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Show 12 The Daily Utah Chronicle Wednesday, March 8, 1995 Overpopulation must be faced UTAH SPECIAL - OLYMPICS QlSpntSSI issues are like ChronicU are asking now more what the role of government should be. Americans extreme, believe that government should play a minimal role in our I lives. Socialists, on the other extreme, think that government should regulate most aspects of life, in an attempt to equalize 1 1 9 U 9 5 WINTER . 1996 FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL If THE BENNION KA1I9K) CENTER AT supported by the resources (or when there are enough resources Northwest logging industry should adopt a system of able development or else the entire arca w be beared within twenty years (tbe trees tney started replanting ten years ago won't be mature enough to harvest for fifty years) and there wiO be twenty yean without anything. People avoid reform, al but Newt refuses to share them). I assume that die majority of the University of Utah students agree with me, as well, since no one wrote to the editor, objecting the claim. So, if we're agreed that population is such a problem, then we however, because it requires a short-ter- must search for a solution, and we must do it right away. If we do nothing now, then the problem will escalate until it is beyond our control. Population velocity is like a sacrifice. We cannot envision the future, and then the blind start leading the blind. In such instances the government needs to take action, to protect a for a that population and it right OQCton. Utah U Poverty? Poverty occurs when there are too many people to be snowball the more it the system I fall somewhere gathers, the harder it is to is we're agreed between the two. stop. This is difficult to do, I don't really need such problem, then we must because the issue is so Uncle Sam to tie my search we must solution, shoelaces (though I supcomplex morally and do and because away. logistically pose it couldn't hurt), but the solution must encomI also don t want to be kit alone in this societal desert, with us from ourselves. pass the whole world. is issue. such an Any solution is going to have to Population only a penknife and a package of have I months two parts: economic and pracA couple chutzpah. ago wrote a tical. The economic part must It's nice to think that people will column that claimed that population is the largest problem facing change the situation unto which the automatically regulate themselves, children are born, and the practical but I don't think it always hap- the world today. side must provide a way to lessen offered naive it friends other would Some be as of to pens. Just my the birth rate. assume that a fox left alone in a ideas. Often it is most beneficial eco"Cars are our largest problem," chicken coop would do what was best for the chicken community said one. "they are the major nomically to have more children, not less. In many countries, chiland leave them alone, it is naive to source of pollution and ideological dren take the place of unions, insurthink that humans will always do lassitude in today's world." is for We the world. what best are "Ovemhelming poverty," said ance and retirement funds. At an another. too often motivated by hate, early age they become an additional said When the parents another. avarice and ego. "Termites," So every once in a while we run I still stick to my claim that popu- become old, their kids take care of into problems important enough lation is the biggest problem. them. Unless these circumstances are that we can't risk failure. Someone Except for termites, all these proballeviated, we cannot start proposmust step in. These are usually lems are directly related to populaissues where the; solutions are long tion. Cars arc only as much a prob ing solutions. GAMES MARCH on one them.. that sustain-Editori- Columnist The libertarians, lem because there are so many of not short term. Education is like that. Health care is like that. Environmental Jdff 581-48- 1 1 Of General Interest.. wage-earne- I Ericksen mwmn mum (Sucli! from page 11 call schedules. We should third-yea- r point out that her description of the work intensity is only accurate regarding two of the six 3rd year clerkships: OBGyn and General Surgery. Although difficult, exposure to schedules serves an impor- on-ca- ll tant function by training future physicians for the realities of most medical specialties. This practical experience prepares us to respond at 2:30 a.m. when, one day soon, the full responsibility for patient care rests squarely on our shoulders. The author's first premise is that, medical school is inhumane by requiring an excessive amount of learning in a short time. The second premise is that this process needs to Register for Spring Quarter classes using the Telephone Registration System. be "more humane." From the author's argument, this can only be achieved by decreasing the amount taught or increasing the time spent learning. No specific recommendations arc made. From these premises the author concludes that, somehow, a "more humane" medical school will produce "better physicians" who are less A $20 Late Registration fee will be asessed and billed to students who initiate registration for Spring Quarter after March 14. Refer to the Class ScheduleStudent Handbook for additional information. crisis-oriente- , , d and more prevention-oriented- . We disagree with these premises that medical school is too rigorous and needs to be "mor.e humane." We also maintain that increasing the workload will not necessarily pro- duce more preventative-minde- d physicians. Medical school is necessarily rigorous and challenging in order to adequately prepare future physicians to provide competent Friday, March 10 Fort Douglas Country Club patient care. 5-7- PM Come and enjoy March Madness or the luck of the Irish with your fellow faculty members! The Faculty Club will provide hors d'oeuvres and beverages. . In summary, we maintain that neither the author's, views of medical education nor the conclusions given represent mainstream thinking among medical students. Michael Ericksen Ben Godfrey . . . " |