Show rage i i Page 9 LETTI1S sound like an uptight idiotic lout Editor Student Life: the USU community: Jodeane Albright To 507-68-99- Again how can we thank you for time effort and most of all your blood The drawings was fantastic due to the wonderful publicity you have given us The cooperation we have received from all concerned has been the very best We appreciate you very much Thank you! Roberta Rothwell Chairman Blood Program Cache County Chapter American Red Cross Lend a helping hand Red tape Editor Student Life: To whom it HPER: After may concern at living under the m IIS bureaucratic “system” of USU for three years and two quarters you’d think a last quarter senior could receive a little consideration from you people at HPER You at HPER have a policy restricting anyone under 21 from using the facilties unless of course the person is a USU student On Feb 18 I became quite annoyed with one of your student LITTEBS LETTERS t employes insisting on enforcing this extra length of red tape I brought two guests(in fact family) with me to play some ball and work out at your facilites I waited until 3 pm to avoid student classes thinking that my “guests” and I would then not interfere with your schedule Your employe was every ad-ma- adult-supervise- d about enforcing your Val Dawson 528-78-25- 99 Viewpoint Focus on the Indian Subcontinent by Ratan Amol Singh Dhillon i am writing to you to ask you to print a letter in your paper I am a guy in a riot torn prison who would love to write some girls I haven’t even been in the sun since September and girls are my ‘“Sihine Any consideration you ®fff!ght give would be appreciated I Thank you Delbert Hopper 77520 PO Box 97 McAlester Okla 7450 Religious bigotry Editor' '"Siudent" Lffe: between renegade youngsters guests! and policy I can see that you don’t Editor Student Life: ® nt want HPER overrun with a loy of little kids but why can’t a student bring “under-aged- ” guests to use your facilities when you allow faculty members to bring their kids? Where is the fine line guys? I fail to see it! There is a difference ” In reply to Dave Williamson’s letter that is the most obvious case of religious bigotry I have come across in a long time First of all Williamson I think you are making a mockery of Christ’s teachings He said He would love and did love all — can you prove to me that he had a disgust of homosexuality? Secondly I don’t think you have much to offer in the way of opinion if your belief is that homosexuality is a matter of mental depravity I thoroughly doubt that homosexulaity is a sign of civilization about to fall — in fact it’s something of a spiritual evolution as it means acceptance of human conditions as they are and not as some cowlike group would like to see things Next time you plan at running off at the mouth use what small brain you have before you utter anything You reallly let yourself arrived The late Mr Jawahr Lai Nehru the then Prime Minister of India was a trusting peace-lovin- g On behalf of the India Students man and never in the least Association I would like to make suspected that the neighboring a few comments in reference to country of Pakistan was making the note “Rights of the Kashmiri these wicked plans against India People” by Muhammed Rafiq (Bharat) Caught unprepared that appeared in Wednesday’s India had to surrender part of Kashmir to the invaders Student Life of all Mr Rafiq states Overcome with joy Pakistan First that when the British left India started calling the captured area the Muslims formed Pakistan “Azad Kashmir” (meaning and the Hindus Bharat (India) liberated Kashmir) Even after came into effect Perhaps he has forgotten that the cease-fir- e India is a secular country with the Pakistani government never many religions and cultures and showed any intentions of leaving h of her the occupied area claiming that more than — popuI44on-4sMusli- r it ally b&looge-Mr Rafiq made any to Before various People belonging on India (Bharat) he remarks religious groups (Hindus should have realized which Muslims Sikhs Christians Buddhists etc) in India all have Country has expansionist views: the same rights as being citizens India or Pakistan!!! This v is in contrast to Pakistan For many years peace -- where the religious minorities prevailed in the Kashmir region are only given the status of and people of Kashmir State were second-clas- s able to communicate with those citizens of their friends and relatives who on our the attention Focusing State of Kashmir let me first were now living in the point out that the people of that “Azad Kashmir” Over these state were never responsible for years the Kashmiri people any uprising against their realized that Pakistan had done country (Bharat) In fact the nothing to improve the living trouble started in 1948 when standards of the Kashmiris living area Pakistani guerrillas started in the Pakistan-occupie- d were buried These into Kashmir after people pouring crossing over the border under the “Azad Kashmir” slogan as it were Whenever illegally These intruders stayed under cover for some time planning their moves and spreading false propaganda among the Kashmiri people Then they started making attacks on the small proportion of the Indian army that was posted in Kashmir and it was not long before Pakistani reinforcements (Eds Note—Mr Dhillon is the of the India Students secretary Association on the USU campus) one-tent- so-call- domestic conditions of Pakistan worsened her government started uttering the war cry of Kashmir to divert their peoples’ attention from the internal problems This fact was slowly realized by the Kashmiri leader Mr Sheikh Muhammed Abdullah who now began to understand that Pakistani government had no interest in the welfare of the Kashmiri people but that it was using Kashmir as a mere excuse to fulfill its expansionist desires and to overcome Pakistan’s domestic problems It was thus that the Sheikh lost his trust of Pakistani’s -of '“Mus4im— propaganda Brotherhood” As a matter of fact since that time cries to form independent countries of Baluchistan and Pakhtoonistan have been heard inside Pakistan In 1971 Pakistan even lost its Eastern Wing which has now emerged as an independent country — Bangladesh 1965 the Ayub Khan regime started sending more guerrillas into Kashmir These infiltrators engaged in sabotage activities and many of them were subsequently captured (along with ‘ arm-load- of weapons) s by the Indian armed forces The Pakistan government claimed that the captives were not Pakistan nationals but Kashmiri “freedom fighters” in spite of the fact that some of them had documents in possession that certified them as having ranks in the Pakistan army After a few days Pakistan launched a war on India which by this time was prepared to meet the — full-sca- le Let me take this opportunity to thank Mr Rafiq for saying at least one good thing about Kashmir by calling it the “Switzerland of Asia” May I remind Mr Rafiq that such a land should not be allowed to serve as a face-savfor Pakistan’s political leaders clumsy as they are in solving er This was the result of the barbarism and terrorism caused their nation’s domestic problems by Pakistan’s military personnel Spreading false propaganda all in the then East Pakistan The over the campus by posting large world knows only too well the signs and distributing pamphlets deep wounds inflicted on the is not going to serve any purpose Bangladesh people during their Moreover why does Pakistan’s regime have territorial amstruggle for freedom bitions to when it is hard for them Kashmir back Coming Pakistan was not satisfied with just to keep the country in one its earlier invasion of 1948 and in piece The Original Double Deck Hamburger Chilled Lettuce Salad French Fries & Reg Coke It’s the real thing Coke Tr6mark BIG BOY FAMILY RESTAURANT 461 N Main Logan (Offer expires 33075) J |