SPEAKOUT

Party poopers

I'M A student at Southeast and I'm calling to comment on how this town makes it hard for any of the students to enjoy themselves while at school. Anytime a student tries to have a party or any kind of social function at their home or wherever, the police are there within minutes. This town is lame, and I for one will never go to school here again.

Students at games

I WAS at the Central basketball game Friday night when there were approximately 75 out of 800 students there in attendance. I was wondering why aren't there more students. After one of the opposing players completely missed the goal, the students started saying "air ball." Every time the boy would touch the ball after that, they would say air ball. That is good, clean fun. The principal came over and told them not to do that any more. When I was in high school, 1980-81 at Central, we had what was called the Raunchy Rooters. We wore T-shirts, we carried cigars, we yelled, we screamed, we were belligerent -- it was great. It was good, clean fun. Now I guess we have to be politically correct and not step on anyone's toes, and the principal has to be there to stand guard every minute over these rowdy students shouting air ball. How ridiculous. Let's get some students there. Let's take the leash off the student body.

THIS IS a loyal fan of Cape Central Tiger basketball, and I'm calling about the Central-New Madrid game. I noticed that the administration kicked out the students for yelling "air ball." That's totally ridiculous. No wonder they have no student support, because they want to treat every team that comes in here like they're king. They don't want to get rough. They don't want to get mean.

I JUST come from the Cape Central High School basketball game against New Madrid Central, and I'd like to comment on how the administration treat their students and the fans. They told us we cannot chant at the game, cannot cheer. This is all part of being in sports.

Topsy-turvy vision

DON'T BELIEVE the conventional wisdom of our day that claims our forefathers were anything but orthodox Bible believing Christians. They were. And they were quite adamant in stating the Constitution, as brilliant as it is, would work only in the context of a moral society. Our constitution was made for moral and religious people, stated the second president John Adams. It is wholly inadequate for the governance of any other. George Washington, the father of our country, was a right man. He said that of all the dispositions and habits that lead political prosperity, religion or morality are indispensable supports. Today government has taken away our freedom and mortgaging with debt the future lives of our children. But not to worry. The government is more willing to provide you with food stamps, welfare payments, unemployed benefits, day care, socialized medicine, free condoms, subsidized abortions, you name it. And they are doing all of this in opposed to religious foundations of this country. Can't you see how the vision has been turned upside down in the days of our modern-day baby-boomers or the 1960s generation?

A sucker is born

THE DITTO heads who end up taking the Limbaugh tour are proving that P.T. Barnum was right. There really is a sucker born every minute to pay for that kind of garbage.

Columbia strippers

I WOULD like to say to the person that spent a couple of days in Columbia and went to the strip joint: Well you just keep right on going to Columbia, because we don't want one in Cape Girardeau County.

Right to have children

THIS IS for the person who called about reproductive rights. If you are healthy enough to have children, then you are healthy enough to work and take care of them. As long as you take care of your own children, you have all the rights that you want, but when it comes to the point where I have to help take care of them, then your rights should be terminated.

Taking pulse

SATURDAY'S PAPER has an excellent picture of a patient and nurse. However, the article stating that the patient is having her pulse taken seems a little bit queer when she has a stethoscope on her stomach. Why don't you monitor these items before you publish them?

Widening William

NO TROUBLE or pain to widen William Street along Indian Park. Why not extend Indian Park into the open space next to the park that formerly was part of Happy Hollow? This is west of Indian Park. This would allow widening William Street and Indian Park. Extend Merriweather a block or two east to allow the excess traffic to the addition of Indian Park.

School enrollment

THERE is no justice in revamping the school student enrollment. Too many of the wrong people involved who have their own interests in the project.

Go, Tigers

CAPE CENTRAL Tigers, keep on playing as a team. You're looking good.

Thanks, Jay

I WANT to thank Jay Eastlick for his article in Saturday's newspaper. His thoughts are exactly my thoughts I thank for writing the column.

Door-to-door students

I HAD another little angel coming to my door attempting to sell me flowers for his school project. He whipped out an order form just as quick as can be. I had to decline as sorry as I was and as cute he was. People, we are going to have to take the middle man out of support for our community. Especially our schools. If the little angel would have asked could he do anything to help in my housework this morning, I would have given him $5 to run my vacuum cleaner and it would have been $5 going directly to the school. Let's find a better way and quit sending our children to pound the streets and ring doorbells to earn maybe 20 percent of what they sell to us for their schools and projects. Think of a better way. We can do it.

Jay's a zealot

AFTER READING Jay Eastlick's article on Anita Hill, I feel the same way about him as Larry King does about Rush Limbaugh. He's a zealot. How does he know so much about Anita Hill? Just because somebody wrote a book that he liked? He only attacked her because he is so far to the right that he is dangerous.

I WOULD like to congratulate Jay Eastlick on the fine article in Saturday's Southeast Missourian. It was a very thoughtful, forthright and honest look at Anita Hill. If I was a black American, I would not want this woman representing the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, who by his actions was a much honorable person than Anita Hill.