Show The Utah Statesman Wednesday February Maxwell Glen & tody Shearer Noise in class is distracting To she editor America stands for human rights WASHINGTON — Only weeks after (hr lair 1979 uikmi o Fnihassv in Pakistan a lixal Pakistan inlrrprrlrr did tot hesitate to toast America as thr world's lor hlxrtv lfl'S " juslicr “For all ns faults vour country stands for gixxl and the individuals like me” he told us at a dingy teashop in northwestern town of Peshawar Yet when we pressing him for information alxiut mestit opiMtion to his coiinlrv's martial-lagovernment interpreter moved us to a corner table and started to pes of eneotintered similar se enrs in otfier countties and am e hasn't lost on :is Ntanv of tfie world's iple still look to Amenta as a fore e for hojx- - and human hts Indeed one an still fitiel photoytaphs of their charnels John ane I Rolx-r- t K ennedv in die remotest of villages Lnfortunatelv the fears and hojx-- s of mans foreigners will judged indiffete iitlv by Ronald Reagan and his aides I he adtninistiation is more concerned with protettiny tins ir siymlie lx-e- e ntry s 10 “interests populate ' around the worhl than alxiut die people it human riyhts supjxirters firislled last IVeemleer at Seiretaiv of Stale Alexander M lleiy Jr ltd t' S Ambassador to t Fie United Nations Jeane I rkpatriek thev re seethmy now hey feel they’ve lieen hit rlow the Ixlt with Reayan's ominous apointtnent of Frnest f Lefrver as assistant sec retary of state for human riyhts 'This is their lowest — jximt vet it's yross" former lassachusetts Congressman Rolx-r- t Dnnan a Catholic st told us “It’s almost as if they were mockmy the con-o- f human riyhts” Indeed wilt head an office lie's warned to abolish July I 'i 7 ‘a he told the House Foreiyn Affairs Committee e is little the U' S yov eminent can or should do to ad-human riyhts other than usiny cpnet diplomatic chan- t appiopriate tunes and places In my view” he declared “the United States should ive from the statute Ixxiks all clauses that establish human its standards as conditions that must lie met by cither treign yoverntnents For several years Lrfever has been promulgating sue h s as director of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in 1 he ashinyton foundation is one of the Jinerous conservative think tanks that have worked as farm Mm for the Reayan administration Recently however liberal groups have raised questions as the Center’s own ethical standards They want to know if V Center accepted corporate contributions to help counter international boycott of Nestle products (religious groups gone on record opposing the way the company markets formula in the developing world ) Nestle has denied its contrihut ions to the Center (125000 in 1980) were ked for bettering its image in the US WM Lefever’s presence at State mean a sordid end to rights' Many are looking to the House Foreign Affairs Committee ® 'n as spokesman House liberals control the human Us subcommittee and all three panels concerned with World countries I Try as Reagan and lrfever may to dermphasize a broad rights policy in favor of playing hardball with the U"'1 Union they may find that the way to international is living up to this country’s ideals of social justice If House doesn’t already know that at least they do l Whilr If lass I he c lassioom is no plai e lor vx lalimg I he hat the professor has to say purjxise uf this lettei is to call attention to an me reas-myl- is imjMirtant 'I hose who do not common and verv annoyWish to keeji their mouths shut ing problem that has no place and listen to the Ire lute should on a college campus rudeness stav away so that those of us in lass who aie there to learn don't I have noticing a great have to use our energy straindeal of junior high ing to ignore (he chstrac turn and in several ol mv listen to the Ire lure classes jiartic ularlv Chemislrv Related to if is is the terrible 121 clisirac non of dozens of I o lieym with it is rstremelv closing their Ixinks and rude and inconsiderate tocatrv on their jackets withputting five on conversations in the middle minutes ol leituir tune left of class esjiee tally at mutual 1 hec ked c lasses end at 20 conversation volume VYhisjieis after not 15 or Iff alter It is are equally disturbing I can fiard to hear thr final understand asking someone wolds of (lie professor over thr alxiut something in die lecture din ol Ixxiks and coals If my that one didn't catch but there c alt ulations ate totretf an alwav vrmi to lx a few student taking 15 talking alxiut things that are credits is paying alxiut nine completely irrelevant to the cents jx-- r minute of lecture c c lx-e- id isper We've 3 CONTD Here and Nov by P5 10 1901 appointments of e Pakistan r 1 vc-t- tr e If he misses five of these of die noise of minutes eoile closing books this amounts to 45 t ents per day ur about S2I lor the whole quarter That’s enough money to see all but eight of the movies shown at the SC this quarter I ask students to lx more considerate ol their classmates and professors by leaving con- versations llassionm outside s Steve Allen New buildings earn praise To the editor: Congratulations to all who are responsible for the Life and Residential Span g Centers Congratulations that for die design ol those buildings I don’t really want (firm to hr there but as long as they ate I’m glad to see that some forethought was given to the aesthetic side of expansion reflecting windows have is given a new dimension to walkScience ing from the Ag building toward the library (ranted the view of the mountains is only a reflection but it’s lietter-lcxikinthan no mountains at all which is what you would see if the new Residential Center wasn’t there The I earning Center a10 has added another dimension to the campus Maybe only God can make a tree but the dows of this new building have g “doubled" the miraculously numlx-- r of tires along the sidewalk to die north of the library I know that nothing can com pare to sreing “the real thing" but as long as they’re going to keep on expanding (which terms inevitable) let’s hope that any future rnrjramians r!3 fir in as unobtrusively aa present expansions have K CttcLfc Organization invites support To the editor: member of Fxjiressly Public taind ExOpposing change) I would like to clarify the position of our organization As an active PEOPLE (Persons PEOPLE is primarily an educational group whose main goal is to inform the general public about the Sagebrush Rebellion and provide a form of involvement in this issue We intend to provide information as objectively as possible as this will lead to better decisionmaking The Sagebrush rebels would have us believe that all people in the West support their cause By gaining a support base we hope to show the folks in Washington that this is simply not true Finally we are not a group of “radical environmentalist college students" we represent 1 wide variety of people Including some local ranchers We welcome the support of anyone who values our public lands and invite everyone to our meeting on tonight in the Business Auditorium EUeen ROTC lectures are important To the editor: The anemic efforts to inform the Military Implications" Stalnman didn’t cover his public of this government-sponsore- d Last week a letter to the presentation information series Apparently editor assessed your editorial Camplx-l- l was considered more They prefer to run half-pag- e and pressworthy with statements as ads in thr Slain nut enticing policy as anti-Uta- h Your apparent the ERA will eliminate pro- students with promises of g rebuttal appeared in the same secution for sex crimes because sc holarships prestige and issue as front-pag- e of will eliminate thr it to coverage military gender jobs join classification With such cogrnt Even if you missed the rest of Beverly Campbell anti-ERfor the LDS Utah speakers why should we the series be sure to attend spokeswoman d Church The Institute drag in government analysts final talk on Feb 24 an f’j her appearance in the from the East Coast to talk Palestinian issue by I 5 1 FAC Kawar Cbiar cited l‘ ' about foreign stuff? critical one was talk eoarymr— moat That same afternoon Dr I)r Ebinger’s f Iv Charles Fbinger of the on a srries on "Security Issuers inarjr crisis 1 American University Field Serof the 00s" sponsored by tare sted in worU tkfa The use erpanuty vice was on campus to speak of ROTC this quarter were pnoHy their knowtae “The Ramifications of Euro- January lectures attended since psshhrify was pean Japanese and United Imand inaccuratefy printed late on States Dependency Iltwr officers made only and Political The military Energy ported anti-Morm- 1 high-payin- t xn-sorr- itylm mwi tm gnyi sfi cks ssrs t M wwt Ae rscy kM as the quieting down as scam as the professor is ready to start let luring and wailing until die pmtrssor is finished talking Ix'lore dosing Ixxiks putting jackets on and standing up to leave There is plenty of lime to get to the next class Iz-t'act our age This is a university not a junior high sc hexd ci Cm |