SOUTHERN UTAH STATE COLLEGE, CEDAR CITY THE THUNDERBIRD TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1990 PAGE 4 HOUSING CRUNCH MUST BE EASED It comes as no surprise that Cedar City is currently faced with housing shortage. Students attending SUSC can attest to that. What comes as a surprise to us however, is that the city is not taking the steps necessary to alleviate this housing crunch. It appears as though the city fathers have adopted a laissez faire attitude toward official responsibilities and seriously need to be reminded that they, as civil servants, have been elected or appointed to act in behalf of the community not, as many now believe, to straddle the fence over an issue of such grave magnitude. This is no vacant assessment. Its widely understood that Cedar City is bound economically to SUSC; were it not for the cultural, educational and economic influence of the college, the community might be little more than a roadside stop between St. George and Salt Lake City. Painfully aware of the student housing deficit particularly that of married students SUSC administrators have been making every effort to provide much needed student housing In an attempt to resolve this burgeoning need, SUSC intended to construct housing specifically for married students adjacent to Interstate 15 along 1150 West. With proposed expansion of the Physical Plant, however, new' plans hae been drafted that eliminates this possibility and the college has opted to leave such housing projects to the private sector. Compounding the housing dilemma is that SUSCs bonding capacity has been strained by such recent construction projects & as the Centrum and the Student Center. Quite frankly, we believe that the economic status of Cedar City is a shared responsibility, cur city fathers should make every effort to see that the citys economic welfare is not jeopardized for fear of creating resentment between themselves and a few of their vocal constituents. Following last weeks cry council meeting, Mayor Harold Shirley admitted that the rezoning proposal revealed gross inequities in the citys rezoning process. We wholeheartedly agree. In a vain attempt to close the barnyard door after the cows have escaped, the mayor has suggested that perhaps a new checklist procedure be implemented that would assure that future 'Access is a recurring column through which members of developers know what steps are needed before applying for a the campus community may address themselves to topics building permit. We feel that such a procedural implementation of concern andor interest Todays column is by Leland should have been accepted practice long before now. Freeborn, a concerned citizen who maintains that he We urge Mayor Shirley, the City Council, and the Planning receu es prophesy from God and appears in this space each Commission to stop dragging their feet and to realize that were year at this time all in this together. SUSC has been, and continues to be, highly Is God alive today7 Has he Ion his voice7 Or can supportive of the city fathers in the execution of their official duties. Nevertheless, the time has come that without additional he still 'peak todav7 Ill show you he can. What people III and housing in the community, everyone students, residents, and are watching is the beginning of World War know don't it they alike feel will businessmen the repercussions for years to come. Todav Saddam Hu sein the leader of Iraq has called a SM'sC RKiDEMT UYiMGS fleid A4 RSie -- ST4 &fiNT . Access Whos really running the world today? for a Holy ar of Arabs against the western powers. His people fuly support him and are willing to die The Thunderbird VOLUME 85, NUMBER Editor Kathleen Midgley Associate Editor Natalie Coombs Opinion Director James Spainhower Photo Editor Jeff Dower Copy Editor Lisa Jane Laird Sports &. Outdoors Editor Brent Richey 1 Arts and Leisure Editor Tracy McNeil Production Manager Rachelle SherTatt Advertising Manager Brent Richey Ad Production Manager Kim Kelsey Staff Production Head Lynn Dennett Faculty Adviser Larry Baker The Thunderbird is published each Monday and Thursday of the academic year by and for the student body of Southern Utah State Collegt and is not affiliated in any wav with the Colleges department of communication The news and opinions expressed in The Thunderbird are the opinions of the publication s individual wnters and do not necessanly reflect the views of the institution, faculty, staff or student body in general. The unsigned editonal directly above is the opinion of The Thunderbird as a single entity Letters to the editor must be typed and include the name and phone number Onlv the name will be printed Names will not be withheld under any circumstances and the editor reserves editing privileges Letters must be submined by noon Fridays for Monday editions; 5pm Tuesdays for Thursday editions. The Thunderbird offices in SUSC Industrial Education Building 003 Mail at SUSC Box 9384 586 5488 FAX 7 Cedar City UT 84720 Phone (801) for his cause. Back m 1980 I published a book called Prophesy Today. On page 28 of that book I said, the Persian Gulf and the Cape of Africa will cut the jugular vein of 60 percent of the Wests oil. You can watch and see the real trouble to come to South Africa and the Persian Gulf .ar ahead, as well as other prophesies I made back then come to pass. Again I ask you, whos really in control of events in the world today? A fev years ago I told people here in Utah on the radio that Babylon in Iraq, which is 60 miles south of the capitol of Baghdad, was going to get nuked. With tensions between the United States and Iraq mounting daily, its easy to see how this can happen Iraq gets desperate and may use chemical weapons which the western powers abhor. As our enemies for the past 40 years through the Cold War see this, theyll think Oh1 Oh! If they will do that to them what can we expect for them to do to us7 And as in the Catholic Bible Apocrypha in 2 Esdras 1 tells us they (USSR) were sore afraid, and durst and out of fight A blast of fire yet His (Gods) lips a flaming breath (11 million degrees) and out of His tongue he casts out sparks and tempests. And they were all mixed together, the blast of fire the tempest (fallout) and fell with violence upon the multitude (USA) which was prepared to fight, and burned them up, everyone, so that a sudden (surprise attack) of an innumerable 13 8,10,1 can see that God is using Iraq to scourge the world with war. We as Christians have jumped the gun with this war in Iraq. I multitude (USA) nothing was to be perceived but only dust (fallout) and the smell of smoke. I can see that God is using Iraq to scourge the world with war. Our boys are mad as hell and Hussein has been labeled a modern day Hitler. We Christians have jumped the gun in this war with Iraq. What were looking at in this conflict is total destruction. I realize that what I have said will not be popular. People want to believe that they are doing the right things and they dont want to hear anything different. The apostle Peter said that in the last days people would be willingly ignorant. People need to decide now who they are going to be governed by. By God and his laws or the philosophies of men. I surely hope that President Bush and his advisers know something that you and I dont know to prevent war.