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Show Letters To The Editor Hickory Dickory Q HIS Dear Editor As president of the University Univer-sity Order of the Clock, I feel obligated to thank the U. of U. timekeepers for their 17-jewel effort in aiding members of our organization to budget our time. This has been accom--plished through the innovation of University Standard Time. If we happen to be late for class or need an extra hour to study, we just hop right up to MBH 303, glance at the clock on the wall, and presto we have an extra hour! This is also an ideal place for homesick Pacific Pa-cific Coast students to meet and discuss old times (PST). If we are anxious for the day to pass more quickly, we go down to the main floor of the library where the clock is an hour fast. But the really functional hallway hall-way is the third floor of OSH. There, by using one of the three clocks on the wall, we can fit the time to the occasion. For example: at 8:45, one clock ticks 7:40; another tocks 10:35; and the one to the rear of it, 11:15. We have not confirmed our reports on the time situation at the annex, the mainspring of the campus, but reliable sources indicate the sundials are still quite accurate on sunny days. Our only complaint to the University Department of Confusion Con-fusion is concerning the hands atop the Union Building. This clock, which once was the most dependable on campus it could always be depended upon to be four to ten hours wrong is now constantly within five minutes of being correct. This has created animosity in all those who have grown fond of hearing the noon chimes begin as the big hand reached seven and the little hand four. Students Stu-dents hear me out! Is this fair? There are also a few other clocks around campus that constantly con-stantly attempt to be right, but a future power failure should eraticate this problem. Once they are thrown off a bit, their chance to be correct again is doomed. We suggest two solutions to those conformists who want the clocks set within one hour of each other: refer the problem to the "Ku Klocks Klan," or spend your college career in the Huddle. No clocks are within with-in view of the Huddle to interrupt inter-rupt college bliss. By the way, what time is it? DAVE NICOL About Letters Dear Editor: Even more disturbing than the opinions of Mr. Toronto and Mr. Dansie .is the conditioned condi-tioned response which they prompt. In their efforts to be "intellectually free," "unsheltered," "unshel-tered," etc., our critics appear to have come out of the same mold. Someone has suggested that there is no truer conformist conform-ist than one who seeks so enthusiastically en-thusiastically to be a noncon-. noncon-. formist. After his visit to this university, univer-sity, a noted author made the observation that students here in the name of "intellectual freedom," seem to be engaged in a "ritual of rebellion." That observation might merit some thought. KAY McIFF Not Much? Dear Editor: Mr. Hyrum Coon wrote "The Evolution of a Student." Mr. Hyrum Coon is not a journalist. Mr. Hyrum Coon is not a philosopher Mr. Hyrum Coon is not a humorist. Mr. Hyrum Coon does not display evidence of being educated. edu-cated. Mr. Hyrum Coon must be very disappointed with Mr Hyrum Coon. So is everyone else. EDWARD D. BOTTOM |