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Show THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTHERN UTAH.. UNIVERSITY• FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1998 .. ' ' SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY STUDENT ASSOCIATION OPINION DAVE BARRY COMMENTARY COMMENTARY Cabinet officers are here to help the students Answers by Mr. Language Person We're your s tudent officers- use us! your copy! N ate also works on a variety Each Tuesday morning we, the members of projects for SUU and SUUSA. of SUUSA Cabinet, meet together at the Most of you who are involved in a club unearthly hour of 7a.m. to discuss you, are familiar with C&O Director Anita the student. Not because we have to, but Camp. Anita has organized this position because we want to. Who is in Cabinet? to run like clockwork, and sh e does a Well, we're comprised of a variety of terrific job! Remember the International Food Fair? different offices, whose main concern is how to make life for the students (all of That huge success was organized by Sue the students) better. We are very diverse, Fano, the multicultural representative for com ing toget h e r with a ll kinds of SUUSA. Sue (besides being totally cool) is backgrounds . That's not a bad thing, extremely concerned about making the however, because each one can add some entire st udent body aware of diversity that surrounds us. kind of clement to the idea of SUUSA. Darrell Osterhoudt, the legis lat ive Jodi Lee, your service coordinator, is in charge of the service projects that go on at assistant for SUUSA, is currently SUU. She, along with her committee, organizing a committee for UfA . His made Sub-4-Santa a huge success! Jodi knowledge and concern for his position has vo lunteered coun tl ess hours to makes him a great asset to Cabi net. Nate Esplin, the controller, keeps the helping the students here, and has been finances in line and our budget intact. He going the extra mile all year long! For those " non-trads", or studenls who is the anchor when it comes to making arc married or over the age of 25, don' t sure your fees arc allocated for things that think there aren't plenty of things for yo u will help you, the student, most. What would happen in Cabinet without to do here on this campus. We have two of the most wonderful people on your C ha r G ilbre th? S he's the executi ve side i n Cabinet. Danie l and Suzanne sec re t ar y and brings incredi ble Young represent the n o n -traditional orga n izational s kill s and a c heerful students during our meetings a nd bring attitude to SUUSA. , Last, but not least, is our fea rless leader you r concerns to SUUSA in hopes of making school life for you a little more and yours, Stephen Allen (another one of enjoyable. Th ey are in th e process of those Newlyweds!) Stephen has done so coordin a ting SUU' s version of the many great things for this universi ty. But Newlywed Game for Thunder Week, no matter what he's done, his one and which will be a lot of fim! only concern is YOU. Please let us know what we can do for Specia l Projects Coordina t or Nate Wilkey (a newlywed himself I might add) you. After all, we' re your s tud en t has worked very hard this past quarter in officers-use us!!! organizing the "Thunderoll,". SUU's own phone directory. It is due to be finished in Karen Grady is th e communi cation s the next few weeks, so make sure you get coordinator for SUUSA. Once again our glands are swollen have don e seen the last of you ' re with pride as we present " Ask Mr. child," but my husband, Warre n, Language Person ," the column that insists it sh ou ld be "yo u have been answers your common questions about done seeing the last of you're child." grammar, punctuation and sh eep This has beco me a real b on e of diseases. Mr. Language Person is the contention, to the point where Warren only authority who has been formally refuses to come out of the utility shed. recognized by th e American What do you t hink? Associat ion of English Teachers On A. We think that an excellent name Medication. (" Hey! " were their exact for a band would be: " The Bones of words. "It's YOU!") So without futher Contention." Q. I have n oticed that newspapers adieu, let us turn to our first question. Q. I have just returned from a trip to often sta te that they have obtained England, and I noticed that the English information from "i nformed sources." put an extra " u" in certain words, such Who are these sources? as " rumour," "humour " and "The A. We cannot tell you. Q. Why not? Roulling St0unes." Also they call some A. Because the Evil Wizard w ill turn things by totally different names, such as " lift" when they mean "elevator, " them back into snakes. Q. Can you please reprint the top two "bonnet" when they mean "lorry" and " twit" when they mean "former Vice h eadlin es from t h e co ver o f the President Quayle." M y quesiion is, October, 1996, iss u e of R ea der's don't the y ha ve any d e ntis ts over Digest? there? A. Certainly: A. Apparently nout. FIRM UP YOUR BOTTOM and You Q. Please explain the correct usage of Can Raise Your Child's IQ the word " neither." TODAY'S IlUSINESS WRITING TlP: A. Grammatically, "neither" is used to In writing proposals to prospect ive begin sent ences with compound clients, be sure to clearly state the subjects that are closely re lated and benefits they will receive: wear at least a size 24, as in: "Neither WRONG: "I sincerely believe that it Esther n or Bernice have passed up is to your advantage to accept this m any Ding Dongs, if you catch m y proposal." drift." It may also be used at the end of RIGHT: "I have photographs of you a carnivorous injunclion, as in: " And _ naked with a squirrel." don't t0uch them weasels, neither." GOT A QUESTION FOR MISTER Q . My husband and 1 recentl y LANGUAGE PERSON? T ha t is not our received a note conta ining this problem. sentence: "Give us the money, or you seen the last of you're child." I say that Dave Barry is a nationally syndicated t he correct wording should be "you columnist. GOP and Democrats reverse roles on new tax plans Washingto n h as turned pos itively giddy at the prospect of a budget surplus next year. Maybe the spring-like weather gripping the capital has something to do with it, but the silly season has started early. Real early. Before things get totally out of hand, it's time for the politicians to take a deep breath- and a hard look at fiscal reality. For one thing, there really is no surplus. Take out Social Security taxes that were added a decade ago to fin ance future demand and th e government is still running $135 billion in the red. For another, the laws of economics might have been suspended, but they have not been repealed. Eventually, boom s are always foHowed by busts. The extra tax revenues now pouring into the Federal treasury are not guaranteed forever. What is guaranteed is that the baby boom generation will start retiring in 10 or 12 years, turning from tax payers to tax users and altering the nation's basic financial underpinning. This is not a guess, or a prediction, but a sure thing. It's time for the Democrats, led by Bill Clinton, to stop playing politics with Social Security and Medicare and get serious. The more immediate problem, however, is the raft of Republicans who have rushed in with proposals to slash taxes while the slashing is good. And from a political perspective their eagerness makes sense. For the last generation, tax cuts have been the GOP's best issue. The "tax and spend" label has been as damaging to Democrats as "soft on crime and Commies." progressive income tax (a nd the Internal Revenue Service). Some advocates favor a flat tax, others a national sales tax, but the message in both approaches is the same: taxes drop, services don't. All gain, no pain. And no fairness. Rep. Dick Arm ey of T exas, the Republican leader, says the beauty of his flat tax plan is that it "treats everyone the same". Really? Should the business executive ea ting a fancy expense account dinner pay the same tax rate is the waitress who serves him? ls that the American Way? To his credit, Clinton has responded to the upbeat economic news by raising the problems posed by the aging Boom.ers. One White House trial balloon suggests a national commission to study ways of mending Social Security. Another mentions the possibility of a special Congressional session after the next election. COMMENTARY Both ideas have some merit, but Republicans are wary of the subject and they have a righ t to be. They've been burned too often. Budget Director Fran k Raines is of returning to the fai led policies of the past." His reference was clear. T he Reagan tax cuts of the correct when he says that any solution has to be a early '80s contributed heavily to the exploding Federal "bipartisan agreement," but given their past sins, the deficit, in large part because Americans are wildly two- Democrats have to make the first move. So in this silly season of surplus mania, Washington faced about their true attitude toward government. The GOP strategy, then and now, has always been to should probably rem ember a few simple maxims your starve the governmen t of revenue and permanently mother probably taught you. Don't spend money you shrink its size. Yes, choruses the voting public, get don't have. Don't ignore problems that won't go away. government off our backs and out of our pockets . And any idea that seems too good to be true, probably is. Hallelujah! There is a free lunch! The latest version of Reaganomics, what could be Cokie Roberts and Steven Roberts are n ationally called Free Lun ch II, focuses on eliminating the syndicated columnists. But from a fiscal viewpoint, massive tax cuts make no sense at all. They would unbalance the budget, unleash the deficit, and uproot the fragile sense of discipline that is still struggling to take hold in the capital. In fact, the two parties have undergone a stunning role reversal. The GOP is now disdaining budget ary prudence. The D emocrats are preaching cautious conservatism, as President Clinton did earlier this week: "Any policy we adopt must not, it cannot, run any risk COKIE & STEVE ; ROBERTS |