Show Page 4 The Utah Statesman Monday November 12 1979 Opinion Human rights are everybody’s We are helpless to release the hostages at the United States Embassy in Iran and we have no input on whether the former shah will be returned to a country that despises him But we are not helpless to learn from the situation Many Iranian students were interviewed for the front paye story in today's issue and several yards of new stories from The Associated Press were received Space requirements allowed only a fraction of the statements and stories collected to be published What stood out however is that Iranian students are divided by what their government is doing For years Iranian students have chastised Americans about the evils of the United States government-th- e hypocricy of Carter’s human rights policy And now some of these same students realize that the leader they strived to bring into power is responsible for the same thing-t- he denial of human rights for Americans invited to Iran Congratulations to the individuals who understand the difference between a people's government and a person s government It’s the difference between the American and Iranian leadership To the Iranian students at USU who support this unprovoked seizure of Americans abroad those actions are infinitely more hypocritical than those supposedly being made by America's government The Iranian government supports human rights vocally but the government and the people are practicing these ideals by marching and shoving the helpless hostages through the streets of Tehran It is strange that a technologically backward like Iran with only its natural resources to boast country would treat a world power's citizens with such "hospitality" The minority of Iranian students who support this hypocricy should remember whose universities and colleges they are attending These are American institutions and the education is based on American But Iranians studying at USU can learnideologies more than the methods of calculating the stress exerted a upon constructed bridge They can learn the stress causedpoorlva leader who preaches human rights and violates them by :THEUTAH‘ STATESMAN tiCDceistiA Jm SuCkhng editor Corns Waters associate editor Ron Hendricks design eOtor Wayne A da university editor 0 L Mattery entertainment editw Maiiey Mi slao soorts editor Jeny frart associate soorts editor Mine Reordan wire eOtor Greg Hughes on campus editor Sharon Anem rectmng sections etiitw Stan Sisk photo editor a THE UTAH STATESMAN written and edited By students at Utah State Unver sity EOTORIAI OPINIONS are solely those ol the editorial board and those writers with signed articles and do not necessarily reflect the opmons ot Utah State University or ASUSU LETTER POLICY The editor reserves the right to edit refuse or print any let tor Alt letters must be typewritten on a 65 character inespace and be broiled to 800 words or less They must be signed Barbara White copy eOtor Bob Cornett photo assistant Veto Vatertaus production miager Audrey Anderson assistant production manager Jana Rriads Dudley adverbs) manager Larry Baker taciity adviser THE UTAH STATESMAN is pubhshed triweekly during the school year eicept thmng boats weeks and school holidays induing quarter breaks Veteryi's Day hohday Thanksgiving Day holiday Presidents' Day hoMtay and Memory Day hokday are school holidays EDITORIAL Of F ICES are et room 315 Taggart Student Cento Business pi bees ei room 317 - “But who would do a thina like this?!' Carter shows impotence on list To the editor: While euch weighty issues as flower gardens and float judging are the center of controversy at this incredibly apathetic place an incident of some real gravity which should anger any concerned American a occuring in daunt Tehran Iran Obviously we are referring to the seizure of the American embassy there by Iranian student supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini W hile some 60 Americans are being held captive in the embassy their fate largely unknown the Carter Administration is ones again displaying its familiar impotence and incompetence in such crises In the past several years we have seen our nation embarrassed by Talking with Iranians is only one of many solutions To the editor Well our friends the Iranians have dealt the United States a political blow Last Sunday Iranian atudenu in Tehran urged by Ayalolla Khomeini seized the US Embassy and took about 60 American captives whom they still hold as prisoners They paraded one ol the captives around and shouted slogans For television cameras they hold up signs all written in English of course Isure they all go to school in the USI The reason for all this is that they want the US to give them the ahah who fled Iran after the Islamic revolution in January led by Ayatollah Khomeini The shah is presently in Ner York receiving cancer treatment hostile second rate pom"1 Korea to crisis in Tehran is ytsnoull ful such occurrence While we hope that then tional people believe in tie it of diplomacy we feel thst “ dealing in appropriate meini and company off" After all what type would demand the "turn?' minaUyiU human beuw' the sheer satisfacuon d him die befoe a firing of Mda some other means some Show us Carter and some North Pun1 :stE i lor one do not advocate the shah or his former actions but I you prooi" certainly would not give in to the we one demands of some prima donna years ago Are suffer do”" to have to religious leader who thinks he can tema tional embrrewz push the US around Attempted negotiations have failed as Kho- this adimtustrauoofiokkyjj show some backbone meini refuses to accept emissaries Well to hell with him then If strong decisive US negotiations fail then perhaps fanatical religious we emissaries from PLO leader Yasser supporters (which severing Arafat can succeed And if that include the Iran) with relations failsweU there are always other S tbtw-'alternatives We hope of I can i sympathize with the Ira- timents of most nians for wanting back the shah to this matter for("VbuW be trailed for crimes against the tired of thi 1 state but as usual their mode of the hands of the Khorn action is entirely off base They get world Kevin mad fly off the handle and act irraTe tionally I sincerely hope President Dsa Carter duesn't give in to their whiro(-s u- - urn ii- - 44 Steve Vecfkink JV c°nUTI |