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Show Monday, September 26, 1988 Chronicle - Page Sixteen Darren Hawkins Chronicle staffers diverse, don't fit old stereotypes want to. you can spout off about anything you i filled it's know with to writers and I also want you ;n;nnc ac divprsfi as vours . On staff we have returned LDS missionaries, devout Catholics and Protestants working alongside atheists. We have traditional students, married types and i I am a political science major, but politicians and their silly rhetoric rarely interest me. I am editor in chief of the Chronicle ,yet I haven't sat : advocating drastic social upheavaL t, and I care and time money, In terms of how I spend my more about my friends and family than about racial violence in Los Angeles. I want to pay my insurance someone campaign premium more than I want to help for office. I hope you get the picture. Still, we all have feelings that run deep on many issues. When you have those the feelings, I want you to tell the campus through in a journalism class since my junior year in high school-- in 1982. I served an IDS mission to Uruguay and married my beautiful wife just last month in the Salt Lake IDS " temple-everyth- ing a Chronicle editor isn't supposed to - " do. Which brings me to my point All the time I hear people say the Chronicle is just a liberalMarxistCommiinist newspaper, dedicated to radical politics and general repulsiveness for the sake of seeing students wallow in our bile. Or something like that It's a stereotype that just isn't true, especially this year. Sure, the Chronicle has spouted more than its fair g share of doctrines in the past And of course it has printed material angering everyone from the Pie Pizzana to Chase Peterson, from the Utah Legislature to the Tax Limitation Coalition of Utah. But, contrary to common opinion, the Chronicle's purpose is not to alienate most of the state. We're here to discuss pertinent issues relating to students, with all the diverse subjects that category implies. I'm not suggesting the Chronicle won't be controversial again this year. I hope it will make some students, faculty and community members stop, think and take a look at their beliefs and values. But frankly, I'm no Marxist radical staging protests left-win- " Chronicle. Let me illustrate with an example. even My blood practically boils over when someone Crenshaw. Mills mentions the hated name In fact, I'm surprised I wrote his name without a "damn" proceeding it The thought of the tax rollback passing makes me shiver with fear. So I do what I can about itTve been on KZZI talk radio to tell people how much the University of Utah would be hurt ifthe butchery passes in November. We also editorialize against the tax rollbacks in the Chronicle. For that I promptly got a call from the limitation people saying we can't talk about political issues in the newspaper. "Why?" I asked. "We don't use any tax money." and therefore The voice said we were couldn't speak out on political issues. I hope Merrill Cook Knows his campaign is and therefore can't speak out on political issues. Idiotic reasoning upsets me, and I'm sure it does you too. That's why I'm writing this piece. I want everyone on campus to feel like the Chronicle is a place where non-prof- it non-prof- it it. : - We even have students from various angles of the economic spectrum-a- ll the way from the slightly-in-debt gang to the group. We have Republicans, Democrats, socialists and combinations of all poUtical ideologies. About the only Cook-lover- hut they thrive in thing we don't have is other circles. We could practically fill the political, moral, religious and economic spectrums with staffers. The key word is diversity. More than anything, I want you to feel you are part of that diversity and part of the s, Chronicle. . So if we seem to harp on one issue above others, or if you don't agree with a viewpoint, don't just complain about the "Commies'' at the Chronicle. Do something bold, new. Write us. Come in to see us. Phone us. Stamp your feet on the ground for us. But please don't stereotype us. Darren Hawkins, a senior majoring in political science, is editor in chief of the Chronicle. EDUCATE! EDUCATE VM YU7 YC5 single parents. Our roster includes members of the fraternity system and those who would love to ban don't have to be an economics to figure out that owning a brand Towne Park condominium for $232month is a lot smarter than renting. Imagine living in the heart of the city-j- ust moments from campus, night life, shopping, restaurants, cultural events, and professional sports. Yet at Towne Park you live in a quiet, park-lik- e setting that seems miles from the city. Living it up at Towne Park is living easy, with security, underground parking, air kitchen (with microconditioning, wave, range and refrigerator), laundry hookups, and a private deck. At Towne Park you can.also swim, play tennis, and relax in the whirlpool. And you can own it all for as little as $232 a month. Or you may qualify to buy with just $999 down. Or you can ask about n our program. Visit us at Towne Park. Find out how you can live it up, uptown. You jttTjfri a yr TAX ROLLBACKS! step-sav- er TUITION will go up 20-3- 0 in '89. lease-to-ow- Tfrwnefiark 550 South 400 East Models open 11- -7 Call 363-950- Monday-Saturd- ay 5 1- -7 Sunday Marketed by Prowswood ' KiH'd ,m $2.m down with a purchase price of SW.400. Icavini! hal Down a, men, doc, no. includrloSmB com, ?tt inr, or nu, 2.V in ran. -3 iA APRwith a momhlv payment of $2i2 4- -5 .s J AI'R) with monthly payment, of J332. 7 , (H 2 APR) h monthly payment, of 407 Monthly antfimeirM. lament doe, not tnclude mortgage insu. londomtnttim fee 1 naming applie, to Phase II (limitediniaxe,. insurance quantities) - f W,6 Z i,Z V $ If you want more information or are against the tax rollback initiatives then meet with other concerned students at the Capital this Friday from noon 'til 2:00 pm. Le' ptZ&A " I |