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Show T II E TWO February 19, 1960 DIXIE SUN EDITORIAL WH ATS WRONG? A couple of days ago I asked the girl who occasionally writes dorm dribbles if she had anything for this weeks Letters to the Editor Dear Editor: I think it is time that some of our older students here at Dixie told some of the newcomers how it was in the good old days. About two or three years ago, things were different, and in my opinion the difference was of a beneficial nature. Today much of the studentbody at Dixie has the attitude of a stoical idiot who hasnt seen the train go by. This year especially there has been a decided decline in the originality and general fun that was so much a part of the Dixie College of yesterday. This year we have no J. Wendell Bayles to attack the moral decJy present or pseudo present at the Dixiana. This year we have no Kent Hardy to initiate lint contests and to smuggle hot lunch spoons into the pockets of unsuspecting teachers (Huh, Mr. Smith). This year we have no R. J. Snow, no Irene Snow, no Squash Club, no Ski Club, no Reactionary Club, no Squash the Squash Club Club. In truth, this year we have no Rebels. This lack of those who have the guts to ask and' initiate something that may be unpopular with those powers that be is the reason why I am disappointed with Dixie this year. I also feel that this disappointment is not felt solely by myself but is the shared opinion of many of the students who were here when things happened. What has happened to the student body of Dixie. It is not a lack of intellect or lack, of basically original people, these we still have. Somehow or someway our attitude has been changed around, todav we would rather be organized than original. If this attitude continues to exist it will result in the replacement of originality with something else. This replacement may be vulgarity as was seen after the last Dixie-CSgame. When original people are stifled, vulgar people appear because vulgar people usually just dont give a damn. Kent Hardy, J. Wendell Bayles and R. J. Snow were not vulgar people, but they were original people. Today Dixie needs original people and original attitudes in its studentbody. Today Dixie needs original ideas and thought before the loud mouths, of vulgarity completely crush its few remaining original attitudes. One Who Remembers paper. She said no that the dorm was really quiet. Why should the dorm, of all places on campus, be dull even momentarily? Well, this is worthy of our consideration. THERE HAVE BEEN other things recently; no reaction to the sounding board; no reactions to the school paper. There are really no absolute reactions to anything this year, for or against. The CSU-Dixi- e contesting has seen some reactions, but these were not the products of any thought. For several months a sparse few students have been wondering what is wrong with Dixie this year. Activities couldnt be better. Student body leadership has been unusually good. There are hardly any real troublmakers on the campus. But .something is wrong. Perhaps last quarters regarding assemblies was trying to make a point. It feels as though the attitude here is one of complacency. Nobody cares. A recent article called Whats Wrong With America? in U. S. News & World Report had these things to say about our nation today: there is a slackness and softness. There is an easy shallow complacent kind of faith. Quoting further: Think of the peasant masses who made up the great majority of mankind all through history who still make up more than two thirds of the worlds population and who were always essentially passive, res ruled them. signed, obedient to whatever gods or THIS AUTHOR THEN asks if America, the land of onetime rugged individualism still has this great strength through her people. Henry Ford said Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it. Things are so pitifully easy today. We dont have to think. We dont have to do much of anything as long as we conform. Recent LDS fireside talks have been interesting along these lines. An example, why are our youth just tumble-weed- s who dont act according to what they themselves think? Why dont we exchange partners more often at dances? Why do stags stay home? One group said it was because Im afraid of what hell think of me if I ask to trade. So we come hack to personal issues again. We dont react to our school problems, or social problems, regardless of how we might feel. People may not like us is we dare to say what many of them may he thinking. So we drift along letting Joe Blow think for us. It is shocking to think how many people are controlled by 2 or 3 other people in various little societies in our nation, a nation which prides itself on democracy the people rule. THE POINT is not that we must enjoy classical music and poetry. It is simply that we should be cultivating whatever creative abilities we have, using our own heads. There has been no real test of Americas Telveision-Ag- e Dear Editor: strength yet. When that test comes, for our country or for us personEach time the athletic teams repally, wholl think for us then? He may think wrong if we resenting our studentbody and the let him . . . studentbody of our letter-to-the-edit- god-king- or neighbor-to-the-north-colle- meet, there is anticipation from both schools of STAFF OF TIIF IIIK SI N unsportsmanlike or childish published by the studentbody of Dixie College mud slinging. This has been going Brue on for manv years, has ranged from Campus Kriitor verbal needlings to pure riots, and is. deeply traditionalized as a part i i it nth Aim la fen. Kat'hieen''Hiake7'lT(la'''lir'ooksn vtruhn of each resident of the two citie Damira Kvbue. Jss Hrnwn. Anita Wilson Jay Durant McArthur, Ron Kvorett, Carriek I.eavitt involved. The CSU Thunderblrd Sports Writers has commented that much of the Faculty Advlseri Reed Blake. rivalry is directly from those who are not affiliated with the college. Is this so unique? Are we the Tri State Welcomes You only two colleges in the country who have such a rivalry? It is not Dixie Drug School Supplies difficult to sometimes get the feeling on our campus that this rivalry Typewriters When Your Doctor is in a class by itself removed from any similar situations. But a Records & Record Players Prescribes, Take Your of thinking tells us there must that literally thouTri-Sta- te To Dixie Drug sands of traditionalbe rivals Prescription Office all over the American college and high & Music Supply school picture. Alright Prompt, Efficient Service So CSU stole the Rebel flag. 36 East Tabernacle WTtose fault was this? Perhaps I Is a Specialty s St. George, Utah theirs perhaps ours: there is that possibilty where were we when they took it out from under our - li half-minu- noses? But how about the time a University of Utah fraternity made off with the BYU victory bell? Was this a personal insult? Was it crude and childish? Or was it part of the college spirit of rivalry. What I am trying to say is this: a typical, college rivalry is a good thing. The system is fundamental to our way of life. Problems arise only when people with no respect or manners are the only ones who carry on the rivalry. There has recently been e good relaorganized a tions committee, which is composed primarily of administrative personnel. These people get together to try to iron out problems caused by people who have been against them from the beginning. The vast majority of the student-bodieconcerned are nothing more than sheep, who take the advice given from a handful of adults. These students have no direct relation with the rivalrys good or bad They just sit and watch. Those who dont care one way or the other carry on with crude and activities admittedly uncalled-fo- r which have been exhibited during recent years. A few of these: salt in the lawns, paint in crucial spots, destruction of property. These are people to whom sportsmanship is a word to laugh at. Why should they care? A fist fight at a ball game is much more fun than an ordinary brawl. But getting back to college rivalry and improvement of relations between our two colleges. (Notice college: not high school) 1. Let us note that there is no exchange of assemblies between CSU and Dixie. Why? 2. There have been arguments as whether or not we should let CSU students have good seats in our fieldhouse. Why? When the students voted on this subiect a vear ago. the vote was unanimous for giving CSU the best seats we had to offer. 3. The Dixie student council has had virtually no voice in the affairs between these two schools. There has been no effort to exchange witty college-leve- l half time activities at these athletic contests or anv other time. Just what has expressed how we feel about this rivalry? Well, crude demonstrations at ball games. But are we going to have the rivalry or not? Tradition and human nature say we are. If so, why cant it be a college rivalry? must be close our eves to theWhy fact that the situation calls for spirited competition not sitting back to watch whatever a few daring souls might try? There is a distinct difference between vulgarity and originalifv Too manv times during this school vear the prevailing stav in the : tyaioht anri narrow with no a:Ved attitude has complete-lrhoVed anv desmes students havf had to do something unioue and on a high creative n!ane. with CSU involved or with-nu- f her Sometimes we might wonder just what college rivalry is. 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