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Show - The Daily Utah Chronicle 1991 Friday, June 7. Page Fourteen AND A LITTLE FEATURE THROWN IN oto"' Politically Some people would say this Solution: Huperchild. Use it in is the expiring cry of the all your papers and sin no editor, I aim to bellow at a subject about which I feel Every so often in the Chronicle offices we have a fight about referring to a chairman of something or dinosaur. In my last blast as an viscerally. Keep your Politically Correct "laws" off my body of language. Politically Correct means that content has been stripped of sexist, racist, heterosexist, ageist, lookist, ableist, or content. According to P.C. thought, not only the ideas expressed but the means of expressing them must be cleansed. Language must not contain subconscious or historical "incorrectness." For example, if a Politically Correct student writes a paper he must use "she" and "his or hers" in his paper. sale-i- st Some advocate spelling women "womyn" so as to cleanse the woman's identity of reference to men. A logical extension of that train of thought is that "human", man containing , Chronicle Asst. other as "the chair." The A.P. Style Guide notwithstanding, Feature Editor "chair" makes it into print nine times out of ten. However, while "chair" may be an accurate commentary on the inanimate nature of some faculty members, I maintain that such editorial commentary belongs in the editorial section. At the risk of being labeled LordLady-knows-whatis- t, my brain, steeped in the male-dominat- thought, reduced is over. neanderthal. 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" Worth Anderson more. thG rear pain-I- AniiKMr POLITICALLY INCORRECT ART Violence after stories Blithering idiot says bye-by- e result of intolerance Feature writing never seems to generate as much controversy and readfer response as do the In editorials the Linnea Lundgren Chronicle, At least this is what i thought as I wrote my feature stories week after week. Chronicle Feature Writer was published Thanksgiving his car tires were slashed at his home. A week later, after he had the tires repaired, they However, I was to discover that there certainly was reader were slashed again and response, albeit not through remarks were scratched into the car paint. This secrfnd the typical channels. occurred in the OSH incident The responses to some of lot. my articles were not sent to parking Another of my articles the "Dear Editor" section of the newspaper.. Instead, the provoked anger in those with tolerance for different responses to some of my no articles were acted out ideas or subjects. This directly on the people I particular article featured the interviewed througn threats popular Human Sexuality course. This piece did not and violence. There were two topics that exploit sex nor was it a . i . seemed to generate a high degree of anger among a few readers, in two stories that dealt with those "taboo" topics sex and religion. Fall quarter I wrote an objective article on Atheists, I state "objective" because the 1 article detailed what an Atheist believes ; in. No religions were attacked in the article. In fact, no religions were even mentioned. One of the people I interviewed gave me the "philosophical rundown" on Atheists. He did not state that he personally was an Atheist. The day after this article AiV - " ;-- "shocking" article. The article simply stated the goals of the class and some students' opinions about the class. Well, sure enough, the intolerants came running out of their closets and verbally attacked and threatened the two individuals I had , interviewed. Both of these incidents shocked me. I couldn't believe that this type of behavior could happen at a university where students go to explore new ideas and thoughts. Perhaps I was too naive-se- e "Lirwea" on page sixteen CHRONICLE PHOTOEarl Cline After reading today's feature section columns, I am convinced that after struggling the whole year under the feature yoke, my writers are nothing but a bunch editorial of frustrated columnists. However, I am a frustrated six year old, so I can relate. I am simply amazed that the only things I felt strongly enough about to write on all year weje condoms, Mexican food and Utah Opera. (There must be hidden meaning in that somewhere.) So I guess, all I have left is this column to sum it all up since I will be retiring from this fine very, university very soon Friday the 14th to be exact. (Although, I secretly believe that Friday the 13th would somehow be more appropriate.) Because, you see (and in the words of the lovely Dave Macfarlane), I have become a "blithering idiot" working here for four years too near to the "Chronicle Cleavage Corner," and the Sports Dorks no thanks to Glen Seninger and Laury Livsey who did their best to torment me when I was just a young 'un here. And in the words of my good friend, Clark, "I revel in brevity." Besides, I'm just dying to run down to the Power Plant to see Samantha Fox host the bikini contest. Amber McKee, feature editor and Powers That Be in the section, will be graduating with a bachelor's degree in communication and a minor in German. |