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Show Page 6 Signpost April 30, 1976 ZlDlltEdlDQoDSiDs Signpost awards include sour note We at the Signpost are naturally very proud of the awards which Mary Woodhead,ex-editor-in-chief (editor emeritus; ex-officio editor?), and the members of her staff won during the Collegiate Press Association conference last week (see story on page 2). But just so we won't feel left out, we would like to point out that the present staff also won an award this week. Each Monday morning during his daily radio program on KCPX, disc-jockey Lynn Lehmann announces the winner of his weekly "Lehmann Lemon Award," which goes to the most outlandish mistake committed among the many nominations he receives each day. Last Monday, April 26, he awarded his sour citrus to (you guessed it) none other than the Signpost, for our mistake in the previous Tuesday's issue wherein we referred to the National Organization for the Prevention of Rape and Assault, as the National Organization for the Preservation of Rape and Assault. While we consider this award an extreme honor, we do feel the need to point out that the nomination was made by a member of our student government-elect, and this is how ithappened: This is the position the Signpost put itself in by printing the mistake that won the award. ' . I ' ''J 1 I ' y f I I w f i This is Mike Hunsaker, the Student Services VP-elect who sent in the nomination about the news editor who wrote the mistake that put the Signpost in the position of printing the mistake that won the award. And this is the editorial that spells out the primer to thank the VP -elect who sent in the nomination about the news editor who wrote the mistake that put the Signpost in the position of printing the mistake that won the award. Since it's been a week since the award was announced, the Signpost would like to publicly nominate Lynn Lehmann for the "Lehmann Lemon Award" for not sending us ours. This is Debbie Carter, the news editor who wrote the mis take that put the Signpost in the position of printing the mistake that won the award. L j Guest Editorial Kaiporowits - to be or not to be by Lynn Merrill, Chairman, Ecology Committee The electric companies have backed out of Kaiparowits claiming it was too much of a budgetary matter. And it was costly at least $33 million for planning alone. But, how long will it stay dead? There is speculation that these companies will reenter. Even the sponsor, Arizona Public Service Co., hopes something can be done before 1982 to use the Kaiparowits resources. Using the resources of Kaiparowits is a good idea, but the question of how it would effect the environment is raised. There is a lot of coal not far away and water from Glen Canyon Dam, but the proposed site for the Kaiparowits electricity generating plant is within a 90-mile radius of 5 national parks and other national monuments and recreation areas. The plant will cover many acres, produce 3000 megawatts, and create a city of 10,000 people. There has been worry how it would socialogically affect the rural, predominantly-Mormon communities in Kane County. Some argue it would hurt the people and others say it would help the "depressed communities." However, the main objection of environmentalists is the air pollution. The environmentalists are at a disadvantage having only a few big names like the Sierra Club, Ted Wilson, Salt Lake City's mayor, and Robert Redford. The pro-Kaiparowits forces have all four Congressmen, including Senator Frank Moss, who sponsored bills to establish some of the national parks in the dispute, Gov. Calvin Rampton, and what seems to be the majority of "Kane Countyites." Only last week, Moss and Rep. Allan Howe were holding hearings on proposed amendments to the Federal Clean Air Act. Moss seems to think that protecting against last increments of air pollution must be considered a luxury and when planning air quality we must consider competing national priorities and interests. Published twice weekly by the Associated Students 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 Sign post do not necessarily represent those of the studentbody or the administration. Christopher Hicks Editor-in-Chief Jeff Warburton Debbie Carter Sharon Harrington Lynn Arave Stephen Matlow Memberships: Rocky Association, Collegiate Press Association, Associated Collegiate Press, Freedom of Information Center, Student Press in American Archives, and the National Council of College Publications Advisors. Printed by the Roy Printing Company. A compromise will have to be wrought out with all parties involved. Howe has already said he is opposed to shipping the coal out of Utah. KSL-TV brought out the idea of converting the coal to petrochemicals which are much in demand and the industry is expanding annually at a 10 percent clip and it produces little pollution. Perhaps a feasible This business of bussing is a bust by George G. Satter No single issue has ever created as many problems and controversies as has the question of school bussing. It is unfortunate that such a controversy ever had to arise in the first place. Those who first designed the bussing proposals were, in my opinion, extremely short-sighted in their views. Any attempt to achieve a racial balance at the expense of children borders on criminal negligence., I cannot and will not allow my children to be lugged some ungodly distance across town to a sub-standard school to receive a substandard education. The entire concept of spending large amounts of tax dollars upon an unwanted and unneeded program like this makes no sense to me at all. I cannot foresee this type of forced equality as ever being any kind of a success. We have seen the results of attempting to force bussing upon those who don't want it. No Supreme Court order will ever force people to accept bussing. Any real attempts to enforce this Tara Harris Business Manager Managing Editor News Editor News Editor . Sports Editor Photo Editor Mountain Collegiate Press alternative would be to cut Kaiparowits to y2 capacity. Smaller plants to the north in planning stages haven't brought too much flack f although environmentalists plan to fight one of them. Whatever happens at Kaiparowits, our nation needs more energy and environmentalists will have to make some concessions. type of program have met, for the most part, with violence and open rebellion. All that has been accomplished is destruction of property, injury of children and adults, and disruption of needed education. It would appear to me that a better solution to the problems could be found. How many cities will have .to be torn asunder by this problem before people begin to realize that bussing won't work? It hasn't worked in the past and' it won't work in the future. " I feel it is time to explore some new options to the problems we are facing today. The time for ineffectual stopgaps is over. The people of this country won't tolerate the continued mishandling of this problem. A few misguided people have taken it upon themselves to solve the problem their way and it hasn't worked. Perhaps we might give some consideration to improving existing schools. By bringing the schools up to a standard of education which exists in. other parts of the community, we could achieve more for less money. This idea of improving existing schools has been proposed before by others without much success. Perhaps now it will be more acceptable to those who have opposed it. Since it was first proposed, bussing has met a steady stream of opposition and abuse. It is still another of the grand experiments tried by this country which have failed. The main issue involved when one talks of children shouldn't be the questions which seem to plague us as adults. The overriding concern should be the education to be received. We have tried this method at great expense to all concerned. Now it is time to move on to another idea. I can only hope that whatever is tried next will not be as stupid and senseless as was the bussing fiasco. V J |