scog^in (in his col-
umn). Evidently, he knows nothing about the
sport of indoor soccer.
First of all, the name of the team is the
Dallas Sidekicks Indoor Soccer Club. The
football teams here are not called the Cow
Boys, or the Tex Ans. The basketball team is
not the Mave Ricks. Also, the baseball club is
not the Ran Gers. Therefore, the Metroplex’s
professional soccer team is called the Side-
kicks.
The second error he made is that “hardly
anybody follows the sport anymore.” Tell that
to the 3,000 season ticket holders, or to the
7,500 fans who were at Saturday night’s game.
Our attendance has gone up throughout the
season. Now that the Cowboys have finished
their season, fans will begin filling Reunion
Arena to watch a winner.
Finally, the assertion that the team “went
down in blue flames” is totally false. After Phil
Cobb was unable to continue financing the
team, Sidekicks coach Gordon Jago and the
players chipped in and worked all summer to
keep the team alive. Don Carter rewarded that
effort with a two-year commitment to the fran-
chise.
Also, when was the last time the Maver-
icks won a Division Title (Sidekicks 90-91),
the Cowboys had no one holding out for more
money (Sidekicks: 0 in 8 years), and who was
the last Major Soccer League player banned for
life for drugs (answer: no one)? Can the Mavs
say that?
Even the Rangers (who have never made
the playoffs, even when they were the Wash-
ington Senators in the 60’s) can’t boast the
record of success that the Sidekicks have had
on the field.
It is reporting like this that has hurt the
Sidekicks since 1984-85. Now it’s time for the
media to stop bashing soccer, and for fans to
give up on losers like the Mavs and the Rang-
ers. Cowboy season is over. It’s time to say “I
BELIEVE!” Go Kicks!
Why don’t you ask the editor and mem-
bers of the Collegian staff how “sacred” the
first amendment is to them and how “flexible”
it is to being infringed upon with restrictions. I
find it ironic that, as our nation celebrates the
200th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, you
question the validity and importance of those
rights. You are obviously very confused.
In one sentence you agree that “more and/
or tougher gun laws will not affect the prob-
lem.” Yet in another sentence you claim that
“the pervasive and random nature of violence
in our society” could be changed if people like
me would stop defending our Second Amend-
ment right and start focusing on the criminal.
WAKE UP! If you people would stop
attacking the gun and start attacking the crimi-
nal then I too could focus my efforts on the
criminal. Only then will we see a change in our
society.
In no way did I attempt to persuade anyone
to purchase a gun; nor did I claim that gun
ownership automatically breeds safety. I merely
defended the right granted by the 2nd Amend-
ment to choose to keep and bear arms. This is
freedom of choice! Welcome to the 1990s.
You pointed out that 1.5 million handguns
are sold in America every year. Unfortunately,
you failed to point out that only four-tenths of
one percent (.4%) of all handguns legally sold
in America are used in the commission of a
crime. That would be about 6,000. That means
about 1,494,000 are used for legal purposes.
On one side of the world is a country
known as America, and on the other side of the
world a country known as China.
In one of these countries a college student
is free to express his or her feelings and beliefs
— in the other, freedom of speech is discour-
aged. In one country there exists the right to
keep and bear arms — in the other, the police
and military are the only people who have
guns. Can you figure out which is the better
place to live?
I thought you could.....
foreign workers.”—Tommy Uselton, 19, busi-
ness management, South Campus
“I believe it will limit job opportunities.
Profits will go back to their countries instead of
putting it into our economy. Foreign investors
may want U.S. citizens to go by their traditions
in business.”—Shawnette Carter, 21, speech,
communications, South Campus
“As far as I'm concerned, it could hurt me.
I am in the landscaping business. Foreign
companies are able to manufacture the type of
equipment I use at a much cheaper cost. I
believe that will hurt American manufacturers
and put them out of business. Most countries’
economies and stock markets are more stable
than the U.S. at this time.”—Brad Foster, 20,
business management, NW Campus
“It will make it difficult for our generation
to get a job because they will be bringing in
their own people.”—Becky Loher, 19, psy-
chology and physical therapy, NE Campus
I believe the competition will be really
bad, and we might find it harder to get a job.”—
Nanine Metcalf, 18, office occupations, NE
Campus
“As foreign investors move into our coun-
try, I believe it could cause the cost of educa-
tion to increase. Our society may pay a big
price through unemployment as they bring
skilled workers into the country.”—Raefell
McKinney, 20, nursing, NW Campus
“I believe there will be good career oppor-
tunities for Americans, but they will have to
leam more to compete with foreign technology
and catch up with foreign industries. It could
possibly cause unemployment if they bring in
their own skilled workers.”—Jeannie Brown,
20, public relations, NW Campus
“They will need people to work on com-
puters, and they can probably teach me some-
thing.”—Connie Dingman, 36, computer
science, South Campus
“Since my major is nursing and I deal with
the sick, it would not affect me. They could
bring more money into my field.”—Kelly
Hooper, 22, nursing, South Campus
Dear Editor,
In regard to your editorial To vote or not
to vote, we find ourselves confused. Is the
article on voting or is the article on how bad the
staff believes the Republicans are?
Regardless, a person should exercise his
right to vote. People complain they do not have
equal rights, but yet they do not exercise the
rights they do have. It is predicted that less than
55 percent will vote in the next presidential
election. Also, they complain that the politi-
cians in office are incompetent, but do they
vote?
Blaming the Bush administration for the
economic situation is like blaming a child for
being dirty when you placed the child in the
mud.
Do we not look at Congress and ask what
they are doing? Congress is responsible for the
writing and passing of a bill. People like to
blame one person instead of many because it is
easier.
Michael Dukakis would not even come
close to shaping a good economical era. He
could not even balance the books correctly in
his own state. Before the national recession
even showed signs, his state was already in a
recession.
To skip a presidential election and to get
rid of the electoral college is absurd. To skip a
presidential election would definitely destroy
our legitimacy and provoke a more communis-
tic government. Very few times has the elec-
toral college elected a President without repre-
senting the majority of the population.
People keep asking what the government
can do for them, but what are they doing to help
our country? It’s time we support and help out
our country instead of complaining all the time.
College Republicans
TCJC NE Campus
D. Crites
LEA Student/NRA Member
NE Campus
Alan Balthrop
Charter Member
Dallas Sidekicks Booster Club
♦ ♦ *
By Dale Reed
Reporter
What effects will the foreign investor have
on your future career opportunities?
“Yes, it will have a degree of influence. I
tend to think it will be a negative influence
because they will want to have more say in
what goes on in our country.”—Geri
Cronenworth, 28, art, NW Campus
“I really do not think that foreign investors
will be investing in education. American
education doesn't help them in any way.”—
Jennifer Dickey, 18, elementary education,
NE Campus
“I could even be helped if these investors
directed some business my way.”—Steve
Jordon, 22, advertising art, South Campus
“On one hand, I can see foreign finances
boosting employment; but on the other hand, it
makes me nervous that foreign investors bring
foreign employees into the country and do not
hire from the American work force.”—Heather
Fowler, 19, undeclared, NE Campus
J.D. Rutledge
South Campus
Electronics Dept.
NRA/FFL
“I may have to leam Chinese and Japa-
nese. I may also have to leam international
accounting”—Darlene Ahiefeld, 44, account-
ing, South Campus
“Foreign investors are taking us over, and
soon they will consume so much of our country
that it will change the American way. It looks
like a good deal, but in the end they will hurt
us.”—Dorothy L. Jarrell, 25, undecided, NW
Campus
“They could affect our society by giving
us a total computerized way of life. I feel they
could decrease jobs for U.S. citizens.”—Audry
Felker, 19, pre-law, NW Campus
“It will increase job positions in service
andautomated fields.”—Justin Pryor, drama,
NE Campus
“It will probably help my career by bring-
ing in more industry into the business area.
They will be investing in my job.”—Clay
Marshall, 19, business, NE Campus
“Since I am going into business, I may
have to work under them. I may even be hiring
Dear Editor:
In response to the letter to the editor by
Tim Conner on Dec. 4.
The authors of the Constitution did foresee
what could develop and was then developing in
the then “New World.”
The Bill of Rights was their attempt to help
avoid the repression of the individual that was
in existence even then.
We fought a war at that time to be able to
make this and other documents part of our
country’s law. This does make this document
sacred to the hearts and minds of a people
fighting to avoid suppression.
The Bill of Rights was a separate document
from the Constitution because it dealt with
rights that were considered to be the foundation
of free people everywhere.
We have all read that guns don’t kill people.
People kill people. And for those that have
forgotten, man has killed man from day one:
first with his bare hands, then with rocks,
bones, tree limbs or any other tool handy.
Gun control is a criminal’s best friend.
The harder it gets for law abiding citizens to
keep and bare arms, the safer and easier it is for
criminals to do their work.
The fastest growing business in the U.S. is
illegal drug sales, the second is gun running.
When children or criminals have fully
automatic weapons or any other type of firearm,
that is not a failure of gun control, it is business
as usual for crime. For those who have forgotten,
criminals break the law. Remove legal gun
sales, and it will only increase their business.
In closing, the U.S. Congress declared on
three separate occasions with the Gun Control
Act of 1968, the hearing on the Second
Amendment in 1982 and the Firearms Owner
Protection Act of 1986, that the PEOPLE have
the right to own and bear arms.
I don’t think Mr. Conner was aware that42
states have reaffirmed this by adding a Second
Amendment statement to their own State
Constitutions also.
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