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Show THE UNIVBRSITY JOURNAL• sot.JTIIEllN tJTAH UNIVERSITY • MONDAY, OCTQBlill 28, 1996 ii i SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY I STUDENT ASSOCIATION ' COMMENTARY Stop and ponder this ... For all those students who are stressing about midterms , be comforted by the knowledge that you are not alone. I feel your pain and understand your situation. I have heard many voices shouting those familiar words -"midterms already, but school just started." To this I say good luck to all and just wait for finals. It has been a great year to be involved with student activities. There has been amazing attendance and participation at all the SUUSA events. It is exciting to see the enthusiastic spirit at the football games. This includes the powder puff football Homecoming activity, men you should be forewarned there are some tough women here at SUU. Homecominl was outstanding event this year and the credit needs to go to all those people who worked to make it that way. To STAB, Gemme Cole, Steve Allen and their com mittee I congratulate all for a job well done. Other people who need to be given much of the credit are the staff of SUU. To plant operations, security, food service, the custodial staff, athletic office and activities we thank you for the willingness to make Homecoming the best ever . As you see these people around, take the time to thank them for all they do for us as students. But mostly, we need to thank you, the students. You have laughed with the comedians, sang with the musicians, cheered at the games and danced at the dances. Without you it doesn' t matt er what we plan, who we bring or how pretty the decorations are.If you haven't participated, then we have failed to do our job. Through your attendance and participation, you have shown that you like what we are doing; there is arrything we can do better, or do more of, let us know. We have the opportunity at Southern Utah University to make our mark, let's make it one that will last and also be unique to this year, these students, and this University. To the freshman and all who would like to be part of planning activities come visit the SUUSA offices. There are many ways to be involved beyond making posters and planning dances. There are more opportunities thank people usually, so if you want to get involved, just say the word and yo u will be. From Welcome Week to the upcoming Halloween Howl there has been a spirit of fun and excitem ent. I look forward to seeing yo u all at the many events STAB has planned for this year. Study well for midterms! Keri Mecham is the activities vice president of SU USA UNIVERSITY JQ1!~~ PROFESSIONAL STAFF AND DESK PHONE NUM BERS: Editor urry Baker 586-775 1 Campus Editor Jim Robmson 586-1997 Consulting SportS Editors Neil Gardner 586-7753 Brett Jewkes 586-7752 Rick Stupak 865-8045 STUDENT STAFF AND DESK PHONE NUMBERS: Associ11e Edito rs Luh Hanmann 865-8226 • Michelle C legg 586-7750 Focu, Editor JoAnn Lundgreen 586-1992 Opinion Director u que1ta Carpent er 586-7757 Copy Editor Becki Lesser 586-7750 AP Wire Editor Ben Winslow 865-8225 Photo Editor John Cuenlcr 586-7757 Sports Editor C had Lamb 586-5488 Arts Editors Heather Chilton &. 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Crie•ances: My individual with a grievance against the foumal should direct such problem Urst to the editor. U unresolved, that grievance ,hould then be directed to the /aurnal Steering Committee, which is chaired by OT. Suzanne Ull!On, 586°7971 . , . _ , , ,-,,,,J: Olfi<a In SUU Techr,c,qy &lllding 003. Mail at SUU Im 9384, Cedar City, UWl 847'20. PAX 18011586-5487. E-mailadcmo:~ o PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER. PLEASE RECYCLE nus COPY. I THE CURRENT tCOOOMIC RECoYERY HAS CRFATED OVE~ 7.5 MILLION JOBS... ANDI ~VE. THREE OF TH(;M. LAQUETTA CARPENTER COMMENTARY Locked out of In September Friday afternoon, I attended a poetry reading enough to think that possibly it would be rude that marked the opening of a club called to re -en t er from directly be hind the reader Ymbsittendra (which is pronounced quite a bit during the reading, so I listened through the like "ln September", which is what I thought door t o find out whe n h e paus ed be tw een that it was. It was rather strange, it not being poems. It turned out to be a long poem, but I September and all, but I figured, hey, it's the was OK, no one could see that I was sitting language and literature department, I' m sure behind the door with my ear up against it, so that they h ave figur ed out that there is no harm done. reference to October actually being September T he reader finished, and I turned the knob, and who am, I to argue?). I must say, it was a ever so slowly to avoid a. loud clicking noise, hoping to merely slip in and back t o my seat. It really cool thing. I was very excited. I got to sit in a room and listen to a bunch of is at this point that I realized that the door was people that I've had in classes, but never really locked. met, sit aro und and t al k abo ut mostly dead From the outside. people. It was great ! I felt so intellectual, like I I began to panic, not knowing the protocol should have a pipe or something. Of course, I for this particular situati on. Miss Manners also felt rather stupid and out of place because does not have a section for "what to do when I was getting a snea ky suspicion that everyone a t a p oetry r eading and you hav e locked in the room was smarter than I was and t hat, if yourself in the bathroom, the door to which is I opened my mouth, they would find out that I di rectl y behind the reader. .. " I thought maybe I haven' t as yet read Paradise Lost and they 'd should knock, but t hat would involve drawing kick me out. attention to myself, which I was not keen on So I just kept fairly quiet, ta king in the doing at this juncture. I found a door that was surroundings, hoping that they would think I unl ocked and slipped out the bac k . It was was a foreign studen t who couldn 't speak snowing, but I quickly found a gate that could English or something. return me to the front yard, and t hereby the Halfway through th e e vening at an off- entrance. I say "cou ld " because at this campus location, I had made it OK. No o ne momen t, I was too flustered to notice that the was making fun of me, as far as I could tell, gate could be unlocked by turning the handle. and I was very much e njoying myself and Thinking my plight worse than it actually hoping that they' d let me stay. I was munching was (which was pretty bad ... ) I proceeded to on my teriyaki meatballs and croissants, gently climb over the fence, drop to the other side, sipping my Coca Cola, listening to Dave Lee and then sneak quietly back into the reading. read poetry. It's all good at this point. Of course, the reader had finis hed by the time I That's when I had to go to the bathroom. I got back a nd was proceeding toward th e hate those moments, because in order to get up bathroom . I tried to warn him, but I was out of to go, you must draw attention t o yourself, breath from the climb. I think he did the same which was not something I really wanted t o thing I did, only he probably went through the do, you know? But being trained in theatre, I gate, as he made much better time than I did. knew that the appropriate time t o go was So, I tried to be an intellectual, but I wound between readers. So Dave Lee finished, and as up still being° a freakish social faux pas like th e next reader made ready, I split for the u s u a l. But I think I still wan t to be in bathroom (the door to which was right behind Sep tember, unl ess they have rules aga ins t the speaker. I mean DIRECTLY. ) people like me. Most places do. I'm still cool at this point, I made a relatively small amount of disturbance in leaving. Now Laquetta Carpenter is a senior English major was the hard part: getting back in. I knew and opinion director of the University Journal. |