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Show Wr'V &&- - r '"?- - ' fV sywr'tisH 4 wrr,inr ' ' UNIVERSITY lOURNAL -- PACE B N J L Monday, April 24, 2006 f ir p L N.r N EDITORS f Rachel Glidden, L Marc Dotson, 'H 586-775- 586-548- 9 8 Censure sparks questions about security, rights A world of danger demands a need to understand and maintain the balance of freedom and ever-increasi- security. That is the primary issue behind the Anderson familys predicament. d a The late Jack Anderson newspaper columnist, whose investigative reporting exposed numerous secret government plots and corruptions, including the CIAs plans to assassinate Fidel Castro - is being hounded by the government Anderson worked for many years writing the controversial D.C. column, Washington until his death in 2005. Now Andersons collection of papers from his reporting career is to be - Utah-raise- post-morte- Merry-Go-Roun- d, catalogued at George Washington University. However, the FBI wants to rifle through the papers to remove any potentially classified documents that Anderson may have accumulated from his four decades of work in Washington, D.C. Andersons family is faced with a critical decision - either let the government remove secret documents from their fathers collection or uphold his journalistic principles of the publics right to know and control, rather than the officials prerogative to conceal and manipulate. Thankfully, the Anderson family is willing to struggle and possibly face jail time to keep their corruptionfighting fathers legacy intact. To allow otherwise would not only strike against journalists constitutional rights, it would perpetuate the governments efforts to trample any freedom in the name of security. While security is essential for freedom to exist, the government is meant to provide such protection solely to secure the rights of its people. Anything more or less is in violation of the U.S. Constitution and the purposes of government. We support the Anderson family in their crusade to protect citizen freedoms and ask the campus community to do the same. Security must be maintained, but not at the expense of freedom. When freedom is sacrificed in the name of security, and nothing is said in protest, the spirit expressed in the inscription on the New England Holocaust Memorial is fed: They came first for the Communists, and I didnt speak up because I wasnt a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didnt speak up because I wasnt a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didnt speak up because I wasnt a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didnt speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up. The opinions expressed above are the collective perspective of the University Journal editorial board. The editorial board meets every Monday and Thursday at 11 a.m. in room 176C of the Sharwan Smith Center. UNIVERSITY tlTTUTAHii DIRECTING STAFF AND DESK PHONE NUMBERS: Editor Vale White 586-775- 0 Associate Editor - Campus News Opinion Rachel Glidden 5867759 Associate Editor - City News Opinion Marc Dotson 586-548- 8 AccentEditor Elizabeth Bowler, Sports Editor Darren Vaughan, Photo Editor Abby Palmer, Web Editor Jared Rose, 586-775-8 2 2 3 Staff Writers: Sect! Monroe, Ryam Rasmussen, McKenzie Romero, Hdlie Smith, Krystle Whilney, Advertising 8 A couple of weeks ago I was sitting in one of my classes. It was my last class of the day and I was really proud of myself for being on time and having the reading done. I was also especially proud of myself because I had worked out a possibly manageable schedule to do my work. I senior thesis and all of my other figured if nothing went wrong and I drank enough Coca-ColI might be able to survive the semester. Thats when my world was shattered. My professor walked in and told us that since we hadnt been doing the reading, he was assigning questions to be handed in every class period for about two weeks. OK, 1 thought. I was annoyed, but Ive always had an awful lot of confidence in myself. I could do it. Then, I spent a good part of the next day trying to understand the reading and answer the questions This destroyed my schedule and completely frustrated me. a, that hadnt been figured out until weeks into the semester. mix-u- p Copy Chief Ashley Langston, Graphics Editor Lindsey Ehrward, Ad Designer David Stevenson, Office Manager Ashlee Nelson, 8 3 Also in that class, in the past 14 weeks we have had only two tests and one paper. This week we have a paper and next week we have a test. That seems a little bottom heavy to me. Everything is culminating at the end of the semester, and I am burned out from my two most difficult semesters ever and a holiday season in between. It is all I can do to stay awake most of the time, let alone think clearly. I am not blaming this on professors or anyone else, but I am asking professors to take this into consideration when planning their syllabi for next semester. I think it is actually better to frontload the course, so that students do the majority of the work when they are energized from the break. That way, your class wont be as terrible at the end when everyone elses is. Theres nothing wrong with good evaluations. Especially dont add to the syllabus or change it at the end of the semester, unless you are making adjustments for material not covered. I know this has been hashed over before, but I have never quite experienced it like this semester. All I want to do now is sleep for three months. I wish. I need a Coke. OPINION For those next two weeks I struggled and got little else accomplished. My thesis deadline, a test and many other deadlines were looming over me, and they kept getting closer The most frustrating part was that it was a lower level class, and had nothing to do with my major. I was taking it as a result of a It will still count, but it is not helping me in my field. Ashley Langston is the copy chief for the University Journal. She can be reached at alangstonsuujournal.com Science unappreciated since the 70s Once, it actually worked. About 30 years ago, science pointed its solvent-stainefinger at something that humans were doing wrong, something that would kill us if we kept it up. And the lets stop doing that. politicians listened and said' Whoa Its 1973. A pair of University of California, Irvine, scientists discover that the chemicals putting the spritz into deodorant and hairspray and the chill into air conditioning are chewing away the ozone layer that protects the planet from radiation. pancake-thi- n A year later they publish their findings. A year after that, Oregon bans the stuff, then the rest of the nation and Canada follow suit. Bada-boobada-binChlorofluorocarbons, RIP. The slowest group to act turned out to be the Nobel Prize committee, which took 20 years to summon F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina (and another ozone scientist, Paul Crutzen) to Stockholm for the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Their work, the committee noted, may have saved the world from catastrophe. Its 2006. Rowland is still a research professor at U.C. Irvine, working out of a building that now bears his name And science is regarded in some quarters not as a white-coawhite-ha- t savior but as just another whining special interest to be appeased or squelched. On a few blogs and blowhard broadcasts, science gets slagged as opinion. Weve strayed disastrously from the Pat Moymhan reality rule. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts The young Rowland studied at the Univeisity of dating, Chicago under the man who discovered carbon-1another scientific technique now getting hammered. For Rowland, a tall, lanky fellow who has an inch on Abe Lincoln, e apocalypse in the 1970s being the messenger of only meant an attack from a trade mag called Aerosol Age and, puzzlingly, getting picketed in Stockholm by Lyndon Larouchies. I wouldnt say that there wasnt organized opposition, but it was more from industries than political parties, Rowland said Today, theres the example of James Hansen, another veteran atmospheric scientist at NASA, who was warned of dire consequences if he kept talking about the dire consequences of global warming. A college dropout with a public relations job at NASA tried to keep leporters away fiom Hansen and changed the science content on the NASA Web site. d g not because he censored scientists but The flunky finally quit for the lame reason of lying on his resume. When politics trumps science lii e that, you know somethings out of hand, Rowland said. Rowland was the Cassandi a whom people believed. The day he went home with his findings, his wife threw out every spray can in the house The work is going well, he had told her, but it looks like it might be the end of the world. Of course, finding substitutes for CFCs has been a lot easier than replacing fossil fuel in the worlds gas tanks. And theres a far bigger constituency for keeping your house warm than for keeping your hair motionless, unless you're Donald Trump. When it comes to sky is falling science, though, theres just no pleasing the public. It gets mad when scientists engage in the debate; the Bush administration has disciplined and overruled some of its own career researchers because their findings contradicted the White Houses agenda. And people get mad when scientists detach themselves from the real world. are Its not really a fair question to put to anyone but its worth asking you optimistic or pessimistic? a man like Rowland, who deals in microns, to hear a calibrated answer By inclination, Im an optimist. the advantages of the 1970s Back in the day science became apparent much more rapidly than the disadvantages. (The first) Earth Day was only in 1970; that represented people realizing there were adverse consequences to a lot of activities. That wasnt the general view people had before. if we have The long-terhope for countering climate change is finding practical scientific answers to act enough future left on, as opposed to, in Rowlands words, sweeping it under the rug That's the optimistic part. The planet is in for a rough century, Rowland said, as we try to put together substitutes for the energy that we need in order to prevent very substantial climate change coming from rapidly rising temperatures. OPINION t, 4 man-mad- . OURNAL OUTHtRN UTAH UNIVERSlTT4stEDAR changes cause anxiety Last-minu-te aSEi . Gadx Which Fatt Morrison is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. She can be reached at patt.mornsonlatimes.com. is more important, freedom or security? 8 8 Staff Photographers: Coulney Craig, Ben Draper, Operations Manager 1 John S. Gholdston, Uruversoy Journal is published rvrry Monday and Thursday of the academic year by and for student body of Southern Utah University It is advised by professional faculty and staff n the uiaversitys Communication Department. The views and opinions expressed in the Journal are those of individual writers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the institution, faculty, staff or student bod) in general. 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