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WgM conclusions ere more Itoly to be gathered out of a multitude of tongues than through any kind of fliflfiOfniiinv ' bWpRwWiw w JutfQt Lmvm4 American urM(1IT2-1M1- ) The Herald Journal Logan Utah FiMayMay122000 Pagolt Our viov VICTORY Notification not required at the desk Apparently the Internet registration process still has a few kinks to be worked out A USU student got a shock this week while trying to access her grades on the Internet The : computer denied her access to her records because it said she ' ' hadn't paid her tuition This came as a surprise to the student who had registered over the Internet and had been happily attending classes all semester A call to the cashier confirmed that the Internet regis- tration had somehow not gone through and die had been dropped from her class — a fact that apparently had not been vpassed on to her professor who had been happily grading her papers all semester “Don't you send out notices of nonpayment? Don’t you warn people they’re going to be dropped?" the student queried : “Unh-uh- ” answered the person Do Logan Municipal Council members know that the micro-phones are still on after their televised meetings are adjourned? If so one has to wonder why they make so many unguarded remarks while milling around : ' afterward? : : V - And speaking of language could someone out there please tell us whether or not the word “crap" is considered off color in Cache Valley The word is bandied about in these parts with a regularity rivaled only by the phrase “Oh ' my heck” yet people from else- where in the country put it right there alongside the “S” word for vulgarity To them it is a slang word for excrement while many locals seem to view it as a simple synonym for “stuff” Incidentally Webster’s dictio-nary gives both meanings as a definition tax on n” E Your view it is often said are a voluntary progressive tax on stupidit- v- - They remaining The Shriners fraternity here in Logan has helped hundreds of children over the yean through sponsoring children in Cache Valley to Shriners Hospitalsfor Children Over the past 78 years approximately: 625000 children have been helped by the free medical care available at the 22 Shrinen Hospitals in the United States Mexico and Canada The Shrinen Hospital in Salt Lake City as well as the 21 other Shrinen Hospitals are wonderful places with dedicated professionals Children that have a disability are fortunate to have a place like Shrinen that really are concerned about the child’s well being Over the past year and a half I have been working with some of the chil- dren through Shriners Hospital in Salt Lake City 1 want to thank the Logan Shrinen fraternity for giving me the opportunity to help Also for obtaining a storage unit to store equipment My wife really appreciated getting her parking space back in our garage You are a great organization Rick Escobar Logan worked hard to overcome nightmares Many have married and started families Many have moved away All want to move on Only three of the women's cases actually went to trial but all of them took the stand and testified they all testified at preliminary hearings and they all had an opportunity to testify when he was sentenced They are all willing to come back and testify again if it is required of them Tes tifying in these proceedings was a great personal sacrifice for each one of them Waggoner left a wound on each of these beautiful women that will remain for the rest of their lives However their courage has been an example to other victims Their selflessness has made our community safer We are grateful to have known them To these seven women and all other victims of such devastating and violent crimes — our prayers are with you always May God bless each one of you To the voice was heard To the editor Three years ago Stacey Waggoner raped and assaulted a number of women in our community Seven of his victims had the courage to come forward and as a result five counts of rape and two counts of aggravated sexual assault were filed against him These women who largely did not know each other prior to giving state- -' ments to the police supported each other through challenging and wearisome legal proceedings They shared a common goal predominated by a desire to find justice and protect others from suffering their same fate They all succeeded Waggoner has been convicted of two first degree felonies — by two separate juries — and will serve a minimum of 15 yean in the slate prison If and when he is released he will be supervised on parole until the day he dies Now more than three years after the assaults the charges that have not yet been tried have been voluntarily dismissed with the option to refile if -- ers co-win- long-runni- ng ng high-rolle- rs 1 ’ editor five-year-o- - — The most heartbreaking question asked of me in 13 years of parenting occurred in this simple way while wading in a clear mountain stream on a hot summer day with my then son My boy knelt down to drink from the cool rippling water Ier vlows Will march help cure gun Scripps Howard News Service : work through the highly effective National Rifle Association It’s ld T con- ceivable too that there could be he Million Mom March is a The same water had once safely misnomer The actual number of proquenched my own thirst when I was testers on hand this Sunday will be young “Don’t drink the water” I closer to 10000 than a million not said all of them will be mothers and the “Why not?" asked my son “I'm event will be a demonstration with thirsty” speeches rather than a march accordHow could I answer that question? ing to published accounts The How can I answer it now? That we important questions of course are the people of the wealthiest most whether the event — whatever heartpowerful most technologically winning tag is propagandistically advanced country on earth don't have affixed to it —- will have a political the heart or the will to care for our impact and if it does whether it will water our life blood? be beneficial The answer to both questions is Decency cannot be weighed against dollars To care for our country our “maybe" If there are comparable home its air water forests soils and demonstrations in other cities and the future is not an economic question It movement is large and then institutionalized into a political lobby that should not be a question at all could be important Support for gun control has been diffuse whereas Kayo Robertson those opposed to it have been able to Smithfield Mallard Fillmore something so affecting in the demonstration some particularly passionate speech that would ignite public emotion And of course politicians pay attention to sheer numbers The second “maybe" is even more problematic Success by the protesters in winning their primary objectives — licensing and registration of handguns and limiting monthly handgun purchases to one — would give police better tools than they have now for reducing crimes committed with firearms More than any number of other proposals these have some chance of making a dent in gun violence The fact is however that there are already thousands of gun laws in the nation and next to no evidential sup port for the theory that adding still more laws will make a very large dif-gun-contr- ol i The Herald Journal- Ths Opinion paga is Wanted to acquaint readers wSh vanity ol viewpoints on iraters of public Importance and provide members of toe community with etotum tor tosir views Personal columns cartoone and letters tarn raadois raflset toe opinions of tosir write and creator Etltoriato under toe headng'Our represent toe view ol tha Hand Journal adnorial board Msmbsra ol Sis edNorial board: gjgv NICOLE FARRELLMtyedtor 2 t I v' boot- Critics of further gun control note that the major issue with gun vio-- ’ lence is the viblent people who use guns Despite the scoffing responses that is no superficial observation and it would be heartening if there were a burgeoning social movement to put families back together and address a variety of other social ills It is true at the same time that trying to curb the proliferation of handguns in no way excludes address ihg such problems What is not clear is that this protest by mothers and others on Mother’s Day — despite all the hype and genuine passim — will go far in curing the violence that afflicts us LettersTpollci ' Tha Hamid Journal wetcomestotere to toe tote p wi nol bo published however and too editor reserves toe right to edR all letters to conform to Sis length and stylo requiremonli ol too newspaper Latere should ba: ' d Typewritten and No more toan 450 words In length Addressed and Mute daytime phono number tar purposes ol verifleadon Signed by too author hdviduals am Kmilod to one published hi-tor wRhln any period Address litere to hjtoterOhjnewscom Guest com- memories are atoo welcome and are tuna! double-space- 30-da- y CMOYYURTHMuisssdNor BRUCE SMfTMpuWsher CHARLES McCOLLUMmanaglng ference in violent incidents A chief problem is that this nation is swimming in a veritable ocean of guns The most' obviously effective step — confiscation of handguns — would be unconstitutional and probably undoable as a practical matter to HSnr PntnnHalif Khaiout or oWamlvs uuma Editorial policy SHC Co? continue working The consensus was to continue working after all we're nigged conscientious professionals — but we'd do so with an : Scott Wyatt Cache County Attorney Good water quality not economic issue Victims’ combined Also under discussion was whether as winners we would quit our jobs or attitude Nor would obscene wealth change us We would show up at work the morning after our number was drawn if only to allow our to share our delight in the the thickheaded school held that Ferrari would the bring only winning lottery specifiyou Another financial wrinkle to be misery — divorce alcoholism ennui cally were not — out was whether we would ironed arid another while bankruptcy going to win school those of us made of sterner take the lump sum or the annuity stuff and blessed with a can-d- o spirit which turned out to be for the Michigoes not you about $109 were more than willing to give it a gan "Well somemillion or $7 million a year over 26 : i try body has to debate was years after taxes We were scrupu-lou- s Another win” Yes somebody does but at about calculating hypothetical would win whether a to it’s be not going one in ?6 million hopelottery ' divide This from an office according who taxes office Those the ever lessly you to our 401k managen that heavily As it halppehed there were two didn’t enter the pool would be resentwinners — and they were not you" ful and spiteful while the victors invested iii a mutual fund that spreads One was in Lake Zurich 111 and the would be giddily oblivious to their risk by burying the money in several other was in Utica Mich where the colleagues left behind in poverty different back yards In the end we like you didn't win ticket was sold at the Then there could be ugly divisions take that back: According to Wait the Some within K’s Mr named pool: Party Shoppe happily The two winners — and you were put in $5 while the more timid put in our pool director we “won" $2 It not among them — will split a jackonly $1 The calculations at the time says something about us that a loss of pot of $366 million Such is the showed the difference in the shares nearly 97 percent on an investment could be construed as “winning" nation’s mathematical literacy that would be $125 million to $25 milOnce again there's a division of of course Mr K’s will be swamped with ticket lion after-ta- x diswhat to do with the $2 not newsroom with even in the next opinion: experience My big lottery buyers ' divisible into 57 shares as is as the is that Kassab owner easily the directly ferocity putes George though — related I a remember to the triviality just picking a figure here — $366 bought 20 tickets and he like you One option is to put the $2 in million a and House White won zilch correspondent office the men of Here at news central we pride ourdoughnut fund which great foreign policy expert distinction and erudition nearly com- would allow us a Big Game memoriselves on being realists hard-eye- d al cruller plus 59 cents in change the skeptics immune to hype So of ing to blows oyer a shared wastebasother ket Even a hypothetical $25 million option is to bet the $2 in anoth- course we got an office pool together ' er thus and is serious 25 reporters and editors investing $57 lottery unlikely money We’re leaning toward the lottery in lottery tickets (It is a safe bet that to cause dissension five bucks vs How about you? Are you in or not? if barbed-wir- e magnate John “Bet- - $230 though could cause ugliness the heed arises These women had a yThe odds of winning (he Big Game voice and their combined voice was were jackpot heard their goals realized They were one m 76 milpleased with the decision to dismiss lion meaning have the counts Thanks to Logan Shriners for help To the editor: Dear Shriners Gates were alive he would not be working here) The pool concept enabled us to cut the odds of winning to a more manageable one in 1333333 While a tad short of a sure thing those odds were enough to prompt several extended revealing and — let’s be frank — : pointless debates One school of thought in the office By Dale McFeatters Scripps Howard News Service edNor |
