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Show PACE r 5 Monday, March 26, 2012 n r r v r l EDITOR Elizabeth Burns, 586-548- 8 L ' V 5o, X If U7W5 oUouE j In honor of Womens Week, the University Journal Editorial Board would like to highlight three exemplary women from SUUs history. Helen Foster Snow Snow grew up in Cedar but the course of her life, she won the City,. through hearts of many people in China. She, along with her husband, was a journalist during a time when Japan was invading China. She did more than simply report tragedies; Snow used her time in China to help the people. Specifically, she helped organize industrial collectives which aimed to provide people with food and supplies. Smith was a musician as well Sharwan Smith as an SUU student. Her first and only album, which featured Smith and her three sisters, was released a year before her death at age 24. She fulfilled a mission to Argentina for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints and was president of the Lambda Delta Sigma sorority at SUU. Barbara Adams Adams was sitting outside a Cedar City laundromat with Fred Adams, trying to think of ways to bring people to Cedar City, when the two had the idea to start a Shakespeare festival. The festival was organized and the two Intermarried. Barbara Adams was in charge of the music and Green Show aspects of the festival, but the festival was not her only contribution to Cedar City. Outside of the festival, she worked with hundreds of children within Cedar Citys two school districts, helping them to overcome or simply cope with hearing and speech problems. Barbara Adams also served S.U.S.C. for two years as the Dean of Women. This week is a time set aside for everyone to honor the women in their life, to applaud the progress women have made in their fight for equality and to contemplate the issues which women still face today. The plight of women did not start and end with the Womens Suffrage Movement. We are all still fighting it today, no matter what your gender is. Women have to fight stereotypes and for equality. Recently, birth control and abortion are two of the biggest issues facing women. It is notable that there are educated, strong women on both sides of the arguments, and this is something that women should be proud of. Women are also fighting stereotypes. They need to answer the questions. What makes a beautiful woman?, What makes a successful woman? and Should a woman choose to be a mother, have a career, do volunteer work or all of the above?. We salute women. They are a remarkable gender and we should all take this time to remind them of that. The opinions expressed above are the collective perspective of the University Journal Editorial Board. The editorial board meets Mondays at 5:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 3 p.m. in room 176C of the Sharwan Smith Center. Readers are welcome to comment online at suunews.com. U N I E R S I T Y i rj . i7 suunevs.com A 0 McKenzie Romero Associate News Editors Kyle Kopp, Tommy Gugino 8 Opinion Editor Elizabeth Burns Sports Editor Joshua Perry Accent Editor Dana Savage Outside Editor Ginny Romney 9 Copy Editor John Figueiredo Art Editor Kyle Kester Editorial Associate Whitney Baum Utility Editor HoNy Coombs Photographers Shaneal Fryer, Asher Swan, Sarah Woodruff Reporters Anthony Anderson, Brooke Cersosimo, 9 Emilee Eagar Editor-in-Chi- 586-775- 586-548- 8 586-548- 586-548- 8 586-548- 8 CoMwceftiv. Voio Uoe C e eb r Vx) '5 0 j dWU Kl 5o Y'V (Kex L 201Z7H- University lPu'''0cvl ZAK MITCHELL ACA will UNIVERSITY JOURNAL health eare hi The U.S. Supreme Court is about to consider what may be the most important civil rights case since Brown v. Board of Education. Im referring to the pending challenge to the Affordable Care Act, the health-car- e reform law signed by President Barack Obama in 2010. To call this a civil rights issue may be surprising, until you look closely. First, more than half of the millions of Americans who will be newly able to obtain health insurance under the law will be people of color. Latinos and in are particular, disproportionately uninsured today, often because they work in jobs that dont provide health coverage African-American- s, or because they simply cant afford it. The expansion of coverage under the Affordable Care Act will help millions who are poor or nearpoor but dont qualify for Medicaid, as well as those deemed uninsurable due to conditions. traditionally ruled by individual choice or left to the states. Just like the Affordable Care Act, congressional authority to enact the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was based on its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce. And just like today, opponents argued back then that it was an outrageous overreach for the federal government to prohibit private discrimination in employment or public accommodations. The federal government is already deeply involved "The in regulating healthcare, not just through Medicare Affordable Care and Medicaid but also through a variety of regulations Act is simply covering private plans. Much existing federal of health coverage seeks to control the tens regulation another way of billions of dollars a year that uninsured patients of doing what the government cost the system costs we all pay through taxes and our own higher insurance premiums. The Affordable Care Act is simply another way of already does." doing what the government already does. It makes Carla Saporta sound financial sense to make sure everyone has The key to making this work is to bring more insurance, because one way or another we end up healthy people into the system. Thats the reason for paying for those who dont. the individual mandate The Affordable Care Act is a wise step forward for our healthactually a series of fairly mild tax that is now care system and for all Americans. penalties for those who don t obtain health coverage being challenged. This mandate, opponents argue, is an extraordinary and This opinion was written by Carla Saporta. It was released by unprecedented extension of federal authority into areas that are McClatchy-Tribun- e Information Services Friday. pre-existi- Women worry male politicians The political war on women has been in the spotlight recently, so it might not shock you to read a prominent newspaper headline blaring Never before in the history of the United States have women taken a deeper interest in a presidential campaign than this year. What might surprise you, however, is to learn that this headline appeared a hundred years ago in the New Orleans Picayune. American politicians have been trying to figure out how to wrangle women voters since 1912: it was in the presidential race between Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft that womens power as enfranchised citizens in some states was first tested. And just look at our swift progress! Women were admitted to Ivy League colleges (60 years later) and to the Supreme Court (70 years later) and we no longer have to wear corsets (except for shape wear). And naturally, every woman represents her sex: It is a responsibility few men have been asked to bear. Everything done by an individual person who happens to be female reflects, either favorably or poorly, on women as a whole. When a woman opens her mouth and something besides a cooing noise comes out of it, then women everywhere are becoming crazy and strident. Politicians are eager to engage with edgy young men and conservative middle-age- d women, but as these positions have gradually become reversed, they find themselves at a loss. When women take the Electoral College more seriously than they take electrolysis, politicians worry. When women protest the fact that to pay for a contraceptive prescription they have to get a note from their primary care provider saying, in effect, Please allow Ms to have an adult relationship. She has my permission. Signed, Dr. X, politicians worry. When women laugh false gods off their pedestals, politicians run for cover. When a 31 year veteran of the legislative process, Constance Johnson, introduced a handwritten amendment to Oklahoma Senate Bill 1433, she did something of which few women in 1912 could have dreamt not because she was able to amend legislation but because of the satiric nature of what she proposed: Action in which a man ejaculates or otherwise deposits semen anywhere but in a woman's vagina shall be interpreted and construed as an action against an unborn child. Frustrated by laws focused entirely on the womans role in the reproductive process, Johnson said that she used humor (a.k.a. life begins at ejaculation) to deliver her message. The message itself, however, according to Johnson, was as serious as a heart attack. Why is it that, after a century, women still clog up political machines the way hair clogs drains? Why are political parties wary of women even as they court our votes? They dont know whether to coddle us or take us out. And if the answer is take us out, they don t know if that means as in to dinner or as in of the picture entirely through the total obliteration of civic unity and strength. My bet is that the women of 1912 expected us to carry on their work for justice, freedom and equity. And if they could do it in corsets, we can do it in Spanx. -- This opinion, written by Gina Barreca, originally appeared Courant. It was released by McClatchy-Tribun- e Information Services Friday. in the Hartford 586-548- 8 n 586-775- 586-775- 9 586-775- 9 U r.i d LI 586-775- 9 586-775- What can be done to improve SUU? UCjLA 9 586-775- Advertising Kristi Fillman 704-473- 3 Designer Annie Bunker Mertlich Managing Director McKenzie Romero Operations Manager John S. 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