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Show The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Sunday, October 28, 2001 This Isn’t the Season to Be F:rightened Online Ticket Buyers to Get Guide to Games TOM BARBERI ter warning her not to fly on the 11th and not to go to the malls on Halloween. OLYMPIC NOTES Nevertheless, what we are talking about here is parental guidance. Does anybody remember that concept? ‘Years ago we had a Hallow- plauded so widely: the respect and support shown by Australians for athletes of all nationalities, while naturally reserving the loudest cheers for their Yemen, Syria, Uzbekistan and the People’s Republic ofChina. own mates. Afghanistan would belong, but Will Utahns show that same it was suspended in 1999. universal goodwill, or do the Salt Lake Games run the risk The official OCA statement ofbeinga jingoistic outpourobserved that“this is neither thefirsttime, norwill it be the ing of American nationalism last, that someantisocial elein response to the terrorist atments have subjected the tacks? The question was posed world to such horrific acts” as over lunchFriday to SLOC those of Sept. 11. It also exPresident Mitt Romney by Bob Costas, television host ofthe pressed total confidence in American security agencies Games for NBC. “Weare sure that the Games Responded Romney,citing will be another step toward crowd reaction the nightbecreating solidarity and unity fore to foreigners competing in among theparticipants who ashort-track speedskating eventat the Delta Center: come from different cultures andreligions,” wrote the OCA “People ofthe world, as they president, Sheikh AhmadAlcome to these Games,will be Fahad Al-Sabah ofKuwait. amazed at the passion and welWhatremains to be seen is come that comes from the peowhetherthat unambiguous en- ple ofUtah forthe athletes of dorsementtruly reflects the be- the world.” liefs ofcouncil members from As an aside, Romney blushnations traditionallyhostile to ingly acknowledged being the United States, or largely thrilled about conversing over his personal sentiments, which ameal with such an articulate could be beholdento the U.S. sports authority as Costas. MIKE GORRELL and you can sterilize your mail byironing it. (I trust it is with a steam iron.) My favorite is that the Laurie, ifwe allow the terTorists to cause us to call it off atthis late date, we might as well give up everything we hold sacred, curl upin fetal position and suck our thumbs. I for one will not be cowed. “Give me Halloween or It seems to me that should be standard practice in our day and age, regardless ofterrorist threats. Cancel Halloween? Not on Lake Olympics. _ Hot off the eeofOlym- Pic sponsor the Offi- cial Spectator Guide has sec- bags As far as Halloween goes, I plan to dress up as Osama bin Laden and anyone who doesn’t beat me to a pulp but greets me with a hug, I will turn in to the FBI. Ciao! candy. And since I bought them early, they are probably left over from last year — before anyone ever thought aboutanthrax. I’m sure they are perfectly safe and approPriatelystale. T appreciate your advice on whatto doto protect against anthrax. But I had little trouble steam-ironing my e-mail. One mand candyfrom their neighbors. Tam ashamed ofsome of the nation’s governors and mayors whocall themselves Whatkind ofa mes- ers about almost anything they need or might want to know aboutattending the Salt Tom Barberi is a talk show host on KALL-AM. LAURIE WILSON sage are they sending our children whentheytell kids that Halloween shouldbe called off? squirt of steam and the whole system shut down. AndI thoughtgarlic protected against vampires. Are you saying Osama is a vampire? Wow!I can’t wait to e-mail that new informationto all myfriends.I guess thatis whyhehas hidingoutin caves. A natural habitat. Tom, I wish my certainty to press forward with Hallow- The mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, hasjust urged children . to skip Halloween trick-ortreating in the wakeofthe anRESPONSE thrax scare. One e-mail making the Tom, I could handle your rounds has been so wideOsama binbin Laden costume, spread the FBIactually inves- but whatI can’t handleis tigated it. It went something those kids who dress up like like this: A woman says her University ofUtah football friend was dating a man from Players and then expect me to Afghanistan who mysterihandover the candy.I tell ously disappeared around them to golong. . . and then Sept. 6. But he senthera lettoss it into the bushes! een transferred to the Olympics. [am sure the terrorist bats will try something to derail the celebration, but 1am equally convinced that we can’t bring the wholecivilized world to a halt because of a few uncivilized bullies whose faces belong on Halloween masks. Laurie J. Wilson is a proJessor ofcommunications at Brigham Young University. ter Games, the Cultural Olympiad, other Salt Lake Organizing Committee programs and various places and things to see in Utah. g Most importantly,the spectator guide has a 37-page transPortation section thatspells out the routes to each venue and how much time should be allotted to get there before an eventstarts. The guide also specifies what cannotbe taken into venues, appropriate attire ofoutdoorsports andthe best explanation of curling’s muchdebated “1991 free guard zone rule.” Readthat and you will clearly see how “this rule ap- Plies onlyif the stone is not in the house, but between the hog line and the tee line.” Got it. ARAB BACKING. A noteworthy endorsement for going ahead with the Salt Lake Games despite the military campaign in Afghanistan camelast week from the Olympic Council ofAsia (OCA). 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