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Show III III u People shorn Id mot be breast deeding offffeinided by sexuality. It's hard to believe that the same country or whipping up a batch of Similac. Whether a woman is at home or at the mall, she should have the right to feed her children, you'd think more when it comes to g people would feel comfortable with women just isn't a sexual act and it breast-feed who their babies, even if it is in shouldn't be interpreted as such. According g to the laws of many states, is public. New York recently passed a law making an act similar to streaking or flashing women g in public a civil right. Before on the fourth floor of the Marriott library. this action, women in the state could be Women who breast-fee- d aren't doing anythe laws under for obscene lewdness state's or charged lewd, they aren't engaging thing their and of in act an immoral in babies; any activity. They are merely simply feeding few itself which people would object to. providing their children with the best food Utah currently doesn't make an exception possible for them. in its lewdness laws for women who breastAs anyone who has been around babies feed in public. : knows, mothers can't necessarily schedule when their infants will be hungry. Which is, Maybe it should, g The controversy over public of course, why mothers breast-fee- d in public. can perhaps best be explained by Americans The situation is akin to a mother pulling often Puritanical attitudes towards sex and out a jar of Gerber's Turkey Vegetable dinner should reflect this right. Without protecting the right of women to breast-fee- d in public, the state concedes that it doesn't care about providing the best nutrition available to babies. in By forcing women to only breast-fee- d private places, the laws also seem to assert g that is a shameful act; instead of an act of caring, which, of course, it really which produces popular films like Fatal TinWith all the talk about ensuring good Instinct and 9 12 Weeks gets squeamish child as she sees fit. The country's laws health for UU breast-feedin- g. Breast-feedin- breast-feedin- breast-feedin- breast-feedin- is. If we are truly to become a nation that cares about children (like a lot of rhetoric says we are), we must reexamine our attig tudes about in public and protect the rights of women who choose to do " breast-feedin- t breast-feedin- Tfc so. Now that would be promoting family values. Chronicle Is an independent student newspaper. Unsigned editorials reflect the majority view of the Editorial Board. Loiters Parking at murder U. is AND N0W...TME I Editor I think that parking services here at the U. has gotten away with too much. For example, why do they think that they can reduce parking and then increase the price of parking permits for students and faculty? . , ..'..Another example of disregard for the student body occurred right before Mayfest I am the president of the Inline Skate Club here at the university. I had made arrangements with ASUU for some space in the E parking lot on Central Campus Drive so that my club would be able to host a roller hockey tournament My Mend and I went to set up the rink we had acquired from the local chapter of the U.S. Roller Hockey Association. As we arrived, we noticed that the parking lot was full of cars, so I was off to ASUU for an explanation. From what they told me, Parking Services had called the day before and said that ASUU only has 60 parking, but the day before that and all that month ASUU was told that they had rented the entire parking lot. As a result of this, my whole month was wasted, as well as the time of CB6 ; . . rTiT f V A WITH BART SIMPSON : . - y . the people that had helped me do printing, referee work, and hunting sponsoring. On top of that, I think that Parking Services owes a lot of people an apology and I'm sorry for the students that were putting together teams. So maybe for Homecoming or ' ' Mayfest next year sorry guys! Eric Browning President Inline Skate Club - , , ROBERT GEIIRKE Gehrke bids farewell to his plethora of friends and foes ? "pot pour ri n. F pot pound, lit., rotten pot 1: a mixture of flowers, herbs, and spices that is usually kept in a jar and used for scent 2: a miscellaneous collection 3: what an editorial columnist resorts to when he runs out of well-forme- thought-ou-t - d, ideas," Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary A t the end of theyear there are a certain A thoughts that accumulate' that aren't quite number of column-worth- y, in the 70s when he was sent to Congress are in desperate need of reform and he refuses to lift a finger to help. b There's also the possibility that I hate him because he continually gets away with voting one way and then selling his voting record in a completely different way when he comes back to the state. Maybe its because he has lost touch with his constituents. Maybe it's because he doesn't have the guts to write his own letters when he objects to something I've written. but don'tjeasily slip away. These items are relegated to the "potpourri file" where they are brought out when pressures of finals and general apathy drive a normally sane columnist to tap this bounty of ideas. And since this is my last column for some time (I'll be doing news next year) I feel it would be a shame to let these things go to waste. - - People have asked me why I have such a distaste for one It's difficult to explain. Perhaps it Sen. Orrin Hatch, has something to do with the time I was hitchhiking and he and his space alien buddies drove right past me. They obviously had room and they just didn't stop. with pharmaOr maybe it's because of his third largest because he is the it's ceutical companies. Maybe affects his and denies it recipient of drug company money the has he that be it Could unmitigated possibly voting; hypocrisy to present himself as a crusader for women and the elderly, while his record would seem to indicate the refuses to pull his opposite is true? Perhaps it's because he the head out of his ass and realize policies that were working double-dealin- ' gs : If Orrin truly is a space alien, chances are they sent him here because they couldn't stand the sight of him anymore. Chrcnlcla EdltcrisI Editor as part of the "both-sides- " issue on the opposite page. It became painfully obvious that many of these people didn't have the slightest idea what the hell is going on in the world. I don't mean to offend those who commented on the foreign policy. Their comments were exceptionally articulate. I'm talking about the dozen or so people who we approached who's mouths dropped when we asked the question. "Duh. Idunnphothin." Yessir. Democracy at its purest. Just out of curiosity, I asked a good friend of mine, Nick, to write a few lines about what he thought about the issue. Nick is months old and drooled on my style guide, but he wrote this for me (mostly with his feet): ".1, kkkkkk,k k,mk90p-o-l- k ,un m45, y.ijj M," Nick said. I couldn't possibly agree more. J. four-and-a-h- " . ;. In light of all the criticism some of my pieces have received in the past year, some people have asked me how I deal with the Well, I've always looked at letters to the editor with a smug "smarter than you" attitude. The letters that really got to me were the ones that I couldn't smugly blow off in such an d manner. Character attacks never g bothered me. didn't even phase me. Blatant stupidity made me laugh. The letters that got to me were the ones that made a rational, argument. Luckily, I can count those letters on one hand. Sure. I'm a bastard. But it takes a thick skin and a big head hate-mai- L Perhaps it has something to do. with the fact that he consistently distinguishes himself as the single slimiest character on the face of God's green earth. Space alien my ass. All the space aliens I know have some comprehension of morals, ethics and decency. If Orrin truly is a space alien, chances are they sent him here because they couldn't stand the sight of him anymore. . " I talked to people today about Bill Clinton's foreign policy off-han- Name-callin- well-thought-o- ut see "Gehrke" on page seven |