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Show Page 7 pinion & j? ditorials February 3, 1999 loudoninfowest.com Editor: Raelynne Loudon Students Speak Out On KRDC Shut-Dow- n Dear Editor, We are writing to comment on the article written about pulling the radio station KRDC off the air. As college students coming from out of town, we found it annoying that there was only one station that could relate to younger people. KRDC played the kind of music that a lot of college, high school, and middle school kids like to listen to. There are four or five other station that play the kind of music that older people would enjoy. Although, senior citizens of the community, the make up other third is college students. The music played on KRDC is edited and if there are older people in the community that are offended by the music than turn to one of the other five stations! The comment, "I didn't like the 'slut' rap," in the article made us wonder how often this woman was listening to the station to be detecting that all the music played was "slut rap." What it comes down to is that KRDC is playing the new generation of music. Younger people are either going to listen to the radio, which plays the edited version, or go out and buy the CD's which do not edit the songs. This is the type of music the younger generation enjoys. No one is asking us how we feel about all the other stations that are playing mostly oldies, for the fact that most of us do not like it and there for DO NOT LISTEN TO IT! We do not think it is too much to ask to let us have one station that plays music that younger people enjoy. Our advice to those that want KRDC off the air is, quit trying to find something wrong with the station, and listen to what you want to listen to and we will listen to what we want to listen to. We will all have the best of both worlds! two-thir- Becky Kline Tricia Jones Janelle Romney Holly Streeter Sun Staff Sports Crazed The staff at the Dixie Sun newspaper must have more stats and scores than they know what to do with. Sports made up 40 percent of the articles in the last Dixie Sun while areas like current events and national news only saw brief coverage. There was an article about Michael Jordan, an article on men's basketball, one on women's basket ball, and another on the upcoming softball season. One may come to the conclusion that he target audience is the sports fan. When the staff isn't writing about sports, they must be watching them or playing them. There were only two articles pertaining to Human Rights Day, one being an opinion n and the other pertaining to art on campus. These articles may be targeted toward the minorities on campus or possibly they may just be articles trying to keep readers updated on current events. of the world unite! Editor Brooks Shelton wrote two articles informing readers of environmental issues in southern Utah, while her other article was about a new publication on endangered and threatened animals. Culture and administrative concerns came in last, with one article each. The lack of cultural events being reported is almost as troubling as the few cultural events actually taking place. How can a college consider itself an institute of higher education when its participation in community enriching events is close to nonexistent? It is troubling also, that there is only one article, be it task brief at that, which tells of the four-yeforce and the effects it could have on the school. The Dixie Sun appears to me to be less of a publication of higher learning and more of a local Sports Illustarated, if knowledge could be thrown through a hoop, it might receive more coverage. African-America- Tree-hugge- ar Alex McAfee CEU Offices Warn Students of Disasters With an increasing population of 40,000 people per year and the approach of the 2002 Winter Olympics, the need for Emergency Management Training and services in Utah has never been greater. The Division of Comprehensive Emergency Management, under the Department of Public Safefor ty, provides services and training responses to all disasters including flood, earthquake, terrorism, and hazardous chemicals. Utah ranks third in the nation for potential danger from earthquake hazards after Los Angeles and San Francisco. Mexico sitCity, in a recent and similar uation to Salt Lake City, lost 14,000 lives al with many more injuries. The Utah Hazardous Materials Institute materials going through the state of Utah year. People living in the more dense-ly populated areas such as the Wasatch Front face the greatest danger from trans- ported hazardous materials, but they are of concern of every resident in the state. It would be a rare month that multiple spills and wrecks involving hazardous materials are not reported in newspapers from throughout the state. The Utah State Legislature is currently meeting and will review and act on the proposed Emergency Management budget. Past experience suggests that the CEM budget will face reduction pressures. Although Governor Leavitt has recommended full funding. However, without legislature support the Division will be short the 223,000 Federal Match monies requested. Such a reduced budget has the potential for being the greatest crisis of all. The need has never been greater and the full funding needed for CEM services occurs at a time when the State can financially provide the resources needed to meet anticipated emergencies. To help address the emergency concerns that we all face, the College of Eastern Utah has recently implemented an Associate of Science Degree with an Emergency Management emphasis to help train people in disaster responses. To successfully fulfill that role we and other institutions need a Division of Comprehensive Emergency Management funded at least at it's current level. More important is the fact that the entire State of Utah needs an adequately funded emergency management program that will continue to provide the services necessary for preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery for the disasters that will come. Disasters will occur. The only questions are when, where, and how serious the disasters will be. Communities throughout Utah have come to expect that trained people and equipment will be on call to deal predicted on an adequately funded gram to deal with all the disasters, pro-eac- Richard G. 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