Show Page 2 May 26 1994 Every bridge burned is a lesson learned do not remember having such a hollow feeling before This feeling is noi what I expected Two years ago and six semesters I would have thought that on this day I would be depressed I actually thought 1 would miss something Well I am not and I won't The 4 school year is rapidly coming to an end I cannot I is It am a tradition for the Viewpoint editor to how happy express end the year with a last will and testament I certainly will not do that There is nothing here at CEU for me to leave to anyone As I 93-9- I was simply not ready to take more responsibility Nobody made that easier for me than my mother Rose and my wife Stormic Instead of concentrating on the negatives of the past two years I want to concentrate on the positives I am a happy person but I still have a lot of hands criticism to hand out Some may come and some may go Rivers surely pass When the one who left us herd Returns for us at last We are but a moment of sunlight Fading in the past have never met a person including myself who challenges authority more than Susan Polslcr I cannot remember an issue of The Eagle that I Joshua Ullbarrl went to print without her taking some sort of criticism I have known her to never be afraid of challenging a wrong or fixing a mistake She was not afraid of fighting or confronting anyone I only wish I could have viewpoint editor convinced her that newspaper staffs have the right to edit any and all letters to the editor I am speaking in passed tense CEU had better hope always though 1 have plenty to say Love is but a song we sing! Fear is the way we did You can make the mountains singl Or make the angels cry It was September of '92 when I first arrived at CEU I was a freshman fresh from Kearns High School I truly did not know what to expect from the environment When I first I arrived I fell very alone I had a roommate and a debate team but honestly no one to call a friend Now I have a wife a journalism staff no debate team and a plethora of friends The past two years have certainly been life changing But life impacting? No It is unfortunate in two years 1 can say that besides my marriage the best thing to have happened to me was the election of a democrat to the Whitchouse (even then 1 am disappointed) The world is always full of disappointments though isn't it? I came to this college expecting the easy road After all it is a junior college and only people who are too dumb to make it at a four-yecollege go to JCs right?(I came on In the first two quarters my grades a debate scholarship) Wrong way wrong I was acting as if I were in high school I did not do my were at homework and half the lime I didn't know what the homework was because I never attended class I blamed it on everything but myself My grades are now where they should be 1 attend class regularly and I try work Granted I made a decision I did not want to have to do my to make I finally took my life into my own hands It was always in my own ar rock-botto- m out-of-cla- ss I may be leaving wouUncomnasIhhaUj Ryan Hoglund Eric Ewer I James Schampcl and Don Burge class only once 1 am embarrassed that I was never instructed by Sara Ewert or Jan Minich While the academics at CEU were not the greatest they were still Most professors challenging The classes were pretty much took a personal interest in the students The teacher who first started my interest in writing was m twelfth grade instructor The instructor who kept that interest alive has been Nancy Takacs She does not do anything unusual she really isn't that fun What she is is open and honest She calls things the way she sees them (I still do not agree with my last two graded essays though) 1 never took full advantage of the small Price community Nor did I take ever advantage of the small college community Rare uhi i go to ASCEU activities athletic games or anything else for that matter Often one-on-o- (see Ullbarrl page 3) work-stud- work-stud- y Jean-Bertran- d power is immediately justified on moral and humanitarian grounds I do not think a long-tersolution to this nation's economic educational and rest political problems souly in a military answer but a surgical strike the against military junta lead by General Cedras and provisional president Emil Jonassainl is a needed first step The Clinton Administration's way of using exhausted and means such as embargoes (what?thc border with the Dominican Republic I never thought oil and supplies to the elite would enter Haiti from here) and threats (if Aristide is not returned to power by this dalcwell then I might just have to push the date back a month) have become tiresome As long as the United Slates ignores the interests of and treats neighboring LDCs as “lesser" because they have nothing to directly give the US in return and because Haitians are poor and black we should not expect European countries to attempt to solve ethnic conflicts in Yugoslavia If immigrants are fleeing to the US for safety (when the Haitians see Florida and Miami as safe there is a problem) the only logical solution would be to secure and develop their homeland We have the means and obligation to help Haiti we just need to decide to commit and act Finally there are as many as 230000 dead and two million homeless in just six weeks of political and gcnocidal conflict in the n Rwanda— of need said they country hclpcnough Yes professor Schampcl I am an idealist sickened by such monstrosities and I will always beTS But if there are not idealists like myself who is going to balance your political science class with individuals like Trent Lythgoc in there Thank you Jim for giving me the means that enable myself to explain US foreign policy and domestic affairs with such simplicity and grace: “it's a bunch of bullsh-t- ” Here goes the shortest editorial in history one I have been gelling pressure to write all year: Hal the cafeteria needs to just charge the m non-effecti- right but to be honest 1 am loo ured to complete such a masterpiece Instead because of the departing graduates and the summer break I have chosen to offer a potpourri of personal opinions and food for thought that is unlike my other viewpoints which tend to be on the more serious side (thanks Jory “Statutory" for helping a tense freshman relax enough to grow facial hair) But before I take off on a “thank you all" goodbye there are a couple of things that I either need to gel out of my system or need to dear up First I have been informed by the Academic Vice President Brent Haddock of the library hours to where it that the issue dealing with the would be closing early during finals preparation week and the question that individuals were going to be laid off for the remainder of the y some Brent has been issued a verbal agreement from Rob resolved been year has Dolan the library's director that the library will be open until midnight during finals and the needed funds have been made available to keep the program running smoothly The newly elected and past ASCEU officials need to be commended for their immediate and appropriate attention on this issue: the College of Eastern Utah is in good hands next year into the island nation of Secondly the United States military intervention president better to be liked than respected There is no doubt though that 1 respect Hill He epitomizes a lot of what I want to be When I was wrong he told me and when I was right I told him I have many regrets about the classes 1 took I regret only taking an 300-mi- viewpoint writer democratically-electe- d honest as he is He simply did not realize that you do not get respect on the college debate circuit by being honest In this ease I suppose it was but I still have my two cents worth Another year and volume of The Eagle is coming to an end I wanted this final Viewpoint article to be one of remembrance such profound intellect and parting inspiration that upon reading this one Haiti to restore they can keep her This college will never miss a one-yea- r instructor as much as it will miss Richard (I love my nose) Hill There is nobody alive that is as Aristide to le Ccntral-Africa- (See Hoglund page 12) Letter to the Editor Dear Editor: I just ran into you in the hall over in main You said that I should write another letter I really do not have anything to complain about at this time so what do you want? I said what I wanted to concerning Wm Bennet and I do noy feel that the “View Point" this time deserves comment Although Josh docs hit the mark on the gun control issue except thaLWeIl lets not get into thatNo lets! First any person that believes that banning hand guns in this country would solve our crime problems arc misled Any gun control measure dreamed up by the gun control advocates would hurt not crime but legitimate collectors of those types of weapons The criminal element will not even consider the laws as applying to him! He’ll just laugh and say that “these laws are made to be broken so let's do it!” No amount of legislation is going to solve the American crime problem it will take involvement by all citizens of this country to do it Just sticking our heads in the sand and saying “I don't want to be involved I can't be bothered” won't make crime or even domestic violence go away Being aware of the happenings in our neighborhoods and supporting our local law enforcement officials will help greatly To use one of Josh's terms if anyone thinks that gun legislation will help with violent crime in America I have a bridge I want to sell them If we would just allow the courts to do their jobs and allow for the laws already on the books to be enforced including the ban on assault weapons and the Brady Bill it would go much further than taking guns out of the hands of the citizens Edward Abbey put it best “When the guns are outlawed only the government will have guns" I remain Fred Cottcrell gc Fall quarter preregistration begins next week Sophomores: June 1 Continuing freshmen: June 2 i Fee: $9050 |