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Show J SOUTHERN UTAH STATE COLLEGE, CEDAR CITY WALKOUT WONT SOLVE PROBLEMS If any of us were compelled to accept a job that pitifully underpaid us, all the while subjecting us to the most arduous working conditions insufficient supplies and flagging employee morale, we might be inclined to find employment elsewhere. As incredible as it seems, this is exactly what is happening to our states postsecondary educators a professional class of employees who have been brutalized through the inequity of too much work for too little pay. Tomorrow, students at the University of Utah and Salt Lake Community College plan to stage a walkout of all classes to show the state legislative body their concern over low salaries. d colleges in The Thunderbird supports the Salt Lake e faculty members in their boycott for obvious reasons: Utahs four-yea-r public institutions earn about $7,000 less than the national average of $41,080. However, we feel it would be fruitless for SUSC to join in the wildcat walkout now simply because such an action would prove not only to be ineffective but also ultimately detrimental to the cause being championed by our educators. The reasons are simple: The timing is wrong. To make such a decisive move on the would serve only to send the wrong message to influential individuals both legislators and the public that those at SUSC are more concerned with creating a fervor of a well controversy through a confrontational stance than seeking thought out resolution at the bargaining table. Additionally, a premature demonstration of support by but proponents of reform may serve as a show of strength now, will quickly fade from the memories of the legislators who are not slated to vote on this issue until their session convenes in January. Because SUSC is in the outer limits of Utahs population base, impact larger walkouts would not have the attention-grabbin- g would serve but walkout the institutions possess. Subsequently, one purpose depriving earnest students and equally earnest instructors of that which they value so highly classtime. A concerted effort by Utahs nine institutions of higher education along with support from their students would serve as a piledriver forcing the issue home to our lawmakers that solidarity of Utahs educators and students can and does thrive. We are inclined to both agree and disagree with the appraisal of Sen. Dixie Leavitt (R), Cedar City. We affirm his belief that walkout wouldnt be in the best welfare of the people a one-da- y of the state, for the reasons weve cited. However, in the broader appraisal, we believe that peaceable feel also that protest is the veritable linchpin of democracy, but in this instance it is wiser to urge restraint over an emotional reaction no matter how just the cause. ReP-TuS- THE THUNDERBIRD ytfoN'I GIACe. A VfAtKOUl vJeeV.' PAGE 4 to Ve&AS mWAY LebS Go C THIS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1989 z: T mm J2 City-base- Full-tim- spur-of-the-mome- 11 nt The Thunderbird VOLUME 84, NUMBER Editor Rachel Talbot Associate Editor Kathleen Midgley Assistant Editor Lynn Dennett Opinion Director James Spainhower Photo Editor Jeff Dower Copy Editor Greg Prince Arts &. Leisure Editor Lisa Keene Sports &. Outdoors Editor Brent Richey 2 Almanac Editor Megan Marshall Senior Staff Writers Heather Cox Jodi Reinard Photo Technician Jerry Whittemore Production Manager Donn Mason Ad Manager Michelle Jensen Ad Representative Jennifer Smart Faculty Adviser Larry Baker The Thunderbird is published each Monday and Thursday of the academic year by and for the student body of Southern Utah State College and is not affiliated in any way with the in The Thunderbird Colleges department of communication. The views and opinions expressed reflect the views do and individual not necessarily writers of the the are publications opinions of the institution, faculty, staff or student bodv 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 Fridays for Monday editions; 5 p.m. Tuesdays for Thursday editions. The Thunderbird. editorial offices in SUSC Library 103; advertising in Library 102. Mail at or SUSC Box 9384, Cedar City, UT 84720. Phone (801) 586-775- 586-775- 8 586-775- TWf ' Letters censures research Instructor TO THE EDITOR: Several times in the past I have seen in The Thunderbird an advertisement, for a company in Los Angeles that sells research papers to students. In fact, the ad claims that this company, Research Assistance, has well over 16,000 research papers to choose from. And if that is not enough, they even offer custom research, whatever that means. They have number for students to a toll-fre- e call, a catalog of titles, and, my wife would be happy, they even take Mastercard and Visa. My concern is not that this is a legitimate offer for a legitimate service from a legitimate company. number and I called the toll-fre- e found out. My concern is whether or not a student run newspaper, sponsored by student funds, and written for the informational value academic community, should be promoting of our entire plagiarism. I agree that The Thunderbird has the right to publish whatever you think. And I agree that The Thunderbird has the right to allow advertisements from whatever sources you want. But would the editors of The Thunderbird ever publish an article in the newspaper that was written by one reporter, but place another reporters name on it, and do it on purpose? Would The Thunderbird ever use research TMotiOfA-ttl- 1 b company from other sources, quotes from student body runs ads promoting other people, or text from other plagiarism, I think we are all in articles without giving proper serious trouble. Please consider removing this ad credit? of The Plagiarism is defined in Websters from future issues Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary Thunderbird. I think your integrity as to steal and pass off as ones as an editor, and as a newspaper own the ideas or words another: is at stake. If we are to continue to present as ones own an idea or to strive for excellence in all that product derived from an existing a source. Surely purchasing My concern is whether a research paper from the helpful Research Assistance staff in Los student newspaper should Angeles fits this definition? be promoting plagiarism Now, there are probably those people who do not see the importance of plagiarism, and ask, we do here at SUSC, then I do not whats the big deal? But ask Sen. see how our student newspaper Joe Biden what the big deal is. can continue to promote Take Dr. Gradys Communication mediocrity in the form of this ad. Law class and ask, whats the big deal? Ask those students that Mark T. Morman have failed classes or been thrown Department of Communication out of school what the big deal EDITORS NOTE: Morman s is? It really disturbs me that we assertion that the newspaper can run boast of four years of quality in any ad it wishes is erroneous. The Cedar City yet our own college state says it may not run ads for instance. By newspaper runs ads for plagiarized alcohol and tobacco, for would not publish an research papers. Either we, as an its own will, it academic community, ALL of us, ad that promotes plagiarism. The ad students, teachers, administrators, in question offers research papers, advisers, and our newspaper staff, which, to us, means papers that may make a commitment to excellence, be used as background information. or we may as well close down. The It is assumed that our readers have stakes are too high, the costs are the knowledge and integrity to use too great, and the competition is them as such and not as substitutes too fierce. As a college, we are as for their own work. Apparently, share our faith in strong as our weakest link, and Morman does not when the major voice of our the student body. |