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Show Page 2 THE SIGNPOST FRANKLYSPcAIQKG Friday, January 23, 1970 by Fhsl Frank Letter 1 m$nmi o. o ' 0 . Job needs to be done DARLINE ROGERS It may be duly understood that many people on campus have definite problems executing their assigned tasks. However, when those tasks are placed upon the person because of voluntary claim, it is less easy to understand. Take for example the problem with This Week We Honor, under the premises of the Hospitality Committee chaired by LeAnn Painter. This committee receives more student scrutiny than others because of its prominence in the student's life. The display board is located where numerous people see it everyday. For this reason, it is more noticeable when the job of this committee is poorly done or when it is neglected entirely. The committee has done very little or next to nothing or nothing at all, depending upon the point of view one takes. A biased view-point might easily assume that they have done nothing. Others, more generous people, think they have reason to say that they try hard, so. . . To solve this debate we must look at what the commit, tee and its chairman have accomplished. It is duly recognized that the custodians put forth a lot of effort to keep our union building clean and well-kept, but need they be honored for more than two weeks or possibly even longer? What about the fact that Walter Buss was honored? It's not that he didn't deserve the honor, that's not the question. But this ac tlvity as stated by Judy Willmore, student activities coordinator, is to honor outstanding students. Walter Buss doesn't fit into this category. Another point in question is the way that LeAnn and her commit-tee coordinated their few efforts with that of the SIGNPOST staff. Pictures were not always turned in on time, if turned in at all. Oftentimes the article would appear in the newspaper, but the bulletin board would not be changed until the following week. Therefore, some people were honored for a week and a half while others were honored for 2 or 3 days, unless it was extended into someone else's time. It has been realized that people have a difficult time deciding who should be honored and who should not be honored, but to honor a personal friend who has not excelled in that particular field for which he is being honored, is a slam against those who deserve that recognition. A few suggestions as to how to upgrade this program might be in order. Contact the chairman of the departments, they're usually aware of who excells in their field and ask them id mention this in their departmental meetings. Announce to the studentbody that they may also obtain applications to honor people. Then be selective about who is honored so that it is an honor and not just one of those things. It has been suggested by former members of the commit, tee that everyone sits around a table trying to decide who to honor next. This is not honor. The people who receive this recognition are not as proud as they could be, "because they are aware of how cheaply he was chosen. Last year's committee chairman honored someone regularly, turned in a brief synopsis of the student to the Signpost on time, and worked at conducting this award in an organized manner. Now the decision for the debate must be made. The judge has what can be done and he has seen what has been done. The decision: Whether committee members lies at fault or not it reflects the attitude of the chairman, who happens to not finish what she starts. Assuming that LeAnn Painter doesn't intend to fulfill her as-signment, it is suggested that she resign her position and get someone who will do the job. If she intends to do the job it is sug-gested that she begin now. Defcer MmAeNTCD rOlt NATIONAL AOVIHTIMNa BY National Educational Advertising Service A DIVISION OP tcasa- oiacrr ialu aaavtcas. inc. go LKlQflteiv Ay., Nw Yorfc. N, Y. 10017 . Published weekly by the Associated Students of Weber State College during fall, spring and winter quarters. Entered as second class mall at Ebe Ogden, Utah, Post Office. Mailing address: Weber State College, 3750 Harrison Blvd., Ogden, Utah. . The opinions expressed on the editorial pages of the Signpost do not necessarily represent those of the studentbody or the administration.Letters to the editor must not exceed 250 words and must be signed to be considered for publication. Marilyn Larsen Editor-in-chief Lyle Karras Business Manager Peggy Jo Parker Associate, Editor Mark Hains Sports Editor Darline Rogers Feature Editor Byron L. Wade Academic Editor John Hart Student Govt. Editor Brad Q, Post : Theatre Editor Jim Hodgson Copy Editor Phil Morgan .: Photo Editor Bill John Distribution Manager Phil Leavitt Columnist Reporters: Beverlee Belnap, LaRae Lawson, Gloria Richards, Susan Stark, Fred Trimm, Byron Wade, Veronica Washington, Dan Yurth, Larry Yurth, Vicki Felman, Glen Curtis, Mindy Perkins, Dale Evans. wReiOfcnN o TO W fEOA.THE cabbages and kings s by John Hart Student Govt. Editor The Senate is a marvelous place to have a carefree wander every Monday night. Nothing is real. Senators show up on time, the speaker abides by Robert's Rules of order. People come, words are spoken, quoted, but nothing is real. Little things are all right, nobody persecutes the Jews any more, women have suffrage. The Senate can handle those things. But even money is real, somebody from some department has to come over and explain it to the senators so they will understand the extreme necessity of the request. Big Money sends reverberations campus wide. But now take a thing like the SDS constitution. Personally, I was against chartering the name. But the Senate had no actual part in the SDS decision. Students apparently can't be trusted with who they choose to associate with. The Senate is used as a pawn, as a red herring to keep the wolves from attacking the source of authority. If the Senate had passed the constitution, if it had passed all student control, the people who do things for real would not have even considered it. The SDS constitution is not the issue at hand. If it is debated later fine. It doesn't matter much. Students are treated like green puffy caterpillars, tolerated or squashed as the heel sees fit, mostly tolerated, until the magic day when he graduates and emerges as a metamorphized butterfly who can deal with reality. Evaluation, government, curriculum are all too real for the student to decide. Until the powers that be on this campus recognize the need for genuine responsibility for students, students are going to continue to be "second class" scholars, students, citizens and everything else. This institution is for learning, for growth and development. If students are denied respect as deciders of their own fate, the administration and faculty will be guilty of leading unaware students down the garden path to a place called perhaps strawberry fields, where nothing is real. Only life is real. Strawberry fields is a place for people who can't deal with reality. . It is a mental institution outside London, England. Offers challenge It is my contention that the public has little or no awareness, of the nature of the objections raised by the senate in the rejection of the SDS charter. I therefore offer a challenge, for any of the senators who voted against the charter to a formal public debate, where the exact grounds of his or her objection, can be analyzed by the public at large. Larry Stettler Inhumanity Editor: Christians to the lions. Jews to the gas chamber. The helpless and innocent of MyLai. It all happened in the past. It all happens somewhere else - other than in America - in other com-munities, not Ogden - to other people, not people I know. Even in remote instances with unknown people the thought makes me shutter, 'Milgram con-ducted an experiment in which people would ostensibly admin, ister painful or devastating shock to a subject if co-workers said he should. Even where the sub. ject wept and pleaded for mer. cy, even if the experimenter had to wear an insulated glove in order to push his subjects hand onto the electrodes in or. der to shock him, some people in the experimenters role would still sock it to other human beings. This is not to say that all experimenters did so with, out personal suffering. Some ex-perimenters begged to be re. lieved of the responsibility and pleaded for God's forgiveness, but still administered the shock. A piece of human ear as a trophy. If Signpost reporting is accurate in reflecting the attitude that an individual is proud of such an accomplishment then that person is sick. More signi. ficant, however, is the question regarding the elements of his en-vironment .or system that made him that way. Blacks are telling us we are a violent people and yet ask them to be noviolent. Maybe we ought to look at our. selves and our system. Maybe we ought to call a spade a spade and admit that something could be wrong with America and with the system that supports violence and taking pride in destroying physically or mentally the person of another human being. A piece of human ear! Denial is a de-fense mechanism recognized by psychologists to be an impedi. ment to change. If we admit to er-ror then we have hope for change. If we deny the wrong we are doomed to remain as we are. Perhaps critics of our so- ciety - SDS, black militants or whatever - are not all wrong. Maybe it is time that we got off from the capitalistic, productiv. ity kick and got one with im. proving the human condition. Maybe we should de-emphasize property rights and start empha. sizing human rights. How can we gain a respect for life? A rever-ence for living things? How can we find our individual identities and the values that will prevent us from blind conformity and the perpatration of violence upon life. What if there was a war and nobody came? Maybe the drop, ping of denial, justification and rationalization - and calling it like it is is the first step. If not where is hope for America? Where is hope for mankind? I don't deny that there are in. fluences for good within America or humanity. I don't deny that I would still rather live here than return to the land of my fathers. What I am saying is that change is not brought about by emphasizing the positive and denying the negative. Denial is a damning defense - it stops pro. gress. I am also saying that evi-dence suggests to me that there is need for change . change in ' individuals and change in the system that reduces man to ani. mal behavior and the violation of life. If we are going to get on with the change we must con. front ourselves with what is wrong. God grant us the courage to stop deluding ourselves, to face the issues squarely and to do something to improve the human condition. A piece of a human ear, ... Gary Carson Assoc. Prof. Chairman Dept. Psych. |