Show 4 T UUn Statesman Friday May 23 1360 I 11 Showing of respect is encouraging Thf situation in Iran has generated plenty of two items— tension and rhetoric The Sunburst Iounsre was the scent of a deal of that rhetoric Thursday but tension was noticeably absent A crowd of students gathered to hear Ron iub field coordinator for the American Committee for the Aneruan Iranian Crisis Resolution Committee Kub insisted that the American government not the Iranian leadership was responsible for the hostage situation Furthermore he insi-t- ii that since Americans had not raised their voices m protest against the tyranny of the they hae no rirht to pass judgment against the Iranian militants or the I'Limic revolution The opinions expressed were not new The fact that they were expressed bv an American was somew hat What was truly different land encouraging! surprising alxut the ktathcnni however was the manner in which students rrerican and Iranian conducted themselves During a question and answer session following the address members express! respect for each other and a tolerance for opposing viewpoints Questions raised by students were promptly answered h Kubv and the audience exhibited no adverse reactions to anv opinions voiced 1 his tolerance is particularly surprising considering the nature of the address It was emotional it was direct and it was pointedly critical of American foreign policy As well a definite difference of opinion existed memlx-rof the audience One American in the audience challenged Kuby s statement concerning the amount of Iranian funds frozen in this country An Iranian insisted that American philosophy was corrupting the Third World nations differences of opinion exhibited Despite the students were simply polite to each other I his tolerance is especially refreshing since memories of last quarter's near not in the Chase Fine Arts Center are still fresh on many student's minds Hoveyda the former Iranian Ambassador to Fereydoun the United Nations’ was able to spark an open confrontation American and Iranians That Ron Kuby with a numlier of infiamatorv statements could not is a credit to the mutual respect exhibited by the students in the Sunburst I a un ye £d fair-size- ex-sha- s ofx-nl- on Noble blood is an accident of fortune noble actions characterize the great — Goldoni THE UTAH STATESMAN USfS 532 640 j TMf UTAH STATESMAN is wot-e- ri and etji’ed Sy students at Utah State llmver SiTy EDT0flil OFFICES are Boom 31S Taggart Student Center Durness o tices are in Boom 31 7 phone 750 1759 POLIO The editor reserves the ngnt to print edit or refuse any let ter Lerters typewritten and limrted to 800 words or less w receive ttrst con sOeranon Letters must tw signed with A name student number and phone IETTEB nun Per THE UTAH STATESMAN IS published tn during the school year ecept dunng finals weees and school holidays including (Juarer brealis Veteran s Day hoi day Thanksgiving Day holiday are! weey Presidents holidays Day holiday are school EDUOBiAt OPINIONS are solely those ot the editorial board and those enters with signed articles and do not necessarily reflect the oomons ol Utjh State University or ASUSU SEC0N0 CLASS mailing paid at Utah 84321 lagi Federal rules halt development To the editor I It i surelv m shock to read Brinies like the one hv Dr Hcrnard Shanks Wilderness a member of the Sietv and Professor Forestry at Utah State I niversi-tI r Shanks hat plated himself on his own pnmfMHis pedestal as judge ami jury of the “ Sagebrush cd Rebellion His artw k- - is nothing but a bunch of irrational faUehMds radical hodhh have cone to expetl this tvpe of camouflage thinking from people who opMe patriotic views hut I feel it is verv offensive to use mv tax dollars to pav for sue h rubbish This is hke hav mu a stte-onsi factorv the university turning out httU rolxit environmentalists programmes! to fight fre enterprise and attack the taxpavers who pav for their livelihood I live in Moab a small town sur rounded bv public lands as most towns are in the snjlhern of the state Our people arepart leing Wrked off these lands hv the “feds ' by over regulation Our mineral and ttas development is coming t a halt for the sake of wilderness and et we have National Parks taking a Urge part of this area that we can't use Yes we are acting in a feverish pitch" for our surv iv al and w ill continue to do so until we are heard and the land is baik in the rightful hands of the psple The miners and stm k men the roads and areas for all opened of the people to see and they will not be waked off these lands now W hen I asked one of our ('on gresmen why we gave our holding up in Panama his answer was "The people there have been made second-clascitizens They burned s i looted and demonstrated enough ( ur government everv thing hat k and pawl them to take it This is the same government that has not recognized the problems m the western states It s alarming to me that professors of our universities know so little afxnjt tur Constitution and the history of the I mted States professor Shanks ssms to have a severe rav of tunnel vision nurtured by government income but deemed it advisable to present farts for ailments We are guaranteed bv our Constitution njual rights with the 13 original states TheTavlor Act was to manage the public lands until thf were disp’ed of The of time the government made ih land available to the public i during the Depression of 193C when the people were not able t make tax payments on the Ian thev had The Lord mav giveth and Laaet awav but the government oni taketh awav It is time we all wik fc up fiefore we have nothing left them to take awav Dr Slianks if vou will quit usm gas oil turn off vur lights an on your boot! kck off the v we mav then have reason to ca you "a true friend of the earth iln-ra- Ray Tibbelt (rand Count) ( ommiMioi Students disrupt displa j To the editor I was on the first floor of the Stu- Hut after this event that the indulgerue in it ippci all kinds can endanger I dent ( enter Tuesday presenting inwild behavior formation about my country democracy itself Israel During most of the time Some foreign students try R Arab and Iranian students came to mg their “culture to ISU ask for information Hut soon American students do not char debates turned into accusations intheir attitude f indifference sults and even personal threats of Khomeini and Ara disciples f W hen I had to Wave the S C fur will make the law in this stiU one hour a student Uwdt my place world May I allow myself" As soon as I left a group of about words to some American studen 20 Arab students came took all the good hearted and ready to hi? brochures from the table in spite of injustice in the world Before® the protest of the student in dini? one side against the other charge They turned off the tape aware of the conflict Listen recorder playing Israeli songs and understand both sides left the place “clean " For the person who used I "'P I was very disappointed by this word Zionml as an insult and Zionist attitude As I live in a democratic ud to tie a Jew country I always believed that Israeli I do hope that the students knowing each other and speaking with each other helped people to a demonstrated this lc better understanding I was con- democracy are not represent!! vinced that the democratic princitheir people ple of freedom of speech is applied Ilaaa A on this campus too |