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Show J ti r' ' H r Editor in Chief: Devon Crus '4 Phone: 626-7121 Once more into the breach VIEWPOINT Spring is in the air. Finally, birds singing, blue skies and sunny days are becoming the norm. Since spring is a time of rebirth and rejuvenation, it is only appropriate that students return from Spring Break well-rested, refreshed and ready to tackle the rest of the semester. Studies show vacations can benefit students because the students can refocus. Yeah, right. Realistically, students will return to their classes bleary-eyed and wishing for the blissful vacation days of last week. Coming back to Weber State University after spring vacation is not an easy thing. Chances are, students are dragging their feet when it comes to resuming the dreary trek across campus. The scent of vacation-letdown permeates the air as students dream of the days when they were free from WSU. No more sleeping in. Some now need a tractor to pull them out of bed in the morning. But for students lacking the inspiration and motivation to leave the bliss of Spring Break, read this six more weeks! Yes, that's right. In as little as 40 days students will be completing their coursework and heading off to greener pastures. How's that for motivation? Keep in mind the school semester is more than half over. With just a little more grit and determination, finals week will be almost bearable. But don't think summer is around the corner just yet. Finals are quickly approaching and students will be hard-pressed to relax in the days to come. Think of this as the final stretch to win the race all that hard work is about to pay off. The Signpost Editorial Board oThe Editor in Chief Devon Crus 626-7121 Managing editor Brandy Lee 626-7614 News editor Jennifer Larson 626-7655 Sports editor Michael Browne 626-7983 Copy editor Quaila Denning 626-7659 Features editor Paul Garcia 626-7621 A&E editor Jake Christensen 626-7105 Special assignments editor Wendy Leonard 626-7105 Business editor Carolyn Losee 626-7624 Graphics editor Jeremy Holt 626-7661 Photo department Mark Davidson 626-6358 Advertising Manager Jason Henrie 626-6359 Online editor Phillip Ludlow 626-6358 Office Manager Georgia Edwards 626-7974 Adviser Allison Hess 626-7499 Publisher Ty Sanders 626-6558 Signpost fax 626-7401 The Signpost is published every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday during the semester. Subscription is S9 a semester. The first copy of The Signpost is free, each additional copy is S .50. The Signpost is a stuaent publication, written, edited and drafted by Weber State University students. Student lees partially fund the printing of this publication. Opinions or positions voiced are not necessarily endorsed by the university. The Signpost welcomes letters to the editor. Letters must include name, address, telephone number and the writer's signature. Anonymous letters will not be printed. The Signpost reserves the right to edit letters lor reasons of space and libel and also reserves the right to refuse to print any letter. Letters should not exceed 350 words. Bring letters to the editorial office in SUB 267, mail to: The Signpost, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah 8440B-2110. Attn: Devon Crus, or e-mail: devoncrusmail.weber.edu. n ( Jacob crover columnist Friends! Fellow scholars of youthful merit! Other! This, a call in which the bellows of scrutiny and scorn beget, must fall on alert minds. Take it upon you to gather the greatest of your wit, finding fine and noble treaty with my immortal words that they may burrow into the facets of your limitless scope of understandment. What thought of the Erinyes shall bring fortune to the diligent, but merest trite agitation should bring devastation and no reprieve? Shatter thy mad inhibition and embrace the shallow of the name! Set gravely in seat and desk; bound by the entrapment of thine own lust. And thus, with pencil like dagger; to die. Those of you who are religiously looking down at that spontaneous burst of English-like English, cut me some slack. I'm no William Shakespeare. However, William Shakespeare was certainly a William Shakespeare. Thus the topic of this column blooms like a flower under Oberon's will. I have a class on Shakespeare this semester and, since my column is subject to whatever I'm thinking about at the moment, this one gets the fine duty of relaying what I think Student's comments about Elizabeth unfair In response to Drew Bott's quote, "I don't ever want to hear it again, she was not kidnapped," in Friday's Signpost, I just have one question: What are you thinking? Taken at knifepoint in the middle of the night sure sounds like kidnapping to me, for starters. Just because she didn't reach out for help doesn't mean she didn't Elizabeth Smart, family deserve privacy I blinked back tears when I heard that Elizabeth Smart was alive and. physically well. I agree with her uncle, miracles really do happen. For so many months, this story has become part of us. By us, I mean the public at large: not in the Smart family, her close neighbors and chosen friends. I mean, us. We, who would never have known of her if she hadn't been yanked from her bed in the middle of the night at knifepoint. We have held her in our hearts, we have prayed for her family, and we have rejoiced in the miracle of her return. We know she is safe. We all know that she has a tough road ahead of her. It will take time for her to adjust, get acclimated to her family again, to begin to sort out her own life. Let' us step back and give her the space to do that. To show our love for her, let us Many English teachers teach Shakespeare because they had to learn about him when they went to school, and want to get back at the younger generation for their loopy hairstyles and knee-hugging jeans. It's the shareware of English. about him. For those of you who don't know, you're ignorant. Beyond that, William Shakespeare was the one of the finest playwrights to come out of England and Beverly Hills. He wrote "Romeo and Juliet," "King Lear," "Hamlet," "Othello," "Julius Caesar," "Braveheart," "Gladiator," "Forrest Gump," "The Blair Witch Project" and several other thousand plays, poems, blockbuster movies, etc. Many English teachers teach Shakespeare because they had to learn about him when they went to school, and want to get back at the younger generation for their loopy hairstyles and knee-hugging jeans. It's the shareware of English. I'm sure everybody has seen one Shakespeare play or read a poem or seen a guy walking down the street in tights and a feathered cap. I don't feel presumptuous by saying that everybody has been touched by him in one way or another hopefully in one way and not the other. His flair for romanticism, tragedy and name Letters T o TKe Editor want to be there. If you were a14-year-old girl, would you be thinking, "I need to escape," or would you be thinking, "I need to survive"? My initial reaction would be that Mr. "Emmanuel" probably used a variety of brainwashing techniques. If you are depending someone for everything, food, water and shelter, and your life is respect her privacy. She is a teenager, who has been through a lot. It is not our right to know all of it. She does not belong to us. She needs space and privacy. The Smarts are not public people; and Elizabeth certainly did not choose to become a celebrity. Again, she is not a self-chosen celebrity, a sports star or an elected official. She is a teenager who has suffered a violent crime. Let us respect that. She does not deserve to be exploited. Let us hold the memory of the miracle of her return in otir hearts forever. And let her have the space, privacy and boundaries that is her right as a private person in our society and is especially granted to minors. Let us not forget that this is her life. She is a human being, entitled to all that that entails. Let us bless her with our thoughts and prayers puns is juicier than any tabloid and even comes off as possible. "The pope has affair with Desdemona; Othello swears revenge!" Just reading his plays gives a sense of fantasy and reality that you can't feel anywhere else but in a Jenny Jones special. "Kings who kill, and the wives who love and encourage them." The only drawback is you have to be able to translate English into English to read them. By English, I mean the language spoken by English people. Not just English people Renaissance English people! So it's pretty hard to get through sometimes but hey, what reality TV show isn't the same? Hence, I want everyone to go read a Shakespearian play. Enjoy the humor, cry for the drama and there will be an exam on Friday. The sad thing is, I really do have an exam on Friday. So bitter is the word Life. It tastes good with Hershey's syrup though! threatened, I think your body would just freeze, as opposed to making a fight or flight response. It's just some food for thought, for those of you wflo think that she wasn't kidnapped including you, Mr. Bott. - Randall Bennett WSU student and peace and boundaries and above all, privacy. Let her have her life back. Let her begin to feel a sense of control of herself once again. If she chooses, sometime down the road in her adult life, to tell us her story, let her decide. You, the media, will argue that her story is newsworthy. It has been. It is not now. Cherish the memory of her miracle by holding those whom you love closely to your heart. Tell your loved ones you love them. Appreciate the miracles in your own life. Let us not make her a victim of exploitation because of our curiosity. As media, please exercise restraint. Elizabeth doesn't belong to us. She deserves her life back. Do not let her life become, as Pally Hearst recently stated on CNN, "entertainment for the masses." Loretta Gale Salt Lake Citv, Utah |