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Show PAGE A6 Ask Your Campns Bonner Ritchie: A lifetime of dipolmacy and service "Ritchie" cont'd from page A I Gran! Dickinson is currently the Student Ombudsman on campus. He helps students solve many of the problems they face during their education. Come visit him in SC 107. To post a question for his column, e-mail him at ombuds@uvsc.edu. Don't let your landlord kick you out The following process is mandatory for Landlords to follow when evicting a tenant. If a landlord tries to throw you ; out without following these procedures, see the Ombudsman for assistance. Landlords must follow a simple 4-step process when, removing a tenant. First they must write the tenant a letter. There are 5 different letters, or warnings, the landlord can write. The first is a non-payment letter. This letter is for tenants with overdue rent or other fines. The letter orders the tenant to pay within three days. If the tenant pays within the three days the eviction is stopped. If the tenant doesn't, the landlord can move to step 2. The second letter that can be written is a three-day notice to vacate. This letter is for those tenants that are using the apartment to participate in illegal activity or are a constant nuisance. If the tenant doesn't vacate in three days the landlord can move to step 2. If the tenant has a month-tomonth lease the landlord can give the tenant a 15-day no cause notice. With this notice the tenant must move out at the end of the rental period. If not the landlord can move to step 2. Finally if the tenant has no agreement with the landlord, meaning the tenant is-staying after the end of the lease without making arrangements with the landlord or the tenant bought the contract from the previous tenant without informing the landlord. Step 2 is a lawsuit. The landlord must file with the court to have the tenant evicted. The tenant will receive a notice to appear in court. Step 3 is a trial in which the court will rule to allow the eviction or not. If you do not appear to the trial you will be evicted. Step 4 is the actual eviction notice. If the tenant refuses to leave, their possessions will be placed in storage and they will be assisted off the property. If served with an eviction order from the court the tenant must vacate the premises within three days of the date on the order. If you have any questions about the eviction process or feel your landlord has treated you unfairly, stop by and see me in SC-107.. MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2005 Upon graduation from Berkeley he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan. It was here where he and another professor created academe's first OB class, which was taught to MBA students. To this day his work in organizational behavior continues. For the next six weeks, he will travel the world with the CEO of Citibank conducting workshops aimed at preventing corruption. Civil Rights and Shootings partially involved when people are shooting at you." After asking himself if he was really committed, "the answer was yes, so we kept going," Ritchie recalled. Bonner continued his dedication to civil rights by organizing the Black Economic Development program at the University of Michigan that recruited black students and worked with black businesses. After about seven years in Michigan, Ritchie, along with a couple of Harvard Professors, was recruited to come to BYU and help develop the first organizational behavior degree ever created. This move would eventually put him in the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. It was his labors in OB that brought him uncomfortably into the middle of the volatile civil rights movement. While teaching a University of Michigan Business School Arafat, Peace, and class at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in the late 1960s, Ritchie Palestine came into contact with the Southern Federation of Cooperatives (SFC), a Ritchie's first experience.with the group of African-American farmers Middle East came in 1981 when a who, because of racist storeowners, friend invited Bonner to accompacouldn't sell their produce in the ny him to Jerusalem. While there, South. Ritchie took up their cause. Ritchie saw something that would A member of the board of directors be the catalyst for a change in his of Allied Supermarkets happened to Israeli-Palestinian paradigm. "We be on the faculty at the University watched a Palestinian home just of Michigan and Ritchie convinced south of Jerusalem being blown up him to make arrangements for Al- by Israeli Defense Forces because a lied stores to buy produce from the child had thrown a rock at an Israeli SFC in Atlanta. jeep." This event would have a deep One day while working on arrange- impact on his understanding and ments with the SFC and Allied, Bon- perception of the conflict. ner was driving from West Point to After a nine-year absence, Ritchie Tupelo, Mississippi, when a pickup was again invited to visit Jerusalem, truck with no license plate pulled up this time by LDS leaders Howard behind them and fired a shotgun at W Hunter, James E. Faust, and Jeftheir truck. According to Ritchie, frey R. Holland. They asked him to the truck fired "not to kill, I'm con- be a visiting scholar at the BYU Jevinced, but it was a warning." Luck- rusalem center and to "build bridges ily, after firing another shot in the to the Palestinians." After arriving air, the truck backed off. Ironically, in the Holy Land in 1989, Ritchie's this incident occurred shortly after background in C)B and conflict resoa group of four people from Michi- lution opened doors for him with the gan, who were in the South organiz- PLO where he worked with many ing a voter rights movement, were of the past and current Palestinian murdered and found in an earthen leaders including Yasser Arafat, dam. Mahmoud Abbas, and Abu Mazen. Within a couple months of being "I did a lot of workshops, trying to shot at in Mississippi, Bonner was help PLO personnel change their sitting in his study in Ann Arbor paradigm and understand strategy," when a bullet came flying through said Ritchie. the window. Fortunately, he was not His main focus when working with hit. But these events prompted some the PLO was to get them to change serious reflection. "Gees, I've either their "all or nothing mentality" they got to get serious about this, or quit," had had since the state of Israel was Ritchie said. "You don't just remain created and to think more strategi- cally. This required them to accept Israel as a reality. While many in the world saw Ararat as an infamous terrorist, a perception that Ritchie understands, and to some degree shares, he also sees a different side to Arafat. "I think he clearly changed from being a terrorist to trying to bring peace," Ritchie To Ritchie, Palestinian and Israeli peace could be a simple process. "Everybody says it's a really difficult issue and it's not solvable. I don't agree. I think Israel needs to withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza. The agreements have been made. I think it's just that simple." Ritchie believes this would do a LEFT to RIGHT: Bonner Ritchie, Yasser Arafat, Suha Arafat, and Omar Kader at a PLO function. Courtesy Photo PLO Executive Commitee observed. "He didn't quite know how to do it, didn't quite bring it off, but [he] made a lot of progress." After being involved in a plane crash in the Libyan Desert, Arafat told Ritchie that the crash was a message from God "that he should quit the violence and should turn to peacemaking." Although most many feel Arafat continued his terrorist ways after this incident, Ritchie disagrees. "I think the terrorist activity following that time was other people and other groups," he said. In Bonner's opinion, developed from talking to people involved, including Arafat, and through personal observation, he feels that "most of the terrorism was to prove that other groups were stronger than [Arafat's] group and in many respects directed against [Arafat]. They were trying to upstage him, were trying to prove that he didn't control the street, he didn't control the population, and that they should be in charge, rather than him." And even though the Palestinians have done their share of horrific terrorist attacks, Ritchie feels the Israelis have in some instances been worse.. "[Palestinian terrorists] don't begin to compare, in my mind, to the Jewish terrorists," like some of those involved in the Irgun and Stern Gang groups that wreaked havoc in the area following WWII. great deal to stop the killing. "I think if they withdraw, for the most part, not totally, but for the most part, the violence will end." As an ambassador for the LDS church in Palestine, Ritchie has seen the influence for good the church has been in the area. One PLO leader told him "he hoped that a final peace agreement between the Palestinians and Israelis could be signed in the BYU Jerusalem center because BYU and the LDS church had been such strong forces for peace." Ritchie also recalled how "the BYU Jerusalem Center was one of the few non-Palestinian establishments where Palestinians would freely come...to concerts, to programs, to meetings, where they felt welcome and they felt accepted." Ritchie's biggest concern is with the lack of knowledge about the Palestinian situation. "I've made hundreds of presentations, and I'm always surprised and a little frustrated," Ritchie lamented. "People need to become aware, they need to read, they need to pay closer attention to the news. We have such a natural, automatic bias toward Israel, and it isn't balanced. And most people don't make an effort to learn, to understand the bigger picture, to get acquainted with the facts, to really see how poorly Palestinians have been treated." J-A The TRUTH ' TAROT * i . l.AtH,U,.MX>>*'^> Ar- v' _ - - - 'I Flee an enemy who knows ycur weakness. { . \. r '* No.l1: Many smokers successfully quit euery day. utahquitnet.com |