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Show Tuesday, December 6, 1988 Chronicle - Page Three EDITORIAL Sandburg meveir saw Utah's fog The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) The Chronicle suspects Carl Sandburg never lived in Salt Lake City, or at least he was never afforded the opportunity to observe our fog. University of Utah students have been surrounded (perhaps "enveloped" is a better term) with the annual dose of Utah fog. Utah fog, unlike Sandburg's idyllic imagery, neither arrives "on little cat feet" nor "moves on." Given the peculiar nature of the stuff, the Chronicle's editorial board felt it necessary to remind our readers that fog had, in fact, descended upon the U. Nevertheless, our more adept readers will recognize this column for what it is: Quite simply, we too suffer from the stress of finals and the anticipation of the forth- '? coming holidays. Heart decides war or. peace on Earth change of heart that must precede, then imbue and finally follow such painfully partial legal responses to hatred and violence. Law, at best, is incomplete, fragile, easily swept away. It may nelp change hearts and minds. It can do no more. Without a change of heart, an event of Peace most fundamentally is of the heart and mind. Law and government play a vital role. These instruments of some miscalculation, crisis-w- ill blow society help in the diminution of violence unforeseen apart a treaty . and by offering "means of peaceful : the earssaf :;f of statuteTheil the oppoLaw and government also can nents of every step toward understanding be teachers helping society see a better and equity among peoples may seem convision. If evidence of this proposition is firmed. More fear and deeper crisis may needed, the radical change in perception result. For example, the spectacular regarding race and racism since Brown y. events sweeping across Russia, in the Board of Education, sounded the death spirit of glasnost and perestroika, paraknell of segregation in public schools-t- he doxically could produce such explosive, Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting uncontainable change in a province of the Rights Act of 1965 offer indisputable Soviet Union, or in an Eastern European East Germany-th- at proof. The same point is affirmed by the grave INF Treaty banning intermediate and crisis in the Soviet Union could result. If e nuclear weapons between the the United States, or another NATO state, Soviet Union and the United States. should try to exploit, this condition of The destructive power of nuclear fruitful and most creative, positive instaweapons is the measure of the challenge. bility, under the spell of Cold War menNo weapons system ever developed has tality, the world could be propelled in an remained unused over an extended time. instant from heady peaceful optimism Yet any use of nuclear weapons between into a vortex more grave than that of the mega18,000 Cuban missile crisis. superpowers possessing times tons of destructive capacity--5- 0 In such an event, the objective facts of the on to sufficient destroy everyone geopolitics, weaponry and law would human society and perremain constant. What would change with extinction. the would be simply the subjective interprespecies haps More vital by far, nonetheless, is the tation we in the United States would sort-accid- ent, dispute-resolution- state-perh- aps short-rang- choose, to project upon the events The enemy appears as he really is-unfolding within the Soviet Union and alter ego. Even the U.S. and the S.U. may Eastern Europe. appear as a spider doing pushups in a and heart and mirror. '; war arise in the v Peace In this quest, prophetic yet seemingly must ultimately be determined' there. Objective evil may well exist. But the disparate figures, have gone before and evil I fear far more is within us all. I fear have charted the way for we who follow: our fear far more than weapons, ours or Socrates, Jesus, Gandhi, Francis of theirs. We are all inclined to project our Assisi, Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day, fears outward onto the Other, the enemy. Edith Stein, Thomas Merton, Martin Luther King, Jr. , Carl Jung, Einstein, Then we proceed to act upon that projection, replaying the fear, of pur hearts ,Schweitzer, Tolstoy. Humanist, psycholon the stage of world events. ogist, scientist, saint, Hindu sage and activist, mystic, God incarnate. All saw a Alternatively, we may choose to withdraw our projections of evil and see, and kingdom within that could transform and create the kingdom without. Each thereby create, a world at peace. the outer between and inner Dialogue glimpsed a portion, at least, of the worlds of subjectivity and objectivity is vision: the worlds of subjectivity and the key. Within our center we may disobjectivity, ego and unconscious, in diacover a common core, the image of God. logue, without violence. In this way we bring peace on Earth and good will to all Discovering this, we perceive our common humanity. Then we understand the its inhabitants. Then the vision of Isaiah of all nature in harmony and at rest will immutable necessity behind what otherbe and unreachable be the to wise appears upon and within us all. Edwin B. Firmage teaches constituunreasonable demands of the spiritual tional and international law at the masters: that we love others as friends and finally enemies. University of Utah College of Law. our self-neighb- ors, globe-threat- ens 24 HOUR COMPUTER CENTER 210EMCB NOV. 28 - DEC. 13, 1988 MON. - SAT. 6:00 P.M. Kcwwrfv VSS 24 HOUR STUDY HALL OLPIN UNION . DEC. 11 - DEC. 14, 1988 . Now that you're in college, investigate the opportunities afforded by NROTC. Every year many of our "walk on" students earn full scholarships (tuition, books, fees ad $100 a month) by the third quarter of their freshman year. Graduates are placed in Flight Training, Nuclear Engineering, and Surface Warfare. 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