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Show Letters to the Ed.Ton False implication Editor: Messrs. Yauney and Reed in Letters Let-ters to the Editor published Friday Fri-day state in passing that Total Environmental Awareness Movement Move-ment (TEAM) will be sponsoring a variety of riots on Wednesday and imply that they will be attended at-tended exclusively by "potheads and various other varieties of grubs." I am somewhat at a loss to know by what definition of the term "riot" speeches and presentations pre-sentations by the State Planning Coordinator, the Bureau of Land Management, Sen. Frank E. Moss and John Charles Daly (to name only a few) can be so classified. If Yauney and Reed are unaware that the April 22 program includes in-cludes such participants, perhaps the person who reads them this letter could also recite to them the contents of the April 15 Chronicle Chron-icle article which outlines the Earth Day activities. Yauney and Reed cannot rationally ra-tionally contend that reclamation of the environment does not demand de-mand immediate and individual attention. They attempt to discredit dis-credit the environmental teach-in, however, by suggesting that the quality of life is a concern of only one segment of our society. Since something must and is going to be done, I would think Messrs. Yauney and Reed would want to be actively involved in channeling channel-ing the efforts that will be made rather than to leave this direction exclusively to those for whom they express contempt. STEVEN H. POND Don't care? Editor: Just before splash down in MBH 112, the T.V. was in operation. oper-ation. The room was packed with students. At the 11:00 bell, six minutes before splash down, those of us not in this class were asked 13 exit and observe the historic event another place. The instructor instruc-tor also asked the members of his class who wanted to soe splash down to leave. Another T.V. was not available. Approached with this information, the instructor decided to be "democratic." "dem-ocratic." After all, the individuals indivi-duals in the class had paid their tuition (these of us in the hall had not?). Given a choice to observe splash down or hold class not one student favored the former. We think this instructor and class must be of the opinion that their class was mere valuable than six minutes of concern for the astronauts. Is this a room full of people who don't care about others? We think so. Our instructors instruc-tors dismissed classes, stating that they couldn't say anything more important than what was taking place. Wo agree. What is more important than six minutes of history in the making? Whether or not one agiocs with the space program, we believe that current history and education must be eminent. LINDA BUCK MARIE COBISI Increase grant Editor: Undoubtedly, some students will become angered at the proposal to give the studentbody president an additional $100 per month. They Will not ask why or even consider the merits for such an increase for the ASUU president. In the past, the ASUU president presi-dent had to be rather wealthy to run as president and wealthy to maintain himself in office-. The presidents that weren't so wealthy had to hold down a part-time job in order to keep their heads above water while maintaining the full-time full-time job as ASUU president. The extra $100 will permit the ASUU president the freedom from holding down a part-time job and will enable him to more adequately ade-quately cover expenses in traveling travel-ing to the different Universities around the Intermountain West in carrying out his presidential duties. Finally, financial incentive tends to create interest and competition com-petition which the ASUU needs if it is to survive the coming year. MICHAEL R. WEILER Petition Editor: I wish to petition the Executive Council (and all else concerned) that hovers over the studentbody with superficial powers of representation repre-sentation to forego the mandate granting the ASUU president a monthly allowance. (It can be anticipated that egomaniacs assuming as-suming pseudopudicial and political poli-tical authority holds over University Uni-versity policies will take discriminating discrim-inating care to satisfy their own needs.) As an alternative to the immediate necessity of increasing increas-ing the president's salary, why not use some forethought and expect ex-pect the ASUU president (and all else concerned) to cut expenditures expendi-tures allowing for better use of University funds? I am disenchanted With the notion that a puppet government of students can dictate any change when it concerns funds, student concerns, etc., when in actuallity they represent only 4,000 or less of a total 20,000 students. stu-dents. Student government today is the spontaneous response of the majority. Because the majority remains deaf to elections that amount to little more than "games the names must play," I submit the following proposals: 1) No increase of the student-body student-body president's grant (no allowance allow-ance at all if it pleases the majority. ma-jority. Let the 4,000 or less pay the ASUU president's salary from their own resources). 2) Discontinuance of student government by elimination of the government when 50 percent or more of the studentbody elects not to vote (I equate this deafness with a vote of support for the staff governing the studentbody). I request that individuals submit sub-mit similar petitions in acceptance accept-ance of petition items one and two contained herein. BRUCE B. DEMOND Glorify death? Editor: The article by Bruce Pingree on the Late Sen. Robert Kennedy was interesting. The death of a groat politician is always tragic. However, it is not necessary to drag out and glorify death. The impression left by the column is that Kennedy was the only great politician around. Kennedy, while standing firm in his beliefs and his henest appraisal, did not represent rep-resent "rationality." His campaign cam-paign was crowded With emotionalism. emotion-alism. His image was not one of solidarity. After all, he lost the Oregon primary. Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey had, even at the time of the California primary, a majority of the then committed state delegates to the convention. Let's hope that Democrats can catch a vision. Let's hope they even get to open their eyes. Kennedy, while believing in cer tain concepts and with I honesty accepting those coT'l as truth, ran for a politb7:T ice as a full-blooded do.J The fact that he was a if I and that he died, however I ically, does not make those I cepts absolute truth. Let' I deify mortal politicians Lef'T name the works of a manl political campaign as g0 I trine. I DENNIS RandI Reply I Editor: I I would like to reply to I Chronicle letter of April lj I Richard Mart in which he I to obscenities. I I sat next to the nianwiftj notebook and pencil whose & I accidentally fell out of hist I pocket. Granted, that . J shouldn't have fallen out of' I pocket, but it didn't twirl aw-1 "on the floor for a minute ""I fell with a very audible thud's:! I denly, and he picked it npj secured it just as suddenly. I Mart, in his cincluding $ I graph, talks about guns ja p, j lie meetings. This was no ore I I ary public meeting, and the r-1 majority of those attending t meeting were not ordinaiyjJ pie. Terms like "kill the pjJ and the so-called Viet Cong Y.I of liberation" winning in yJ nam got considerably more fcl polite applause. I Someone actually led the a: J ence in the yelling of an obsce: t phrase. Perhaps, he could, if:l had so desired, had all us "J cists" in the room roughed c I It's too bad these people ea: I ( suitably express their opiifc ' Without profane language. Mo; I people, I am sure, have used ti l language, especially when 1 1 are angry or upset, but there . I just no excuse for obscenities y a public meeting. I LAWRENCE KAUFFStj Equal treatment I 31 Editor: I According to a Chronicle artij stl April 17, two people, Jean fcl fh anot and Victor Gordon, arti- ing prosecuted for "speaking;! vo scene or lewd words in apoi.j place." We must not allow fel two men to be singled out it ra' punished for 1) exercising 1 1 iUl right of free speech and 2) bar. I Un the courage to not be intimida: I la by the threat of state haras I I, fcr one, am unwilling to: I cept Attorney General YE I Romney's "legal" opinion it matter. I suggest that each i-1 who (joyfully) shouted obsafj S in that rally submit his I name to the Attorney Gl Ior office demanding equal treat I under the law (i.e., Mi'. R j interpretation of the law), I haps, if we all were to detl jury trials, we might be-stop be-stop this blatant attempt at' sorship. WiWHid I tne mmm Put Hoe Letters and Letters should be addres scn( the Editor, Daily Utah (W; Union Bldg. Letters of an)' will be accepted, ho. length of not more -d words is preferred. ' haf space limitations, short" may often receive priority- -m ( as t |