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Show ' I '' I r ( 1 I I I r I ' !PAGE 12 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OPINION I ALICE YOUNG :.-J,_ MONDAY, SE·PTEMBER 17, 1001 -1 _ f GAsr 0 ,:, d!tlf ~ --- COMMENTARY l_..iving in a kennel I Last month didn't go o well ActuaUy, August 2001 might go down in history as the worst month ever. My roommate and I decided to move out of our nicely furnished but poorly located apartment into an unfurnished, poorly located house. In theory, th plan seemed both exciting and quite responsibL . -.. We would be paying more in rent, taking care of our lawn, and paying mor for utilitie . That's r pon ible , right? But h re comes th exciting part - we ,could bave a dog. I -5 Luckily we truck an amazing deal, which, I promise, we thought through . We could have the dog and th lancUords w uldn't clean the carpets. This deal was mad b ause the previous owners had dogs. We thought, naturally, everyone mu t be a resposible as us and therefore the carpets would be in impeccable condition. Imagine walking into a kennel . A BIG kennel, maybe one with 30 dogs and 4 cats. As cute as the cats and dogs might be, they do mell. And ·they smell bad. I really don't know if the house we decided to rent used to be a .k! nnel , but if it wasn't it certainly smelled that way. We tried baking cla, Pet Fresh, Febreze and candles. But bow did our house smell in the end? Like a .kennel with baking oda as cat litter. Here' the b t part: we made another extremely educated. and well thought out deal. Io exchang for not having to pay a deaning · C. e. we would clean the house ourselve . It sounded like a good idea until we opened the cabin ts, fridge COMMENTARY and stove. When we found red juice on the bottom of the fridge, every type of dried-up noodle under the stove and three different types of bugs that even my 7-year-old, bug-loving nephew couldn't nam in the cabinets, I just gritted my teeth and bore it. But when I found 367 pubk hairs in the bathroom, blood on the No humor column today. I don't want to write thousand times worse . They know that when we wall , a box of razor blades marked "crystal" and a strange white hunt down the moo cers, we will try hardnot to substan e pilled across the closet shelf I decided it was tim to get it and you don't want to read it. o word of wi dom , either. I wi h I were barm the i.nno ent. Tho e are th.e handcuff we out. I took a littl drive down 200 North toward the boonies to think. wise enough to say something that would help willingly wear, because for all our flaw , we llr mak en e of this horror, but I'm not that wise. a decent peopl . On th way down I found a detour. There were two lanes and the And now wear a traumatized people ..The T right lane was ending. A sign said ~right lane must turn ." But the . I'm barely capable of thinking. Like many othe , interesting thing about it about was the right Jane kept going 30 I've spent the hours ince Tue day morning commentators keep saying that the attac have we do feet , giving people plenty of time to merge. J pulled over and staring at the television creen ometimes awakened a "sleeping giant." And I gu crying, sometimes furious , but mostly .just look like a giant, to the rest of the world . But laugh d mo tly because I was too tired to cry. . when I look around, I don't ee a giant: I see tunned . The lane was amazing because it ga e p opl tim to d ide if What r can't get out of my mind · the face that millions of individuals, th resilient and caring th y really wanted to turn or noL they used our own planes. I grew up in the Cold citizens of New York and Washington ; the It was tim for me to tum . incredibly brave firefighters , police officers and My roommate and 1 found a new place in one day moved within War, when we always pictur d the threat a four hours, and in the meantime lost $ 00, a chance of having a coming in the form of m_i si.les. But what cam , re cue workers risking their live in the dust ilnd instead, .wet' our own commercial airliners big flames ; the politicians tanding on the ·rep of dog, and the smeU of p rmeating urine lingering around u . friendly flying buses coming from ewark and the apitol and singing an off-key rendition of Alice Young is a senior communication major Jro,n Phoenix, Boston with innocent p eople on board . Red- "God Bless America" that , corny a it was, had Ariz. wbite ,and-blue planes, with "United" and m weeping; the r porters and photographers who have not slept1 and will not Jeep as long as "Ameri an" writt n on the ide . Th plane you've flown in and I've flown in. That's what there is news to r eport; the people in my they used to attack us. They were able to do it in community, and communities across America, part because our airport security is pathetic. But lining up to give blood, wi hing they could do mainly they were able to do it becau e we ar an more. SOUT HERN U TA H U NIVER SITY · CEDAR (ITV UTAH o , I don't see a giant . What I see i open and trusting ociety DIRECTING STAFF At-lD DESK PHONE NUMBERS: What's so hard to comprehend is that they Americans. We may have the power of a giant, want u to dk ju t fo r being merican . To but we al o have the heart.of a good and Editor l<amilynn Savage 586- 7750 them, we're all mortal enemies. Th truth i that generou people, and w will get through this. Associate Editors Stacee Young 586-7750 Camery Lybbert 586-7759 most Americans, until Tue day, were only dimly We will grie e for our dead and tend to our Photo Editor Erin Madson -586-7750 Almanac Editor UJJian Ku~ 865-e226 aware of their existence, and pos d no threat to wounded , and repair the damage , and tighten Copy Editor Lisa Young 586-1992 Webmaster Russell Willlams ~7759 Focus Editor Liberty Case 586-1992 Ad Manage- Chance Allred 586-7758 them . But that doe n't matter to them; all that our curity, and put our plan back in th air. Arts Editor Alice Yoong 865-a443 Aast'L Ad ~r. Heidi Pe!ooion 586-7758 matter i that we're Americans. And they ome day, .our country will track down th rest Sports Etlta' Jason Erickson 865-8443 Adviser Larry Baker 586-7751 A&s't. 5pol'ta Etlta' Mark Jones 86&&143 Writing Coach Paul Husselbee 865-8556 u ed our own planes to kill us . of the monsters behind this , and make them pay, SENIOR STAFF WRITERS AND REPORTERS' DESK 586-7757, 586-5488 and I suppose that will make most of u feel a And then they celebrated in the streets. The IJniwNsi1y JcumaJ is pul>lshed awry Monday am. Thlnday ot Ille ~ )'Oar by ano fo, lhe student I'm not naive about my country. My cotu1try is little bett~r. But r venge and hatred won 't be body ot Southern Ulah Unaversily. tt '"'*"" a<Msement ltom tile unlverstty a<lministratk>n and trom the d finitely not alway right. But I know thi about why we'll go on . We'll go on because we know ......,r511y"s ~ departrrw!nL Tho views and oplrllono ~ In !he JoumaJ are lhOSe ol individual ol lhe inolitullon, faaily, ala!! Of student !>Ody In gene<al. The Mite<s and do not necessariy "'1lect lho Americans: ~ e don't set out to kill innocent this is a good country, a country worth keeping . Ll1Signed editooal dncdy above Is lhe opi!1ion ot lhe Un/vstSity Joumal as & single entity. LMtiira to the edilDr mu5I be typed ond include the name and phone numt..!r. OnJy the name will be printed. Names will no1 be people. We don't cheer when innocent people ·Tho e who would destroy iL only make u see Wlll1INtld i.ldof 1111)' wcum5lllnel!S and the edlor , , _ editing pmifegn. Lellel'S must be 9Ulm1led by 5 p,m ~ y s !of inc11Js1an fn Monday ecjtjons, ond by 5 p m Mondays IOr Th<nday editxlns die . The people who did thi · to u. are mon ters; mor clearly h w preci u it i . G r l w -: Arry lndMooal wi1ll e g,tevance ogalnsl tne JoUmBI lhould dl<ecl ouch problem Int to the editor n th p ople who cheered them have hate · .......-. that grie"1lncll ilholJld lhen bl directed to Iha &<Mlef. ~ i t y JourmJ:Olliceo In SUU Ted'lnolo9Y ~ 01 \ , Mali at SUU. Cedar City, Utah 84720. ickened minds . One rea ·on they can cheer i Da ve Bar1·y ts a humor columnist for the FAX (435) 58&-54117. E-mail addrMS. jot.mlll !IW.Bdu that they know we would never do to them what Miami Herald. W,·ite to him c/ o The Miami (: INTEO ON RECYCl.EO PAPER. Pl.EASE ~ECYCLE THIS COPY their heroe did to u , even though we could, a H erald, One Herald Plaz a, Miami FL 33 132. -GAS -' -, :::::--:. 254 DAVE BARRY Tragedy takes a1Nay all hu,nor |