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Show Feb. 28, 1975 Signpost Page Don't invade Arabs invite them over here! Why just imagine what can happen if we decide that our national security is being threatened by those big, bad Arabs and their oil companies. According to our Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, if that ever happens then he feels it is our duty to invade those lands and physically take over the oil fields. Ha! Can you imagine how the rest of the world would feel towards the United States if we did? Most countries wouldn't be too pleased if the world's largest and strongest power invaded the Mideast even if the claim of national security was justified. New tactic Wnat we should do is use a different tactic than is expected from us. Right now there is a strong feeling going around about keeping those foreign in vestors out of our giant corporations and companies. We don't want the Arabs owning our country too. Yet no one here has raised their voice against our giant corporations which have invested heavily in foreign lands. Why? Because we consider that to be free enterprise. Besides if it weren't for our advanced machines and technology, those other countries would still be living in the Middle Ages. To prove our point just look at how the standard of living has increased in those nations the U.S. has invested in. Take Chile for example. Why after ITT poured their millions of dollars into that backwards nation look what happened ... nothing. Didn't care Sure some of the people down there had their lives changed. Maybe even for the Letters to the Editor ERA still needed Tuesday, Feb. 18, the Utah House of Representatives voted down the Equal Rights Amendment which would have removed all discrimination on the basis of sex. This action confirmed the status of the women of Utah as second class citizens. Wednesday, Feb. 19, the same - - - card when students on this campus are voting for student government officials? Is this any less important than getting into a concert? In the case of the elections, it has been said that sinr-p everv student pays money towards student government then tney should be allowed to vote in those elections. It would seem to make equal sense that since students must pay $5 of ;. their fees for student government then they should be able to participate in those activities. After all, if a student can prove they are ' M full-time students on this campus they should get into ASWSC activities at student rates. . But how do we do this? Through the "complicated" method of f perhaps matching the name on the registration receipt card to the one on their drivers license or bank ID card or something similar. This woui( seemingly be sufficient identification for students on this cam- pus. Free IDs Or Executive Council could if they still wanted to require IDs, give them free to students during registration. This money could more than ' be made up from their $80,000 budget. j Yet, there is one serious problem with the idea of not using IDs. To check a book out of the campus library an identification card is I required. Students should then be made to realize that although campus activities will no longer require the ID card our library does. So if a student is ever expecting to check a library book out then he should be allowed to have an ID made. College expenses are constantly on the rise. Students are often hard put to find enough money to pay for their tuition fees and books. It seems somewhere in their funds, there should be money to make free IDs for them. The small sum of $1.50 seems trite to some but to others it isn't. Serve students A college like this is supposed to be here to serve the students. So is student government. However, often people get tied down to the system and say, "That's the way it is" and then walk away. No attempts to change "the way it is" are made and no problems are ever corrected. What needs to be done right now is for Executive Council to sit down 0j JooSrio hnw thav want this rnmnns in run F.ithpr thpv shnnlH ajiu UtUUV ' V ' i . . i. . . - f - ' -- : require identification cards for everything or just have them optional and for library use only. ' If they decide to continue using the cards, then some decision needs to be made on how to fund the project. Should students continue to oay for them outside of their regular fees or will student government . finance them. If no decision is made then still more problems are in store for this campus later on. legislative body by a vote of 60 to four granted equal credit rights to the women of Utah. Are the boys on the hill relenting, showing a little mercy? Not on your tintype. They were only correcting a small oversight. Removal of credit restrictions will make it easier for the boys in the business to get that last item dollar from the second class checks of the female employee. The time and the expense involved by Thursday's action on HB 50 was simply a waste of tax funds. Passage of the ERA would have removed not only the discrimination on credit but also many other types of discrimination still in effect. Glenn O. Fleek Letter policy The Slgnpoit welcomes all letters to the editor and guest editorials contributed by students and' faculty. Lottors to the editor must be typewritten double-spaced on a 60-space line and signed with the writer's name In order to be considered for publication. The writer's name, however, may be withheld V he can show reason why his name should not appear on his letter. All letters must be submitted to the Signpost office and addressed to the editor. Student editorials and opinions will also be accepted, and the Signpost encourages students to write such editorials. All editorials must be typewritten on a 60-space line, doublespoced, and must bear the writer's name In order to be considered for publication. The Signpost will not print any material which Is libelous or in poor taste. All student contributions may be submitted to the Signpost office, U.B. 247. Published twice weekly by the Associated Students of Weber State College during rail, 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 84403. The opinions expressed on the editorial page of the SIGNPOST do not necessarily represent those of the studentbody or the administration.Dave Midget Melinda Sowerby Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Dave Jones Business Manager Mary Woodnead .... News and Wire Editor 'Sharon Harrington . . News and Features editor Tom Eckhardt Sports Editor Dianne Sheldon Photo Editor Memberships: United Press Interna tional. Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Association, Associate Collegiate Press, Freedom of Information Center, Student Press in America Archives and the National Council of College Publications Advisors. better but the overwhelming majority ot them just really didn't care one way or another about ITT. It's a simple case of simple double-talk. It's all right if we do it but not if someone tries it in our own country. Now that's wrong. What we should do is allow the Arabs or anyone who wants to buy up our oil companies, GM and Motorola. After they pour their billions of dollars into their companies for improvements THEN we should throw them out of our country and nationalize their companies. Return favor Now that would be something. After they had done just that to the U.S. in the early '70s, we could return the favor to them in the '80s. Then we would all be happier. Our companies would have advanced, our people wouldn't have to worry about boycotts and our leaders wouldn't have to worry about how to justify an invasion. The only thing we would have to really worry about is our conscience. A showtime ! I By Nevin Heslop oooeooooeoeeeooooooeoooooeooooooooooooeeoooeooo LENNY Directed by Bob Fosse Screenplay by Julian Barry Playing at the Cinedome Lenny Bruce, the prophet of pornography, has been immortalized by Dustin Hoffman in the latest movie about the black and white era, "Lenny." The film is a biography of his professional career, using four points of view to draw the characterization. His wife, his business manager, his mother and the California courts all compile their knowledge of him, and the result is a combination of Frank Zappa, Hugh Hefner, Buddha, and Beelzebub, all meshed into one short Jew. This vertical construction gives the movie a substantial mood, and the many vivid scenes of nudity and crudity develop the film's metaphorical value. And through a back door approach, it demonstrates Lenny Bruce's beliefs as well as his life. Bob Fosse and Julian Barry must be congratulated, because in evaluating the film one must consider the age-old questions of (1) purposeful pornography: whether it in fact exists; and (2) the problem of censorship. These two questions were repeated relentlessly by Lenny Bruce toward the end of his career. He received a very negative reaction, and yet today, many who ask the same questions are receiving positive reactions. Dustin Hoffman has broken from his traditional role as an insecure hero as he plays Lenny. He does a remarkable job in what must have been an extremely difficult character. Valerie Perrine's interpretation of Honey Bruce is also acceptable, but she cannot match her male counterpart.The technology of the film is good, but it is ironic that a motion picture about a man who led such a colorful life should be made in black and white. Perhaps the reason for this is an attempt by the movie makers to cash in on the current craze for nostalgia, and black and white gives the film a fiftyish atmosphere. "Lenny" may be considered just another dirty movie by some people. But crudity and illicit sex were an integral part of Lenny Bruce's life and in order to honestly represent him that part of his life must be portrayed. However, the question may be asked whether he is of sufficient magnitude to warrant a public view of pornography. If his life was X-rated, perhaps he should be condemned to obscurity and not partially deified as this movie attempts. One truth remains, he was ahead of his time. Whether he was a savior of the English language, or just prematurely pornographic must be left to the individual to decide. But it cannot be disputed that he was ahead of his time: which truth says little for American morality in the mid-seventies. |