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Show Page4 Signpost May 13, 1980 n 1 1I ll "I II - I I I I 11 r "1 f - J What importance humanities By a Faculty Member As a faculty member in the School of Humanities here at Weber State, may I offer a few suggestions to students as they go about career planning? It has occurred to me that federal and state governments, university and college administrations, local news media and local K-12 school boards and administrations are trying to get all of us clearly informed on one issue: Have nothing to do with anything remotely involving any area of the humanities. The huge grants given to social sciences on such topics as how the elderly feel about aging is an eloquent testimony that our myopic federal government would rather have an ambulance down in the valley than a fence on the cliff, insofar as understanding fundamental human values and needs is concerned. As to values and needs, students would do well to avoid any field of understanding dealing with our cultural heritage, the aesthetics of human life and thought, or the enrichment of the hurflan spirit. The basic measuring stick of all things has 'now become money, and there is no money in any of those fields of human endeavor, at least not enough money to avoid a life of indignity, Letterstoth editor Christians disagree with Eckankar Dear Editor, We would like to share our ' thoughts in regard to the article written in the May 6, issue of the Signpost on Eckankar. The article stated that Eckankar offers the ability to experience God in this lifetime directly and personally through soul travel under the guidance of the living ECK Master. It also stated that one way to purify the soul is through Kharma and reincarnation. Both of these statements, we know for a fact, are the total antithesis of what the Creator of our souls has to say about this subject. God teaches us that we may Lumping all Iranians indicates immaturity Dear Editor, I write as a senior citizen student who served as a volunteer in the regular army in France in 1918. The anti-Iranian student action taken by a small minority of WSC students disturbs me greatly. First we had Ed Devlin's stupid circular inviting Iranian students to come for some "Jamestown Kool-aid." Then followed the attack on three Iranian students in the breezeway of the Union Building about which the Signpost says "but police reports indicate that there were at least twice as many Americans as Iraniansinvolved." humiliation, and demeaning servility. If this seems to you like the ranting of a fanatic, please check out the salaries of professors in the Weber State College School of Humanities against those with comparable years, experience and schooling in the School of Business or the School of Social Sciences. What has happened to the process of higher education in our country is a great tragedy, but many, including myself, are slow to realize how pervasive the attitude change has been. We base our concepts of all human experience, at least officially, now on money. If a teacher can teach students how to make money, that teacher is well paid. If a teacher can teach students how to explore and probe for human values, morality, ideals, or aesthetics, that teacher is destined for a life of servility, at least until he is forced by economic necessity to leave higher education. I am forced to these conclusions rather than suppose that our institution has some official policies indicating that teachers in the School of Business or Social Sciences should own their own homes, and those in the School of Humanities should not. And that have a living personal relationship with Him, not through soul travel under the guidance of the living ECK Master, but by simply accepting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior by faith. It is by believing totally in Jesus Christ that one comes to have a personal relationship with God. Purification of the soul is not by Kharma and reincarnation. It is not of our own doing but what the Creator has already done for us. It is by the shedding of the blood of Jesus Christ that our souls are purified. Eckankar teaches through Kharma and reincarnation that we are given the opportunities Last Friday Devlin organized a rally, "to show support for the immediate deportation of Iranian students." Quite possibly some Iranian students should be deported, but to lump all Iranian students in one category is an indication of immature mentality. It is the sort of intolerance that could be expected from the Ku Klux Klan. . . Such rallies can easily incite mob violence, but fortunately most WSC students are more mature than the rally organizers and did not attend. I viewed it from a distance and judge that no more than 200 attended. I noted with amusement . that a TV wives of professors in Business or Social Sciences should not be employed outside their homes, but those wives of Humanities professors should be. I assume that policies do not really exist indicating that social science and business professors should live on one side of Harrison Boulevard, but humanities professors should live on the other side. Or that social science and business professors need not limit the size of their families, while humanities professors must. Or that children of social science and business professors should have lessons (for the sake of discipline only, of course), in piano, dance or violin, while children of huanities professors should not. We cannot blame Weber State College administrators for the causes of the situation, but we can blame them for the perpetuation of the situation. As the situation grows more and more total and clear, we will need to urge students graduating from Weber State to remember the fine institution not as their Alma Mater (Mother of my Soul), but as their Pecunia Mater (Mother of my Money). Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to express my feelings. May I, for obvious reasons, remain anonymous? after death to come to that God-Realization in the fullest sense. But God teaches differently; that belief in Christ is to have eternal life, not a reincarnated life to come back and try again. By accepting Christ as our personal Lord and Savior, our souls are made pure, we may come to personally know God, and we may live eternally with Him. You see, men and women, if it is anything that we can do on our own self-effort to achieve God-realization, then Jesus Christ died in vain. In His Service, Robert Hekker, Jim Kirylo reporter, possibly disappointed because there was nothing sensational to report, attributed the small attendance to rainy weather. There was no rain during the half hour that I watched.The rather silly rally last fall, where Khomeini was burned in effigy, also had small attendance, even though it was in the center of the campus and the weather was fair. We can be thankful that most WSC students have mature judgment about such things. Fred L. Mont it irer.cy 'Red Beard' depicts humanitarian classic By Eunice Schlenker Renowned Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa directed the larger than life movie "Red Beard" which was set in Japan during the Shogun dynasty. It played at the U.B. Theatre May 8. Possibly the time was turn of the century as candlelight was used solely for lighting, and there was a noticeable absence of cars. The film begins with a young graduate M.D. who has been sent to a clinic to view the situation, and unbeknownst to him, to become a subordinate to Red Beard, clinic director. A rather elitist young man, he was there merely at his father's bidding; and intended to be on his way quickly, having had aspirations of posh surroundings as the shogun's personal physician. A resident doctor who met him on arrival acquainted him with the mode of clinic life, telling him of all the hardship and privation the doctors had to endure. In his opinion, the biggest hardship of all was having to tolerate the autocratic Red Beard (ToshiroMifune) whom he considered a martinet. Red Beard had decreed that only the wards would be heated, thereby conserving the limited coal for the sick. The new doctor rebels by refusing to join in clinic activities hoping Red Beard will release him. Although the latter appears intractable, as time passes it becomes evident that he is an indomitable spirit. Beneath a gruff facade, he displays all the traits of altruism, as one by one his masks of malevolence are stripped away revealing a very humane doctor at the core. This was readily apparent in his uncompromising position with the pampered shogun. This change in attitude of the young doctor becomes obvious as he finally compromises and puts on his uniform. Continued on Page 5 Class schedules need careful inspection Summer registration opens June 23 and class schedules and registration packets are now available. Due to a few printing problems, copies may be difficult to read. Some departments are not in alphabetical order, and a few have words missing. Faculty members advise students to 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 Signpost, no. 2110, 3750 Harrison Blvd., Ogden, Utah, 84408. 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