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Show u Ike Dally Utah Ckroaide ....tllM''1 Bennett, Hatch Won't Protect Utah, So N.J. Senator Does the Job Look in a tourism and travel guide under New Jersey you'll hear about the beautiful tracts of asphalt the prodigious chemical-producincompanies. The polluted rivers flow through dirty, teeming urban cities. It's ironic, then, that when it comes time to save Utah's wilderness areas, it's a senator from New Jersey, Democrat Bill Bradley, who steps up to act as our state's savior. Bradley organized a Senate filibuster of the Omnibus g Parks Bill, a comprehensive environmental protection package that releases a whopping 20 million acres of protected federal lands for commercial defilement. Notably absent from the fight to protect Utah's pristine red rock country and backwoods were Utah's own senator, Orrin Hatch, and his sidekick, Bob Bennett. The reason they were absent from the defense, however, is because they were heading the assault on Utah's single greatest resource. Yes, Orrin "CIcarcut" Hatch and Bob "Wells and Shafts" Bennett actually increased the total acreage in the bill from 1 .8 million acres when it became clear that the bill wouldn't pass otherwise. Bennett called the wilderness bill "the right bill for the environment and environmentalists." Bob. The only people this bill serves are the Wrong-o- , mining, timber and cattle lobbies that are salivating at the opportunity to get their hands on 20 million acres of virgin timberland. What makes the proposal even more ridiculous is that when Utah's representatives held public meetings to gather input on the wilderness bill, the majority of the people supported the 5.7 million acreage figure advocated by wilderness groups. It's clear now that these hearings were simply a sham to give an air of concern. It is reprehensible for Hatch and Bennett to sell their state, literally, into the hands of expansionist commercial interests. It is a shame that it took Bill Bradley, someone who has seen the net result of runaway commercialization and development, to recognize the crisis that Utah is facing. It took Bradley to stand up and say that, should this bill pass, "Vast tracts of America's most magnificent public lands would be left open to unfettered development." Too bad Utah can't elect Bill Bradley as senator. Then at least we would be represented by someone with the conscience and conviction to stand up for this state's needs. The Daily Utah Chronicle is an independent student newspaper. Unsigned editorials reflect the majority opinion of the Editorial Board. The above editorial was ratified by a unanimous vote. f A n 0 m I wr A I 1 K5 V yflitc t MUCH BEER j?PMfe. E6W! T THINK HOW - I 111 has wu-oau- E WZ fffjjf? iMr rrnr lVJ MY CAMRW5N MAT f m quit tuey still INHERITANCE. V jjpj! JA 1 rWKBtfER. lirs lwA hW J AlQ ifrr Secular Government Promotes Free Thought Editor: Governor Leavitt is much to be commended for vetoing Senate Bill 246, which is quite obviously unconstitutional. His remarks during his monthly press conference on KUED suggest, however, that some sort of substitute for SB 246 is liable to be sought during the special legislative session scheduled for April 18. In my view, this would be a very bad idea. SB 246 would have served no useful purpose in any case. and Bigots like state senators Craig Taylor is there that Charles Stewart some of sort imagine in the teachers some of on of set unspecified conspiracy part Utah to "promote homosexuality" because they subscribe to the "recruitment theory" of homosexual preference, espoused by such intellectual luminaries as Anita Bryant and Gayle Ruzicka. The theory goes something like this: Since all gay children have (presumably) heterosexual parents, it must be the case that gay children were recruited by gay adults. (How the said adults got to be gay is not really explained. Presumably, they . too were recruited. However, the recruitment theory, on pain of circularity, presupposes that there are some gay people who not recruited.) Apart from the circularity of this theory were and the complete it of human the genetics displays on ignorance part of those who espouse it there is absolutely nothing to recommend it No recognized social scientist in any field subscribes to this theory. Its only champions arc persons who have no qualifications at all, apart from their religious bigotry. But apart from the recruitment theory, there is no. evidence whatsoever that any high school teachers arc involved in "promoting homosexuality." By contrast, Taylor and others openly admit that they are involved in a conspiracy to inflict Mormon beliefs and values on all the public school students in this state. Isn't it bad enough that, as if to make fun of the United States Constitution, there are Mormon seminaries immediately adjacent to all the high schools in this state? Do we really need a still bigger dose of Mormon bias injected into the educational see "Senate" on page 13 Darwinian Democracy: The Evolution of the Elephonkey THIS DAILY UTAH tlONICLE Spencer Harrison Chronicle Editorial Columnist n 1 1 fittest determines political power. The elephonkey's inabilities endear it of American to a large it offices. win to voters allowing is What an elephon Why? key? Obviously this curious creature is a hybrid the embodiment of every ideal, exercised latently. 'cross-sectio- n igers, the result of the mating of lions and tigers, are infertile. LZ3The offspring of elephants and donkeys, the elephonkey, is similarly infertile. Actually, that's not completely true, since there are more elephonkeys alive today than there were 200 years ago (so much for endangered species). Darwin was wrong! Species don't select superior traits. Consider today's donkeys and elephants: there are no Emersons, Abraham Lincolns or Martin Luther Kingjr.s. Today's political gene pool is diluted with conspiracy, fraud, filibusters, apathy in general, infertili: - ty. political evolution, common infertility is not a problem. Reference to the elephonkey's infertility implies impotence, lack of action, an inability to produce something substantial. Darwin was right! Survival of the ' At this point the word "infertile" needs clarification. Obviously, if infe-- . rior traits have successfully survived Democrat-Republica- phonkey's intestines. It used to be that opposition created propulsion. Differing opinions forced government to move forward, to create to actually govern. The fossil record proves that once there was a distinct species of Donkey and . Of course, focus of individual-base- - a strikingly different species of Elephant. Somewhere a mutation . biosphere. Elephonkeys "defeat of V m 1 key leeches morality, feeding upon the hopes of Americans? and eventually embodying the hopes of Americans. The ele- self-preservatio-n." . r. ; phonkey carries the ideals of occurred (strike up another point for America in its large belly (the enor: Darwin!). . , ,.. mous stomach inherited from the eleThe ecosystem-odemocracy has changed.' Democracy is ho longer a phant side of the family tree). Note: the word "bourgeoisie" -- pursuit. It is digestion. Democracy is chew it, roll it around on your "inert, meaningless, blurred by too speeches, too many words and tongue has the texture of the ele . f : the democracy by supporting it. But make poor pillars. the society they Ultimately 'tXhe ecosystem democracy hold provides for only the eleand not their conchanged. Democracy is no phonkeys stituents. This reverses the necis diges essary flow of democratic , power from citizen directing m cholesterol. Subtly, the elephon- is d governments, yet democracy claims to provide for all the individuals within its has longer a pursuit. It tion. uemocracy is inert, meaningless, blurred by tOO many speeches, too many words and too much n, However, elephonkevs are extremely dangerous. They gamer in iicius, tiuiuiig ukc - Aha! The too much the to success: key elephonkey's government to government commanding citizen, "Feed me!" Last year's , Republican Kevoluuon seemed to indicate a distinct polarization of the " two prevalent parties, but elephonkeys are clever. They are masters, of paradox. How else could they manipulate American democracy into its present situation? If democracy has perverted itself into a blob of rcification (its sole y " pose being perpetuation), then what pur-man- is the answer? Voting for candidates with integrity? Ross Perot? Pat Buchanan? Ken Griffey Jr.? Probably the fastest solution is to wait a couple of eons for the next mass extinction. MTV would have people believe that "rocking the vote will not only save, the democratic system, but in the. process pad America's collective conscience. Still, an increase in voting would only change the nature of the elephonkey's habitat, not eliminate it. Instead of waiting eons for nature to eventually exterminate -in the meantime, Americans can watch their values collecting in the sagging guts of political hybrids -the process of mass extinction could be hurried if America produced individuals with integrity. Elephonkeys can live off stored . fat for years. Can democracy? More importantly, how long can humanity survive moral starvation?. For apathetic citizens, the question of survival is the only one pertinent to the present parasitic relationship. But is anything but progress. |