Show The Utah Statesman Order your Logon Flare Winter Formal Corsage Close to 890 W 6th campus Tunvstyles Pri Monday January 25 1932 752-166- 3 This week by Jay Black Discrimination not only in Logan note: Editor's HSU faculty "Tum-stylesis a weekly column in which a member oj the ” staff or student body is invited to express opinions on a topic dhisorher choice Jay Black is associate professor of communications at g exchange program with Don USU Lad mntfl h completed a year-lonthe of chairman of department journalism at Hartley College Iford Black’s column is in response to Woolford’s article Adelaide Australia in the Logan Herald Journal a week ago da appeared Dear Don: Although we have never really met we know each other well having exchanged jobs cars pets and even friends for the past year Since you were kind enough to share with our community your positive and negative reactions to your experiences here I thought it reasonable to reply in a similar our families forum me to a grab bag of comments about the Mormon the university and Cache Valley Perhaps on another we can discuss beer sports and the American on which we share viewpoints Space limits influence occasion character perceptive in noting the gulf that seems to separate populations in Cache Valley minority groups sense the unconscious suppof values (including political and cultural not just and drinking behaviors) inherent in a homogenous You were Mormon and Here as anywhere the ression smoking society know any society that is tightly ruled or shares comnot be tolerant of deviance — it does not have to be So it should not surprise you that there is far more overt critidsm of Mormons than vice versa The by As we mon values will invariably more sensitive to oppressunconscious oppressors Where they are clearly in the majority as in some parts of Australia we came to know the groups were equally though unconsciously suppressive of conservative thought as the Cache Valley conservatives were suppressive of liberal idealogy As a devout moderate I’m bothered by any such suppression and have taken extremists up my cudgel against narrow-minde- d of all persuasions who would recreate the world’s value systems in their own images (There’s never a shortage of challenges in Cache Valley) I think a lot about these issues as I sip my Coors and tuck on my pipe and relax before a Family Home Evening Theater film following a heady softball game with my Hyde Park Third Ward teammates You said you’ve “never known a student body that seems so completely unconcerned with all but local bread and butter wues The university you argue is surely the place “for letting down the intellectual hair and having a good angry shout” Perhaps you didn’t spend enough time at the Briar or First Street Alley or at poducks and informal get togethers with other dty and students These heady arguments do occur but are ouy misted if one sticks to the mainstream of teaching classes ®d tolerating dull faculty meetings you I sense at USU tranquility where there should be un®ace insensitivity where there should be deep caring about Vincant real world issues Even in a discipline such as ours — journkmi where practitioners are on the cutting edge of social uth“ indents unless provoked display an amazing reluc-5to get involved in much beyond preparation for a career professional” concerns I’m reluctant to say reflect the ?gwtism °f the times: attending to classwork and mastering 0 render them employable indulging in extracur- Jtouar activities to pad a resume They gain a professional and ®tototional ethic but at some cost to their social consciousness k the same elsewhere? Last year when teaching at in Australia I was to hear that my 40 delighted n students were 760 candidates who the cream of the applied to earn Within a your degree very short time main and out of class discussion in SLlfound of topics to l rather than philosophical except for a few individualists who sparked ideological dialogues (I Y thank you for admitting a couple of socialists and com-t- o your program — they made my year!) Crimination cultural antipathy and pragmatism are not Cache Valley As educators we have an obligation to them on all levels at all locations Thank you again for ®vtl atid insights with me the dialogues continue May oppressed are ion than are the g ® Bridal Bazaar ‘82 January 28 Weber State CoZzqo Union Caocm Ogden Utah Display open: 600 pm Fashion show: 7:30 pm Free admission tickets available at Francisco on FSA cLUncs or a chance to become a finafist in BRDES magazine Tahiti honeymoon giveaway via UTA French Pick up your tickets are ZCMfs Bridal Satoa Wedding Registry The Loft Fine Jewelry and Credit departments Exciting door prizes! You could win a trip for two to San Air-Rn- es today t ‘ aJentered ' - unfit "4 s |