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Show Page 8 Signpost Feb. 11, 1977 EOUA Letters to the editor Editor: If a person were to run for office at little B.Y.U. he could now represent the dissatisfied coffee drinkers coalition. Coffee used to be a pretty good deal around here.. Two sizes of cups and low prices. We all know that the low price somehow got into Nelson Rockefeller's pant's pockets, but what about the "coffee problem" at Weber? I guess they just can't keep up quality when they serve so many. It has me drinking hot chocolate. One time I had to drink some murky stuff, it was so hot I had to wait 20 minutes to have it cool, and was late for class. They obviously believe when it is scalding, somehow it compliments the awakening effect. It doesn't. The caretaker of the cuisine in the upper cafeteria should exercise a more discerning judgment in the choice and subsequent brewing of his coffee. It presently resembles what Hollywood Creature crawled out of (Black Lagoon Water Man). Clarke S. Kent Editor: Much Ado About Nothing? Well. ..I decided to take my lovely wife to see this excellent production, so I called the Little Theatre Ticket Office to reserve us some seats. They commended me for' my interest and then proceeded to explain the rules: 1. Reserve your wife a seat for $3. 2. Leave your night class one hour early (7 p.m.). 3. Hurry over here (FAC) and pick up your "free" student ticket on a first come, first serve basis. Ml- Up5- With a little bit of luck you will have a one in a million chance that no nonstudent reserved the seat next to your wife, and that no other student got served first. No amount of ticket office frustration, however, could diminish my enjoyment of the performance. I just hope my wife likes the lucky guy who drew the seat next to her's. (Then again, I hope she doesn't). People like to communicate. People like to communicate with editors. People like to communicate with those in charge of publications. WHY? To get their side of the story printed. Throughout this year the Signpost has received a lot of information. Now we'd like to share some of it with you. One release from State University, Potsdam, New York, began: "We heard the loons calling at midnight. In the daytime it's more of a call but at night it's almost a howl, if a bird could howl. It sets one's whole body vibrating like a tuning fork. I am beginning to understand those rapturous passages in Thoreau." We received a plea for WOLF POWER, "a fast growing movement to have the wolf designated our national mammal." They want to make the wolf a symbol for "Reverence of Life." Another letter proposed that the evolutionary theory taught in the school systems is anti-biblical and infringes upon that person's religious beliefs. Instead we should teach, he maintained, the Creation. International Amnesty also sought our aid. So did a commune. And so did someone else about the opening of a road in Southern Utah. We like information. We need it to survive and keep the paper alive. It is also our job to edit information, and we are willing to edit it. However, the fact remains that people often mail out material in such large quantities, that often the campaign is not effective. People send material to places where it doesn't necessarily need to be; it won't be used there. In these days when it costs 13c to mail one letter, people shouldn't waste their money, effort and time. The lesson in point: Future business owners, workers, job applicants and students, apply or send information only to those places where you or your information belong. It saves you time, effort and money. TIME by Mary Woodhead The Utah House of Representatives is considering restricting the freedom of speech of state employees. A bill, recently introduced before the Utah House of Representatives, would make it a misdemeanor for employees, other than top level administrators, "to speak on behalf of or grant the approval of, that department, division or agency in relation to any press releases, information releases, publications or other documents, not requiring the approval of the board of examiners." That may sound like a wonderfully efficient way to keep control of statements coming out of political agencies, which may be the case, but the bill is also a violation of the first amendment rights of state employees. What is even worse about the bill is the last line which states: "Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor." The state cannot send someone to jail for speaking what he feels as long as those statements do not represent a serious danger to society. A state employee, just like everyone else, has the right to say anything he wants as long as his statements are not in that limited area of causing danger to society as a whole. The first amendment says very specifically "Congress shall make no law The fourteenth amendment made absolutely sure that the bill of rights applied to the states. It is distressing to see that our legislators are in such a hurry to violate the rights of the people of the State of Utah. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that the first amendment should be disregarded in cases where it is inefficient or cumbersome. Every resident in the State of Utah should make an effort to let their legislators know that they are not being paid to violate rights. Once the State of Utah decides to make it illegal for one group to speak freely, they may make the same type of rule for the rest of us. 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