Show t 2 — STUDENT LIFE JANUART 9 1942 Letters To Editor Mr Chery ’Life Corrects Introduces Key Staffers Eagle's Neck On Avalanche Alfa ' Life Editor Student Life: Down If the Eagle is not as good a Life: mascot as the Avalanche let’s Editor Student a rather maudwas that Now M have the better Dr John the newsfrom lin resignation Patrick’s nomination of the latlate staff the political by ter was overwhelming So I paper I hope that it doesn’t editor on altar the the sacrifice Eagle herald the end of Student Life’s of college progress fledging attempts at commenAdmittedly my friend John tary other than sports social and I will encounter opposition and the frivolous Rather lesA colleague who esteems the sons should be learned from Eagle for valor and soaring as- past mistakes and an improved piration insists that the aval- column should come forth In fact there is no better anche is impossible to picture to stylize for emblems or unitime than now the beginning forms and helmets He thinks of a new year to reassess the endeavors of Student Life the Eagle compact vivid Just what are the aims and of Student Life? Is objectives A USU geologist ordinarily it meant to be an opiate a trana staunch champion of stones of cama and sedation declared that an avalanche is quilizer and opinion or is pus thought just some rocks and dirt going it meant to be a stimulant to downgrade insensible to the and a catalyst for this same gravity of their predicament thought and opinion? Would it be too sweeping a landslide rockslide a “But Some changes in the Student Life staff are evidenced in this or snowslide” he continued generalization to remark that first issue for winter quarter Student Life has been rather so “how do you picture it peoReplacements for two key positions those of head photothis past quarter? If banal and it ple can recognize grapher and political writer have been found in Dallas statement is true no one this of to the warm it?” Wings up Larson and Dick Thomas respectively is for such could went be on he responsible person Eagle Dallas was chief photographer for Student Life before fulthe agbut an rather on football helmets image painted filling a mission for the LDS church His work was given a and embroidered on track of several elements gregate superior rating by the Associated Collegiate Press uniforms Dick is a senior political science major He is currently servas president of I argued that by painting ing on the USU Student rocks on the helmets we could strike terror to a foe’s heart Wbo would butt heads with eleven granite boulders beetling With Student Life seldom comments on letters submitted to the editor This is going to be an exception The glittering and unfounded generalities attacked earlier this year by Mr Chery and others are beautifully illustrated in Mr Chery ’s own letter in today’s issue Although Mr Chery has shown poor taste in hitting a fighter (or in this case a writer) when he’s down nevertheless Student Life defends his right to do so What the editorial staff won’t sanction is his interference that Student Life policies are not shaped by the staff but rather by an aggregation of advisors and faculty members who use the editors like pawns on a chessboard USU President Daryl Chase via his assistant Alan Matheson made it clear to the editor of Student Life at the beginning of school year 1961-6- 2 that policies and attitudes taken by the paper were completely up to the editorial staff and that no faculty administrators would interfere None have While setting Mr Cliery straight Student Life would like to thank Dr Chase for his trust and cooperation and ask for the same treatment in the future This is a newspaper paid for and operated by students We don’t claim to be right all the time but our intent has and will continue to be 100 percent correct Any complaints or comments through letters or otherwise should be directed to the editors nobody else of Those responsible are conservative and th faculty advisors exuberance let alone anyfr that would smack of rete second the student staff who have acquiesced' the conservative restrict Is ui who By Dick Thomas Student Life Political Writer traditionally assumed that the first of the year is to be accompanied by the human emotions of hope optimism and enthusiasm for what the following days weeks and months may It is hold However as we view the United States and the world politically one most certainly doesn’t have to consciously look from pessimistically-traine- d eyes to be aware of the many obstacles confronting hope and optimism in the foreseeable future We hear the tragically humorous and sometimes juvenile sounding national exchanges of verbal blows as to who can annihilate whom first while at the same time we hear noises from south of the equator indicating the bulging muscles freedom-desirinof emerging nations and their awakening concern someone for trouble and peoples all stirring In addition we may be disillusioned by some of our international (we hope) friends saying one thing and doing another while at home we hear foreboding exclamations of national internal decadence and imminent take-ove- r by the enemy Then too there are those few bright spots Some may be encouraged because the Democrats are in power Others will be cheered by the fact that this is a congressional election year and 1964 will bring us a chance to change the administration in the White House hopefully in time to save the nation from Again we may view with interest the emergence of the Common Market and its attendant promise of western unity Certainly some of us are encouraged by the increasing troubles of Mr K both domestically and internationally It will be this writer’s pleasure to treat the aforementioned events and concepts along with many others during the coming months We hope that some of the nervous pens on campus will be stimulated into contributing their views on and in addition to this writer’s opinions third a patronizing if which indulges such affairs and fourth have resigned a staV the them$f: to such a diet of pap To make Student Life more viable force in studu the advisr development must encourage a more ergetic involvement in g community and affairs the paper staff assert themselves and bei a policy to stimulate though Quit your mutterlngs in t cafes and behind the scenes! press your ideas in writing’s aloud For only throught open discussion and invoh ment in the affairs of ted will the cataracts be rip:! from our eyes and we will ceive the 28 billion people on the other side of those mo mus vc: p? tains! s Don Sfudenf Life MEMBER ASSOCIATE!) 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Also I pointed out the loss in giving up the “A” symbolic of honorable traditions to thousands of athletes and other alumni “Also the Arts are assuming vastly greater importance here And as for the Eagle I mean the American Eagle The ‘A’ is partly a symbol of our role in the national partnership of the Land-GraSystem Those are four good reasons Another is our resolution to make this an institution in every ra a Co-Or- Writer Looks At Our World In '62 wl Bi wi campus life Books laundry supplies dues incidentals — all can be paid safely and conveniently with a ThriftiCheck College Checking Account You’ll never wonder where the money went because it provides an accurate record and proof of payment for all college costs — and checks are priced for college budgets A ThriftiCheck College Checking Account can be opened with any amount and no minimum balance is required Each check is imprinted with your name free of charge and you’ll receive a handsome checkbook embossed writh the seal of your college Stop in and open a ThriftiCheck Account now — it’s the best way to keep college expenses in “check” Chert' |