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Show Friday, March 6, 1S87 Paga Four James Gilson Law student Editor I find it interesting that Shauna Bona and Lisa Carricabum pat themselves on the back in their column ,Ureh 3 for being responsible Journalists during the recent If ASUU campaign. They claim that they suspected abuses in the AAA camp but that their "misgivings were impossible to confirm. Any purported standards they had were quickly tossed aside by their unsubstantiated criticism of Mark Paul, Ron Nielsen and Dave Dellenbach. Ethics in journalism, if they exist at all, should be constant not just while the campaign is on or while the story is hot. Bona's and Carricaburu's reliance on innuendo in the Opinion page perhaps is evidence they weren't so 4 calculations are right . . Junior You'll Flip For Hungry Guy 10a.m.-l- l GOD." That's the attitude Craig Vetter (from Playboy magazine), takes toward writing. And that's the way Take-Ou- p.m. 11 -- 7 p.m. ra Now those rush jobs will be handled as easily as picking up your remote control. I I Buy a 13 lb. Hungry Guy Deluxe burger, get a small Open 24 hours. 200 University Street Si order of fries FREE! 3 87 One coupon per person per visit I w riting is. Writing is not a dainty game of polite diction and dotted "i"s. Writing is sweat, spit and pain that has been yanked through a lexicon and slapped onto the page. Writing is not pretty. Everyone believes they can write more than just college papers (even me). Everyone has those hidden poems they arc secretly proud of. Everyone is told they have a novel inside them. But without the skill to write, inside is where that novel should remain. Secrecy is mercy to those poems. Stringing words together is not writing. Courage is what every good writer has. Writing is the lonely task of making one's self vulnerable. As Vetter writes, "Writing is a blood sport, a walk in the garden of agony every time out, which is why those who are any good at it look older than their contemporaries, snap at children on the street, live alone." But "writers" are addicted. Writing is a kind of agony, but it is more often exhilaration. It combines the thrills of control, the thrills of creation and the thrills of sensual pleasure. That's why real writers write. Besides, those papers are due in less than a week. Send any worthwhile, ideas or unusual news items to: Press Box, 240 Union. The Press Box is a weekly column, written and compiled by Kent Anderson, a senior majoring in English and a copy editor for the Chronicle. It' 3 a m. Vhjt frtritc B movie isovrr Vhi suddenly realize you Mill nerd those reports copied for that 7 a m. meeting. Don't panic -juvl go to Kinko's. We're open 24 hours a day, 7 djrys a urek. t Sunday PflJOO DOX : iflirii, um COUPON Offer expires -- physics, computer science SEE HUE 582-296- 2 I I coherence will count for 40 percent of the grade, and procrastination won't-"This is your enemy: a perfectly empty sheet of paper. Nothing will ever happen here except w hat you make happen. If you are stupid, what happens will be like a signed confession of that fact. If you are unfunny, a humorless patch of words will grow here. If you lack imagination, your reader will know you immediately and forever as the slug you are. Or let me put it to you this way and you may want to tattoo this somewhere on your bodies BLANK PAPER IS GOD'S WAY OF TELLING US THAT IPS NOT SO EASY TO BE Mike Giddings Call For L crainnip It's term paper time again. You fret over that huge research project, especially when grammar and Editor. I read Mark Thomson's letter demanding the shanties get off his land, and I came up with a simple solution to his problem. Assuming each individual owns a small piece of all pubhc land, and assuming 250,000 Salt Lakers share ownership in his piece of land, it is easy to calculate he actually owns about 1 10,000th of an inch of the land the shanties are on. My simple suggestion? Just ask the people who built the shanties to rebuild them with the walls cut off by a thousandth of an inch. He may not sec the difference, but at least Mark will sleep well at night knowing the shanties are no longer on his land. 273 South 1300 East Moa-Sa- Writer's objective in their ASUU reporting after alL Not objective journalism 21 I I 583-348- 0 J TrMmmkkhkA TODAY AND TOMORROW! The Annual U. of U. Women's Conference: THE CONSTITUTION AND WOMEN'S LEGAL RIGHTS: THE EXPECTATION AND THE REALITY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY IN THE UNION BUILDIN- G- FREE! FRIDAY'S SCHEDULE: SATURDAY'S SCHFniHf. IQiPQqm; qm; 9.QQ WOMEN IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM: DOES GENDER MAKE A DIFFERENCE? SALTAIR ROOM CITIZENSHIP. 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