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Show CHROMICILE MAILBOX 1 I Zion Paganism? Dear Sir: I noticed with shock an ad which 1 you published in the Chronicle this Tuesday sponsored by the S.L.C. ; i Zenological Society. Are we to ' assume that Paganism is reviving 1 ; in the Salt Lake Area? Personally ; I have suspected for a long time r that things were going from bad to i worse on this campus. This latest t ! outrage merely confirms my sus-i- picions. Is this just another mani- t testation of the political leftist activity we have to put up with ! around campus or, perhaps another an-other sample of Mr. Bauman's a horrible humor? I must confess i that my friends and I could make e little sense of half the ad anyway. U What on earth does "Gloss schol. it forsitan recte. "Is hateful" conj. r Stanley" mean? Even Prometheus 'was bound to explain his meaning. K. W. Massey s- ie Dissent to Anarchy d Editor: 'vj Ed Reber, in his letter published j Thursday, asks when the right to dissent changes into the crime of anarchy. Unfortunately, his con-tf1 con-tf1 elusion that any form of civil dis-itf dis-itf obedience constitutes this crime igh represents an attempt to apply !tf idealized principle to a situation ing that is anything but ideal. Dis-0 Dis-0 obeying the law any law is and wrong. Killing people is also wrong, but there are always exten-e exten-e uating circumstances, and men s,., have been slaughtering each other ) for various nationalistic causes much longer than they have been y exceeding speed limits on deserted for roads, for example. Nevertheless, a violation of some sort and a justification is always involved. The real question is: should motives mo-tives and circumstances be considered, consid-ered, or should we regard law as inviolable, period? Well, the world and men being what they are, I see no choice but to admit that we have little chance of conceiving an ideal set of laws; much less chance of abiding by them. Were that basic law, "Thou shalt not kill" being upheld, the crisis which provokes Mr. Reber's letter would not exist. But the Viet Cong are shooting at my own personal friends with intent to kill, and my friends are shooting at them with the same intention. This of itself demonstrates that law as an ideal is not operating. Mr. Reber attempts to dischoto-mize dischoto-mize this problem by postulating a "majority conscience" which would direct the actions of a democratic state, leaving the individual conscience con-science free, I suppose, to have an opinion about the Tightness or wrongness of a given subject with no further responsibility. Regrettably, Regret-tably, it isn't that easy. In the first place, the 1964 Presidential election elec-tion (and subsequent events) demonstrate dem-onstrate to what extent the "majority "ma-jority conscience" influences state affairs in our democracy (Remember (Remem-ber 1964? Remember Goldwater? Remember why we all went out and voted for Johnson? Ah, Time!). More basically, the existentialist exist-entialist dilemma of modern man points out the obligation to action inherited by every creature of free will. He who merely holds opinion sells his birthright as a human being; be-ing; in order to fulfill one's human potential, one must consider, weigh the consequences, and act this is something that no "majority "major-ity conscience" can do for any thinking individual. To specifically answer your question, Mr. Reber, dissent becomes be-comes anarchy when shooting a man (or blowing him to bloody shreds with a Viet Cong booby trap, or burning him to death with napalm) becomes murder. Nowadays, Nowa-days, these actions are reported respectively re-spectively by Hanoi and Washington Washing-ton as acts of heroism, and as long as this state of affairs prevails, responsible individual dissent will not be a crime, but an obligation for all who value humanity. Barrie Strachan Naughty "Calling U" Editor: In November 1 column of Kay Israel there was a note about a "Dr. Heilbronner" who was sur-" prised that you didn't get any letters let-ters criticizing the Calling U column. col-umn. Allow me to correct this oversight at once. In that same Nov. 1 "Chronicle" in the Calling U column there was a statement about the awards committee. "Applications . . . are available through Oct. 31." Since it is now the day after Oct. 31 I must assume the statement refers to that date in 1968. But that assumption is not reasonable rea-sonable so perhaps I can conclude that someone wasted all that valuable valu-able space printing an out of date announcement. Shame on the "Calling U" editor. Rolan S. Carr C.S.U. No Protest Editor: We wish to bring to light cer tain facts concerning the march held on October 24, 1967 against the raising of tuition. A C.S.U. poster was displayed on T.V. and also in various newspapers. news-papers. This was by no means a product of our campus; the poster was not sanctioned by any member mem-ber of this campus nor was it carried car-ried by a student of this campus. The Associated Students of College Col-lege of Southern Utah feel that much more can be accomplished through the open channels between be-tween students and administration which presently exist at our institution. in-stitution. Furthermore, if any action or protest shall take place concerning A.S. C.S.U. we will let it be known to all. A.S.C.SU. Executive Officers Good Neighbors? Editor: Mr. Caldwell's assessment of the cause of the Kennecott Strike can only lead one to believe that again the Kennecott "Good Neighbor" Neigh-bor" policy has been triumphant. The KCC men in the white hats are striving for justice over those radical union men who would threaten the economy of Utah. Of course it has not always been, exactly this way; during the 1930'i and early 1940's KCC fought for complete exclusion of unions because, be-cause, of course, unions have always al-ways been radical and particularly during this era, everyone knew that anyone belonged to a union was really a communist. KCC knew that this was very bad, particularly par-ticularly in Utah, and as a good neighbor promised that negotiations negotia-tions could be conducted fairly between be-tween the company and the men. I Of course KCC has always been fair and their employees have constantly con-stantly been duped by the unions even to the point of believing that respirators were necessary for men who worked in extremely dusty conditions or that with continual con-tinual profits, KCC could afford to raise wages. Since the 1940's and unionization, wages at Kennecott Ken-necott have been raised, safety standards improved, and even silicosis sil-icosis has almost been halted as a result of the use of respirators. These benefits, and others, have been gifts from the heart of the "good neighbor" and the numerous numer-ous strikes beginning in 1946 and stretching into 1967 haven't really been needed. As the copper supply goes down, KCC will of necessity become a better neighbor and the strike will probably be settled. Then the official of-ficial letters to KCC employees predicting a bleak winter will slop, but the price of copper will probably prob-ably have to be raised. This price hike will be necessary to insure the broadcast of Kennecott Neighborhood Neigh-borhood Theater again, and it wiil also be necessary to meet the enormous cost of turning a few valves to keep the tailings pond watered and the tailings r'-t down. Yes, the strike hurts, hut r ' bystander it can be intercom,, cause the men in the wi.it:- ) are forced off cf their vi,,;;.-chargers vi,,;;.-chargers (sometimes black) to thf ground to discuss the issues. Interestingly, In-terestingly, at that particular level, lev-el, the white hats don't seem so white. Richard Sadler |