To the editqr: . A physicist -who works with high energy lasers, a political This letter is in response to Randy -Arthur’s “defence” of Star scientist and a researcher into conflict resolution*do not tieed to Wars and his incorrect, and somewhat insultirig c+cism of the further “acquaint themselves with the benefits of,strategic deSeptember 27 article about three UW professors and their view fence” and .probably a,re at least “remotely familiar with the on the undesirability of Staf Wars. Arthur made many errors in current balance of Sdviet and U.S; fqrces,” which Arthur implies ,. his letter, some. of them out of ignorance, but some of them are a _, they are not. result of not carefully reading the article, Due to sPade limita,Arthur also falsely-Assumes that the U.S. is willinito use Star tions, I -will only ‘highlight a few of the-proble,tis. Wars as a bargaining chip, which is ‘not the case. Shortly after Arthur states that these three professors ,were not Star Wars _ the Russians proposed a 50% bilateral cut in nuclear arms if. “experts” and that they should get off.,their ?‘ivory’ tower and space weapons are b,anned, Reagan stated that under no circumbetter acquaint’themselves with the benefits of strategic de- stances will Star Wars research be a bargaining chip at the next fence.” If Arthur had read the article, he would have realized that talks at G6neva. If the U.S. is unwilling to use Star Wars as a Prof. Hepburn was a member of “Science for Peace,” that Ashok bargaining chip now’, do you seriously t’hink ihey will after they is a Professor of Political Science, and’ that Regehr not only have invested trillions of dollars in hardware? teaches in the Peace and-Conflict program, but is also head of Towards the end of the letter Arthur also i’mplies that Star research there. A little homework would have brought furthep Wars could force Pease on the Soviets, but history shows us that enlightenment,‘such as the fact that Hepburn is’cross-appointed this is an unreafistic~dream. U.S.A. had the first’atomic-bomb, in Physics aud Chemistry, and one of his areas of specialization the first hydrogen bomb, the first ICBM, the first submarine involves high energy lasers. launched miss&, the first multiple warhead, etd., etc. ObviousI%?
this pressure did not bring the Russians to their knees; in the same manner that the first space flight by the Russians invoked the frbnzied American space program, ,to “try and catch up.” Arthur also states that Star Wars would be t‘he best deterrent “even if it only destioys ,2O% of the inbound, warheqds,” andincorrectly implies that this would result in 20% of the,U.S, missiles being left intact. This is incorrect for two yeasons: 1) Star Wars would not be designed to destroy-bombe‘rs, cruide: missiles, or even submarine launched ballistic missiles; 2) Most ICBM’s have multiple warheads,. which means that one enemy missile can hit 7.to 10 targets on average. Therefore if one country destroyed 20% of the inbound missiles, there would still beabout 5 to 8 incoming warheads for each &iss!e silo, . I In conclusion. Arthur’s argument is short-sighted, histori: tally and technically incorrect and ignore& the complex-realities of the nuclear issue. Donald McCrack& Graduate Studies GeoeraDhv
._ ‘\ To the eilitor: this implies intoxication, then half of the students and profesOn Saturday, September 21, Aaron Palmer, a “prominent.stusors here would be in a drunken s’tate 90% of the time. dent at UW, was evicted from Fed Hall for two terms:His offence Does a person dance-wildly only when he/she is drunk? Does a -,being himself. The assistant man_ager of Fed Hall claimed that _ person never stumble on steps when he/she is sober? It seems Aaron (who %vas underage at the ‘time) was intoxicated because that Aaron’s offence is not in- being, intoiicated, but simply in he “appeared” intoxicated. They did not inform ,him of his- being non-confortiist. We are talking of,a person who dance-s in-1OOC weather &earina shorts atid listeninn to,some tune play“crime” at that time and.gave him no chance to argue this claim then. They did not test his breath. They d-id not, in any way, look 1ing in his -head, and -he does this when he is sober. Perhaps the for concrete evidence that he had been.drjinking. assistant manager does not do this when she is sober, but her Those of us ‘who were at Fed Hall that n_ight cati testify that conventions are neither:Aaroti’s..nor ours. If con,formity and sobriety are synonymous, then any‘one’who deviates from the Aaron had not‘ been drinking. Thqse of us who were at Fed Hall can testify that Aaron appears intoxi&ted all the time, regard1norm‘is a drunken fool who ought to be denied admission into ’ less of the level df alcohol in his system. The assistant mariager.\ any social gathering. states that“Aaron ran into her and almost knocked her over. If’ Up until this incident, the admi&tration of Fed Hall has been
quite considerate with underaged students. We are aware that the, decision- to evict Aaron was’ based on a real concern for the: reputation of Fed Hall and that of the university. However,, people, including ourselves, do make ertors, and .we hope they will r’eassess the situation. Jeff Joseph, 2A ME&. Eng. Vinko Tsul, 2A Math Mike McC&oI, 2A Comp. Eng. z Paulina Chin, 2A Math \ Steve Ryder, 24 Physics , Barb Rodtiin, 2A Science I Bess Lu, 2A Science : li .Chris Langdon, 2A Math Fiona MacFarlbne, 2A Hon. C.A. Soula Michalopoulos, 2B G,eog. ’ Debbie Rodwin, 2A Kin.
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To the ‘editor: women, atid childi.en have po ‘first, to love the Lord thy God In the article “Suztiki Urges “, faith in God {he‘ ‘Creator of and second to love thy neighfaculty boycott of SD]” (Im‘\ heaven and earth, Gad-given bour as thyself.. print October 4, 1985), D. Su- - spiritual faculties of man, and ! J. Shroeder zuki was quoted as saying: le&us Christ .the Saviour, who Department of Citiil Engineer: “We are living with enormous taught two basic moral rules: ind problems . . -largely becuase we entertain a number---of strange illusions”. To the e&tor: > h the word processor; well, why The strangest illusion today Arts students unite! don’t ‘we all taki out an ticis a cosmology, in which the I believe it’s time ‘that tic! count? I mean it will be’great heavens ’ are a’ four-dimentook some action & extra bilfor doing egsa*s and, besides, sional utopia of relativity, the ling ’ f&r computer usage. It’s we’ve PAID’fG;r it. It’s n@t that existence of tht?ebrth is an actime the administration found , difficult -. just go over to the’ cident, and life’& genetic un,out .ex.actly what computer domputing office,, and let’s certainty. Furthermore, since usage is altabout. Now if you find out if the administration the equalities of sciehces prohave been keefiing up to dtite ’ was counting on till-thqse s&uvide noI ethics, for problem with the articles in-the Imprint dents whb paid for the privi-, solving, the conduct of cosmological man is based on rates , .yot~ would have read that we : lege of taking advantage of it. are entitled tD an “account” tin D. Owen Price of animal survival.-.’ ’ . . _1st Year Arts
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