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Show Everybody knows! Ednhard Wintch's letter in the February 4, 1969 Chronicle affords an opportunity to make a Lint He seems to feel that Conservation and wilderness 'reservation problems should legitimately be the concern only If certain specialists. Who are these specialists? From Wintch's letter we might infer that zoologists are not among them and that cattlemen are. Physicists are definitely out. In my opinion everybody's in. If ever there was a truly public issue in whlch every A plague on Utah Editor: We are writing in response to the expose' televised last Tuesday on NBC's The First Tuesday in February. This program charged that there were areas in the University Chemistry Building in which University personnel were involved in the testing of chemical biological warfare (CBW) agents. Among the agents tested were numerous serious diseases such as bubonic plague and anthrax. It was further slated that people could not enter these areas without being inoculated at pro-football, and all the rest ot our apple-pie, Kate Smith, God Bless America society is simply a subtle version of the Roman Coliseum? Today's American culture is sicker than a pooch, and the modern Mormon Church, contrary to its opinion of itself, uses and capitalizes on all that is tawdry and phony in American thought. Come on Nelson, come on all other thinkers-it's time to expose all the mediocre, smug, apple-pie pap this country is umbilicaled to-and that includes self-righteous Utahns hanging around their apple-pie kitchens reading one-sided saccharine spawned on the north side of South Temple and sold on the south side! Keith Moore Poor evaluation Editor: I just looked through my new copy of the course evaluations and it seems to me that the only valid conclusion that can be drawn from it is the teachers who give the highest percentage of "A's" and "B's" get the highest ratings. Check the correlation between numbers of "A's" and the rating of two teachers teaching the same course and you will see what I mean. I have never had Prof. Kranes in the English Department and from all I've heard he really teaches a good course, but anyone who gives 94 per cent "A's" is boung to get a high rating! I think it was a much better system a couple years ago when the evaluation committee published a short paragraph on each course and teacher, describing the aim and content of the course, whether a paper is required, what kind of tests are used etc. Alice Christensen individual has a personal muc una 'S'a point that seems to be often overlooked in the fracas surrounding President Johnson's enlargement of Arches and Capitol Reef National Monumnets is that the land involved is public land. Even a non-specialist can see, after a few successive visits to the Tetons (for example), the rapidly growing public pressure on our National Parks and Monuments. It has been said that all the wilderness that will be saved will be saved in this generation. Everyone-cattlemen, miners, you and I-have an interest in this. B. Gale Dick Poor pass-fail plan Editor: I, for one, attended the meeting for the new proposal for the Pass-D-Fail option, and I do NOT ' agree with the new presentation. First of all, according to the bill, the new standard will permit those students of junior standing only for the credit-no credit plan. As a treshman, and undecided in my major, I am definately against this rule. . . how about us who would like to search around, trying new and different classes, but are discouraged by this type of action??? Grading in the various areas won't do much for my CPA!!! Why the approval of the advisor? This is just a lot of busy work on our part and bother of the advisors. According to the new plan, D and E work would not receive credit. Is a D that bad that we must be punished by not receiving any credit at all??? I was always taught that if I at least tried, D work was passing. And as for the 70 per cent of the students in attendance of the meeting who responded favorably, I bet half didn't know what they were raising their hands for! The meeting was in such a hassle and rush, some I know put their hands up just to get out of there. By the way, should 28 students (that's 70 per cent of the less-than-40 who attended-I counted) determine the future of the whole studentbody? I think not. Any other comments? Elaine Barbieri uugway rroving Grounds for ' these diseases. Evidence to this effect was given by both as Assistant Professor of Biology and ' a Salt Lake City fireman (who was denied entry when responding to numerous alarms involving that section of the building). Our question to the University is basically, does the above situation in fact exist in the center of our campus of 17,000 sutdents and 1300 faculty? If the above is true, what thought has been given to the possibility of human error which could involve the wellbeing of not only the students and faculty but also the 600,000 people that reside in this metropolitan area? Surely as members of this student body and faculty, we have the right to the ; answers of these questions from the Administration. Well, President Fletcher???????? Gary Clayton ; John N. Short Michael Reed I Fredric R. Kolb Mom and apple pie Editor: Bravo bravo bravo and amen amen amen to John Nelson's forthright panoply of Salt Lake City in Friday's Chronicle. Nelson's "O, You Sons of Pioneers!" is itself a "holy diorama." Bravo and amen! anyone in his right mind cannot be fed through that computerized, sterilized phoniness which is the Temple Square Visitors Center and come out regarding God as anything but a stereophonic diode. The whole modern LDS culture has become a vain strumpet with pink things in her hair--what fabulous images, Nelson-and true! That Christmas Street Nelson refers to-I know it well-it's Glen Arbor. Don't make any bones about it-the name of it is Glen Arbor-and Nelson couldn't have better portrayed the sheepishness of its denizens. I've had my eye on Glen Arbor, as well as Fenway Avenue, for many Christmases now-pathetic. That Uncle Sam in the Orange Bowl parade-yes, Nelson, you've captured a perfect symbol of the country. When are people going to wake up and realize with you, John Nelson, that TV, |
