Empath, 1984 February 14

              ThE E mpa th
“In the Spirit of Truth ”
Reggae 9kww«w
Concert
The Mighty Invaders, who
rocked the college two years
ago, will be back Saturday,
February 18, at Somerset
Hall. The eight member
reggae band from Jamaica
will be playing the popular
songs of Peter Tosh, Bob
Marley and Jinmy Cliff along
with some of their own fine
music. Admission is two
dollars for students, three
dollars for non-students.
Tickets will be available at
Charles Hall and at Captain
Tom’s Cferhouse. At the door
tickets are one dollar more.
V o l u m e 5 N u m b e r 3
College Colors Change
by John Harvey
February 21, next Tues­day
has been established as
"Selection E&y" for the
question of the possible
change of the nickname and
colors for St. Mary’s
College athletic teams. A
group of students, including
Amy Roberts and Joe
Szymanski along with
Director of Athletics, John
Harvey, has received more
than seventy nickname sug­gestions
and nearly twenty-five
color combinations.
Frcm this list, the
committee has chosen those
most often suggested and
which represented main
themes, such as the area’s
colonial history, aspects of
the college’s natural
environment, etc. The selec­tion
ballot will also
include the present nickname
and colors.
All St. I^fcry’s College
students, faculty and staff
are eligible to vote next
Tuesday at a table which
will be set up downstairs in
Charles Hall during the
lunch and dinner meal hours.
Student I.D.’s may be
requested. Exact times for
the poll will be posted this
week on campus. The
committee stresses that it
is important that everyone
interested in this issue
cast a vote either to retain
the present name and colors
or to change to one of the
new proposals. Discussion
of the choices and wide
participation in the sele­ction
will better validate
the final decision.
The most widely supported
and representative nick­names,
along with "Saints",
are:
1. St. Mary’s "Colon­ists"
2. St. Mary’s "(Blue)
Crabs"
3. St. Mary’s "(Blue)
Herons"
4. St. Mary’s "Mariners"
5. St. Mary’s "Seahawks"
6. St. Mary’s "Sailors"
The color combinations
which will appear on the
ballot, along with black and
gold, are:
— Photo by Karin Corea
1. Blue (royal) - Green -
Gold
2. Blue (royal) - Gold
3. Gold - Green
4. Blue - Gold - White
Most students felt that
use of the color blue would
represent our unique loca­tion,
green could highlight
another part of our natural
environment, and gold would
show St. Mary’s sunsets and
is also one of the colors in
the state flag.
ON THE Way to Beruit by Tim Howie
Editors Note: The following essay was written by
a freshman in Andrea Hammer's composition class
last semester. In subsequent issues of The
Empath similar essays will be published. The
written word is meant to be read and in order to
facilitate a dialogue of contemporary issues The
Empath is opening its pages to responsible essays
by both students and faculty. (Ve welcome any
response in the way of letters or additional
essays. For more information contact The Empath
in the basement of Charles Halit ext. 314.
Being somewhat of a hawk by nature, I was
rather enthused when I awoke the morning of
October 25, 1983, and my father told me the
United States was in the process of invading the
Caribbean state of Grenada. Cubans and Soviets
influence Grenada, I thought, and this invasion
will show than that we, not they, are the boss of
this hemisphere. Emotions ran high, not only my
own but my family's, and, as I later found out,
the general public's. I felt like waving an
American flag that morning.
But, in some of us, the mind is stronger than
the heart. I soon became much less emotional
about the invasion, and my logical faculties
began to take over. I began to wonder if the
invasion was justifiable. By the day after the
invasion I began to realize the many reasons why
the invasion was wrong.
Television news programs informed Americans on
the day of the invasion that the primary concern
was the safety of the 1,000 American medical
students studying at the St. George’s University
School of Medicine on Grenada. The safety of a
thousand Americans is indeed a cause for concern,
but to what extent should we have been concerned
with the safety of the students on Grenada? Were
they really in danger, or was their safety merely
an excuse for the invasion?
Of special interest to this question is the
amount of protection given to the students on the
first day of the invasion by the "rescuing"
forces. The True Blue medical campus, one of
two, was secured at 8:50 am three hours and
fourteen minutes after the first troops
landed.(Ed Nfegnuson, "D-Day In Grenada," Time
Magazine, 7 November 1983, p. 25.) For over
three hours the students, supposedly in enough
danger to warrant the invasion, were left
unattended. Yet, in this time, none were taken
hostage, harmed, or even threatened. This long
period casts seme doubt on the actual danger
faced by the students. Consider also that by
nightfall of the invasion's first day the
students on the other campus, Grand Anse, had yet
to see the face of a single American serviceman.
(Ibid.) In all this time, the Grand Anse
students, like their counterparts, were neither
harmed nor threatened. It is true that Cubans
and Grenadians surrounded the campus, but they
did so "knowing that United States forces could
not use heavy firepower with the students so
close." (Ibid.) In light of the fact that
students were not "rescued" for over thirty hours
by the invasion forces, but were not harmed or
taken hostage in that time or in the weeks prior
to the invasion, it can be concluded that the
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