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Show Friday, September 5,2008 HE SIGNPOST EDITORIAL Signpost Viewpoint Putting Passion into a crappy job: Shaking your money maker Maybe you've seen the T-mobile Most students are poor. It's a fact sign guy throwing down on a sidewalk most of us deal with sometime or around town? Here's someone that's another during our college careers. To decided he's not just going to stand combat this financial shortcoming, many of us seek part-time employment there listening to his Ipod while he holds his sign. because the extra No, no, no. He's cash comes in Regardless of the giving 110 percent handy to pay bills, and showing us tuition, and any dead-end, soul-sucking some of the best other lifestyle choreographed, accessories that we job yOU end Up With, in your face can't live without. it's important to dance moves that If you're lucky the streets have enough to snag remember that attitude ever seen. He's a part-time job practicing a skill is everything. that doesn't while he does his include cleaning crappy job. Do you bathrooms or dance when you're at work? Chances preparing fried food, you should hold are, unless you're Waldo the Wildcat, onto it until graduation day. The rest the answer is no. of us will find ourselves in one of the The point is, most of us will have categories aforementioned or worse. a job or two throughout college that Regardless of the dead-end, soulroyally sucks rocks. But it doesn't have sucking job you end up with, it's to be something we dread doing. If you important to remember that attitude have a Dwight Schrute in your place is everything. I'm not going to give a of employment, some light-hearted Tony Robbins-type lecture asking you teasing or practical jokes (within legal to paste a goofy grin on your mug and confines) is a good way to pass the greet every customer you encounter time and get to know people. Before with the enthusiasm of a Chili's waitress after three doubleyou go into work, think of a joke shot espressos. But I or something funny promise that if in the news. A quick joke you embrace ' •• or story the horrible at the truth about beginning your ofyour awful shift can job, set the things tone for will the whole go much day and smoother. As relaxes a wise man your coonce said... workers. It's all about perspective. Trust me kids, this is Take for a lesson that example, the will serve brave souls you well employed by in college local pizza and and beyond, mobile phone especially businesses. How you English could standing majors who out in the sun are still going playing an to have crappy inflatable guitar jobs when you to boost pizza graduate. Keep sales be better than your job? It's an open mind, a positive attitude and not. It's much, much worse. Yet these some perspective. These really are the employees come up with the intestinal best years of your life, so act like it. fortitude to deliver face-melting solos Comment on this story at AND give you a quick, delicious dinner wsusignpost.com. idea with a smile and a nod. Doctors say he is afflicted with a common case of gastroenteritis. In today's news, Rev. Jesse Jackson fell ill and was admitted to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. It is hoped his illness will finally flush him clean of bullsh- The Nuance: Ronnie's liberal legacy Josh McCafferty Signpost columnist Curse you Ronald Wilson Reagan! Curse you for what you did. Your triumphs were spectacular, but at what cost? Oh, the cost! This week, so-called social conservatives have been happier than Ted Kaczynski in a bomb and packaging store. After all, what could be better than a passive, gun-toting, Christian beauty queen from the most unpopulated state to accompany John McCains "questionable" loyalties? While I would not take up much space denouncing capitalism, or the second amendment, I cannot help but wonder if our 40th president knew what black abyss of ideology jacking phoniness would come to be epitomized and characterized by the likes of Jerry Falwell. After this meeting of the minds, the conservative movement became one less associated with fighting for therightto worship as much as battling for the intermingling of religion and government. As I heard the non-theist conservative writer, George Will, analogize: Conservatives value freedom over equality; liberals prefer equality over freedom. I am not a liberal. I do not hate liberals, nor do I think they are godless, Americahating devils. I disagree with their view on the structure of government. I believe government should be as petite as possible, a person should be allowed to marry whoever they want, all drugs should be legalized (legalized, not decriminalized), and taxes and spending should be much lower. However, I do not believe in something for nothing. The last two may be my most conservative viewpoints of all. To the majority of those without a memory spanning 30 years into the past, conservatism is synonymous with loving Jesus, hating homosexuals, and dictating society by said biases. It may surprise the young Obama disciples to learn that the basic hallmark of conservative ideology is an emphasis on individual rights. In fact, Democrat one-termer Jimmy Carter won the Evangelical vote on his first try. This is easy to understand as Jimmy was, and still is, a Baptist Sunday School teacher. However, by the second time around, an unholy union had been made. Before Reagan, the Republican Party was the party of logic and isolationist defense,, the Democrats were the party of the people and pandering. As it turns out, handing out welfare, sticking it to big business, and promising a government that will eliminate poverty has a pretty positive effect on the public's perception towards you. In the battle of logic with emotion, emotion will always triumph. Many genius notions came tofruitionwithin the Reagan Administration, such as the professional military, but this robbing and molding of the liberal concept of poignant politics which both won the election changed the face of the Republican Party forever. The story is deeper than what can be transcribed here, but a few dirty tricks were instituted to meet this sentimental end, such as reframing the Southern Baptist manifesto to include that women should be submissive. In no time, the community Carter defined ostracized him, allowing Reagan to make his move. From Ronnie, the Republican Party was no longer the party of policy, but of emotion, and the Democrats have been stupefied ever since. It is harder to get teary eyed about the impoverished when those nasty secularist leftists are attacking your God. This is all well and good as far as the game of politics goes, but the effects have run deeper than anyone would have expected. Vanished are the principles of privacy as Republicans defend warrantless wire taps: Deceased are the standards of individual rights asright-wingersattempt to add an amendment to the Constitution which is not discriminatory in nature, but limits everyone's rights in favor of nothing less than social engineering: Distant is the attitude of fiscal conservatism as Bush spends billions on a profitless war and doubles the size of government institutions like the Department of Education. Sarah Palin and her cohorts can call her conservative if they want to. They will because they have the same idea about its definition, that young Democrats do. But not far from the GOP convention, in the other of the twin cities, a Texas doctor with a high-pitched voice, a disdain for the mushy liberalism of the Grand Old Party, and an absolute loathing for government waste is holding his ownrally.Representative Ron Paul may be extreme and even unpragmatic in his philosophy, but he has gained a massive amount of support from all walks of life throughout America. Though his presidential campaign was doomed and impractical, there is still the hope he is the poster boy of a new, and yet old, kind of conservatism, birthingfromthe ashes of the condemned McCain campaign. They may call Palin a conservative now, but perhaps not in ten years. Comment on this story at wsusignpost.com. 'Cats on campus What would be more significant? A black president, or a female vice-president? r I 1 / A WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY 1 HE SIGNPOST Editor in chief Managing Editor News Editor Sports Editor Photo Editor Business Editor Features Editor A&E Editor Adviser Ad Manager Office Manager Jessica Schreifels Frances Kelsey Heidi LeBaron Jon McBride 626-7121 626-7614 626-7655 626-7983 Catherine Mortimer 626-6358 Ashley Salvador 626-7624 Tricell Taylor 626-7621 Samantha Neri 626-7105 Allison Hess 626-7499 Shelley Hart 626-6359 Georgia Edwards 626-7974 -The Signpost is published Monday, Wednesday and Friday during fall and spring semesters. Subscription is $18 a semester. First newspaper copy free, each additional copy $0.50. •The Signpost is a student publication, written, edited, and drafted by Weber Slate University students. Student fees fund the printing of this publication. Opinions or positions voiced are not necessarily endorsed by the university. 7he Signpost welcomes letters to the editor. Letters must include name, address, telephone number, relationship to staff, and the writer's signature. -The Signpost reserves the right to edit for reasons of space and libel and aJso reserves the right to refuse to print any letter. Letters should not exceed 350 words. Bring letters to the editorial office in the Student Union 401, or mail to: The Signpost, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah 84-108-2110. Attn:Jessica Schreifels. E-mail thcsignposti3nveber.edu The Signpost is published every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday during Fall and Spring semester and Tuesdays during the Summer Semester. To subscribe contact Georgia Edwards at 626-7974 or gedwards@weber.edu.The first copy of The Signpost is free, each additional copy is $.50. Compiled by Ben Taylor . Photos by Catherine Mortimer "I don't think either is really significant. It shouldn't matter what race or gender they are, it matters how they will lead the country." -NickChamplin 1ST junior "Idon't know much , about politics, but I like women so I would a female vice-president." - Branson Duke Accounting freshman "I would say a black president because ethnicity is still a majorfactor in people's judgment" "A black president. The country is becoming more multi-cultural and a black president would help represent that aspect." -TomYates Communication senior "A female vice-president. Women in office in general have yet to be accepted. Many people still believe that women belong in the kitchen" -Alice Hughes social work junior - Betheny King Journalism sophomore 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 for reasons of space and libel and also reserves the right to refuse to print any letter. 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