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Show Store Board comprised of students and faculty who seek to represent all interests of the campus community. This. board will hear complaints from those who have exhausted the regular channels and need help in obtaining a settlement. Miss Harmon and Miss Hunter are most welcome to attend the open meeting this fall. The time and place will be announced in the Chronicle. If an urgent situation arises, I, as board chairman, will be most happy to meet with the complainants individually or in a regular monthly meeting of the board. The Book Store management, the University Administration and the board all sincerely wish to offer the best possible service. Shortcomings exist because we don't always give one another the chance to respond to one another's complaints. Richard W. Boss Book Store Board Chairman Crucify 1 a century Editor: Re: "The Cobra and I" of Oct. 4. NFK should be either more careful about his statements or less subtle about their intent. While pointing out the fact that dissenters are being "crucified," if that's what he was saying, meriteu repeating, and the analogy comparing dissenters to Christs, again if the obvious was his premise may have been fine, Ezra Pound's statement was definitely not the one to quote. This is if NFK's intent was to come out and say just what he meant. However, there is the possibility that Khan's use of the quotation was done as very subtle irony. If so, the unenlightened many of the studentbody should be turned on to the circumstances under which Ezra Pound made the statement "a Christ is crucified every century." Mr. Pound, along with Thomas Sterns (T.S.) Elliot, David Herbert (D.H.) Lawrence and a few other "intellectual" English writers of the time, was a fascist and made the statement about Adolf Hitler, who he and the others considered to be the savior of the world. Which, by the way, might cause one to wonder why right-wing extremists aren't "crucified" in liberal establishment, while left-wing extremists are imprisoned - for dissert in conservative establishments. Mark Edmunds Needs agitating att,: Alitor: at, apt, to-. I'm all for John Zaratiam and t ainst Dick Circuit. I say Utah Hf-eds agitation and protesting. r "uratian's great letter of Oct. 3 )nK;it only jabs the Food Services flight in the shaving cream leJ:.erinque, but hints at jabs to Usme at the whole University, is nich has been marionetting its indents long enough. The whole iat;ite is made up of puppets who'd tio;ke a long walk on a short pier if tali me "authority" counseled it. circuit hates my "BYU snows" stcause for the first time in his e he saw in print some mild iticism of his icons. This whole Eate is putrid-ripe in back-patting re ?aise so much so that no one 'n any longer comprehend the ue meanings of either the word satire" or the phrase 'constructive criticism." How instructive must it p-t sycophant? Mencken made '"-'s whole life on destructive "iticism, and so will I. dr. Ai- Keith Moore Public audit Editor: iii I must agree completely with Kie opinions set forth in the critters of Mr. Williams and Mr. fcaratian concerning the prices of abod in the Union Building and ted id my voice to the questioning its" f the Food Service. It is t. understood the Food Service is a Kjtfofit-making organization and, laj;ierefore, it is - difficult to ,j:omprehend why the Food service continues to ope'.i'.o at a -j'.SS If the venture is as much of a, ) use the vernacular, "bummer," as they would have us believe, why continue in the business? In light of the suppose deficit, may I make a suggestion. A public audit (perhaps in the Chronicle) of the Food Service's books and expenses would place the issue squarely before the students. Then if the loss is genuine, the raised prices might be more easily understood if not altogether accepted. Long live Johnny Quong. Lewis Ershler Wrong impression Editor: A recent article appeared in the Chronicle calling for "Reform in Industrial Schools." Among other things the writer John Charles Bernhardt charges the staff members with the dispensing of "cruel and sadistic punishment to any child who committed the most minor infraction of the rules." As a tax-paying citizen of this state, I am appalled by Bernhardt's accusations. He is quite uninformed as to actual conditions. He admits, indirectly, to a single tour through the Utah State Industrial School located in Ogden which could hardly support his serious charges. In Bernhardt's article his proof for the alleged evil at the Industrial School is not fact nor even anything he actually saw, but rather a "feeling" he had as he took a tour. One is left to ponder just what Bernhardt is hoping to gain by this deliberate attempt to cast dispersions on a group of dedicated, self-sacrificing staff members. Is he engaging in the common error these days of hoping to gain personal recognition at the expense of others? Is Bernhardt aware of the good done at the Institution where I have first-hand knowledge over the past ten years? Is Bernhardt aware of the many recent improvements and those in process at the School, which attempts similar to his own could well postpone or cancel out altogether? In conclusion, the need for reform & desirable everywhere, not just in our State Industrial School. We all should seek improvement, and the Industrial School is not unlike any other institution that we could mention in some undesirable incidents. However, we should attempt to keep in perspective our complaints. Do isolated incidents (as surely there must be here and everywhere) present an accurate picture of the whole? And finally are we going to effectuate reform anywhere with negative slander? I advocate the positive avenue to progress, and let's base our opinions and conclusions upon fact, not "feelings." Clifford L. Cobia Contact manager Editor: In Oct. 3's Chronicle Kathy Harmon and Brenda Hunter reported that they were dissatisfied with service at the University Book Store. They indicated they talked with a "brainwashed" clerk but do not say whether they approached Jim Allison, Book Store manager, to discuss their problem. Mr. Allison doesn't remember a visit from either of them. Mr. Allison is always ready to talk with students who feel the Book Store has not satisfied them. He is often handicapped by not knowing who these people are. It is disconcerting to learn their names in the Chronicle because, at that point, it is often too late to rectify the specific situation which led to the dissatisfaction. We, as patrons of the University Book Store, or as patrons of any business organization, owe it to the person in charge to contact him to discuss dissatisfaction with products or services. If he does not respond, other channels are appropriate. The University has a Book |