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Show 1.118 tofeCfcroiicli Sartor saw no future ahead, what would be the motive for you to have Safe sex or no sex? Why would you care? Maybe the perks that come form being in a gang outweigh the problems associated with staying out of one. May I applaud your idealism, Mr. Bagley, but could you please find another from page five nothingness. Individuals with the resources to get a good education and escape from the areas associated with gangs are very few. Growing up in the 1990s is a frightening thing, and although it is easy to say "don't get involved in gangs and don't have sex until you're married," it is a far more complex thing to actually do it If you forum for it, because it is my opinion - that the readers of this paper would get a lot more from a columnist who keeps reality firmly in mind when speaking to an educated audience. I agree with you that the spread of the HIV virus and growing gang violence need solutions, but if the numbers of both are skyrocketing in a place as conservative as Utah, do you truly believe you will see anything positive highmind-edness- ? g come from your see that and Open your eyes life is a lot bigger and more complex than your tiny existence in Salt Lake right-win- City. Utah. Mindy Sartor senior sociology - JEFF GARCILAZO Gang scare fans ignorance World War II, many readers unconsciously associChicano, African, ate with African American or Jewish, and Italian men, among ChicanoLatino youth. Except others, donned the fashionable for the singular mention of zoot suits and were beaten for "Skinheads" on the diagram, y sailors in white middle-clas- s doing so by youth are American cities. Newspapers excluded from the "gang" label. often contributed to the hype By implication therefore, we that zoot suiters were somehow are to- assume that white middle-class which rational youth do not belong to ized this gangs' form of Skateboarders, Rockers and even and do not wear Greek fraternities ...wear the During off-dut- - Hate is not a family value. and ATTENTION STUDENTS! hird Annual Legislator Day at the "U" The 3rd Annual Legislators Day at the "U" will be Tuesday, November 9th. Look for an unfamiliar face in your 9:55 and 1 1:00 classes. State Legislators will be visiting campus to become acquainted with the needs of students. Anyone who has been unable to find a book in the library, a seat in class, or a class to attend can talk to CwUU a legislator on November 9th. 9 6 0 s gang, "saggin and apparel. Chronicle Gusst Columnist and early 9 7 0 s bag-gin- '" Skate lar treatment. Recently, gay boarders, Rockers and even Greek fraternities in Salt Lake City and other cities across the country lence. baggy clothes and their behav- 1 men with long hair faced simi- bashing has become an almost socially acceptable form of vio- Vince Horiuchi's article "Symbols, Signs and Colors: What You Don't Know About Gangs Can Kill You" and the accompanying computer-generate- d diagram titled "Colors: Gang Culture in the U.S." Salt Lake Tribune, Aug. 22, 1993) offers a dangerously simplistic equation of appearances to behavior. While this article ostensibly asks us to pay close attention to certain "gang" symbolsat the risk of being killed by mistake it is a racist and alarmist collection of half-truth- s, gross generalizations; ignorance and contradictions. Horiuchi's article is subtly racist because it supposedly reveals a neat set of rules and behavior attributed to "gang membership" which most often wear the fashionable ior is sometimes violent and deadly. Ironically, the violent behavior of some college fraternities could equally be categorized as "gang" activity, but when white middle-clas- s teenagers or college students commit racist, sexist or homophobic violence, authorities too often dismiss their behavior as "youthful exuberance." Note also that when the media report criminal activ- ity in a white middle-clas- s community versus a working-clas- s racialethnic minority community, the former is rarely reported as "gang related," while the latter is almost always discussed in these terms. The cumulative effect is all crimes in minority commu- see "Garcilazo" on page seven ;.i.i..ru;n n nn late 1 so-call- ed fashionable baggy clothes and their behavior is sometimes violent and deadly. nativistic violence. In the Mm iimre ' arc, (fin n 12330 (B3n3Tb (EE (3D 0333 1 pi 01033301, Id in - , ' ,,''' , . ' 4 - i y1 llllllii - i, ; I |
