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Show The Paily Utah Chronicle, Wednesday, March 2, PfOiaOSed -- u . 1983 nhilri-racYrai- rrt - Page Seven ww hill imjii deserves approval of Senate Ostensibly, the Utah Senate doesn't havens much common sense as the House when it comes to child protection. ; f Last week the House passed a bill by a margin of 9 which would require' parents to keep their children strapped into restraining seats while riding in a car. But the controversial bill, SB 17, risks defeat at the hands of the Senate. . The bill would make it mandatory that children 3 and under be restrained while riding in the front seat of a car. And children would have to use either a seat belt or restraining seat. Opponents say they're ready to filibuster to defeat the bill because it would infringe 41-2- The only freedom it would infringe upon is the parental right to be careless with children's safety, Senators set on defeating the bill have obviously never seen a child fly through a windshield in compliance ; with Newton's second law of motion. And r thy're obviously forgetting the right children have to be protected from irresponsible parents. As for inconvenience, SB17 will likely promote about as much hassle as it takes to go to the store, buy a restraining seat and install it in a car. A lot cheaper than replacing a windshield or making funeral arrangements, we might add. Besides, if the bill does meet with public repugnance, it includes a provision which would cause it to expire in three years. So why all the opposition to saving life? upon parental freedom and cause unnecessary inconvenience; Hog wash. GOOPGOP,,. 1 ' For most of us at the University and at BYU, 1982's ar football clash Nov. 20 ended at around 4 p.m. with the Zoobies getting out of Rice Stadium with a 17-victory a contest memorable mainly for the way the Utes let a big win slip through their fingers. But for others specifically a Utah County dishrag called the Central Utah Journal the game goes on. . . and on and on. The Journal, you may recall, was the newspaper that broke the big story about the "drunken and filthy" behavior of Ute fans at that game; charging, among other things, that the Utah faithful "were drinking every kind of alcoholic beverage imaginable," additional action to clean up." In short, it seems the Journal's Nelson wants to know why the earth didn't move, why the seas didn't part and why heads didn't roll when his thundering piece of gibberish came down the pipe Ute-Coug- 12 syL et ... : Crossfire crap " Editor: . From now on I, for one, don't want to have to pay for this kind of Muzak played by typical conforming Mormon bands. '." Michael Leader - To ASUU, RHSA and especially LDSSA, Next time you hold a dance, make sure you don't get a band like Crossfire. Don't you think we get enough crip songs like Crossfire played on stations like KBYU-F96. Now we have to pay bad bands with our ASUU funds to play mem. This kind of Muzak contributes to the stagnation of the music industry, but that is. : rS another issue. ' M ' Nukepower Editor: Sen. Orrin Hatch is just as guilty as Sen. Levin and Stan Holmes for quoting numbers. Numbers do not tell us who is the biggest winter and spring quarters, excluding test weeks and quarter breaks, by the University Publications Council. Editorials reflect the opinion of the editorial board, and not necessarily the opionions of the, student body or the administration. Subscriptions are $25 a year, $10 an academic quarter.1 All subscriptions must be prepaid. Forward all subscription correspondence,, including change of address, to the Business Manager, Daily Utah Chronicle, 249 Union, UrJvmity of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 841 12. Editor-in-chi- "' : military power in the world. I would like to point out a big area of concern when evaluating who is the most powerful country. This area is intentions. Is intentions a constant factor in Joan O'Brien Joe Baird Brian Wilkinson Michael Morris ef ' Editor , Copy Editorial Editor Sports Editor Photography Editor Entertainment Editor Assistant Copy Editors ed . yC Senior Reporters Matt Adelman . . ' Associate Editor ' News Editor v Steve Green Ann Jardine Jill Johnson . Photographers c ' Talk about wasted space and my wasted money! Last Friday's Chronicle was a not see wasting pages of the Chronicle on a confirmation of my suspicions. I really could poorly done "Bridal Section," when I would University activities. I mean, who really cares if Jane Doe marries Joe Stud? It makes me wonder why I even bother to read the Chronicle-afte- r all. Another dissatisifed customer, Leslee A. Ron Editor's note: Friday's bridal issue, as well as our other special issues, was produced to generate advertising revenue. . Secretary ' Backshop Foreman Assistant Foreman. Backshop Assistants , . . Patty Felkner David Husted Business Manager '; Robert McOmber Ad Representatives Steve Hausknecht .' Julia Jenkins Troy Wibon .'Jerry Stanger John Kennevick Typesetters Mike Stevens Lori Baucum Audrey Grover Brian Moss Leslie Keith' Maryam Hedayati Mike Lloyd Alison Van Frank Rod Dallin Deanne Harper Mary Kienitz Eric Gumey Robert Long . : : Accountant Bonnie Thomas . ' . -- rather see the paper devoted more toward Acct. Asst. ' KimOsborn Brian Aggeler Tony Tsakakis Mike Johnson Lesly Herbert Tina E. Neinstedt MarkSaal Peter Behle Assistant Sports Editor Assistant Entertainment Editor Kinde Nebeker Editor: suppose Khadafy acquired 10 nuclear missiles. Because he may have an intent to use them just . may make him the greatest military power on this tarth. . There are other factors used in evaluating power. They are: is your opponent about aU tests, how well is the what weapons and delivery trained, military are currently available (planes and systems missiles do break down), methods of troop and many deployment, the chain of command ' " others. , . , The three previous letters against Holmes ; I just ask that Sen; Hatch, Sen. were well-sai- d. Levin and Stan Holmes take a look at all the factors involved before quoting numbers. Steven K. Anderson ; well-inform- us Dissatisfied : evaluating power? I don't think so. Let's Editorial Board: Brian Aggeler, Joe Baird, Michael Morris, Joan O'Brien, Brian Wilkinson. The Daily Utah Chronicle is an independent student newspaper published daily during fall, v& j The Chronicle welcomes letters to the editor from readers. line. Letters of 200 words or Letters must be typed on a less will be given priority. All letters must include signature, valid mailing address and telephone number. The Chronicle reserves the right to edit for libel, propriety and space. Typewriters are available for use in the Chronicle offices, Union 240. letters the first time. Well, I think I know why. First of all, the fact of the matter is that fan behavior at that Utah-BY- U game was no worse or better than it has been traditionally through the years. So aside from Nelson and his gang of renegade nobody really witnessed anything out of the ordinary. Yes, there were people drinking and yes there were people shouting obscenities and yes there were people drinking and shouting obscenities. And I hate to break it to the Journal in such a sudden and shocking way, but people tend to do these things at football games. It's sort of an old American tradition. I can't speak for football crowds at BYU, because the only game I saw there was from the press box, but I have seen games in other cities Dallas, San Francisco and Seattle among them and Ute crowds aren't a whole lot different from the crowds in those places. One gets the impression from Nelson's prose that he's never been to a football game outside of Utah County, or perhaps never even been outside of Utah County period. This man was genuinely' shocked, repulsed and disgusted by what he saw on that cloudy afternoon at Rice Stadium. So the game goes on for the Journal, even on into March. And hack publication it doesn't matter to this smug, how many journalistic principles and ethics it has to pillage in the process to keeping this bogus story alive. Nelson's crusade that swearing and drinking at University football games must stop rolls on. Good luck. I really doubt he'll have much success though. Gardner's headed for Berkeley, Snow has more important matters on his mind these days and, at the bottom line, a fair segment of the and the tailgaters i.e. season ticket University student-bod- y holders. drink and swear, sometimes at football games. Much as Nelson would like it to be, this isn't Utah County, nor will it ever be. It would serve the Journal well to keep that in : . mind. self-righteo- 74-spa- ce - ' do-good- participating in cheers "that accused BYU students of unnatural and distasteful sex acts (they didn't go into any detail here)," that the Ute cheerleaders "were actually leading some of the indecent cheers'' and most seriously, that the University administration condoned the drunkenness and obscenities. A startling expose, I'm sure you'll agree. Interestingly, the main source of the story was also the writer, Journal editor. Lee Nelson, who, along with staff photographer Don Turley, attended the game, and put his and Turley's observations on the front page of the Journal. In addition, Nelson urged his readers to write University President David Gardner and contact the appropriate state legislators "and let them know you don't like the way your tax dollars are being spent." End of story, right? Wrong. Gardner got those letters all right about 140 of them to be exact. But he didn't respond to them quite the way Nelson had hoped. In fact, Gardner didn't respond to the letters at all. Vice President of University Relations R.J. Snow did respond, but his comments about the "absurd" charges of the Journal and how the story was a good example of "poor journalism" didn't sit well with Nelson either. . v So it wasn't totally surprising when in its Feb. 5 issue that's right, .nearly three months after the game Journal headlines screamed: "U of U Rips Journal, Claims fan filth and drunkenness overstated in Journal article, refuses to take - ' : : Bogus story fives on in 'Central Utah Journal' joe baird - "T SURE, III. TAKE Staff Meteorologists v |