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Show Pgt Daily Uiah Chronicle November 7, 1973 Eight insiCiht OBSeRVATPOnS Cool hand Nixon btj Gilbert Student input? According to Donald B. Holbrook, chairman of the State Board of Higher Education (SBHE), one of the Board's top priorities this year is to involve students in decision making. After his election as chairman of the Board, Holbrook said, "One of the Board's primary goals is to involve representatives of students in the governing process." Students have been included in major decisions as a result of this policy. At the University, three students sat on the search committee which reviewed applications and interviewed candidates for the presidency last year. Six additional students interviewed the three final candidates and reported their recommendations to the SBHE. Student representatives from the nine schools under the SBHE were included in the Higher Education Assembly for the first time this fall. Student feelings were expressed in areas of governance, tuition increases and tenure policies. Despite the trend, student involvement is seemingly unimportant in some decisions. Floyd S. Horn, president of Snow College, has resigned and a search committee has been formed by the SBHE to name a successor. Of the sixteen members of the search group, only one is a student. Scott Paulson, studentbody president, provides the only student opinion available to the Board during the selection of the new president. Snow College is a community college with an enrollment of only 750. However, these students deserve representation in the selection of the officer who holds ultimate responsibility for their education. With all the public overtures to including students in decision making and governance, the SBHE must continue to make more concerted efforts to involve students in decisions on every campus and within the system. As a solution to the negligence at Snow College, more students must interview the final candidates before any final selections are made. The SBHE can only prove its intent by action which includes student representation in all phases of decision making. has decided Film buffs w ill be heartened to know that KSL-Tnot to show "The Graduate," which was scheduled for the CBS Thursday movies at 10:40 p.m. According to a spokesman at the station, "It was just not up to KSL standards." The "controversial nature of 'The Graduate" " caused many viewers to write and call KSL protesting the show be cancelled. Perhaps if enough people call KSL urging that they do show it, the Academy Award winning movie will be shown in Happy Valley. V -- Can God see Washington DC? The heavenly skies covering our country's capital have been whitewashed. One cannot see the stars and moon during the night. Recently, when I was in Washington I noticed because Cox wanted his tapes. Now he can give the country' the tapes because, well because he wants to. Mr. President! Mr. President, will you please answer my What questions? about ITT? San Clemente? The Wheat Deal? Has the office of the President lost its dignity? "The tougher it gets, the cooler I get." boasts the President. "I have what it takes." Spiro did it. McCord did it. The laws of this land were made for all of its people. Justice for all is the law. Equality is justice. Human acceptance is justice. The "Law" under the Constitution that the sky glowed with Watergate? yellowish lights. I wondered why this was so. Fog. Pollution. Smog. I asked. "I never stopped to think about it, but I guess one cannot see the stars from Capitol Hill. You can from Virginia and Maryland," contested a friend. At night, the White House, bureaucratic buildings, and the Capitol have millions upon billions of electrical lights gleaming upon them as if it were Vegas and reflect off the stratosphere, not allowing one to see the celestial bliss and leaving us to wonder if the Olympian eyes of paradise can penetrate the smoke of corruption to view our government. 1962. The people from here on out shall know that you will not have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore. 1968. "I want to make this perfectly clear..." Here is the new, the wonderful and sparkling new Richard M. Nixon. The 1970s. Sing to China. Dance for Russia. Bomb Cambodia. The Saturday Massacre. October Mr. Richardson, will you fire Archibald Cox? "I am sorry 1973. but I must not." Your resignation, please. And you Mr. Ruckelshaus? "Mr. President, I cannot." You're fired. The President wants to make this crystal clear, he fired Cox Martinez and to extend to the Blacks abroad a degree of protection denied Blacks here at home. Elliot Richardson, what would you have done? "I would have done what he (Cox) has done," Should Elliot. replied the President be impeached? "This is a question for the American people." Middle America is still to be heard from. El patron (Boss) wins everything; the poor have nothing. People do not appear to care. Apathy decays. People are too generous with their vote. Changes are slow. Changes are Men's painful. minds are bigoted. Can God see man? Many men have been clouded with their own and bigotry. The your color or creed. and fire desire to get ahead. Can Spiro Corp. stands for Law and Order. Seven indicted. Seven are man muster enough strength to combat corruption in governin prison. Gonzalez, Martinez and two other Cubans were ment and protect the treatment Justice is caught. Lock them up! Hang of his Human Acceptance. Will many them! How dare them wetbacks enter America and corrupt its truly forsake his partiality so as with an open heart? government? Justice is for to Ilove do not ask for the imeveryone. Where are you, Spiro? Elliot Richardson urged that peachment of the President of the I ask for the Agnew not be sent to jail out of United States. for "all" my fellow men, compassion for the man and out Justice of respect for the office he has no matter who or what he may be held. What about compassion for or what position he may hold. In provides freedom and opportunity for all, no matter what self-interes- fellow-man- the Cubans? Hell you say! Why Who's there? not? Knock-Knock- . who? Justice for Justice. Justice me, but not for you! Spanish War. 1898. Americans must relieve the Cubans of alleged Spanish tyranny. To employ military force in behalf of Cuba was to fly in the face of the racial mores of white Americans ? my eyes all men are equal. The sun ain't going to shine anymore; the moon ain't going to rise in the sky when we are without love. Men have worked. Men have seeked. Man has seen man in torment. Man has found man on begging knees. Man has forsaken the outstretched hand. "This is the Cup of my..." pOCUS 73 The fallacy of insignificance bij Marl; (iusttirsmi A HIES Control your temper today. It will only bring you great grief. TAURUS-Desp- ite all the will work problems everything itself out in time. GEMINI Good news from an old friend will be coming your way. Check the mail. CANCER Catch up on your sleep tonight. You must preserve your health for the tests ahead. LEO Stop being so childish. Your peers are noticing. VIRGO Start dieting now and get yourself ready for the feast days ahead. LIBRA Remember that he who plays the fiddler calls the tune. SCORPIO -- Today you will see the sum total of your life flash before your eyes; don't be disappointed because there's lot of time left to change yourself. SAGITTARIUS -- Spend the day cleaning up your abode. It looks like a pig pen. romantic interest will be more receptive CAPRICORN-Yo- ur today. AQUARIUS Your convictions will be tested to the fullest; you will have to choose between them and your comfort. PISCES Halloween is over; you can take off your mask. Since the conclusion of the Second World War, when all the previous brave hopes for a civilized world ran face to face into the realities of Tojo, Hitler, Mao and Stalin, there has been a marked rise in the incidence of authoritarian political and religious institutions. Because both the First and Second World Wars failed to secure any benefits commensurate with the toll extracted, it seemed that the heady dreams of the flowered Western Renaissance were only the mumblings of fools. Such a loss of nerve, such an abandonment of the idea that since Man is, at worst, morally neutral by nature, has lead us, with the Medievals, to suppose that Man is inherently corrupt and depraved; that the only way to control the impulsive evil in us is to repress all desires and hopes (especially if individually held). Hence, we have lost in a real way what once we had. Where we felt humble by the brushing away of the Medieval metaphysical and geographical structure and yet, in finding ourselves alone and left to our own resources to combat any evil, we dare think that the world could be in our best likeness, such a doctrine of humble confidence gave way to baseless arrogance and found its end with the popular death of Humanism if ever generally d believed) in the rubble of War II Earth. re-ma- that reality depends upon our perception of ti and that we are the (only) active agents in perception, we have thought that to maintain the dictates of humility required the denial that the earth and all the universe exist for our best purposes. The affirmation of the idea that, though physically minute, we are yet the highest developments of the Universe is not conceit nor is it inaccurate: to deny it, as we have experience, leads to laziness and an intellectualmoral cowardice that inevitably results from such affected modesty. Our avoidance of the belief that Man is the highest and noblest product of Nature is the reason for our failure to work to achieve that title . It seems easier, as less difficult, to deny our inherent possibilities and the a Such duties that spring contemporary vivisection of ourselves and such from a belief of Man's basic right, open contempt for Man's very indeed obligation, to mold real achievements will not usher himself and the world to reflect in an era of greatness, but is, his most refined moral perrather, the prologue to ceptions and dreams for Earth. destruction. I believe we are at a crucial There is an anxiety today, juncture in Man's history: the borne of false timidity and choice we make between heroism baseless modesty. and despair will determine the We have all fallen victim to the configuration of the future fallacy of insignificance which whether it be bright with erroneously states that all our discovery and enlightenment or efforts and bravest dreams are forever marred by a bound for post-Worl- con-commita- despair. We modesty nt which have abandoned the denies both achievement and the assertion of Protagoras and Pico possibility of it. that Man is the measure of all Today, we can experience in things and have, instead, em- ourselves a sense of greatness or with braced, a open belief that we are of no value and bound fo'- collective despair. When we discovered that the Earth was one point in an infinite universe, I maintain that we misinterpreted such a discovery. Though essential to deny the ancient and erroneous assertion self-hostilit- - misery, a or worm. self-percepti- as god Our choice from those alternatives shall have established whether Man shall have the time to ask all questions and seek all answers or will inexorably sink back to the insensible matter from which He sprang. |