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Show The Tfmndcrbird Monday December 5, 1983 Trading Places Page 5 Letters THIS WEEK BY STEVE YATES ,4 Land trade is fine for the cattle Name calling is offensive, demeaning A study committee is continuing its study of a proposed trade of college land to clear the way for the construction of a ski resort in Cedar Canyon. Thats what it said in last weeks Thunderbird, and thats the awful truth. In regards to said land trade, clear the way is an appropriate phrase although flatten and pave would have been more accurate. Clear the way means to bulldoze the pavilion at Woods Ranch and to bury the college cabin under a thick layer of black asphalt. The land trade involves 920 acres of land, which will indeed include the picnic pavilion and the College Cabin. And what will the college receive from this deal? Somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 acres of lovely grazing land near Miners Peak. Fine for the cattle, but what about those individuals who enjoy Woods Ranch as a picnic area? But who am I to say perhaps people will enjoy having cook-out- s in the stockyards. Ah, but such is human folly. Folly. Now theres a good word to describe the proposed Engen Mountain Ski Resort. Dont get me wrong now 1 dont have anything in particular against ski resorts (except that they tend to play hell with otherwise beautiful mountains), but southern Utah already has a ski resort glorious Brian Head. Why do we need another? Wait! Dont answer that, I already know. Economic growth, industry. The motto of Utah growth for the sake of growth, the cancer cell mentality. And believe me, Cedar City will grow by leaps and bounds. It will turn into a resort town. If you wonder whats wrong with that, take a trip to Vail or Aspen, Colorado and examine the quality of people that reside there. Examine also the crime rate and degree of crowding. But I digress. Why is Engen Mountain a folly? Well for one reason, the mountain which is intended to support condominiums, ski runs and ski lifts, is slowly but surely sliding into the valley below. The sight sits in what is known as a slump zone, and suffers from what is known as soil creep, which is more or less a euphemism for a landslide area. Anyone who has not been blinded by gold will notice that all of the trees in said area angle steeply downhill. Hardly ideal conditions for sturdy ski lift set ups. There are other problems, including, but not limited to, such problems as sewage disposal. Since the proposed resort area is situated in an area of severe underlying bedrock, there is no adequate means for sewage disposal. Perhaps a direct line into Coal Creek will be their solution. Thats where most of it will probably wind up anyhow. The real crime however will be the senseless, nay, useless destruction of one more wilderness area. And for what. Paper treasure and plastic pleasures. Selling our earth, our only home, in the name of greed and profit. Trading nature for 30 acres of parking lot. Live it up, Pepsi Generation. To the editor: college-owne- d I have found the obvious scholarship and intellectual rigor with which Professors Young, Cohen and Aton approach their work to be impressive and commendable; hence, I read with considerable interest, their comments in The Thunderbird of November 29. My small, ostrich-lik- e protest against the personal enrichment of the Watergate participants from their Watergate activities has been to refuse to purchase their books or to contribute to their success on the lecture circuit; therefore, I did not attend Mr. Deans presentation and cannot judge the appropriateness of the questions directed to him nor the manner in which they were asked. I believe that any campus visitor should be treated with respect, less because of who she- - he may be than because of who we are. I am far less concerned with what Mr. Dean may think of us than with what we think of ourselves. Nevertheless, I strongly concur with Messrs. Young, and Cohen, that Aton Convocation presentors should be expected to respond to difficult, pointed and rigorous questions. In other respects I find their comments disturbing. Mr. Aton states that Mr. Dean was not because he has our guest accepted a fee to lecture. The logic of this statement escapes me. He further implies that wellmanneredness correlates with Is not the nonthinkingness. opposite true? Are not manners and civility the hallmarks of those who develop the ability to reason? Mr. Cohen contends, criminal By their acts' these disqualified historians or political scientists. Does it then follow that all historian and political scientists are without blemish? Certainly criminal activity renders ones scholarship suspect, but are criminal activity, political science and reporting history mutually themselves exclusive? Professor Youngs snide, smooth-talkin- lawyer, Watergate gang name calling is offensive, demeaning and disappointing. I would have predicted that regardless of the reprehensible nature of the acts of the person being considered, Professor Young would have found such yellow journalism to be beneath him. In summary, it appears that the comments in question are more representative of the biases of the writers than of their capacities to think critically. They and SUSC deserve better. men Rex Michie as Athletics are not a type of prostitution To the editor: In the Nov. 29 issue of The Thunderbird, Sports Editor Paul Husselbee states that professional-athletic- s have become a type of prostitution. I strongly disagree with this opinion. Husselbee shows a lack of being in touch with the real world. Prostitution, if you leave out the moral issues, is nothing more than a business, money exchanged for a service, and business is the heartbeat of survival of every individual-o- f this nation. Gone are the days of Certainly Husselbee cannot be condemning the modern way of life. I, for one, would not be anxious to give up would be paying an opportunity cost. The decision to play abroad is not an immoral one, nor is it any indicator of Ray Townsends love for the game of basketball. any of the conveniences of today. The advancements in medicine, the sciences, agriculture and electronics, to name a few, are all made possible because of business, large and small. Perhaps its the moral issues that bother Husselbee. I see nothing immoral about playing a or performing basketball, service, for the highest reward available. Anything less is economic bad judgment. Its not greed, its just good business. To play in the states Ray Townsend -- The Theme is 'Islands in the Stream' advance $6 at the door w't $5 in Friday, December 9, 1983 8:30 p.m. to midnight Semi-form- al A-w- . 3 Pictures Refreshments Ladies' choice athletics that have become a type of prostitution has as much' validity as saying that NSUSC faculty and staff are prostitutes and we the students are all johns, merely because we pay them for what they have to offr. Wake up Paul and get in the game. Professional sports is a business. Ball j statement professional Preference .... John-Bobig-cit- y Ray Olsen |