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Show PACE 5 Monday, December 5, 201 p r i I $ 1 I : L L .. kp r v f ) EDITOR Elizabeth Burns, 586-548- 8 j L . Lets face it: as college students, theres little we like better than free food. No matter what the activity is, we are more likely to attend if they bribe us with food. Maybe its all those hungry men or maybe it's the lack of spare change in our pockets,'but college students love free food. Study day tends to offer a lot of it, as does the Bread and Soup Nite offered once a month by the Community Engagement Center. More often, however, students can go to St. Jude's Episcopal Church for a free dinner. Every Thursday, in fact. The weekly event has been gracing Cedar City since 1996, and its about time those who started it were thanked. It takes a lot to feed 300 or so students, along with other members of the community, once a week without charging them any money. Thank you to the volunteers, the directors and those who help fund the event. In the past couple years, those who help out have become more and more diverse. It is no longer an event held by only the Episcopalian church; while they continue to graciously host it, they are now helped out by Presbyterians, Lutherans, LDS church wards and stakes and the Queer-StraigAlliance of SUU. It is wonderful that this community is so willing to help those within it. It sends the message to SUU students that we are accepted as a part of the community and that those around us support what we are doing. If anyone is able to help out, please do. We will all make it through this time of life and this grueling college experience easier if we help each other. We all need help with our homework, we all need help with feeling we are a part of Cedar City and we all need help getting enough food, especially with the current job market. So volunteer your evening on a Thursday. Donate some money, some time or some food. Call the St. Jude's Episcopal Church's Reverend Priest Susan 3 and see what you can at Wiltsey-Smit- h do to help out. Its the holiday season, and if anyone is feeling like theyre spending all their cash on presents for their family and friends, consider saving some money by going to a warm dinner on Thursday. You could also consider helping others and spreading the cheer. Once again, thank you to all those who have been giving of their time and resources to serve the community. ht 586-362- The opinions expressed above are the collective perspective of the University Journal Editorial Board. The editorial board meets Mondays and Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. in room 176C of the Sharwan Smith Center. Readers are welcome to comment online at suunews.com. Editor-in-Chi- McKenzie Romero 586-775- 0 Associate News Editors Ginny Romney, Carter Williams Opinion Editor Elizabeth Burns Sports Editor Brooke Cersosimo Accent Editor Kiley Elsberry Outside Editor John Grimshaw Copy Editor Joshua Perry Art Editor Asher Swan Utility Editor Holly Coombs Photographers Sarah Woodruff, Kyle Kester Reporters Sarah Webber, Tommy Gugino, Ashten Higbee, Aubree Marsden 586-548- 8 586-548- 8 586-548- 8 586-548- 8 SUU prof, snubbed by Times I was insulted in the New York Times. Not by the content, but in the content. This happened because of what I do, and where I work. The latter is important to those who are part of SUU too. What I do is the starting point. Im a macroeconomist. Its an odd field to work in, because everyone has opinions about macroeconomic issues. Im circumspect about publicly offering my opinions about other fields, say, education or chemistry. You probably are too. But its a common thing in macroeconomics to receive opinions from people outside the field say, from management or history. This goes with the territory, and macroeconomists deal with it. One way is to lead from the front: express early and often. The positions publicly Internet has made this easier, and in my case contains thousands of macroeconomic positions Ive taken publicly since coming to SUU. You get shot at a lot when you do this, so its important to read widely to see where the next shot might come from. Last Monday, I read an by Paul Keller. He brought up a list of proposals from House Republicans that Speaker Boehner had circulated for endorsement. When it had crossed my desk, Id thought it over, and signed it. Who else signed? One academic whos on everyones short list for a Nobel prize; a former Cabinet member; some economists from top schools and one of the most cited midcareer macroeconomists. Other signatories intersect my network: an editor Ive refereed for since the 80s; others whove peer reviewed my op-e- d research; a young academic who spotted plagiarism in an article submitted to the journal I edit; the dissertation chair of our new hire; my cousins favorite professor at his school; even a parent of someone I went to school with. Keller quoted the lists header and disputed the lists worth: "... The proposals will do more to boost private-secto- r and long-terjob growth in America in both the near-terthan the stimulus spending approach favored by President s like Moody s Analytics Obama. Reputable r economists of both parties said Boehners and some statement would have little or no impact ... Did you catch the artfulness? The first sentence uses the qualitative more, while the second uses the quantitative little or no. Keller doesnt dismiss that current policies are worse. Roughly, that was my reason for signing. this proposal, and People should discuss ' Keller admits that it contains legitimate things. Fair enough. But it's the shot I didnt see coming thats the 100 economists signed the proposal, but Keller Over problem. denigrates the whole group because some were academics from colleges. So, you see, what I do got my name on the list, but where I work was used to cast an aspersion on the group. Im thick skinned, but this is like saying the group got cooties from me. Its fair to say other macroeconomists are in the same boat. But they don; work at your school. number-cruncher- top-tie- David Tufte is at SUU. He can an associate professor of economics and finance be reached at tuftesuu.edu. to the actions of the bigoted of the recent slashing of to be homophobia is patently sensationalized journalism. Dracula posters. Lexers In my high school journalism classes, I learned to report stories using the inverted pyramid Small newspapers format. The most relevant and important information is placed better should know at the beginning with less vital data going on the end. than to speculate This is Journalism 101 and Im I have always had a lot of certain everyone at the University respect for small newspapers Journal is aware of this strategy such as the University - so could somebody please Journal, which operate under explain to me why conjecture independent management and about why these Dracula posters small budgets. Such outlets were vandalized makes up not can be one of the best ways only the whole first paragraph, to get pure, unadulterated but the as well? It is not until page four that the journalism. Unlike big news outlets that supposed victim of this story appeal to certain audiences says what any rational reader like Fox News or MSNBC, is thinking, I dont think that small news outlets gain little theres much of a message being from sensationalized reporting sent by a pen slash on a poster. the and shyster journalism The fact is that there were no financial incentive simply does derogatory messages on these not exist for small papers to posters and we dont know why create stories out of thin air. the perpetrator did what he This is why Im supremely she did. To report as the main disappointed in the coverage story that the motive is believed m m minority. In my personal opinion, I believe that equality will only come after we take the chips off our shoulders, stop beating straw men and not immediately someones sexual assume orientation is under fire every time a miscreant slashes a poster for dubious reasons. With the proper perspective, discrimination and hate is something that is slowly but surely being weeded out of our culture. The Dracula story is one example of something that this slows unnecessarily process down by creating victims and galvanizing people. Thank University you, Journal, for an otherwise excellent job in representing our school and reporting local news fairly and honestly. The choice to print the Letter to the Editor from the Queer-StraigAlliance a week after the original story further disillusioned my trust in the University Journal. The author appears to accept as fact the idea that the perpetrator was sentiment. expressing anti-ga- y the This exemplifies media the of irresponsibility how many other crying wolf readers took these assumptions as fact? is indisputable When the'-discrimination on our campus (which is not uncommon), it is not just fair game to expose such injustice, it could be considered a journalistic duty. But when such acts are ambiguous. I implore the writers at the University Journal to resist that temptation to make a story more provocative than it actually is. 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