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Show Wednesday EdTtorJaL April 9 1997 The Forum Westminster Wisdom 0 by Daisy Lee and Mandie Caraway Dear Mandie and Daisy, I feel an obligation to shed some light on the insignificant dilemma of why a science major would smoke cigarettes. Smarter than you, could probably cam-puignore this as you are obviously the paramount of intelligence on this s! What science currently understands is that healthy cells in our body contain ingenious mechanisms for dealing with mishaps within itself as well as threats outside of itself. In the case of smoking, a defect can arise within the DNA cells known as a bulky adduction. This is a situation in which a large molecule (ex. Benzopyrene) attaches to the nucleotide of the base. This is alleviated by the cell through a mechanism known as nucleotide excision . , . repair. True, prolonged, heavy smoking can cause the type II alveolar cells to initiate proteolytic enzymes that will cause considerable damage to the type I alveolar cells. And nicotine can cause and excitatory response that inhibits the action of the parasympathetic innervation of the heart, thereby increaspresing the hydrostatic pressure within the vascular system (ie. high blood nico-tinof the that vasoconstriction to Not mention uptake accompanies sure). e. a uigoicu-cinteresting max you minx yuu iuux suave wueu amusingsmoke while kisssomeone of fond elses cigarette inhaling personally are not not are breath and smokers only disgusting them. We think that smoking an automatic turn off! We a is it When see we but guy smoking revolting. ing know many girls who feel the same wav. So your theory on getting a date a may not be working after all. We dont know many girls who would date is a suave while smoking. Also, looking guy just because he looks suave causes That smoking pretty dumb reason to subject yourself to lung cancer. a of science jargon bunch out reason with it to fact! is a cancer TVying lung said that a biology Dr. that remember to fact. that Quinn will not change Try know more vou RETARDED. Are student who smokes must be you saying about the effects of smoking than he does? If we arent mistaking, Dr. Quinn is the one with the doctorate. One more thing. Westminster Wisdom is not a dating service. Dont replies from women who are looking for a date. Next expect a lot of time you light up to be suave, remember all the potential dates that you are turning off. We would like to invite the public to comment on smoking. Both men and women. Do you think smokers look cool? Would you date a smoker? Or does it not matter to you either way? Let us, and Rico Suave, know what you think. . e-m- ail For myself, I smoke to look suave! I, like any highly evolved organism, feel the inherent need to propagate my species and find a mate (any interestSincerely, ed party please cmh4763). I feel that looking cool will increase the Local Dating Service Your current enter the will populations gene pool. probability that my genes Seriously, smoking is bad for you! It does not take a genius to figure that one out! We did not evolve to smoke cigarettes, nor did we evolve to live in To Whom It May Concern, Maybe its the fact that I know Jim Bronchella, but reading the article about large populations and drink soda pop. I am sorry to inform you, we will all die someday. So, lighten up and enjoy life. I have heard it is a lot of fun if him in The Forum disgusted me. Im sure Tiffany doesnt know him as well as others here on campus or her you are not uptight. glowing report would have been more reality-baseLike all silver tongued wolves in sheeps clothing (often know as politiRico Suave cians), Jim could almost con the pants off of a lot of people. Just ask certain biology chemistry major dormies, because hes tried. Its also typical to blame alt of the problems on the past and on people who are not here to defend themselves. Dear Rico, As for better food, Im sure Jim will play the part while your watchine. ' '' ' of truthfulness. Hell. kiss anyones hind end to make himself look , Being members of the female species, we feel that we are justified in But not out he isn t continued on page commenting on the section of your letter dealing with dating. We find it like the self sacrificing saint ail d. "I , . " ' ' 4 Tlkiis Used to Be My On tlie Wagon in Utah tires that resembled a house and my friends and I used to play house in it. We also hid We had just finished 'our under some of the bigger tires Easter dinner and it was time when the boys would try to kiss us. With that Paul leaned for my mom to take mv grandpa back home. As they left, over and kissed me. I bet my fiance and I decided we you never thought youd be would go for a drive down to kissed on this playground, Nope, I my old elementary school he said to me. smile. a and swing. replied with We got off the swings and As Paul and I got out of my car I began to Iook around. A began to walk around. We Daisy Lee Forum staff writer memories raced million through my mind. It seemed so small, so different. The swings were the same but the rest of the playground equipment was different. The tires and logs that I used to climb were gone and were now replaced by boring metal ones. We approached the swings, sat down and began swinging. As we swung we reminisced about our childhoods. Paul told me that he and his friends used to play Fighter Pilots on the swings and crash into each other. I told Paul that there used to be a big slide that had a face and the slide was its tongue. The top part was caged in and the older kids would trap us and not let us go until recess was over. There was a group of X-Wi- ng flie swings were the same, but the rest of the different." equipment was walked up the hill that my friends and I would play Little House on the Prairie on. We would go to the top of the hill and run doxvn it as fast as we could, like in the opening credits of the show. Today, the hill didnt seem as steep as when I was eight. On the side of the hill was the. E.T. tree. When the movie E.T. came out someone carved E.T. on the side of the tree. I tried to show it to Paul, but it had disappeared over time. We walked across the pave- ment and over the boxes to the hopscotches. The hopscotches used to face the opposite direction, but had been repainted exactly So how do the same way. Paul asked. you play? Youve never played hopscotch! I was astonished. I always thought everyone knew how. I guess it must have been a girl thing. I dug my keys out of my pocket so we would have something to throw, and I showed Paul how to play. As we played I thought back to the days when I would play hopscotch at every recess, all recess long. I was quite the expert. It grew dark as we finished up the game. It was time to go home. As we got into my car and drove away I was glad that we had had nothing bet ter to do on an Easter evening than to go. to Canyon View Elementary School and play. Even though much of the playground equipment had changed, it will always remain the same in my mind. It was sad to see the tires and logs gone, but it was fun to be there with Paul and reminisce about my childhood. four-squa- re Rick Branham Forum staff writer A small, predominately Jewish,, town in upstate New Jersey recently passed a string of ordinances that severely restricted the consumption, sale and advertising of pork products. The town legislators, firmly backed by local religious leaders, justified the ordinances on tne premise that the law should protect the local constituency from products deemed offensive by the local majority. Furthermore, pork has been proven to promote heart disease, and has been the direct cause of death by the parasitic disease trichiThe nosis in thousands. towns leaders would be remiss if they neglected their duty of sheltering the towns youths from the negative influences of pork advertising, which would surely entice many youths to embrace the evils of pork consumption. Most sane, rational beings would find such legislative Americans would argue their n right to sell, advertise and otherwise promote god-give- this legal substance with minimal restriction. If you havent already figured it out, no such pork ban exists. However, the absurd disregard for the constitutional right to sell and pro-- 1 mote a legal substance does exist-rig- ht here in .the good ol Beehive State, and the arguments of the legislators are identical. But the prodalcohol. uct isnt pork-i- ts Utah liquor laws are governed by the Utah Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission, four of teetotalers. are which to a According pamphlet produced by the agency, the philosophical key to running its business is to neither promote nor encourage the sale or consumption of alcoBut holic beverages. because liquor is a legal commodity for adults, the commission says it tries to reapublic satisfy sonably five-memb- er absurd and demand. Unfortunately, absolutely unconstitutional. danthe undisputed Despite gers of pork consumption, the restrictions majority of rea-blood- ed reason- - See Wagon page 4 |