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Show PACE 4 THE THUNDEP.BIRD MONDAY APRIL 13, 1987 STUDENT HELP NEEDED FOR CEDAR CLEAN-U- P In two weeks. Cedar City and Southern Utah State College will be the focus of national attention. With the arrival of the U.S. and Soviet gymnasts, our campus and community will be broadcast across the nation over major television networks. As students, we should be willing to support the community in the effort to clean and prepare the city for this event. Several businesses and volunteers are offering time and services to the beautification project, but more help is needed to complete the task. Because SUSC will benefit directly from the publicity of the upcoming activities, The Thunderbird strongly encourages students to take an active part in the cleaning efforts. Most students and community members haven't begun to understand the magnitude of the Goodwill Tour and the Western Royale in Cedar City. Few realize that our community was selected over hundreds of other possibilities because of the "American West" atmosphere. Sadly, even fewer people realize the benefits that could come to the campus and to the community because of this event. Publicity and national exposure could bring more support to the Utah Summer Games program as well as the Shakespearean Festival and other summer activities. The city has already started clean-u- p projects around town and volunteer groups are working on different areas of the beautification project. The Lambda Delta Sigma sorority has donated time to plant flowers in Canyon Park, and school children will be cleaning their school grounds. Although many people have joined to help beautify the. community, more support is needed. Of all the service clubs and organizations on campus, only the Lambda Delta Sigma group has offered to provide assistance. Help from tfollege students will demonstrate to residents the pride we have for our school and the concern for the campus and the community. Service groups on campus can gain local recognition and credit with their national offices through a few hours dedicated to the clean-u- p project. Help is needed especially along Airport Road to the Holiday Inn and to the Centrum. Service groups or individuals can help in the project by contacting Lyn Bulloch, director of the Cedar 5 or City Beautification Committee at To the great benefit of the college and community, students should be helpful in all efforts connected with this event. We encourage student volunteer groups and individuals to participate in clean-u- p projects to prepare for what may well be the most prestigious event in the history of Cedar City and 586-659- 586-739- 3. SUSC. THt SIUDENT NEWS AND VIEWS Oh SOUTHERN UTVH SWE COLLEGE VOLUME 81, NUMBER !j CEDAR CITY, UTAH 26 Editorial and News Directors: Lisa Jane Laird Danny Stewart Senior Staff Writer Kris Johnson Copy Editor Greg Prince Photo Editor Richard Engleman Production Manager Gavin McNeil Teri Gadd Advertising Representatives Sports Editors Dale Cummings ' Brooks Washburn Kellie Jensen Baker Adviser Entertainment Editor Dawn DeBusk Larry Faculty The Thunderbird is published each Monday of the academic year by and for the student body of Southern Utah State College and is not affiliated with the College's department of communication. The views and opinions expressed in The Thunderbird are the opinions of the publication's individual writers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the institution, faculty, staff or student body in general. The unsigned editorial directly above is the opinion of The Thunderbird as a single entity. Letters to the editor must be typed and include the name and phone number. Only the name will be printed. Names will not be withheld under any circumstances and the editor reserves editing privileges. Letters must be submitted by noon Friday for inclusion in the following week's edition. The Thunderbird: editorial and advertising offices in SUSC Library 103. Mail at SUSC Box 7758. 9384, Cedar City, UT 84720 (801) MS Research is costly and inhumane 'Access' is a recurring column in which members of the campus community express themselves on topics of interest andor concern. This week's writer s JULIE SACOS, a senior in communication, and the southern Utah representative for In Defense of Animals. Four men in white coats surround a pig strapped to a small table. Flames shoot from blowtorches, burning the animal's flesh until it crumples like charred blackened paper. The flames continue until the skin is melted down to muscle. There are no sqeals of agony, as the vocal cords have been severed, but it is obvious that the pig is quite conscious as its head is moving. It is then loaded into a wheelbarrow and taken away as the narrator explains that the test was conducted to see if burn victims need fluid. This pig was one of the more than 73 million animals killed by vivisection in the United States each year. A vivisection is any experimentation on animals that causes pain and or distress. In the time it takes you to read this article at least a thousand will die, or 200,000 per day. A majority of these "tests" are not tests at all, but what the experimenters call "bog labs," unnecessary surgeries said to be for practical application of surgical skills which second year medical graduate students are required to perform. The methods used would never be used on human patients. Antivivisectionists say there is no validity to the claims that these procedures "help" the students' abilities to perform surgeries. One student said of dog labs, "it is one of the processes students undergo to push them past what they previously held as just and moral." Those who object are ridiculed by peers and blackballed by professors and others who advocate the labs. This is but one of the ways researchers, to borrow a phrase, "skin a cat." Psychological experimentation also takes its toll. More than 250 tests on maternal deprivation (separating newborn animals from their mothers) have been conducted to date, at a cost of $57 million and comes mainly from the government. That means it's your money. More than 7,000 animals have been subjected to tests that induce distress, despair, anxiety, general psychological devastation, and eventually death. Why? Are these tests improving the human condition? Wouldn't it be more fesible to apply the money where it would be of some significance, such as clinical research on people, then to manipulate and torture creatures of a lesser intelligence? Psychological testing is inconclusive and futile, and is diverting the research 'Research funds could be better spent than on torture of animals.' dollar from where it would do some good. We are a society that adapts to our conditions. If animal experimentation was taken away from scientists they would have to look past their limitations and search out alternative methods to advance the medical profession. Some of the most important medical discoveries were made without animal experimentation, such as the first safe and to name just two. effective pain killers and It is estimated last year alone that up to $125 billion was made by vivisectionists those who operate on the animals, those who produce the animals and the tools researchers use. One might wonder if the reason there is no cure for cancer is because it pays too well to not find one. April 24 is World Laboratory Animal Day. On this day, protests and rallies will be held across the nation. This is just one day that we will give a voice to those without one. On Tuesday night a movie, The Hidden Crime and a meeting will be held at 6:30 in the Library, |