Wednesday. April 21, 1993
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The prince says 'success lay in the attitude'
I would like to do two things:
first tell the more than 2,000
readers that get vicarious thrills
by reading my column thank you;
and second, to tell you why I am
so successful.
The majority of my princely
success lay in the attitude. A
positive attitude is essential in
developing an attack plan for
excellence. That is no cassette
program that told me this, that is
traditional family wisdom handed
to me from my mother, my grand
mother, and so on. If you believe
every gloom-and-doom headline
you ever read, you’re going to
live your life in constant fear and
misery. You’d probably say
“That’s bad for you! That’ll kill
you if you eat that!” and so on.
Life’s too short for that.
What I say to all those head
lines is “Get real!”
Rather, the whole idea is to
look at life like it is a recreational
activity in which you do not get
bored with, one giant weekend.
If you’ve seen those G.I. Joe’s
commercials, you know what I
mean. I seize the weekend, like
they do.
A positive attitude is essen
tial to proper character develo
pment because if your attitude is
negative, you have a tendency to
bring down the attitudes of those
around you. That is an observa
tion I made from past experi
ences. If you have a positive at
titude, vice versa is the case. Those
around you find you to be a more
cordial person to be around. And
you tend to have more energy,
better social skills, and just sim
ply be better all around.
What a positive attitude will
do to you can best be illustrated
by World Wrestling Federation
Champion Hulk Hogan. Now
there’s a positive attitude at work.
What has that guy done - he’s
only won the championship five
become the most popular athlete
in all the WWF, been a positive
role model to literally millions of
children around the world, done
the near impossible and a num-
The
World
Beat
by Eric St. Anthony’s
times (a record in the WWF),
appeared in two motion pictures,
Letters to the Editor
To The Editor:
How serious does an abuse
have to become before the pub
lic will stand up and do some
thing about it?
Everyday, human beings
in our nation’s nursing homes
are being abused -- not by
neglect or physical roughness
but by unnecessary drugging.
This drugging is condoned by
many medical professionals and
carried out by some well-mean
ing, but ignorant nursing home
personnel.
Our senior citizens are not
given a choice about taking
these drugs. It is considered
“necessary” treatment to keep
them in the proper frame of
mind and under control.
By 1985,the NationalDis-
ease and Therapeutic Index re
ported that while adults 60 years
and older made up only 11 per
cent of thé population of the
U.S., they used more than a
third of all anti-psychotic drugs.
These would be drugs like Hal-
dol, Thorazine, and Prozac
which are administered to
create maximum behavioral
disruption and make the pa
tient less violent and destruc
tive.
A study of2,000 pharma
cies done in 1986 showed that
60.5 percent of prescriptions
for nursing home residents over
65 years of age were for major
tranquilizersand 17.1 percent
were for minor tranquilizers.
A Harvard Medical School
survey of 55 Boston-area rest
homes published in the Janu
ary 26,1989 issue of the “New
England Journal of Medicine”
reported that 55 percent of the
1,201 nursing home residents
surveyed took at least one psy
chiatric drug, with 39 percent
being given anti-psychotic
drugs. You can find that data
in “Science News” of Febru
ary 11, 1989.
Psychiatric drugs are dan
gerous, mind-altering drugs
whose side effects include
memory loss, hallucinations,
extreme agitation and body
tremors. The abuse of Amer
ica’s elderly with potent mind
altering, dangerous psychiat
ric drugs is not occasional but
continues to occur daily in nurs
ing homes across the country.
It is our society’s ignorance
which will allow this abuse to
continue until you and I are
elderly and become the vic
tims of our own lack of action.
Information about the dan
gerous effects of psychiatric
drugs can be obtained from
the Citizens’ Commission On
Human Rights at 1-800-869-
2247. CCHR was formed in
1969 by the Church of Scien
tology to investigate and ex
pose psychiatric violations of
human rights.
An Open Letter to the CCC
Community
Political correctness or
free speech? Are the two re
ally in conflict? This subject
should concern us especially
because the college has al
ways been a center of intellec
tual freedom and a place to
explore new ideas. The first
amendment’s guarantee of free
speech has only one restric
tion: “clear and present dan
ger.” That is, when the utter
ance could cause danger to the
public.
I respect and encourage
the diversity of viewpoints on
this campus because open
sharing encourages all people
to examine their own beliefs.
So I favor completely uncen
sored speech.
However, 1992’s election
and a graffiti experiment on a
campus bulletin board have
presented new, difficult prob
lems. During Fall Term, T-
shirts were worn, and signs
carried that used inflamma
tory language (f— the OCA,
kill all the faggots) that shocked
with their anger and poor logic.
Name calling filled the air and
much of the language was pow
ered with hate. Should we
prohibit hate-driven, violent
language? How would that
kind of language affect us
should we be in an attacked
group?
Then, on a bulletin board,
I put a small card that said “a
woman without a man is like a
fish without a bicycle.” I
thought it might grow some
graffiti, and it did. Later, a
small note tacked right below
said something like “a bitch
without a man is like a dying
person without life support”
A pretty crude response, but I
figured we had to start some
where, so I responded “fine
for dogs, but what about
women?” Later, it was all
gone. Since it was unapproved
in the first place, I wasn’t sur-
prised.
I was sur
prised to hear it had been taken
down because of the hateful
sentiment it expressed. Cer
tainly, it was an ugly, hateful
response, but I didn’t fully
understand the situation until
I learned that the person who
took it down had been a vic
tim of hate mail — on this
campus. Hate mail doesn’t
seem like the same kind of
free speech we usually talk
about. Do we have a right to
attack someone with words?
I would like to see a graf
fiti wall on this campus. Far
more than just the run-of-the-
mill obscenities and phone
numbers, graffiti is a rich
source of anonymous art --
drawings, poems and dialogues
about important issues. A place
to speak freely in ink. But
what about all the anger out
there? What about all those
personal attacks on individu
als in writing? What about
slander? What about free
speech?
Jan Roose
Sincerely,
Jane M. Williams
Concerned Oregonian
ber of other things, all of which
could only be made possible by a
positive attitude.
One of the things the Hulkster
has done was come up with the
“Four Demandments of Hulka-
mania:” saying your prayers, eating
your vitaihins, training hard and
believing in yourself. It is the
fourth demandment that is inte
gral. The belief in yourself can
parlay itself into the other three,
to say nothing of what else it can
do.
So to Hulk Hogan, I give the
Handsome Prince’s Award for The
Most Positive Attitude I Have
Ever Knowh.
And to the 2,000 readers that
get vicarious thrills by reading
my column, I give tw.o things: the
Handsome Prince’s Award for Best
Fan Club; and my most sincere
and royal gratitude. In other words,
thank you
...
from
the Handsome Prince.
Earth Day events you
may get involved in
by Michelle Myers
Earth Day in the Portland
area has become busier with each
passing year as more ecologi-
cally-conscience people are doing
their part for Mother Earth. Here
are some Earth Day events from
the Portland area and around the
state where you may get involved.
Plant a tree and don ’ t forget to re
cycle!
Oregon State University is
participating in Earth Week ’93
through April 24. Events in
clude handing out condoms to
combat global population in
creases, a day of mourning for
the damage already done to the
planet and on Friday and a Music
for the Earth Festival where six
different bands can be heard.
Oregon Fish and Wildlife and
Friends and Neighbors of Sauvie
Island will do an island clean up
from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Satur
day. Just meet at Sauvie Island
School off Reeder Rd. and
Charlton Rd. at 8:45 a.m. For
more information call 621-3587.
A forum on problems of global
overpopulation will be held at
Pioneer Courthouse Square on
Saturday from 10 a.m. to-4 p.m.
Call 591-0832 for more informa
tion.
Plant a tree for Mother Earth
by heading down to Fort Stevens
State Park where they have com
bined efforts with the Oregon
Department of Forestry to give
away Douglas Fir and pine seed
lings. They will be given away
Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.at
the Historic Area Museum Build
ing and 2 to 4 p.m. at the Camp
ground Information Booth. For
more information call Oregon
Parks and Recreation at 378-6378.
Celebrate Earth Day with a
walk in the forest at Tryon Creek
State Park, 11321 S.W. Terwil
liger Blvd, on Sunday. Visit
educational stations along the trail
and learn things such as animal
tracks, rolling a log and the life
cycle and Indian uses of a cedar
tree. Also, plant a tree!
Earth Share
SM