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Show THUNOERBIRI) COMME TI-IE TIIUNDERBIRD • SOUTHERN lJfAH UNIVERSITY · MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1992 • PAGE .f AMBASSADORS DON'T BOUNCE ood news: the Presidential Ambassadors are students who volunteer to help with SUU's recruiting effort. We thank them for their help in acquainting new students with the campus. The ambassadors also occasionally take a role as ushers at SUU events; they were generous to help with the Sawyer Brown concert. But, they should not be expected to serve as bouncers. Campus Security did not train them to control the crowd problems that could have developed during the concert. As it was, many of the ambassadors found themselves unexpectedly barring people from rushing the stage. The ambassadors showed an extra-mile effort. But, if SUU sponsors other such activities, then the usher-bouncer-security persons must be well-trained. Volunteers could still be used, as long as they had the proper training. Maybe then the university would be able to host two sold-out nights of S.B.! G SU STAFF: GENEROUS nother generous effort is being put forth by the university's unsung secretarial and office staff heroes to build a scholarship fund. Perhaps our brief words of praise can se: ve as a crude ballad. The SUU Staff Association comprises a group of 98 members. Though they have decreased membership by six persons since last year, these secretaries and office workers donate enough money each year to give one full-tuition scholarship to a student. Membership dues for t he association are $20 per year, a small sum. But, this money is devoted almost entirely for scholars hips, explains Sue Dunton, coordinator of instructional media and head of the staff association. About $12 of the dues goes immediately into a tuition fund for a student who works as an office aide to a staff member; $5 is invested in an endowment fund which will eventually provide scholars hip money also. In three-years time the endowment fund has reached $8,000 with the addition o f ot her fund raisin g efforts. Only $3 is set aside for the association's administrative costs and activities. The generosity of those university staff members prove that indiv iduals working together can do great things-their direct investment in students' education is admirable. With a total of 260 staff on campus, but only 98 members in the SUU Staff Association, the membership and potential for scholarship development have a strong opportunity to grow. A Ed• Chais,Tucbr All«1llk EdirM Jennia Mori.., Opi,uoa D i . - Ja,on North PIMxo Din:mw Eric Rodo;rick' Arb Edlrow Bm Ww Spora Editor Jay Hin10n .A.hatiolnc . _ Brian c.o Tnvls Newman Fiiadty Advioer Larry Bahr ANodote A.tfviKr Lynn S. Dmneu 11tc n,.ndm,;,d it published ex!, Monday and Thuncby of chc ocademic ,.ar by and ~r chc srud.nt body o( Souchcm Utah U1Ul"tflitr and b noc affiliffld with chc Un!wnlty's clq,anmm\ of a,mmurualion. Tho viowJ ancl opinioru eq,tttO<d in n.. n . ~ att " - - of indiwbl wri1lm and do noc ._..riJy ..ilea chc ..... ol chc iNcioJlion, foaJif, -6 oo so.idm1 body In ,-nl. Tho urulp<d edi9:>ril1 dmaly 1bcM, it 1b. Opinion of 11tc ~ u a ancle cndcy. Lffltn 10 chc cditor nwsr be typed and indudo ,be name and pbott numbu. OnJ,y ,be name ...0 be prinood. Noma ...0 noc be whhhdd undn any cimmuGn<a and ,be «limr _.... tdilinc prMlqos. i.-. be ~ by noon Friday. a Mondoy odilioN; S p.m. Tuad.ya (or n..-t., edidons. Gr'"-' Any indMduol wilh a ....,,.,...,. opi,u< 11tc n,.........., should dina such p,oblan 8nr 10 ,be ocll,.,.. I( un-,lwd, INl ..-.,. ohould ma, be cfj....,.f 11) the .i.i-. I( sdll un-,lwd, cbc ~ ohould be cfj....,.f 11) ,be suu l'llblicMloN Council. S86-nt 0. 11tc ~ o6::a In SW Ted:inoioa Bulldinc 003, M.il • SUU Bas 9384, c.lar City, VT 84720. PhcM (801) 586-TIS"I, 5116-7758, 5116-TISO, 5116-.54811. FAX S86-.5487. LETTERS Do we restructure for homosexuals? TO THE EDITOR: Nov. 12 was a red-letter day for the U.S. Armed Forces.Gone are the clays one could say, "I served in the United States Navy." Now, for purposes of clarity, one must say (if the shoe fits), "I served in the United States Navy. Oh, and I'm a heterosexual." Now it appears we will have men, women, and homosexuals serving onboard ships. It caused quite a bit of resttucturing to allow women on combat ships (new berthing spaces, the addition of women's rooms). With the addition of another gender, do we restructure even further? If men and women in ships do not sleep together (for what are always termed "obvious reasons"), do heterosexual men and homosexual men sleep together? Do we need to separate the masses further to accommodate the privacy of heterosexual men from the wandering eyes of homosexual men? Before you make your decision on this, ask you rself if we can reasonably expect an end to separate men's and women's rooms in restaurants, the end to separate locker rooms, etc. I' m talking about overhauls on the interiors of a lot of shipssomething your tax dollars will pay for. The penalty for not separating all these genders will be sailors suing for ea rly-outs (based on privacy invasion and probably some strange, new sttain of sexual harassment}---and ~nning, because it has now been shown they can win. The intent here is to put a different light on this, not to make anyone think the apocalyptic horsemen are thundering down the road even as I speak. I would submit the reason the armed forces have worked so well is the service itself was never intended to be a place where one who serves was meant to feel free to sue every time an order was handed down. Prot.ection exists for victims of sexual harassment, racial discrimination, etc., but now people are presenting themselves in court and suing over parts of their contract with the military that are made clear from the start. Can we expect that labor unions within the military aren't too far off! Next will fall the working hours, then the dangerous situations those who serve are put in (shooting guns, throwing grenades, disarming bombs), and during all this, effectiveness will suffer. We need to be ready for that; it may be the price we pay (even if only for a brief time) for this political correctness in a facet of our government that hasn't been preparing itself for "correctness", onJy the ability to continue to do a job. James Wilson '.'The Thunderbird' welcomes your letters EDITOR'S NOTE: The Thunde1'bird's editorial staff polled random members of the SUU campus community to determine what you say is important and what you actually do read. 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