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Show lie Daily Utah Chronicle. Friday, Jane 3, 1977 Page Five In theof Far East A GUEST OPINION If you think thai this article is a tnbute to that giar.t better known as Higher Education, you should be commended for your thinking. Despite the pain which some people fee!, having to spend three or four years cf their lives in an institution called a University, I'm sure 1 speak for hundreds of others when I say that the higher ed system does contribute some very valuable elements to the life cf the individual who approaches it with some sincenty. Where else, at the age of young adulthood can the average person gain such a diversity of knowledge and exposure to the social intellectual political and spiritual foundations existing within the world today? We, as students, have a weekly, if not a daily opportunity to supplement our classroom learning with an abundance of cultural aesthetic, and leisure experiences provides by a diversity cf student-ru- n organizations which have been, for the most part, highly supported by this University's administration. Such experiences cannot be gained from reading a textbook or even the likes of our heralded news media the Tribune and Deseret News. This experience which I of with current politicians, you and have coming in contact religious leaders, business tycoons, famed scientists, multifarious social groups, etc, is cne of the best ways of obtaining knowledge and a proper perspective about things in general. It helps each of us to better determine exactly hat our role in this sometimes chaotic life might be, and what you and I might do to provide ourselves and ethers with a more precise, efiicier.t and enriched standard cf living Certainly those who have never entertained a university first-han- Sl&tfHS d (Comer Fairmont Park) Annual Honors Spring Picnic education have not been where the action is. What ether segment in sDCiety besides college students is continually being fed knowledge at such a profuse rate and even then, right at their own doorstep? This is where the action is. We are in the center of the stage when it comes to the generation of new ideas, unexcelled scientific inventions, solutions to the energy crisis, and even solutions regarding equal rights. You can bet that the men in power in this country lock to the faculty and students of this great nation's universities io provide the answers to tomorrow's as well as today's problems. Federal research monies which reach university campuses total into billions of dollars. This University happens to be included in the top 30 schools within the United States which are currently receiving the largest share of federal funding. As a final punchline, and in light of what I've been saying, I must say that the University has been good to me. If all I had been able to gain from my university experience was a chance to attend the various events around campus on a consistent basis, I would have been better educated for having dene so. 1 agree with President Gardner when he said that he feels sorry for those students who just view a University education as nothing mere than a ticket to a job. University life is much mere than that and for those that disagree, I must candidly ask you what you are doing here. As for me and my house, higher education is probably the most valuable asset I will ever have invested in when this life comes to an end. Jon H. Carlson Saturday June 4th 4:00 p.m. Price 50 1 p?1 :': Fairmont Park (Northside Parking Lot) SVti. Vym UV OF THE TIMES - trwm 3 1 For Your Summertime Pleasure ( "HUES HXPCW-Wift- We have become compla- The Readers' Viewpoint continued from page 4 appreciated. Copies of these petitions will be sent to Utah representatives and congressmen. President Carter and Secretary of Energy James Schlesinger. Thank you very much. Roger Gayton II Tlie drought Editor: the reservoirs? It comes primarily from the snow pack in the mountains. In case you can't recall the nature of our snow last winter, I would invite you to contact Dick Frost of the Park West Ski Resort He'll tell you exactly what it was like. If, in fad, you are still skeptical I would invite you to the Capitol Building Union. With these two facts alone, water conservation should be a way of life whether there is a drought or throughout the state and with not. that data compiles a "Snow Cover Survey" and a "Stream Flow Forecast" I will acquaint you with Arlo Richardson, the state climalologist who, each week, 'compiles a report of recorded precipitation. He'll tell you exactly what the recent rairs have done for us and what theyhave not done. I will acquaint you- with Paul Gillette of the Division of Water Resources who can tell you the effects that the drought has had on the smaller towns of Utah. I will also acquaint you with Sherm Harmer of the Utah Cattlemen's Association who will tell you exactly how the drought is affecting cattlemen. These are very real effects from a very real drought and this is only the first year. Hopefully the drought will not run a cycle of Bring Disco Soul to the Union Ballroom June 15 The fact remains, however, and is tangibly documented that we are presently exDeriencing a drought a drought which has brought us even less precipitation this year than was experienced in 1934, and a refusal to believe in its existence will certainly not solve it. Tickets are $3.00 Available at Tape Head, Gepettos A.S.U.U. & S.E.C. Lou Chandler - In answer to an earlier letter to the editor concerning the drought situation, I submit that a person would have to be blind, deaf and dumb to even consider the possibility that the drought is being fabricated by public officials! Consider, if you will, reservoir storage. Where does the water come from to fill dreds of check points cent about our water supply. We have forgotten that we live in an arid climate, that, as a matter of fact Utah is the second driest state in the CORPORATION" '77 T where I will acquaint you with Gilbert Searl of the Soil Conservation Service who, once a month, takes readings from hun c ( n 5 several years as many meteorologists have predicted. But if it does, all skepticism will be short lived. This generation has been fortunate not to have severe experienced a the 1934 drought (Such as seem would Drought.) And it to us, in this generation, that the availability of water holds no limit. g 5 G a JI n r 1 J fiuniver SAVE 20-- 70 i 6 & 7 outside Patio june on School Supplies Giftware, Calculators Clothing, Art & Engineering SupP'ieS I 9 y Sity t)OOK olUlO JJ 5 g 5 K jj |