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Show DAILY THE THE CHRONICLE'S VIEW Utah as a publicly funded station. According to the Legislature, the main concerns regarding KUER's change seem to fall along the lines of accusations that the station has vantonly isolated rural listeners by canceling their daily classical music and switching to a liberal news and programming ultimately resulting in a possible mismanagement of state monies. What is not making headlines, but definitely should be turning heads, is the fact that Dave Ure, who is the driving force behind the proposal, is merely looking out for the privately owned station KCPW that is based within bis district. KCPW has long carried news programs "similar to those of KUER,- and now seems to fear a little friendly competition and in comes Ure. Every time Ure wishes as, ; - 1 1 -- PM fteOc0s yxvT - - I I teD I W FACT "TOM WE WFbT g0te recti micro-mana- ; the use of the state's airbut that they hold an interest in overseeing the station because of state subsidies. So, what these actions do end up encompassing is simply time, energy and money wasted on issue. another This, in the end, becomes a win-va- n situation for Ure he tried his best, but hey, you can't always come out on top and a significant, often unnoticed, waste of state resources which the people of Utah pay for. What does need to be noted is the fact that the format changes at KUER were not a idea. For four years the station studied the proposal, obtained several outside consumer agency reports, and finally voted on the -- quasi-contentio- High Set to- - j us flash-in-the-p- LETTER HilL TO THE EDITOR Scientists and Their Wonderful Limits Editor: an appreciate Daniel Gorrcll's April 19 remarks on my April 18 letter to the editor. I don't agree with his characterization of my thoughts, but, in fairness, the editor garI bled them with decision. KUER general manager John Greene was right when he summed up the move by saying the station wanted to focus on what it does best, "...with the best interest of Utahns in mind." Maybe what we need is more of that same attitude up on Capitol a grammatical error. questioned where one gets the premises of one's beliefs, scientific or otherwise. It is ironic to me that I some scientists who disdain moral and religious premises as inferior still seem to cling to mystical assumptions themselves namely, a sense of awe and wonder. I suspect that the scientific process which I think has enriched our lives has limitations. Gorrell could apply a little skepticism to his own argument. He begins by asserting that, "Wonder comes about in only two situations." I wonder, docs it? Why should it? Perhaps there arc other situations we aren't aware of in which it could come about? I wonder if such an assertion would come from a closed mind? I think that the tenor of the rest of the argument, which seems loosely structured on this assertion, has the tenor lesson. of a Sunday-schoMATT KARTCHNER Senior, Economics ol Unsigned editorials reflect the majority opinion of The Daily Utah Chronicle Editorial Board. Editorial columns and letters to the editor are strictly the opinions of the author. The forum created on the Opinion Page is one based on vigorous dehate, while at the same time demanding tolerance and respect. Material defamatory to an individual or group because of race, ethnic background, gender, appearance or sexual orientation will be edited or will not be published . Chronicle Opinion Columnist the Jews of Orange Burgandy were by Philibert of Luxembourg. In Comet C1702 Hi approached within 0.0437 AUs of Earth and though I'm not entirely familiar with astronomical units, I'm told this was a pretty damn close comet. In 1809, Napoleon I, dictator, tyrant and all- around asshole, defeated Austria at the Battle of A Abensberg in Bavaria. And in 1889, very likely the most troubled schmuck ever introduced to the human race, Adolph Hitler, was born. Only no years later did I emerge from my mother's womb, slightly gooey, unaware and innocent of my sinister anniversary. And while potheads around the globe may worship the numerical combination of 4 and 20, I despise them. The above atrocities, and many others, have one thing in common. They all occurred on April 20. I mention this why? Not because I hope to receive gratuitous "Happy Birthdays" about campus, but because I would like to maintain something Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald once articulated: "A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth." This may be true, but Fitzgerald should have taken it a step further and pronounced that 'Spilled I Pfct BEFORE waves, CHRIS YEATES In VlLV ge A Heavy B urden for One Date to 1505, S to placate his constituents, he simply orders a formal study of the perceived problem or situation. The real problem is that these formal studies rarely, if ever, solve anything. The legislative leaders themselves noted that they do not wish to mandate, censor or The state's Information Technology Commission, of KUER's mission statement, all in the name of "clarifying what their role is" here in CHRONICLE I fgpfpiE esn't Need The LegisI ture's Help public radio fiasco, with of Utah radio KUER sitting in the middle, rears its ugly head once again, this time in the form of a certain House Majority Whip's incessant need to propose useless formal studies. This past Tuesday, Utah legislative leaders formally ordered a study, to be conducted by the UTAH luck is likewise parceled out unequally at birth. Some children are born with ADD, others with depression. Still yet others are born on Hitler's birthday, a trauma which rivals only being probed with a fork by a curious baboon. It is difficult to be continually disgruntled, all miserable, whiny and wallowing in self-pit-y at the same time. Yet I humbly manage to do so. When I was in eighth grade, amidst my first romance, I discovered that I shared puppy-lov- e a birthday with one of the most notorious and evil persons in history. Rattled for weeks, I went for consolation to my sister, who, in turn, could do nothing but tell me to stop complaining and that, no matter when I had been born, I would always be a brat. But I disagree. What if fate is cruel? What if it is indeed my birthday which perpetuates my continued pessimism and bratti-ness- ? Then, it seems, all those researchers who recently pronounced that children who e in centers are more likely to be "bratty" are wrong in their presumption. Researchers in Washington, I believe constudy of child ducting the largest long-tercare in the United States say they have found that children who spend most of their time in child care are three times as likely to exhibit behavioral problems in kindergarten as those who are cared for primarily by their mothers. What these researchers have failed to recognize is that all their test subjects may very well have been born on Hitler's birthday. Furthermore, what these researchers neglect to reveal about themselves is that they are pawns in a devious plan to drive women back to the home. of the principal investigators in the study, said that children who spend more than 30 hours per week in child care arc "more demanding, more noncompliant, and more aggressive." Furthermore, although Belsky never admitted as such, the test confirmed the Jay Belsky, one hypothesis that children today are less and less likely to turn out like Beaver Cleaver, which has families of the nuclear age extremely worried about future generations. Speaking of being worried, I read that there are a few people concerned with how "the world" is going to react to Utah when they arrive for the 2002 Olympics. CHRONICLE OPINION EDITOR m SCOTT LEWIS smart-soundin- non-blin- d Their test subjects may very well have been born on Hitler's birthday. arc-raise- d day-car- Carry Saints. Seriously, Utah has little to worry about. Stupid things happen all over the world. Even in England, despite the fact that the British g continue to maintain their dignity with accents and dry wit. In February, you sec, a bunch of Braille posters professing the theme of equal treatment for the blind went on display at the Truro Leisure Center in Truro, England. And while this alone may seem slightly uninteresting, an otherwise harmless incident turns ridiculous as soon as we discover the following. You sec, quite obviously, sighted people (the politically correct term coined for people) cannot read the posters because, well, they're in Braille. On the other hand, because these posters were specially commissioned and limited-editiothey were placed behind glass covers to protect them, preventing even blind blokes from reading them. It's important to recognize these incidents because, well, they make those of us moderately smarter than the average human feel lots smarter. And for those of us born on Hitler's birthday, it is important to esteem ourselves at the expense of others, lest we spend the rest of our lives fulfilling the unequalcd talent of wallowing in whining, and maintaining at e least a job all at the same time. D.H. Lawrence said in his poem about Or, as titled, in fact, "Self Pity": "A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself." Stupid hird. Chris welcomes feedback at: cyeateschroni-cle.utah.ed- u or send a letter to the editor to: Ed Hula, editor of the Olympic-focuse- d Around the Ring newsletter, has been foreshadowing some of the worrisome issues that might fall upon our beloved Beehive State. While some are concerned about how the world will handle Utah's fascist liquor laws, others are scurrying to cover their horns with hats. "I think that people will be surprised when they come to Salt Lake City with their bags of stereotypes," Hula told The Dcseret News, "to find that the people here arc regular people, without horns and tails." I, myself, am not that worried. My horns and tail were removed shortly after my baptism, a common practice amongst most Latter-da- y LETTERSCHRONICLE.UTAH.EDU n, self-pit- part-tim- self-pit- 581-704- y, 1 y, |
