By DAVE CONGALTON

In the last Westerner, there appeared an open column by Bob Roschke in which the two key words seemed to be love and revolution. Both are very powerful words, yet I wonder if Bob actually related these words to what he was talking about or did he instead use these two words as an appeal to emotion.

There are many people who consider love totally as in emotion, yet it is not. Love is the controlling of your emotions. Although you love someone or something, at times you may become angry or disgusted, yet it is your love for this object that will eventually overcome your anger or disgust. This happens because your love is constant; it can't be turned on and off like a radio.

According to Bob, people will attempt to destroy anything that might keep them from loving. I won't argue that, but I am wondering as to what exists that keeps me from loving. Bob didn't mention any examples nor specifics. Since this is important to the student body, it would be nice to relate to them. If these barriers do exist, what are they? Do they come in the form of administrators, watchdogs, cameras, or roving eyes? They must be significant if they can keep us from loving or are they?

Revolution is another key word that was mentioned. Revolution is a fact, an event that has happened in the past and will continue in the future. Like Bob

suggested, it stems mainly from emotions. The problem is that many revolutions fail because emotions are short-lived and can die out.

According to Bob, a revolution is happening around us today. "People are communicating and interacting with each other." Fine, but does that mean that there is a revolution? We communicate every day and have been for centuries. Does this really relate to us, either as students of Maine West or as youth of America?

Things are changing constantly around us; both in America and at Maine West, and as youth earns their responsibility, they will be given these rights that they so violently demand. Problems exist, no doubt; but the answers don't lie in songs by Chicago or the Jefferson Airplane, or even by appealing to emotion. We can start a solution by working together, but that will take time, hard work, and above all, respect for one another.

That decision is up to the reader. If you wish, you can go out, join the revolution, and dance in the streets‑just don't fall in any manholes.

Although I don't know Bob Roschke personally, I would only ask that he would think again as to this revolution that is occurring in the midst of love. If he did, he would see that the use of constructive energy does not come about through dancing but working. Let's be workers, not talkers.