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Show Creative News Editor: Apparently the Chronicle is a bit understaffed this fall as witnessed by the type of riff-raff that appears on your news pages. In particular, ace reporter Sylvia Kronstadt continues con-tinues to do a bang-up job in showing show-ing the reader her vast abilities in creative writing before she decides to get down to writing a news story. I for one do not give a damn about the appearance of a room or the way the sun is shining, which have been the dominant themes in Miss Kronstadt's last two leads on the front page. Both stories have proceeded into very interesting news articles, but few people could stomach those first two paragraphs of garbage in Kronstadt's stories on V.I.P. and the Norweigan exchange ex-change student. I would think that Kronstadt might have picked up some pointers after her totally ridiculous "news" article on Andy Warhol. I suggest that Miss Kronstadt pick up a copy of the AP Stylebook at her local book store and learn the five W's before she makes any further attempts at-tempts at writing on the news page. Lana Lang (Editor's Note: The articles referred refer-red to were feature articles appearing appear-ing on page one at the descretion of the editors.) Butchers Greeted Editor: Tuesday's Salt Lake Tribune carried car-ried an article announcing the fact that the University of Utah's Phi Mu Sorority sponsored a letter to Vietnam. It contained this year's Christmas greeting. It was also written, claims the Tribune, on butcher paper. I ask, why did the bloodless Phi Mu's use butcher paper? pa-per? Wayne Price MUN Slandered Editor: At the risk of defaming one of the few members of your staff who turns out material which is occasionally occa-sionally entertaining, I would like to protest Kay Israel's article "Junket to Monticello" (Chrony Nov. 21) as being inaccurate and unfair. In the first instance, the organization organi-zation which Mr. Israel chooses to satirize in the interest of humor (?) is not CCUN but Model United Nations Na-tions (MUN) . If Mr. Israel is going to slander an organization he should at least try to get the right one. Secondly, Mr. Israel was not asked to chaperone in regard to any moral consideration on the part of MUN, but rather as a means of complying with University regulations regu-lations which require all student groups to be accompanied by such personnel. Thirdly, because Mr. Israel attended at-tended one Seminar in which the driver was allegedly driving too fast and another student was in possession pos-session of some "beverage" this hardly constitutes the basis for a general slander of MUN or i t s activities. Mr. Israel failed to note in his article that while he was engaged en-gaged in Monticello two other seminars sem-inars involving approximately 15 MUN trainers and 80-100 high school I students were being held simultaneously simultan-eously in Richfield and Vernal. These seminars provide training for nearly 1500 high school students who participate in the MUN acticity which has been held annually in April on the University campus for the past ten years. I would personally like to extend an invitation to Mr. Israel and others to attend the MUN Assembly which will be held April 26-27, 1968, and judge the worth of the MUN Seminar program by the participation participa-tion of high school students throughout through-out the state as they debate such topics as the admission of Red China to the UN, methods of world wide population control, and the situation in Vietnam. In the meantime, I would suggest to Mr. Israel that he draw his humor hum-or by some other method than satirizing sat-irizing an organization which is earnestly promoting an activity which has and will continue to bring considerably more prestige to the University than Mr. Israel's contributions con-tributions to the Chronicle. Kathy Collard, Seminars Chairman, Model United Nations Free Land Editor: Notice is hereby given that the Twelfth East Boys' Club (active as of this Friday) demands similar privileges as the Greek organizations, organiza-tions, i.e., free, choice University land (on which we'll build our clubhouse). club-house). George Peters |