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EDITORIALS. OPINIONS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Race on campus: It’s
time to start talking
■ OUR OPINION: To remove
racial barriers, we must
examine what and where
they are in real terms
Big-city racism.
Watts. East I.os Angelas.
Atlanta Now York
Columbia U.C. Borkoloy.
Univorsily of Southern Cali
fornia MIT
Division .Separation
Anger, Poverty. Brutality
Guilt. Bigotry, Prejudice.
Mat rod.
Amnric n's ugly wound
just ( an t seem to hnal. And
it seems tin- infection has
not es< apod our generation.
Almost ;to yoars after the
civil rights movement, race
on c ampus has again
become the issue of the day.
Collegiate baby boomers
thought they had disman
tled 200 years of rac ism. Yet
now. on c ampuses around
the country, students are
fat ml with racial walls that
were built m the shadow of
politeness and politically
corns t vocabularies. But
this time, it's not c lear what,
if anything, we intend to do
almut it.
Here. In this largely white
community, yvo speak of
racial tension in abstract
terms Wo watch our televi
sions and read our newspa
pers. We cluck our tongues
and shake our heads "What
a shame." wo say. We are so
lucky we don't have that
problem here.”
Or do we?
More has been done to
enhance rat ial diversity at
the University in the past
decade than at any other
time in its history. New stu
dents this year are required
to take two multicultural
courses, and the number of
non-white students on this
campus has continued to
rise. And \vt> all seem to to
WHAT 00 YOU THINK’
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race relation* on eampui?
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exist in this friendly, if not
distant, atmosphere
Yet, a giant e around cam
pus on any given day illus
trates that we may not be as
unified as we like to think
we are.
Most students, it seems,
prefer to socialize with peo
pie of their own ethnic
group, and rarely do we see
groups of students of vary
ing skin colors silting
around a table studying or
laughing together This
arrangement, if accurate,
seems t omfortable for every
one involved. After all.
these are just choices we've
made based on personali
ties Our friends just happen
to he (insert race here)
Hut when the rac ial prob
lerns of the big cities are
thrust into our laps when
boatings and verdicts and
marches and hiss linger Hall
flyers speak to us of "other
people's" problems, the col
or line that cuts across this
campus begins to material
ize.
It is up to us, now. to
decide how we are going to
close the gap. Multicultural
ism cannot take place only
in a classroom. It is time to
open a forum on this issue
and really talk and listen to
one another
We are the future of race
relations in this country,
and the sooner we under
stand the wall, the sooner
ssi1 can dismantle it Perma
nently
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Tonight, real Witches won’t ride brooms
Wiii.hi's and Halloween havo always
gone together. it seems. But real
Witt lies don't have green f«cM,
long pointy nt>ses and warts. After
all. I'm a Witt h. and I don't have any of those
things
Did you ever wonder what real Witches were
like and what they do on Halloween’’
Halloween has always Imen one of my
favorite holidays As a child. I loved Halloween
for all the traditional reasons trick-or-treating,
haunted houses and dressing up as anything I
wanted to lie.
Besides. Halloween was one of just a couple
of holidays my morn really got into, and I mean
full-throttle Pink Silly String
spider's wet* hung (hick on
the front porch under a black
light, and scary sound effis ts
blared from our eight-track
player We had beautiful hand
made clown costumes (even
though my mother proliably
couldn't have sewn anything
else to save her life), and she
spent 45 minutes applying
OPINION
professional- quality flown
makeup. 1 wax taught to live for Halloween
1 ry as 1 might. I still can't make a decent spi
der's weh out of that t anned string, hut at least
si ,ir\ sound effot ts sound Iwfter on a C'D player
And I still love to dress up
One of the In-st things for me at Halloween,
though, is that it s one of the few religious holt -
days the rest of Amenta acknowledges with
me
Yes, for Witches, Halloween is a religious
holiday. In fad. it s one of the most important
of the eigfit holy day s Witches celebrate each
year.
A lot of mist Deceptions float around about
Witches, so I'd like to clear up some of them
Witcht raft (more formally known as Wicca)
is a religion, legally recognized in this and
other countries Actually, the U S Army's chap
lain's manual has an excellent entry on Wicca.
even though it hasn't stopped all military dis
crimination against Witches Hut that’s another
story.
Witches do not sacrifice children or other
small animals, nor worship (or even believe in)
Satan. Witches also do not cast love or revenge
s|h*11s on people, so don’t write to me and ask
me to do any s|H»lls for you. You'd he surprised
at the things people ask me.
Witches do believe all life is sacred. Birth,
love, sex. death — the driving forces of life are
sacred to Witches Witches worship a goddess
and a god. and many Witches worship several
goddesses or gods
We believe every thing in nature is both
sacred and alive: animals, of course, but also
rocks, rivers and trees We celebrate the full and
fit
Witches do not cast love or revenge spells on
people, so don't write to me and ask me to do
any spells for you
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new moons because the moon is both sacred to
and symbolic of the Goddess. Witches do
believe in magic We don't ride brooms — stop
being silly.
We have one law: If it harms none, do what
you will
Witi lies do not believe one religion is right
for everyone, so each Witch's beliefs and prac
tices vary. These are the common denominators
of witchcraft
Halloween, Samhain (pronounced sow een or
sow in) to Witches, is the Witches' New Year
and the feast of the dead.
Death, as a part of life, is considered sacred.
Death is an end, but Witches believe in reincar
nation, so death also signals a new beginning as
the dead go to the Underworld to rest and pre
pare for rebirth
Samhain is a time when Witches say. "The
veil between the worlds cs thin "
The barrier between the world of the living
and the world of the dead, of spirits and of the
unknown is most easily traversed at this time
Samhain is the time lor remembering and
honoring our ancestors and people vve know
who have died It is also a traditional time for
divination the art of staling into the future
using tarot cards, crystal balls or other tools
So what do real Witches do for Halloween?
1 II dress up and play my scary-sound-effects
CD for the trick-or-treators. I'll take my kids,
who are 7 and •». trick-or-treating, and then
we ll go to the East Campus Haunted House. Of
course, typical Halloween depictions of
Witches abound, so I'll talk to the kids for the
umpteenth time about the difference between
real Witches and fairy-tale witches.
When we get home, we ll have a special
Samhain dinner, and we'll set an extra place at
the table to remember the dead. We ll light can
dies in remembrance of our ancestors and
friends and family members who have died I'll
explain to the kids the religious significance of
Samhain I'll read tarot cards
And 1 11 (all my mother (who's not a Witch,
but who knows that 1 am), and I'll ask her one
more time how to g«t Silly String spider's webs
to hang properly.
lean M Bond, a junior majoring in journalism, is
a columnist for the Emerald.