OCR Text |
Show Daily Utah Chronicle November 8, 1973 Page Eight OBseRvations r Greener in, time for hope 7t vX y7s .. fl - 1 Glen Greener's stunning upset over Public Safety Commissioner James Barker in Tuesday's city commission race proves that there is a youth vote in Salt Lake that can make the difference in a close election. Greener. 27, relied on votes from University students to beat the incumbent Barker. Greener, of course, also received a sizable number of otes from the elderly, central city and other "hotbeds of liberalism." But. from the returns from the five districts around the University, it is apparent that students identified to a great extent with Greener's campaign and voted for him overwhelmingly. But a few of us remember two years ago when youthful Steve Harmsen was elected to the commission, also relying on large student support to win. During that election. Penrose Drive became a big issue in the University community and most who had fought against the closing assumed that Harmsen. as the new streets commissioner, would put a stop to traffic proposals such as the vacation of Penrose. Harmsen has since proved, of course, that the students who helped elect him can be ignored in favor of "other considerations." The election of Greener should go hand in hand with a warning to fulfill election promises and to speak for the constituency that put 'LVt I & ?fV,V.1 mil 9 fi him in office. There is one crucial difference between Greener's and Harmsen's victories: Greener actively campaigned on a progressive reform platform while Harmsen ran a fairly straight campaign. Greener's strong stands on mass transit, housing, and his basic attitude of open government are hopeful signs that he will be an effective voice for those elements that have been left out of the traditional city government. And certainly the people who feel left out of that government are numerous. Any candidate endorsed both by former mayor J. Bracken Lee and by "radical" Steve Holbrook has an awesome task ahead to meet the expectations of those who supported him. But we feel that Greener's personalized campaign and his concern for people will give him a good headstart in making the city commission responsive to all in Salt Lake. We can only hope it will be so. - - 'i ' O In Wednesday's editorial, the statement that the Sociology SAC was falling apart was attributed to Dr. Kay Canning. The remark was taken out of context and does not represent Dr. Canning's I, -- " jAitUzzz:::z::::u:::::::zz'-;,..-J- "I'M STILL YOUR r PRESIDENT!" feelings. He said the Sociology SAC is alive and very strong but that student response in running for SAC positions this year had been very poor. Without more support from students in the department, he said the SAC would fail. st Another view Boxed in tRek bij J oil it Sc t'j list i ii i -- checking over my personal data card the other day when I noticed a little block at the bottom of the card that had escaped me before. It is number 17, "RaceEth nic." I am marked as a "C," which stands for I You need to develop some neglected part of your LIBRA stay awake. personality. Try improving SCORPIO-- A ARIES your delivery of punch lines to bad vaudeville jokes. TAURUS If you think your life is so bad, try writing Star Trek for a while. GEMINI Your work of late has been worthy of a drunken bum. Congratulations! joke is over; tell everyone the truth. LEO Splurge today and buy a Huddle Special for lunch. VIRGO Do something artistic today. CANCER-T- he A boring day, so try to friend will treat you wrong today. Bear with him. SAGITTARIUS Turn in a professor for smoking today and do your part to clean up America! CAPRICORN-Ha- ve you ever wondered what "Capricorn" means? AQUARIUS -- You will be at your best today. PISCES Take a trip down memory lane. Try to remember everyone in your first grade class. 6aily Utah chponicle Published daily, except during test week, by the Publications Council of the University of Utah. The opinions expressed on the editorial pages of the Daily Utah Chronicle do not necessarily represent the views of the studentbodv or the University administration. K. Roulhac Editor-in-Chie- Garn f Managing Editor News Editor Editors Chief Copy Editor Asst. Copy Editor Entertainment Editor Sports Editor Head Photographer Ryan Poulton Business Manager Stephen Schowengerdt Lauri Hobbs Susan Mitchell. Rex Nutting Joe Kelleher ..Ron Varela Gina Otteson Hal Spencer Ron Kesler was "Caucasian." Other students have a choice of being A, meaning American Indian; BB, NegroBlack; M, Mexican or Spanish; 0, oriental; or X, other. What a waste of valuable wood pulp and ink, I thought. Why should the University care if a student is an A, a BB, a C, an M, an O, or an XO Is it so the University can harass minority students? God forbid! Is it so they can patronize minority students? I don't think so. Block 17 must be there for some far-ou- t statistical purpose. Too bad that it won't work. It is too limited and inaccurate. There are more racial and ethnic classifications for people than are listed on the personal data card. I know this because I've taken Biology 102 and I can't be fooled on matters like race. Gregor Mendel has shown that a person, like a humble fruitfly, is a mixed genetic bag. In fact, the good old USA, where classrooms were segregated but bedrooms were not, could be described as a Mendelain of staggering proportions. This means that a lot of people who think they are BB's are really BBC's, many would-b- e C's are CA's and so forth. Who mix-and-mat- Reporters Lorraine Anderson. Hyrum Adams, Richard Barnum-Reece- , Cindy Boshard, Rick Brough, Valerie Burkett. Ed Darrell. Mike Dame, Mary Dickson, Don Graves, Roger Graves, Pam Honn, Tom Jerman, Jean Johnson, Jane Kesler, Brent Larsen, Darrell Mensel, Ed Pratt, Aldon Rachele, Judy Rowell, Doug Sanderson, Laura Scholl, Layne Smith, Tom Smith, James Sonntag, Eric Swanson, Steve Thiese, Paul Thorne, Ron Vidano, Rick Warner, Clarence Widerburg. Dawn Brown. knows? Having uninhibited ancestors could make me an MOXBBAC. Being such an improbable creature isn't that bad, though. I'm still a nice guy. Another fact that messes up the statistical pigeon-holinof individuals is that race and ethnos don't always mean the same thing. How do you list a C who is a citizen of Mexico? As a C or as an M? There is no CM listing. Imagine the problem the g Jr. Hebrew, Sammy Davis, would have figuring out what to put in Block 17. But then, Hebrew isn't lisscd, is it? No. And neither is Sicilian, which is what I am after being an American. Somebody in the registrar's office must have thought that C was the next best thing to Sicilian. I resent this. I submit that there is no "next best thing" to being Sicilian. Interpret that as you will. So now you know why it is impractical to put a person in an ethno-racia- l listings for niche. Until there are Sicilian-possible-MOXBBAC- 's back of the bus so that they would be protected from the impact if the bus got in an accident. Admirable. This kind of love, students don't need. But by asking a person his race, religion, or ethnic group, the University in fact recognizes the validity of this way of thinking. Administrators can rail against discrimination until they turn blue in the face, but if they draw the guidelines for discrimination, as they do in Block 17, they defeat their purpose. One more point a student who is dropped because he is inept might claim the reason for his dismissal is the information in his block 17. Hurt feelings erupt into big troubles if a rallying cause can be found. RaceEthnic causes are convenient for this, and our registrar provides these causes. Before I came to the other University, I used to think that chromosomal oddities, the an ethnic group was system can't possibly work. And grandparents' accent and your that if it did work, it would be too and confusing to mean anything. The other side of the coin the serious side, if you will is the matter of principle. Even if you could classify a guy by the color of his skin or his accent, would you really want to? Everybody knows that this kind of thinking leads to arguments. Once, an argument between one Dredd Scott and a Mr. Sanford escalated into a civil war. To be objective, though, I must point out that race-thin- k race was a partial explanation for why some people lived in certain neighborhoods. Since I've been here, I've learned some new ideas and changed some old ones. I've learned that in the final analysis, everybody belongs to the smallest possible minority the minority of one person. All the rest is subterfuge for people who make themselves bigger by making others smaller and who think that the best way to allocate scarce resources is to grab as much as they can. It makes me wonder if the people who work in the Registrar's office graduated from the same University they work can lead to acts of genuine love ana concern for one's fellow man. Consider the unselfish act of the southerner when he insists that black people should sit at the for. |