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Show PACE 5 rn ? I EDITOR I I Thursday, August 25, 2011 Elizabeth Burns, t 586-548- 8 L 'r tattJ Glil a ft cl ' su a. I ft ft for ,ppr q ft I I ft t t i ft I j. Please don't tear down the Adams Shakespearean Theatre just yet. When the University Journal Editorial Board learned that a plan to demolish the campus landmark was in of its the works and the project has over its we for million $22 replacement pledged necessary more than just a were horrified. The Adams Theatre is a beaut iful and significant reminder of those building whose dream became the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Festival directors, in their recently published history and tribute: Celebrate 50 Years: Utah Shakespeare Festival, said tire decision was made because, ... the expansion of the Utah Shakespeare Festival's artistic and technical company and a longer theatrical season requires new spaces. Expansion is fine. But the Journal Editorial Board is worried about the loss of one of the most recognizable buildings in Cedar City. There is a movie which plays on a loop in the Auditorium. In it, Fred Adams, founder of the Festival, discusses the project. His words are eloquent and poetic as he explains the reasons for replacing the Adams Theatre. Adams says that time, weather, and vandalism (and here we all have to shake our heads in shame) have adversely affected the beloved building. There is a pipe tunnel from the dressing rooms to the stage through which the actors have to crawl. There are inadequate restroom facilities. The chairs just arent comfortable. The stairs are steep. The building doesn't even accommodate patrons with physical disabilities. The new building would resemble the Globe, just as the current theatre does. It would replicate the current seating pattern and sightlines. Many things would change, though. Plans for the new building include a retractable roof and a glass shell so the plays could continue further into the spring and winter seasons, and rain and snow would no longer be a problem. Unfortunately, remodeling the existing structure to solve its problems, would be prohibitively expensive and impractical at its current location. Progress often requires pulling the old down to make way for the new, but the Adams is so much more to campus, to Cedar City and to the English language, than just an old building. Before the Adams was built, the Shakespeare Festival would put up and take down their stage with each season, following the custom of early traveling troupes in Elizabethan theatre. In 1977, when it came time for a more permanent home, the Adams Shakespeare Theatre was built. It has been admired as a tangible connection to the Bard himself ever since. Even when it was built, though, accommodations were made for modern times. The Lord Chamberlains Men, for example, never played to a seated audience at their feet, nor were there any electric lighting effects or audio speakers. It is interesting to note that in December, 1598, the actors pulled down the existing Globe theatre in a dispute with the landowner and moved it, board by board, to a new location while the landowner was celebrating Christmas. That behavior doesnt seem practical in our situation. Our current situation is almost the antithesis of what eventually happened to the Globe. Our happy problems today stem from increased popularity and grand dreams becoming flesh. Shamefully, the Globe, about 50 years after it was spirited across the Thames to a new home, was closed and destroyed by the Puritans. Today we just hope the Adams can stand in its glory for a while longer, until the new facility can pick up the torch and bring us into the future. two-thir- L S t ( 1 i ft I fe ft t t r i j 9 ft ft ft ft ft i k it P ? ? i 's. the above are University Journal to are welcome The expressed opinions collective perspective of the Editorial Board. ds Readers comment online at suunews.com. ( UNIVERSITY OURNA SUUNEWS.COM 0 Carter Williams Campus News Ginny Romney Opinion Editor Elizabeth Burns Sports Editor Brooke Cersosimo Accent Editor Stephanie Reid Outdoors Editor John Grimshaw Copy Editor Joshua Perry Art Editor Asher Swan Utility Editor Holly Coombs Photographer Katrina Christensen Reporters Aubree Marsden, Sarah Webber, Ashten Higbee 586-775- Editor-in-Chi- Associate Editor 586-548- 8 586-548- 8 586-548- 8 586-548- 8 586-775- 7 The University Journal is in the market for a new Editorial Cartoonist. We need someone with insight, wit, and artistic tendencies. It is a paid position. If interested, please contact Elizabeth Burns at eburnssuunews.com or stop by the University Journal office in room 176 C in the Sharwan Smith Center and fill out an application. A chain reaction hurt the economy Keynesian stimulus and monetary easing. In Regulatory restrictions on energy production e 2009 Congress increased federal government have eliminated thousands of jobs. What can you do? First, stay in school and spending by approximately $800 billion. In theory, government spending would increase graduate. The unemployment rate for college employment. The newly employed workers graduates is much lower than the national would in turn spend, creating saleaand jobs in rate of 9.2 percent. Second, distinguish other industries. Monetary easing reduced yourself from other college grads. Get good interest rates. In theory, lower interest grades. Join professional clubs. Participate in rates would make business and consumer internships to gain experience. Get involved in student government. SUU loans more attractive, which is unique in that it offers many would increase spending and "Obama's create jobs. opportunities tor these activities. recommendations for Obamas policies have been My policies the economy around? turning spectacular failures. These data have been are brutal. Over 40 percent Deregulate; repeal Obamacare, Dodd-Fran- k et al. Cut or of the unemployed have been spectacular eliminate the coqiorate tax rate, unemployed over six months. n failures." which is one of the highest in The percent of males employed is at Baker the world. Get a handle on Joe the debt by implementing the its lowest level since statistics have been kept. Ryan budget or the Obama I believe the recession has persisted because debt commission policies (which Obama of the policies of Obama and has ignored). Encourage domestic energy congressional Democrats. Uncertainty and production. Lastly, implement serious tax costs have been created by Obamacare, reform such as a flat tax. Dodd-Franthe Consumer Protection Joe Baker is the director for the Center for Act, and talk of increased taxes to address the debt. Waves of costly new regulations Economic Education and is a professor of have been implemented. These create Managerial Economics at SUU. He can be strong disincentives for businesses to hire. reached at baker Jsuu.edu. Want to know how the current recession started? It used to be that banks made home loans only to those who would likely pay them back. Politicians thought this was unfair, and in the 1990s passed regulations forcing lenders to give home loans to almost everyone, even unemployed people. Yippee! Houses for everyone! Activist community groups jumped on the bandwagon. Then community-organizObama worked with ACORN and threatened high-wag- er lenders with lawsuits if they refused loans to low income or blemished credit borrowers. Many high risk loans (subprimes) appeared on financial institution balance sheets. The resulting flood of new home buyers increased housing demand and prices. As with all bubbles, this could not last. Housing prices fell and many subprime loans defaulted. Financial institutions holding these defaulted loans became insolvent, creating financial panic and the 2008 stock market collapse. Falling stock and home prices reduced and confidence consumer spending. Reduced spending caused sales to fall and businesses laid off workers. Hence a ripple effect; unemployed workers spent less, which further reduced demand and sales resulting in more unemployed. Obama attacked the recession African-America- ss k, with Countrys economy gets a report card Id like to touch on three topics. prospective employers that you are just as good as someone new to First, how is the economy doing? The answer is that it's OK, but the market. And, your history of unemployment creates a void you have to fill with extra effort. not good. We had the worst recession in 25 years or more, but it's over. Finally, let's talk about the debt scare, and our toxic political Were now into the third recovery in a row that has started out system. This is an issue that is all about dealing with our spending weakly. How weak? If we grade the U.S. economy with the same grade commitments. The ugly truth is that politicians really dont have distribution that SUU students earn, over the last eight quarters that much control over their cash inflows from tax revenues and the economys gotten 3 As, 2 Bs, and 3 Cs. If youd borrowing. There was no serious talk this summer about cash not coming in; rather, it was about be happy with a 3.0, you should be happy with the "If you'd be knowing all too well how much cash had been economy. promised to go out. Secondly, if the economy as a whole is doing OK, happy with a By and large, those commitments were not made by why is there so much unemployment? Here, we have current politicians. They were made by people that to delve a little deeper. It turns out that hiring and 3.0, you should were elected in the past, and who are often long gone. layoffs were out of balance a few years ago, but are in he happy with But the key point is that they made commitments that balance again, and they have been for many months. current politicians have to try to honor. So how can unemployment still be high? One part the economy." David Tufte This makes our political problems anything but of the answer is that the normal turnover of people toxic. These are discussions that should have taken leaving for better jobs and creating openings in their old jobs is still below normal. The second part is that place in the past. They didnt. That was irresponsible, the longer a person is unemployed, the harder it is to get them back but it doesnt make the current situation toxic. These are serious into a job. Because they havent had a job for so long, they may issues that our political parties should disagree about: one side wants to honor past commitments, the other side is worried about look like trouble to a prospective employer. If youre a college student, the message is twofold. If youre new further committing future generations that cant yet vote. Both to the job market, youre probably in better shape than you think: positions are worth defending. the jobs are out there, and you have no history of unemployment David Tufte is a member of the economics faculty, and specializes working against you. But, if youre not new to the job market, and have been out of work, the going gets tougher. You need to convince in macroeconomics. 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