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I agree with Mr. Essex that popularity and "favoritism
to military spending" should be set aside for the treaty
vote. But I think that past and present Soviet behavior
should be on the minds of the Senators when the treaty
comes to a vote.
Jerry L. Hayward
Meat nut rition questionable
Patrick Nelson's letter of Sept. 25 on nutrition and
other matters demonstrates the blending of smugness and
naivete which should make him a welcome member of the
AMA. Seldom does one see the bludgeon of "medical evi
dence" applied with such disdain. Apparently, Mr. Nelson
would have us stop thinking because these matters,
according to him, have been resolved to the satisfaction of
the medical community.
Frankly, I do not feel that questions surrounding the
effects of meat-eating on human health have been entirely
resolved. I am surprised that a person like Mr. Nelson who
is ostensibly so wedded to objectivity does not choose to
address the issues raised by the use of the , hormone
diethylstilbestrol (DES) "to encourage weight gain in
cattle. Nor is he interested in the immunological concerns
attendant to the routine addition of penicillin to animal
feeds and its appearance in tissue samples obtained from
meat counter offerings.
Finally, Mr. Nelson would also have us forget that
herbicide and pesticide residues have been identified in
various meats for many years. These are the sort of ques
tions which have convinced many, including myself, to
seek protein sources nearer the bottom of the food chair.
I think a moment should be spent recognizing Mr. Nel
son's, simple arrogance in establishing once and for all
which is Yin and which is Yang. The implication that Mr.
Vasina and Ms. Black are somehow philosophically bank
rupt because the newspaper quoted them as misdefining
the terms is not only adolescent, but demonstrates that no
one ever quotes Mr. Nelson in print or he would charit
ably remember how many hands the spoken word must
pass through in order to reach the printed page. r
Bruce A. Boyd
Raymond, Neb.
Dollar size
If the American public learned how to visually discrim
inate between a nickel and a quarter, it should be able to
do so between the quarter and the Susan B. Anthony
dollar. When viewed proportionately, the relative size or
proportion between the nickel and the quarter is identical
to that between the quarter and a Susan B. It is no harder
to pick a dollar out of a pile of quarters than it is to pluck
a quarter from a pile of nickels once the eye has adjusted
to looking for the sizes. I think that the similarity of size
argument against the adoption of the Anthony dollar is
simply a defense mechanism for those who are too lazy to
react to change.
Kim Hachiya
Junior, College of Law
Satire cannot miss its target
By Michael Zangari
Don't tell me any more jokes unless you
are fully aware at where they are pointed.
It's not that I've lost my sense of humor
laughing beats the hell out of wailing and
gnashing my teeth, it's just that some
things are no longer funny .
IVe done my share of one joke columns
in the past three years, and on occasion
have missed my own point by a country
mile. Satire is one of the most difficult
things to write well, and one of the most
frustrating to read. It has to hit its target
square on the jaw, because if it misses just
by an inch, it accomplishes nothing, and
otten can hit a totally innocent hy stander.
There is always that danger when you
try to ridicule one thing by using another.
This was rather graphically pointed out
to me by a. woman in the Women's Re
source Center. She told me about a then on
going controversy in National Review
magazine. Columnist Nicolas Von Hoffman
did a spin off-on Jonathon Swift's "A
Modest Proposal." Hoffman proposed the
burning of children to offset the fuel
crunch. What resulted was a barrage of
irrate reader letters. The magazine got so
many in fact, that Hoffman had to write
an explanation of his column.
For awhile there was a grass-roots
modest proposal to burn Von Hoffman, for
no particular reason at all, except that he
was Von Hoffman.
Hoffman's was an obvious shot. Why it
missed is more than open to debate. One
thing is obvious though, it's just that if
you are going to do something that is
tongue-in-cheek, make sure your head is
out in the open and both cheeks are exposed.
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