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Show Inside the SUN: Page 2 - Student 1 ohb Report Page 3 - Increase of Hiring ( oilege (. rails, Aid Q's & W. fabrum, Financial Page 4 & 5 - Sports Puge 6 - Facult) Page Page 4 v olume 19-Num- 6 Dixie College, St. George, Utah 10 - tditonals and Student Opinion December 9, 1987 Dixie College Honor Students Sponsor Summit Tracie Hensen SUN Staff Writer Last Friday Dec. 4, Dixie oilege s Honor Students spon-jre- d aSummit to discuss the control treaty between the mted States and the Soviet Union. They talked over the implications of what the treaty consisted of and the risks ms Tui involved. The summit panel consisted of retiied American diplomat John R.G. Vought, retired Brigham Young University professor of Russian Donworth and Dixie College and professor of European history, Douglas Gubler, President Alder. It was held in the Dixie College Sunroom and was presented live from the radio station KRDC. The intermediate range missile treaty was the big issue of the Dec. 7, summit. The treaty will determine the world l well into the 90s and still for to come. Many have asked if the Soviet Union will break this treaty. Russia has previously shown they can not be trusted, in as much as all treaties sign- generations 1) ed with the United States have been broken. There is no way to be 100 percent sure that neither country is cheating, but it is a risk the United States must take, Vought said. It is a huge gamble, and Im in favor of the gamble, Alder said. But I know darn well the dangers. It is a gamble that the USSR is not intent on dominating the world. It could have a positive effect on world stability and peace and on the economic stability of the United States, Vought said. For 25 years the Soviet Union and the United States have engaged in an arms race. For this treaty to become a step towards world peace America and the USSR have to come to believe that neither superpower can dominate the world. In 1945, the United States emerged from World War II as the most powerful country in the world, Alder said. We had the and we it. we deserved thought However, Americans were stunned to discover, the Soviet Union and other countries did not agree with or like American superiority. We must as a country give up our invulnerability and admit we are both vulnerable, Alder continued. Mikhail Gorbachev is now speaking of glasnost (openness) and reconstruction. However, in previous years the Marxist-Lenni- n government has held the belief that someday Communism would dominate the world. This has led many to believe that the signing of the treaty is a Digger risk than others suspect. Nations observe treaties as long as it is in their interest to do so, Vought said. If the Soviets chose to cheat, they could. I could argue strongly that they would have no interest in doing so. Whenever a country has tried to dominate the world, other countries have tried to step in. No one wants an American domination of the world or a Russian domination of the world, commented Vought. Continued on 8 page X !.1 N President Alder, Donworth Gubler, and John Vought discuss Dixie's Summit Meeting held last friday Students share Christmas Spirit December 10 and 11, Dixie College students will be visiting college apartments and dorms to collect cans of food for the statewide higher education service project. During the Utah Student Association at Snow College in November, every university and college in Utah agreed to collect as many cans of food as they have students. Every school will be collecting the food on the 10th and 11th of December and distributing them to the charity of their choice. Dixie plans to give the pro-ceto Dixie Care and Share in St. George. After the cans of food are collected, each school is to send in a report to Snow Colleges es students participate in Wednesday, December 2 candlelight prr - ssion at the 11th annual Christmas lighting ceremony studentbody president, Monica Moe, who is in charge of this statewide service project. Moe will then turn over the final total of how many cans of food were collected and where they were taken, to KSL in Salt Lake to be broadcast statewide on the news. Marianne Nielson, head of Dixies activities and in charge of this service project for Dixie commented, We are getting on the legislatures good side. We want to show that students do care and contribute. Marianne also went on to ask everyone to please contribute to the project when the collectors of the food come to their doors. Dixie is trying to have at least one service projects this year and plans to have a clean-u- p service in the spring. |
