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Show T The Daily Utah Chronicle 19 P - Wednesday. December 4, 1991 Page Six UUmnnnnJlunnimnii An Evening Celebrating I The Great Salt Lake i K. k Saturday, December P y P Letters Ski Swap run irresponsibly by chairpeople Editor: "Strange," she muses. "Those were sure-selland much too large and conspicuously new to walk out beneath the noses of the ski swap 7, 1991 at 7:00 p.m. s, staff there must be some mistake." Throe local expert w ill share l heir knowledge and N Such were the thoughts of a ski love of ihis mvslerions inland sea from their K swap participant who came to collect that Sunday evening. In hand We 4 for invite list. Her two biggest, us to is her personal perspectives. join you most appealing and this informative slide presentation. items are not crossed off, and yet are 14-ite- m best-price- Harrison Tv nowhere to be found: a Northface backpack for $65 and a Burton snowboard for $75; both new, and - "Plants of the Croat Salt Lake Desert" Ella Sorenson - leathered Legacy - Birds of the Great Salt Lake: Past. Present. Future Frank DeCourten d n listory of Land and Life in the Bonneville Basin" - "I Margaret Pettis I - Wildlife 4 artist from Hvrum, tali will present her woodcut prints. Ity ilic (.'o-.ioii- I 85 x of aren't opinions really health! Then again, what isn't? Obviously this action will not convince many to abandon the of Natural History v incapable important. To get to the heart of the matter, smoking is bad for your and llic (ileal Sail Lake Audubon Society. v She was also v clothing. "No. I have no way of knowing if the truth." you're telling Suddenly the chairperson was accusing me of lying! He never doubted me two days earlier when we agreed on her hostile attitude and that "we may have to work under the table." It bears mention that there were also three smaller items missing competence. their AAAAAAAAAA these two large items were not likely to have been stolen and were probably paid for. He promised his best to secure the rightful 85 percent that I was due. He also explained that the coordinator was known for which were collectively worth $32. Because these were clothing items, the possibility of theft was plausible. I only sought payment on items which could not reasonably have been stolen. A responsible business, knowing that "...We may have forgotten to Editor: So, the Union Building will be smokefree by 1992! There are those who disagree with this decision, but $4.00 lull MiM'imi Meeting with the chairperson seemed hopeful. He agreed that record sales," and that records actually got thrown out, would never hesitate to fulfill its end of the contract, in this case a payment of every single point. If I cared to cheat, I held the power to do so on Sunday, the 17th. My magic marker could enable me to collect on every item with a simple line through each. That was not my way. Mistakes made during the ski swap were easily forgivable, but the mistakes that followed are inexcusable. The irrational, inappropriate and inconsistent behavior of the coordinator and the chairperson robbed me of my rightful and badly needed funds; but it robs the Union and its members of their own integrity. percent. My fourth return was Friday Lia Kass Caring about clean air extends far beyond eliminating smoking from the Union Building Behavioral Sciences Building Auditorium Iniversitv of Utah ADMISSION an enemy. both steals. Confrontation with staff revealed that, "Yes, it was so busy at times that we may have collected money and forgotten to record sales," and "At one point we were writing sales on a piece of paper which was then thrown out by a janitor." The coordinator was irate and hostile, telling her staff, "Shut up don't tell her about that! She signed a waiver!" "She," of course, is myself. Words spoken were illuminating but did not inspire confidence in the coordinators' ethics, integrity or morning. The chairperson sang a different tune, "Fifty percent," he said, showing me a list of other skis and clothing to be paid on. "So you're including my missing clothing items." I said, because he had just shown that the policy was being applied to easily stolen discussion the following day as her hostility did not fade. She barked, "It won't do any good to talk to anyone else I'm the coordinator!" It baffled me that I was being treated as A' x nasty habit, but it will provide a healthier environment for those who do not smoke. V There is one point, however, which I really can't understand. While many have been outspoken in their efforts to ban smoking in the Union, public restaurants and within the state of Utah, few seem to be concerned with the pollution that makes our entire city cancer-pronHercules in Magna pumps our almost one and a half million pounds of dichloromethane, a carcinogen, every year; Kennecott emits nearly 40,000 pounds of lead annually; Geneva gives us 85,000 pounds of benzene and the half dozen oil refineries in the area combine to spew out another 100,000 pounds of benzene into the atmosphere, the air you and I breathe every day whether or not e. anyone is smoking nearby. Oh, and don't forget one existing and one hazardous coming-soo- n waste incinerators in Tooele County and other incinerators releasing toxic chemicals and heavy metals into the air around North Salt Lake and Davis County. And then there's Dugway proving grounds and an odd assortment of lethal substances being played with in western Utah. The military has promised to use the same site to burn 42 percent of the nation's biological weapons, including nerve gas. Burning nerve gas! Sound safe to you? Utahns, even northern Utahns, are also unfortunate to live downwind of the Nevada Test Site, where nuclear tests are only carried out when the wind direction is northeast, leaving a trail of cancer from St. George to Ogden. If all this can't kill you then you'll probably survive a little smoke in the Union Building. Then again, maybe not. If the U. wants to ban smoking in its buildings or even on its campus, that's their business. I'm against the decision, but not too concerned. But if Utahns are really concerned about the quality of their air, it's time we did a little bit more. -- Editor Jonathon Hurd Green and Peaceful Times? SHARE YOUR CHR0NY IT BACEi IN BY PUTTING THE DISTRIBUTION BIN "U" can reduce the amount of paper used. T ILi ASUU Recycling Project HOLD PAY TTTD THROUGHI DECEMBER 7TH I UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY 3 OF w J 7 ' ' BOOKSTORE UTAH r ' f f ' I rn i asuu CAMPUS JLJ i i 1 J 1 l L - |