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Show Letters to the Editor I Kudos Dear Editor, This is the season when Dan Valentine starts sending bouquets bou-quets and there are two I'd like to send via your pages. The first goes to that un-sinkable un-sinkable Molly Brown of the Chronicle, Miss Margaret Larson, Lar-son, the recently-retired editor. Under her leadership and pen, the Chrony became a fresh breeze in the journalistic world of Zion. Whether agreeing or not with all the exposes and stances taken by the paper during dur-ing her regime, one must admit that three or four times a week it made the timid hearts flutter all over this campus and town and they are in need of palpitation pal-pitation just that regularly. As a matter of fact, Miss Larson Lar-son is the only blond I know who would accept and recognize recog-nize this Valentine as a tribute; Margaret, you are pure guts! The second bouquet goes to Dart Thalman, consul of Sigma Chi and his fraternity brothers for their defiance of their national na-tional on the issue of racial and religious discrimination in pledging. The Utah Chapter's willingness to accept expulsion on the principle of ignoring race in pledging deserves the highest praise. No whited sepulchres sep-ulchres filled with bigots' bones at 1395 E. 1st South! A Valentine Valen-tine to you, Sigma Chi. Professor J. D. Williams Who Cares? Dear Editor, Gee, it's nice to know that people care. Everyone is so concerned about everyone else it's so wonderful. I felt so good about life and things today that I just thought I would take this opportunity to express my appreciation to each and every one of those U. of Uer's who made my day complete. This morning, for instance, my mother, brother, sister and I were riding to school in our bright, shiny, and brand new ('66) Volkswagen and as we approached the new campus intersection: in-tersection: we came to a newly erected stop sign. But what's this? a great big ice patch and a stopped Corvair at the end of it BANG! The shiny new paint from our car gently crumbled onto the ice below. Just a tiny dent. The nice policeman po-liceman directing traffic there said not a word but went straight to his work motioning traffic along with his bright, new fluorescent orange gloves. They're nice gloves. A little later this morning I was walking from the Merrill Engineering Building across the new sidewalk on my way to the bookstore. Lucky, I had my tenny runners on because there were little patches of snow here and there and here and there and here and there. Then oh, oh a camouflaged ice patch. Doggone it. My tenny runners were of no use, and I fell down on my tailbone and my spinal column and my cranium anyway. any-way. I'll bet the two engineers in front of me were worried about the ice too because they looked at my situation and then discussed it on their way to the Huddle. I looked up from where I lay and watched the diminishing posteriors of the two engineers and thought to myself, "I'll bet I know what the parking fee increase and $25 tuition raise is for Each student is going to be supplied with his own little salt bag and he can sprinkle it on the ice as he goes from class to class. How nice." And then I thought how lucky it was that I didn't fall down near the Union Building. I could have been charged 25 cents for parking! park-ing! Linda F. Petersen Parking Dear Editor, Could you please give me a plausible explanation why all main roads into the University are barricaded the night of basketball games? Tuesday evening eve-ning there were as many people peo-ple attending functions at the Union Building with Dean Mc- , Kay's lecture and other Challenge Chal-lenge Week activities as there were spectators going to the fieldhouse. Yet all the main entrances off 4th South were blocked forcing cars to go to Ft. Douglas entrance or around 1st South in order to get to the Union Building. I am wondering if the extra 50 cent parking fee the campus cam-pus police gain by herding cars down .to the Nielson parking lot justifies the inconvenience im posed on those desiring to attend at-tend other campus activities. Perhaps it would be more honest to charge a parking fee, notwithstanding the $7.50 parking park-ing sticker, for the privilege of parking in the Union parking lot the night of basketball games. This would be more realistic than the present policy of trying indirectly to collect parking fees by imposing an inconvenience in-convenience oh any would-be Union parkers. Marlin Lance Mooo! When I came to this country, coun-try, I was at first surprised, then shocked and finally a-mused a-mused by the American "cattle behavior." One leads the rest follow. The only difficulty is that one does not know exactly ex-actly who is leading. There was a statement of conformity expressed in yesterday's yes-terday's parking column, "But as I said, there is nothing we can do except humbly bow our heads, or shake our fists and pav the fine of incompetence. " This seems to prevail in the students' attitude toward the "parking problem." Let me tell you just one solution solu-tion that we Europeans have found and that I have successfully success-fully applied since my arrival here: get a bicycle. It's cheaper, often faster and good exercise, which many Americans need badly in life a life that seems to me to consist mostly of stupid stu-pid television programs and car rides. A Foreign Student Religion Dear Editor, Some friendly clarifications in response to Scott Birkin-shaw's Birkin-shaw's letter in the Wednesday Chronicle may help achieve fairness to all persons and positions. posi-tions. First, the panel on the role of religion was originally planned for an afternoon hour when the time could be extended. ex-tended. I can only assume that over- riding considerations caused it to be changed to morning. All of the panelists were as frustrated as anyone in the audience at their inability, inabil-ity, to deal fully or at all with many important questions. Second, the j of religious have to go. TJjn Just learning L shock of he?n r-' nan say that n know how it feit K thought they for legislator?,! a"J law" fntotte- r re eioiK n Place to manyi; ;; community u, a Pluralistic society uH very natural to so J: is ridiculous to JL another plane. Why ra : humanists insist on mat-' nanism into a reli6ioi; must then oppose ft. .' Judaeo- Christian trafr is true that some sfe .' church thought and p-i have been so concern?; the next world that Or -been blind or indifferent'-" man values in this life"; as Mr. Brooke said, the i! of Christianity which e us espouse, puts the h& concern, "making and fc;1 human life truly human,";! place of top priority, it ij"; ing to join hands with air share this concern audio ', and let live" in matters c1: trinal formulation. Wife broad front and the leafc given by the churches ir; rights and other social rfr If we find the mean::; motivation for our hc concern in our interprets; Jesus' significance, mi asked to abandon that it: to be humanists? I top As we outgrow the fc' that the God who is life; could possibly enslave e can bring to fuller fruit;" liberating and humanfe pose of Christianity for:, life in cooperation wilt: humanists who don't ste theology! And a truly is the setting for this, c ' which religious institute not control the society. John H. |