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Show Wednesday, May 2, 1990 4 THE SIGNPOST Opinion - ! x Letter to the editor policy The Signpost welcomes letters to the editor. Letters must be typed and should not exceed 300 words in length. For subjects requiring greater exposition, arrangements may be made with the editor in chief. Letters MUST Include name, address, phone number, relationship to WSC (student, staff, Ogden resident, etc) and the signature of the writer. Letters without this information will not be printed. The Signpost reserves the right to edit for reasons of space and libel and reserves the right to refuse to print any letter. WSC must lead in recycling To the editor: April 26 I have been following the articles and letters in The Signpost concerning Earth Day 1990 with great interest. It is commendable that the students are becoming more aware of the environment and of the effects our careless actions have upon it. What we need now is positive action. Weber State must lead the community in a recycling effort. A major obstacle in the recycling system in Ogden is the lack of facilities for the citizens to deposit their recycleable glass and plastic. We ask people to recycle, but deny them the avenue to accomplish it. I urge Weber State to place bins on campus for the collection of recycleable materials. Show Ogden City what needs to be done. Peggy A. McReynolds WSC student "I'd like to see more discount coupons for textbooks. It would also be fun to have a full color funnies page with The Far Side in it." Greg Wilkey, senior German "I'd like to see more cartoons and editorials" Rex Christensen, sophomore radiation technology "I think The Signpost does a very good job in the paper they publish. Some more information about world news would be interesting, and the cartoons are always fun to read. I also enjoy the sports page and would like to suggest they keep up the good job." Jennifer Allen, sophomore business Pro and Consensus What would you like to see more or less of in The Signpost ? Photos and polling by Krystine Pyper s - 4 . . I tJ ... .. . .I , ... ... . , - ,. - 1 - "I come to school only in the evenings, and I rarely find any copies. I would like more copies of The Signpost put where evening students can find them." M. Smith, graduate "It's too expensive, and I can't afford it. Besides that, I think The Signpost has covered some very interesting topics such as the university status and diplomas for seniors graduating this year." Mike Kunzler, freshman business "I would like to see more world events, comics, swimsuit editions, space topics and less sports and news." Alan L. Seifert, freshman engineering Everyone to blame for environmental woes To the editor: April 30, 1990 The environment is currently a very sensitive and emotionally charged topic. The issues facing mankind are wide and diverse. Having lived in Central America, I have witnessed "slash and burn" of jungles - it isn't a very pretty sight. The habitat of literally thousands of animals is completely lost. Five years after the jungle is chopped to the ground, a field of gTass remains burning to the ground at the end of the dry season. The carnage of the world lies before us. We are faced with death on a scale not imagined since World War Two. We have awakened and the battle is at hand to save the earth. In every war, there is confusion and strong emotion in the combatants. It is often the case that in momenta of high emotion cool reason goes out the door. We need rational, well thought-out answers in order to make successful changes to improve the environment of the earth; we must not allow the urgency of these issues to cloud our reason. Runaway emotion was demonstrated by the people who returned their Exxon credit cards to the company in bags of oil (almost as if that one act absolved the guilt of the person who used Exxon products just a week before). Even as of late, letters to the editor have made the environment a religious issue - who is right? Who is wrong? and worse: who is to blame? We must beware; history is full of lynch mobs out for blood. Shall our days become like those of Salem, Massachusetts where mobs go to Geneva Steel nnd burn the owners at the stake for running an inefficient enterprise? Or do we work together to find lasting answers that will stabilize the entire earth's ecology? In all of these environmental problems, remember that each of us is to blame. We have used electricity from nuclear power plants, sent our trash to overfilled city dumps, eaten tuna at the expense of dolphins, ridden in automobiles which expel gases creating the acid rain destroying our rivers and lakes. The sins of destroying the earth belongs to each of us, yet there is hope of a new future nnd new horizons. Voltaire said: The most powerful thing in the world is an idea whose time has come." The time is now; the idea has come. Put the earth back to the way we found it, working together with determination, in reason and order. David Stacoy WSC student |