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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle, Wednesday, January 22, Page Eight 1986 EDITORI AL Bookstore closure will limit choices It was with disappointment that the Chronicle learned the Discount Book and Supply store was going out of business. Disappointing because we, along with other University of Utah students, will now be forced to answer to the whims of only one outlet the U. Bookstore. We will no longer have a choice as to where we want to buy our textbooks or schools supplies. With the closing of Discount Book, U. students and faculty are now forced to buy school stuffs from the U. Bookstore. Horrible as a monopoly sounds, the future for student bookbuyers may not be all that bleak. 1 The U. Bookstore seems to have been operating efficiently for the past five years, and the fact that DBS has closed will probably have little effect on the U. Bookstore. DBS never really gave the campus facility any competition because it's supply was so much smaller and prices were often higher. But, the U. Bookstore now has a dire responsibility to keep running efficiently. Jacking up prices just because students have nowhere else to turn to buy books and supplies is no way to run an efficient and campus bookstore. Hopefully, the U. Bookstore will keep that in mind. Doing so will make saying goodbye to DBS a little bit easier. well-respect- ed Senate bill needed toTheincrease donors success rate of increasing organ transplantations has created a large, unmet demand for organ donors. Although statistics show that 70 percent of Americans are willing to give up their organs after death, organ shortages continue to exist because willing donors often fail to make necessary arrangements. Most people don't spend much time thinking about or planning for their deaths, let alone what they will do with their body parts when the time comes. And families of the recently deceased are rarely in the frame of mind to consider donating their loved-one- s' organs. As a result, patients who need organs are often unable to benefit from the good intentions of potential donors. That's where Senate Bill 44, which is before the Utah Legislature, could help. The bill will require hospitals to ask the family of a deceased person about organ donation, and could increase the number of transplant organs available. The Chronicle believes everyone should consider becoming an organ donor. More importantly, those who decide to donate should obtain a donor card and make arrangements with their family to insure that their desire is carried out. But in cases where potential donors could be lost merely because the hospital is hesitant to ask, a law like Senate Bill 44 is essential for increasing available organs. LHRO NICLE The Daily Utah Chronicle is an independent student newspaper published during fall, 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 opinions of the student body or the administration. Subscriptions are S25 a year, $10 an academic quarter,. All subscriptions must be prepaid. Forward all subscription correspondence, including change of address, to the Business Manager, Daily Utah Chronicle, 240 Union, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112. M&K-- A I Compassion and understanding more important than 'morality' that is not above making value judgments on personal lifestyles, maybe he is better off. The problem is that some people in Utah have forgotten that apart from morality, humans should also be capable of compassion and undemanding. What has occurred is the belief that morals are made by the ruling class, those in power or those who run organized What is morality? People have debated the issue for centuries and religions have tried to push their moral ideals on believers since the beginning of organized worship. Take the issue of Clair Harward's excommunication from the Mormon Church. If you arc unaware of who Harward is, let me jog your memory: He is an Ogden resident dying of cancer brought on by Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or as it is frequently called, with a certain sense of horror, AIDS. OPINION BY Fara Warner When Harward approached his bishop, to talk of his homosexuality and need for spiritual guidance, he knew of his impending death. Harward asked for forgiveness. What he got wasn't close to the understanding and compassion that he needed. He received a slanted view of morality. After excommunication, he was told to practice the Golden Rule (do unto others as you would have done unto you) and think twice about attending church because of his mysterious, fatal disease. Obviously, the people who told him about the Golden Rule didn't understand what it implies. Because of their actions, it is evident they thought they did not have to follow the rule; it applied only to Harward. Did they ever wonder how they would feel if they asked for understanding and guidance and were denied it? This double standard seems to be the guidepost for morality in our culture, no matter what the moral ethic. Because we can preach morality does not imply that we have the ability to follow any idealistic moral theory. Jesus Christ became known for his belief in the Golden Rule and what it innately meant. And others pondered its moral ideal before him and continue to do so. The fact is most of us cannot follow this optimistic rule. Maybe because we don't know how we want to be treated? Someone once told me that I should put myself in another person's position before making any judgments. I can't say that following this advice will lead to being moral, or whether morality entails following the Golden Rule, but I do know that the action of excommunicating someone from any faith because of their lifestyle does not denote morality, either. However, it wasn't the act of excommunication that made me angry. In fact, if Harward belongs to a church Editorial Board: Peter Behle, Marva Bickle, Shauna Bona, Lisa Carricaburu, Shia Kapos, Debbie E. Milne, John Youngren. Editor-in-Chi- i CM SALE ef Associate Editor News Editor .... Editorial Editor Sports Editor Gty Editor Photography Editor Copy Editor Extra Editor Asst. Editorial Editor-- . Asst. Sports Editor Reporters Peter Behle Debbie Eldredge Milne Lisa Carricaburu Shia Kapos John Youngren Marva Bickle Steve Griffin ". . ... '. Dory Donner Fara Warner Shauna Bona religion. Morality in the United States, and Utah in particular, seems to derive its origin from sexual morals, often thought to come from the Puritans who immigrated to America. But does that actually constitute morality? Does your lifestyle and how you choose to live your life have to be overpowered by another's perception of morality? Harward may not be an average, ill post-industr- ial out if actors or politicians are homosexual or if their spouses are having affairs. In Salt Lake City, some people seemed more intrigued by. Harward's homosexuality than by the fact that he is dying of cancer. If we are the only species that kills its own for the sake of killing, we might be the only species that denies compassion and love simply on the premise that someone doesn't hold the same moral beliefs we do. Fara Warner is a sophomore studying journalism. She is Extra Editor for the Chronicle. Mike Prater Loren Jorgensen Donn Walker Accountant Kay Andersen Classifieds Dawn Bacher Amy Page Production Manager Robb Welch Drew Staffanson Production Assistants Randy Sheya Todd Crosland Mark Murphy Carrie Hadden Janet Taylor Christine Dangerfield Dee Naquin Photographer Business Manager Ad Representatives run-of-the-m- Utahn, but does being different make him any less a moral human being, any less worthy of basic human compassion and understanding? If people follow the warped sense of morality that abounds in Salt Lake City and around the country, they are giving up what hopefully makes us human: the ability to empathize and feel for others of our own species. Most of us have been bombarded with the phrase: Humans are the only animals who kill their own simply for the sake of killing. But do we ever stop to consider what that actually means? We are so caught up in our petty, picky beliefs on sexual morality that we forget we still act barbarically in the age, the age of high technology. It seems we are so intrigued by the personal sexual lives of people, that killing and death no longer hold any horror for us. Maybe this is the reason the National Enquirer has the largest subscription of any "newspaper" in the country. Somewhere, someone misinterpreted morality, giving sexual denotations that actually have nothing to do with morality at all. Instead of trying to stop the onslaught of death by wars, we have sunk to the depths of trying to find Todd Crosland Robert McOmber Jill Aggeler Rick Chase Alan Overmoe Mary Safi . Hausknecht John Typesetters . . ..... . ., Rodney Dallin Carol Sawaya |
