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Show The Thuiuierbini Moiufu y Octo6cr 29, 1984 Page 3 Owens blasts opponent as master of closed caucuses by James Knowlton Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wayne Owens blasted his Republican opponent Norm Bangerter for being the master of closed caucuses, as he spoke to the Convocation audience last week. Owens also said, Right now, if you vote for Norm y government in Bangerter, you are voting for one-part- Utah. Owens address concerned itself mainly with four areas: political balance, education, nuclear waste, and economic growth. Utah traditionally has loved political balance. Right now, though, every office of importance in the state is in Republican hands, except for governor, he said. Utah has never been V politically imbalanced as it Owens said. is at this moment, In discussing problems with our educational system, Owens said that Utah spends less per student for the education of its young than almost any other state in the nation. Owens said that one of his goals is to insist that w'e pav market price for our teachers and professors in our schools and colleges. Another thing we need to do, he said, is to retain the best (teachers), and teachers must be the best. Owens also suggested we have more summer schools d schools because it will save tens and and tens of millions of dollars. He said that we compete with Alabama for having more students per classroom than any other state in the nation. We also have fewer computers per classroom than almost any other state in the nation, he said. Ovferfs received the loudest applause when he said, We do not need the nuclear wastes dumped in Utah. Currently, the federal government is studying several sites, including one in southern Utah, for a nuclear waste storage facility. During the 50s and 60s, Utah received more radiation than any other state in the nation, and were still suffering from it, he said. In addition, Owens said, We also get the refused nerve gas from other states. They (the federal government) feel that Utah, because they own 70 percent of our real estate, can be used for the national governments purposes, Owens said. Owens also said, W'e have a congressional delegation extraordinarily friendly to the concept (of nuclear wastes coming to Utah). Owens also accused Bangerter of being friendly to this concept. Regarding economic growth, Owens said, Because we have a growth rate twice the national average, evry year this state must produce 271,000 new jobs for lie young people, and because were moving from an industrial-basesociety to an information and service-base- d we must produce another 10,000 jobs for society, the jobs which become obsolescent. This requires rapid economic growth. To initiate this growth, Owens said he will solicit higher-payinbusinesses and cleaner businesses to come into the state. d year-roun- out against waste dumping in Utah, the current education system and his opponents political views in Thursdays Convocation address. g SUSCs forensics squad is still leading the field take San Chidester and M Debate team of The SUSC forensics squad finished first in a field of 29 colleges and universities attending the 1984 Aztec Invitational Speech and Debate at San tournament, October Diego State University. Mike Chidester and Ron Messerly, leading members of the SUSC forensics squad, won the Senior Division NDT debate by defeating a team from USC in the final round. John DeBross, SUSC director of forensics, said Chidester and Messerly s victory was even more impressive because the team didnt drop meet. a single decision in the three-da- y Individual eventers Mark Morman, Kristin Catherall, and Dennis McMorrow, who each won an individual event and placed in two others, helped the SUSC squad win the tournament Sweepstakes in commanding style over second place University of California, Berkeley, and third place University of Southern California squads, DeBross said. In the individual events, Morman and 19-2- esserly Marty Harris won first place in Dramatic Duo; Kristin Catherall won first place in Prose; and Dennis McMorrow was first in Dramatic Interpretation. Morman also teamed with Catherall for second place honors in Dramatic Duo. McMorrow added a third place finish in Poetry and teamed with Bernie Miller to earn fourth place in Duo. Catherall was fourth in Poetry and Morman was fourth in Persuasive Speaking. Rick McCutcheon finished second in Informative Speaking and Marie Chanley finished second in Persuasive. Marty Harris was second in Dramatic Interpretation and Kevin Astle was third in Extemporaneous Speaking. In addition to SUSCs championship in NDT Senior Division, the junior team of Mark Ishii and David Thometz took third place honors in Junior Division NDT. In CEDA debate, Senior division, Vince Meldrum and Natalie Lindsey also won third place honors championship at recent and the same was true for Karen Gutwald and Julie Nau in Junior CEDA. Individual speaking awards were given to the tournaments top speaker, SUSCs Chidester, with Messerly earning the third highest award. Morman was second speaker among the individual eventers, and fellow squad members Catherall and McMorrow were third and fourth speakers. It was an impressive showing by our entire squad, commented DeBross. We had the championship debate team in Chidester and Messerly and we had another outstanding tournament from our individual eventers. In Sweepstakes competition, SUSC the field of 28 other easily colleges and universities attending the San Diego tournament. Second place, University of California, Berkeley, was nearly 100 points behind the Thunderbirds, according to coach DeBross. Naturally, said DeBross, a victory like this one makes everyone on the out-point- Diego tournament squad feel great. I want to give our students the congratulations they deserve, but I also want to recognize the coaching efforts of Sage Platt and Mike Olsen for the part they played in this victory at San Diego. Platt is the director of individual events and Olsen is a senior assistant working with the CEDA debaters. Our coaches and students put in some long hours of hard1, work preparing for the San Diego tournament and it is always a good feeling to know those hours have paid off for the squad, DeBross said. The next tournament for the squad will be this weekend at Colorado College and the University of Virginia. Weather permitting, SUSC will send a large group to the Colorado tournament and the Virginia trip will be taken by Chidester and Scott Price. The Virginia tournament is the Thomas Jefferson Classic, where SUSC is one of the top eighteen teams in the country selected to enter. Nobel Peace Prize winner comes to SUSC by Lisa Laird Betty Williams, 1977 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, will address SUSC Convocations students on Thursday at 11 a.m. in the SUSC Auditorium. Williams says that she believes peace is part of the rightful heritage of all people, the natural state of affairs in which communities and nations can develop socially, economically and culturally. For Williams, the way to stop war is to work on the social, economic and other problems of the community. On August 10, 1976 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Williams witnessed the senseless killing of three chitdren when British soldiers shot and killed an IRA soldier, whose car careened out of control and into the three children. Shocked and horrified, Williams along with Mairead Corrigan (aunt of the three dead children) knocked on doors to convince the women they saw to join them in a protest march ta.stop the killing of innocent people. Hundieds matched for peace. Four days later, Williams and Corrigan again persuaded 10,000 women to march through hostile streets to put an end to the violence in Northern Ireland. Although both women are Catholic, both Catholics and Protestants joined the march. The marches and rallies grew and gave birth to an organization called the Community of Peace People, dubbed the Peace People. Since then the o'ganization has continued to grow. Williams said, Were running to catch up with it (the program). Willian s and Corrigan were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977. They also received the Carl von Ossietsky medal in Berlin in 1976 from the International League of Human Rights. They were not eligible for the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize because of the February, 1976 cutoff date. 1 Betty Williams |