OCR Text |
Show Daily Utah Chronicle January 31. 1974 Page Four OBseRVAtions Your lucky day: No editorial '"'i sim tRek AMES: Take things slowly and carefully today. TAURUS: Take a heavier class load next quarter. You've been letting yourself get by too easily. (IEM1NI: Quit trying to compete with him, and face the fact that you're only human. CANCER: Take a look at the Tribune today if only to catch up on Mary Worth. LEO: Don't you ever think about peace and brother hood crap like that? VIRGO: A good day for getting it on with a Pisces. LIBRA: Your nasty habits are disgusting. Try to develop a few of the basic courtesies that you expect in others. SCORPIO: Stop acting so if you have good even paranoid It isn't going to help matters. SAGITTARIUS: Watch your reason. step. You're being tracked by the Underminers. CAPRICORN: Stop blaming your misfortunes on others. They don't care enough about you to try and screw up your life. AQUARIUS: Quit feeling embarrassed about your body. PISCES: Start eating right. Nobody should expect to maintain physical well-bein- g on the kind of stuff you've been SUNDAY DRIVER eating lately. AnOthGR 6aily Utah chRonicLe being's opinion Managing Editor News Mr. Heath in his article 'Morality Thursday 23, has a very limited knowledge of his subject. He opens his article by defining the 'New Morality' as freer sexual experience before or outside of marriage. What he means by 'freer' he doesn't go on to elaborate, but he does say that all sexual experience as such is cheapening to the participants and devoid of any associations of love. He then goes on to base the rest of his article on the above false assumptions, applying his generalizations widely and with Stephen Schowengerdt Joe Kelleher Editor Lauri Hobbs, Rex Nutting Ron Varela Bob Bernick Cindy Boshard Fred Kempe Ron Kesler Editors Chief Copy Editor Asst. Copy Editor Entertainment Editor Sports Editor Head Photographer Reporters. ..Lorraine Anderson, Hyrum Adams, Rick Brough, Cliff Crutchfield, Ed Darrell, Mary Dickson, Robert Garcia, Doon Gibbs, Don Graves, Roger Graves, Geoff Heath, Ted Inkley, Torn Jerman, Marc Johnson, Jean Johnson, Brent Larsen, Gil Martinez, Darrell Mensel, Fred Metos, Clark Miles, Paul Mortenson, Ed Pratt, David Proctor, Aldon Rachele, Keith Roark, Judie Roweli, Doug Sanderson, Laura Scholl, Alan Seko, John Serfustini, Tom Smith, James Sonntag, Hal Spencer, Steve Thiese, Paul Thorne, Rick Warner, Clarence Wider burg, Julie Hayes. 1 HtD EI :HD' A no apparent f0 A WCTOR THAT OJITH aoset?. CP6D6P so MI6HT vie we FOR IT MM 000) AROXOp or 11 'historical facts' to have us believe. His definition of the new morality may be correct as far as definitions go, but trying to label it under the banner of 'immorality' is ludicrous. Instead, I would contend that the only difference between today's morality and that of a generation age is that it is more open. Sex is now less a word to stigmatize and hush up than it was yesterday and this is a step in a positive direction. Like Mr. Heath, too many people assume that love and sex can only exist (morally, perhaps) within the legal binds of marriage. The problem here is that this is not necessarily so. Two people can have just as SAP IT I A of he would like his I I will admit that marriage does have an important place in society and I don't believe that the above statement underminds it it takes individuals to do that. If two people do decide to make sexual experience a part of their relationship they might want to consider the reasons for their actions before undertaking them. For example: (1) are they having sex because it can be fun (2) are they having sex because they wish to fulfill physical andor emotional needs, or (3) are they having sex because they love their partner and want to bring this deeper measure of closeness to their relationship? In any case, by honestly their excommunicating pectations beforehand, they 7 actions IT UP. AMP AFTER A T(M WAS the closeness of sex outside of marriage, as those within. It doesn't or shouldn't take a piece of paper to make the difference. stand a better chance of being able to accept the consequences and responsibilities of their S6SO)S I K6PT 66ASO!0S I method discrimination as he attempts to prove that said 'sexual experience' is loose and a detriment IT-- My by A. Neilson It appears to this reader that to society, as John Cummock Business Manager Editor-in-Chi- ef meaningful a relationship based on the foundations of love and Another human Published daily, except during test week, by the Publications Council of the University of Utah. The opinions expressed on the editorial pages of the Daily Utah Chronicle do not necessarily represent the views of the studentbody or the University administration. Subscription rates $4.00 a quarter or $12.00 school year. K. Roulhac Garn VieW-Rebut- tal: AM A18AIR0SS. be they happy, pleasurable or sad. Siding with many prominent doctors and psychologists of today, I would further argue that an individual's sexual identity is very real and should be as important to him as any other part of his total self, if not more important in some areas. In establishing a healthy understanding of a person's sexual needs and desires, one must learn to go beyond the ignorance and confusion that still surrounds this topic and educate himself to the 'self that he is. It is as simple as that and hopefully this education will stop people from following Mr. Heath's path , which suggests that after some years of marriage, they may wake up to find themselves still in the arms of a mental virgin. |