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Show Pages Signpost Jan. 14, 1977 WSC Staff Not Opposed to Gilmore's Execution r Monday, Gary Gilmore has been sentenced to die. Whether or not the execution proceeds as planned is a different matter. There is a lot of emotion about this case and the implications and possible ramifications that it has. For one thing, Gilmore has asked to die. Do we, as a society, have the power to say yes or no about life to an individual? And if an individual wants to die, will he continue to see methods to obtain what he really wants? . Gilmore has taken other people's lives and has been found guilty in a court of law. There is not much probability that one will be convicted of murder in court if that person is not guilty. The probability is almost non-existant. Tomorrow the Utah Coalition Against the Death Penalty has called a public meeting to protest the execution sentence of Gilmore. We as a staff, are not opposed to the execution of Gilmore. We believe that his execution sentence should be upheld. We do not approve of those who would intervene or try to stop it in any way. Gilmore has committed murder and has been convicted. He has received a sentence that should be carried out. By carrying out his sentence and others that are established properly in a court of law, murderers will be punished for as they should be. In the long run this will help serve as a deterrent to crime and especially to the crime of murder. MY TURN Keep with the old so long as it serves well. Change to the new if it can serve better. The Black Lauffer by Steve Kusaba 1023, 1024, 1025, 1026, (baaa) 1027, 1028, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, sput whump, Oh! Am I on? I mean your reading? Hey now I'm really truly sorry. It's going to be hard to get this one off the ground with that kind of a start. Mind you, I'm not going to be redundant and take low pokes at balloonisms, this one (as usual) is a new concept. Let me digress (as usual ) . A few nonchessic points that need clearing up. Dr, Wheatley is a competent and objective observer. (I apologize to the greeks and police science observers.) Point Two; the person that wrote me that acknowledgement last week may come into my office and pick up his secret reward. His identity at this time remains as anonymous as that of the mad splatterer. H bomber) points 3-7 have been deleted due to its cotroversic character. A public service to all of you; anyone interested in a chess organization, tournaments, or team competition should leave his name, address, phone number and political persuasion at the Union Building. I repeat "'. Now, down to the weekly installment of Uncle Lauffers Chess tips for Kids and Cabbies, (yellow, not the greek.) Each successive time you read me you will get, from the beginning, pointers that will improve your game. And most of all, these work! Yes, I'm serious. This is no joke. All of you advanced players may put the paper down, this starts at laymen level. (This paper does have a circulation outside of Ogden?) Lesson 1 Since everything I do will be in "foreigner" notation," I'll explain it now. As you know, the Amero-anglos have brilliantly concocted a system that is inferior to the metric. Not to be outdone in anything they have done the same in chess notation. Descriptive (their inhuman beast that repetitiously reads like this: Knight at Queen bishop three to queen Knight five.) is a lemon. Algebraic has the letters A-H on each of the squares from left to right facing White. From bottom to top " it goes 1-8. The way a piece move would be given is: B-g3. (white's King night three. Black's king night three is obviously g6.) Pawn moves are made by just saying the square, (pawn to king four would be simply E4) Simple? You bet. (-(-multiple choice a. liver b. mustard c. dog histamine) Copy Editor Dr. Wheatley has received a rash of dissident and highly critical letters here at the office for his 60-inch article about cliques, so I guess I'll give the readers someone else to disagree with. It has come to me after five years of attendance at WSC that a teacher could almost discern the "class" an individual in his room is in by where he sits. Freshmen are a little shy and wish they didn't have to sit anywhere visible, but because they are afraid they won't get all that's said, they sit close to the front ... in the middle ... always in the middle. Sophomores are generally just waking up to the fact that their grades leave much to be desired and their allowances are threatened. So they sit RIGHT up front, determined not to let this quarter get away as the previous 3 or 4 have. Juniors are a motly bunch and just about anything can be expected of them. They aren't sure if they are taking the right class, working for the right degree, in the right school. They are certain only of the fact that nothing is for certain indecisive paranoia sets in at that academic stage and they invariably don't trust anyone especially themselves. They generally sit around the perimeter of the room and never talk to anyone. Seniors seek obscurity by sitting behind someone bigger than they are so they can doze. In their moments of consciousness, they count their accumulated hours and reestimate how many more classes they must sleep through before cap and gown day and Jubilee. Equal Time by Mary Woodhead "I believe in equal rights, but I'm not one of those women's libbers." That remark seems to be an easy way for women to affirm their belief in equal benefits and at the same time, disassociate themselves from the women who are fighting collectively for all women's rights. It seems that these women are concerned that they not have any of the responsibilities that go along with equal pay and equal job advancement.They are also trying, by disassociating themselves from those women who have been assertive about women's rights, to affirm their own femininity. All this leads us directly to the Equal Rights Amendment and why it has recently run up a-gainst such effective opposition. No one, really believes that the ERA will bring about unisex public toilets or even that it will force women out of the home. None of these things have occurred in the several states that have added equal rights legislation to their state constitutions. Fear of the draft is to some extent reasonable, but no more so than the fear that millions of young American men felt in the 1960s. No one wants to be forced to risk their life on the battlefield, but as long as women are physically able to participate in combat, there is no reason why they should not bear equal responsibility in wartime as men. Maybe passage of the ERA will make the government seriously reconsider the concept of a draft law next time they're tempted to reinstate it. The real problems has nothing to do with toilets or war, it has to do with femininity and masculinity. The women who oppose the ERA the loudest and longest play on the fear that the ERA will destroy femininity. The women who are active in the feminist movement are the ones who are secure in their own femininity. As many feminists are mothers and wives as are single professionals. These women know that just because they have brains and are willing to express themselves, they are not compromising their femininity. The other women, those who oppose the ERA to the point of violence, are the ones who are scared and unsure of themselves. Does it really make sense that equal rights under the law would force a woman to be masculine? Of course not. Because a woman is responsible to the law does not mean that she can't participate in whatever lifestyle she wants. The only difference is that she will have to take full responsibility for that lifestyle. Of course it's easier to put the responsibility for checkbooks, loans, and cars on someone else, but that does not insure femininity. A woman who can accept herself and all of her possibilities is the one who is feminine and for that woman, the ERA is another open door for exploring those possibilities. Published twice weekly by the Media Board of Weber State College during fall, winter and spring quarters. Entered as second class mail at the Ogden, Utah, Post Office. Mailing address: Weber State College, 3750 Harrison Blvd., Ogden, Utah 84408. The opinions expressed on the editorial page of the Signpost do not necessarily represent those of the studentbody, the administration, the WSC Media Board, or those of the Signpost staff. Lee Ann Williams Editor-in-Chief Dale Hicks Business Manager Hick Libby Managing Editor Debbie Carter News Editor Brent Aguir re News Editor Lynn Arave Sports Editor Clyde Mueller .' ... . Photo Editor Donna Ann Willis Copy Editor Memberships: Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Association." Collegiate Press Association. Associated r Collegiate Press, ana' the National Council of College Publications Advisors, Printed by the Roy I'nntmg Company. 3t |
