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Show 6 THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE 23, 2001 FRIDAY. FEBRUARY A Little Help With the Little Things have been receiving The Daily Utah Chronicle for five years now and am very appreciative of the time and space you give to the editorials you receive. I find them very interesting and informational. These are some reasons why I have decided to write one myself. I am a student currently attending Snow College. I find it very inconvenient transferring credits from various colleges and universities. Upon finishing at Snow, I plan to attend the University of Utah and get into the nursing program. When transferring my credits, I found two of my prerequisite classes do not transfer to complete the required classes at the U simply because they have different course numbers. The description of the classes arc so close one can hardly notice any difference between them at all. When I 'iti'i '"', consulting with advisers, they insist there is nothing they can do about it. For concerned students, this means more tuition and wasted class time for something they have already completed. Schools should organize themselves to create more accurate corresponding course numbers for classes or be more willing to be lenient with the various classes from the different schools. By doing this, students could spend less money and less wasted time. Thank you for lcttingmy opinion be expressed freely and openly to your readers. I hope effort can be put forth to change these inconvenient problems. JULIE FRISCHKNECHT ''ovS.-'.'- . p3 i Ifim .' ! way. ftfl f4 L vJv- - H l: - mrt: academic 2004-200-2 s - -i-- a "i 4 V (Deadline. ' 3 turfm f Louine Holt i I 465-421- MnCh'$:20ff1, : lstfiH939UttiAm. AssiJ Rita Fordham Be , 532-212- 7 0 ' "85-328- And because I love newspapers, it saddens me to see what is becoming a trend with papers and TV stations across the country the total disregard for what news is and should be. I'm willing to bet only a few of you know where Sierra Leone is. Fm willing to bet there are only a few American newspaper editors who know where it is. And it's a shame because not only should we know where that African country is, we should know what is happening there. One of the most terrible civil wars in history is taking place in Sierra Leone, and its effects are devastating both for those directly involved and for those who are thousands of miles away. Innocent people are systematically lined up, and the men are forced to stand and watch as their wives and children are forced to lay on the ground. Then the rebels take out chainsaws and machetes which they use to cut and hack off legs, arms, ears, noses and lips. The lucky ones bleed to death. The men are usually shot in the head afterward, or forced to join the rebellion. These same terror tactics are sweeping across western Africa, and are some of the same brutal acts that were carried out a few years ago in Rwanda. Meanwhile, the American government and most of the Western world turns a blind eye because Sierra Leone and West Africa have no strategic importance. Meanwhile, American news editors turn their heads because we don't even know where Sierra Leone is, so why should we care. And meanwhile, we're fed the same nauseating updates on Fergie's weight baseball contract and Maybe I give the media too much continued from page time Junior or Senior women itudeni at we university o utan jor academic year i) Full . ri , ... ....... zmii-zoo- . P .V:5 t j. ' fc vJ I Disabled Student Services Un;on ii UlnnrtnV n uhi DIHn nuiMcn 3 Ctitr4irtrj flrnirarw uiu. III! 160 - v S . jiuuic ui -t Lowell 5 Bewwoj ::h:. 470 South 700 East We're Open 10:30 am-- 1 am M that TH. 10:30 am-- 2 om F Buy ONE Pizza 1 I L p L. the 2nd one is on (Carryout only-purcha- se us! of pizza of equal or lesser value) of yaks. They do not hold steadfast to dogmatic morality, nor do they involve themselves in politics; furthermore, yaks do not date girls named Casey, Stacy, Mandi, Mindy, or Lindsay. In fact, they do not date at all. They pounce upon their mates and hump shamelessly. They are indeed very wise creatures. at: Chris welcomes feedback a send or cyeateschronicle.utah.edu letter to the editor to: jjou tired of pur coworkers always Are looking at www.amihotornot.com ? with Tricky Sticks & 2 Drinks $0 Having put my mind, and hopefully one or two others, at rest, I am forced to confess that I have an increased interest in this ASUU. I know elections are coming up, but does anyone know if a yak has been nominated? We should revere the silent wisdom 10:30 am-- 1 am Sun, fbru Sat. Large One Topping 1 ietterschronicle.utah.edu. itself distressingly similar to the student body government in high school. yaks are as concerned about their image as God is his. But enough yakking about yaks. Swallowing my pride, I called up ASUU and am, if not happy, at least content to report that ASUU does indeed include apparently everyone. Any student who registers for, pays fees for, andor takes classes at the U is a member of ASUU. In fact. ASUU is z. ' ' TI J any academic discipline 4 p. 3 visii our weosne: www.uian.eauwc i credit, but I think one cf the roles the media performs is to inform readers cf what happens in their backyards and world. in their Look at Somalia: Because of the media's coverage of the starvation there, the governments of the Western world felt compelled to act despite the fact that Somalia holds little or no strategic economic or military importance. And you know, it's not just Sierra Leone, Somalia and Rwanda what about the people who live under the downtown viaducts, or the kids who are in abusive homes because of the incompetence of the state's social services, or the devastating effects of both the drug war and drugs themselves? Where are the stories on those issues? One argument every newspaper editor uses is claiming there's a limited amount of space, It's something I myself have had to tell many people, and it's true. Even papers like The Salt Lake Tribune have space and resource limitations. And yet, there's enough space for front-pag- e coverage of the Grammy Awards. There is enough room for the latest on the Tom and Nicole split-uThere's enough ink for a downtrodden Bill Cosby to sell his Jell O products to the Legislature. There is enough time on the evening news for scented candles. Christiane Amanpour, a correspondent for CNN and one of the few current television journalists who deserves any respect, recently wrote a piece for Brill's Content. It's titled "Why Do I Do It?" and it's basically a scathing remark on the current state of journalism. "Lately I've been wondering why I do it, why anyone would do it," she writes. "The answer used to come after only a few seconds: because it matters, because the world will care once people see our stories, because if the storytellers don't do this then the bad people will win." The answer used to come to her. But now. it's all pudding snacks and scented smoke. Shane welcomes feedback at: or send a letter to: the to editor ng nitely not it for the money or for the privilege of spending the rest of my life with an unlisted phone number. I'm in it because I grew up reading newspapers, and because even though after I've been at the office for 14 hours and the last thing I want to do is read another smidge of newsprint, I do any- J "A continued from psqe 5 Ln Manti, Utah c;" HEWS 99 fQr Qgjjygry or Carryout J ...w-- . 2 Large 14" One Topping Pizzas for $13." plus r tax VSI7 or Carryjout Well write a letter to the editor ar.d tell the entire campus about J it . letterschsonicle.utah.eda |
