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Show Opinion Food drive is a winner BYU won many times over this weekend. Not only did our football team triumph over our arch-riva- l, the University of Utah, but our students teamed up to help alleviate hunger in Utah. Throughout the week students from BYU and the U of U donated cans of food for distribution to the poor (we also beat the U of U in total tonage of donations). This is an idea worthy of repetition. Universe Opinion Of course, some groups had other ideas. One unknown group of BYU fans doused the block U in Salt Lake City with blue paint and a U of U fraternity dropped a mock nuclear missile in KSL sportscaster, Paul James front yard. While we may laugh at such pranks, we especially recognize and all the members of the BYU community who helped make the food drive a success. As with our eight-yea- r winning streak against the U of U, we hope this trsditioi continues. AS-BY- U The abcnr is the opinion of the bilitorial Board of the I)ail Universe. hch consists rtf the editor, the editorial page editor, m student staff member, a teacher of opinion writing and the associate publisher; the opinions expressed are not necessarily those of Brigham Young University, Ks administration, its student body or sponsoring church. The Board meets Thursdays at I p.m. in 562 ELWC. The meeting is open to the public. Piety teaches us deep reverence for nature, others American philospoher, Richard M. Weaver, criticized the decay of moral values. He specifically called this moral decay impiety. Impiety is essentially the cause of our deterioration as a society. Weaver was criticized because of the negativeness of his work and opinion. However, despite his negativism, he was daring enough to analyze the mediocrity of our society. Modern man has become too complacent. This complacency endangers our ability to think, question, test and strive to do better. We are a dormant society. Our apathy toward our present and future should concern us. Piety is necessary if we want to stop this condition from becoming worse. What is piety? Piety is having respect and reverence to nature. Nature includes everything God created, and should he respected and preserved. Weaver listed three important things for which one needs piety: nature, all other people and the past, it is ignorance that leads us to lose respect towards nature, people and the past. In our campus, impiety towards nature is not as obvious as impiety towards other people and the past. Many of us forget that students walking around campus have a unique substance. Each one of them is an individual. The intelligent student, according to Weaver, is perceptive of this difference of substance that is carried separately by people. "Knowledge disciplines our egotism." When we try to change others to conform to our standards we act like barbarians. Let us be smart enough to realize we are all acerfable to a certain extent. Sheila Van Camp Boo on booers Provo library ' Editor: Editor: The editorial opinion Students, citizens need to cultivate better relationship credited me with fostering discrimination of students in the potential use of the new' Provo City Library. The editor failed to quote my statement that students have been and will always be an important clientele of the Provo City Library. The City Library has been committed to providing the popular and family reading needs of all the community (including students) and gladly does so. It is the function of the university library to provide the academic needs of students. Just as you could not permit the university library to become the library of the community, the same philosophy holds true for the City Library. This City Library must meet the needs of all the citizens of the community. I gave your editor data from studies revealing that students use libraries primarily for study hall needs (50 to fW percent). If the City Library is located as part of a housing complex, it would be likely that all 155 seats ot the city facility would be in demand to meet .study hall needs of that complex. If the City Library fills that need it would be catering heavily to the student segment of the community at the expense of other segments and that too is discriminatory. Yes, we should foster positive interaction between students." The City Library Board would welcome dialogue to provide an appropriate balance of services through such cooperation. The Board meets the first Wednesday of each month at 3:30 p.m. in the Provo City Library. WTiere ever this library is located, we hope that there will be use and support from all segments of the community. Marvin E. Wiggins I w'ent to the Oregon-BYfootball game Nov. 15. With fans like the BYU fans you dont need any enemies. Dont they teach psychology down there? When you boo the quarterback when he doesnt do something wonderful, you take away some of his confi-cenc- e and without confidence its pretty hard to do something wonderful (for anybody). I dont think its coincidence that the football team is losing at home games your BYU fans are contributing to losses by booing your quarterback. What talented high school quarterback is going to want to go to BYU to be booed? Boo on all the booers at BYU, and boo on all those who tolerate it in the stands. U Josephine Platt Suit Late 07 NEWS ITEM: CALIFORNIA VOTERS MAKE ENGUSH THE STATE'S 450-stude- tfroro 'Wild Bill' Monson . OFFICIAL LANGUAGE. & Editor: Person of the Semester William Wild Bill Monson Hayes Wild Bill is the most in and outgoing person I know. Bubbling with raw' energy hes effervescent. He kind of reminds me of a the more you drink Schwepps Ginger ale the more it tingles your nose. Also, hes dedicated to service (hes a member of CDU) and his and his girlfriends name rhyme. Q. Gwynn , A'. I'. Fairport The Dml I'rmerse welcomes reader letters. AH letters . should not exceed one page, should he t ped and Name, identification number, hometown and local telephone number must lie included TheDail I imerse resenes the right to edit all letters for larit and length. Dissenting guest opinions mav also he submitted for attributed use. UKE IMSUREf BARFME0VI1 GROTTY TO THE MAX, 'tfVKHOW t |