| Summary: | EDITORIAL THE CONCORDIAN D March 4, 1988 • Page 6 A burning issue on the minds of all Brown residents It's 2:23 a.m. You're snuggled into your warm bed with your teddy bear. Just four short hours from now you have to get up to take a test in your eight o'clock class. All of a sudden it happens. You hit the ceiling. On your way down, your roommate yells at you to shut off your alarm. Both of you simultaneously realize that the noise is is not your alarm clock. It is the weekly fire alarm. You moan, then look out the window to see if it really is a fire alarm. It could be your heater buzzing, but you soon realize it's not because of all the signs of life in the courtyard. You say, "Oh, shoot, not another one" and begin getting dressed. While you are still half-naked, your RA bursts through your door and rips the curtain open, leaving you exposed to the entire population of Brown Hall. You drop to the floor, practicing your safety techniques. While on the floor you attempt to wiggle into your jeans and at the same time search for two matching socks. Your RA reenters your room, and still finding you there, attempts to drag you out. You grab your coat, scarf and matching gloves and head out to,the courtyard to join the other displaced Cobbers in various forms of undress. After successfully rousing their units, all the RAs race to the director's apartment. By this time the sirens can be heard. Dressed in their fire garb, the firemen saunter over to the person in charge and ask where the problem is. (Meanwhile, over 100 Cobbers stand out in the arctic wind. Some go to the Livedalen lobby while others brave the elements.) The firemen check for smoke and flames, and finding none, shut off the alarms. At this point you join the stampede to get back to bed. Back in your room, you peek out the window and see the firemen in a cluster. You can imagine what they're talking about. One week ago, you had a friend visiting you for the weekend. Calming your friend upon hearing the infernal racket, you said, "Oh, don't worry, it's just a fire alarm." When your friend left for the weekend, the parting words were "Next time, please inform me of the emergency procedures in your dorm." Two weeks ago, you had a friend of the opposite sex visiting in the wee hours of the morning. When the noise hit, you panicked, but soon realized it was just a fire alarm. You hid your friend under the bed for the duration of the untimely interruption. You went to bed dreaming about red trucks, buzzers and your 10-year reunion, when you'll return to Brown Hall and pull a fire alarm to relive the experience and watch other people suffer. • km. THE. APPROPRIATE /?£SPof/5£ IS 5££K SAfEXY ? gj PRoTecr V/itoA6 Letters THE CONCORDIAN Dr. Paul Dovre, publisher Debra Morrill, editor • Daniel Batten, associate editor Maria Temanson, news editor Chris Iverson, features editor Alan Kraft, copy editor • Kent Knutson, projects editor i • Merrie Sue Holtan, adviser Michele Braun, business manager > Amy Getter, advertising manager • Todd Anderson, sports editor • Todd Maki, photo editor Kristin Sonnenberg, type manager Stevie Mathre, production director The Concordian is the official newspaper of Concordia College. Moorhead. Minnesota, and is produced weekly by Concordia College students. Opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of the student body, faculty, staff or administration. The Concor-dian welcomes letters to the editor. Letters received will be printed at the discretion of the editor. All letters must be typed, double spaced, signed and received by 5 p.m. on the Monday prior to publication. Nuclear Know More Week planned To the editor: Sunday, March 6, marks the beginning of "Nuclear Know More Week." The purpose of this week, which is sponsored by STAND (Students To Advocate Nuclear Disarmament) is to evoke thoughtful discussion and heighten awareness of nuclear issues through various speakers, panels and debates. An information table will be pre-sent throughout the week in the Centrum. We encourage you to voice your opinion by signing a peti-tion, questioning the various speakers and partaking in small group discussion. Your participation in "Nuclear Know More Week" is vital. Look for schedules posted about campus and plan to attend! Leigh Schleicher junior and members of STAND Team effort needed To the editor: 'Among the principal require-ments for the existence of a commu-nity of scholars is an atmosphere of mutual confidence and trust. This atmosphere arises from a proper commitment to the task at hand, and is fostered by an explicit awareness of the responsibilities shared by the members of the community." The preceding passage is a sec-tion from our Policy on Academic Responsibility (page 71-72 of the Student Handbook). ". . . an atmosphere of mutual confidence and trust." This line says, to me, that we are supposed to help each other in positive ways to get the most out of this experience. 'Told you so" (The Concordian, "Junior senator says 'told you so,' Jan. 29, 1988) is not a very good represen-tation of the team effort that I see implied in the academic statement. John Hoff writes that the new CEC is a failure just like he predicted over a year ago. We all know, and John admits, that new systems take a while to start rolling. Perhaps the CEC will operate more smoothly next year once it has tried its wings. Maybe it won't. That is not the point. The point is that, as senator in the Student Senate, John has assumed the responsibility, as has every student senator, to work toward the betterment of this academic community. This is not done by saying "I told you so." 'The students and faculty of Con-cordia College are committed to the expectations and procedures set forth in the Joint Statement of Academic Responsibility." This catchy little phrase is on the cover of every single blue book distributed in the name of testing our knowledge on this campus. It refers to the statement that I began to quote earlier. To me this state-ment implies the common goal of the faculty and the students of this campus, to promote intellectual endeavor. In response to John Hoff s other letter to the editor (The Con-cordian, "GPA requirements," Jan. ! 29. 1988) I would like to say that I favor a 2.5 minimum GPA for thp qualification of student senators. The main purpose of a student is to excel academically, not to run for Student Senate or to play football or even to be in a foreign language club. If a student is struggling academically, it is the responsibility of the school to review the student's situation and to help that student get back on track. Any extracur-ricular activity takes a lot of time. Not every student is able to attend to their initial responsibiltiy, that of academics, and to manage some other responsibility. Jeffrey Cadwell junior Get fired up To the editor: A friend of mine wrote this about the Brown Hall fire alarms/I would like to share it with the rest of the campus: In those days a decree went out from somewhere . in Brown Hail that all the dorm should be awakened. This was the nineteenth awaken-ing of the 1987-88 school year. And all went to be enrolled, each outside his or her own unit. And I also got up from bed, from my heated dorm room to go downstairs to the icy winter night, because I hated the sound of the alarm, to be enrolled with . my roommates who were still dazed. And while we were there the time came for the firetruck to arrive. And it gave birth to four angry firemen wrapped in bright yellow clothes and wading through snow, because the sidewalks hadn't been plowed. Dawn Wendland junior Origins of Concordia Magazine explained To the editor: As a former producer of "Concor-dia Magazine," I would like to respond to the lifelines article featured in the Jan. 29, 1988 issue of The Concordian ("Video magazine covers Concordia world on film"). First of all, "Concordia Magazine" may have been started as an inde-pendent study for Gary Hatteberg, but there is indeed more to the story. "Concordia Magazine" could not have survived or existed without the dedication and hard work of TV Center Director, Dean Olson, or Concordia graduate Todd Megrund. Megrund and Hatteberg produced the first monthly shows. They were in charge of all aspects of the pro-gram. However, after Megrund graduated, the technical aspects became more complicated. Dean Olson began his three-year project of directing and supervising "Con-cordia Magazine." *'Concordia Magazine" was financed only by the funding available through the Concordia College Television Center. It was not until the Olin building arrived and the new studio was built, • See page 15
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