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Show WEDNESDAY, 10 - DIXIE OPINION SUN NOVEMBER;f, Hollands life: obesity is supposed to be fun and BY HOLLAND OLSEN Dixie Sun Staff Writer relaxing, but instead was continually worried if I would fit in the rides. I There is was being discriminated something against. 1 had to sit in seriously chairs that were marked wrong about with orange dots for peothis country, ple with a larger build, isnt there? and sometimes this meant And no, I am not talking that I could not sit with econabout politics or the my friends. omy. eviis Every ride 1 went on, the so The problem in charge would seem not it person does dent, but around walk making sure the addressed to ever-bwere secured propI am talkpeople should. it way erly in their chairs. Every ing about obesity. Thats time they got to me, they all of For right, obesity. 1 would have to push with you who dont know me, all their might to get the am a fairly large person, chairs restraint to click but I dont think I am one more time. On some obese yet (my doctor rides I could not breathe might disagree). I properly because the The only thing hear restraint was so tight is about obesity people their against my chest. On othneed to change eating ers it felt like the restraint activities recreational and lose might break my pelvis. can so they weight. The worst moment was overthe should we, Why when I realized that I was the be weight community, too big to fit on one ride ones who constantly have called "The Bat." to change? As I looked around the According to 1 65.2 percent park, realized was not the biggest person in of adults over 20 are overLagoon that day, but most weight, and approximately of the bigger people were 60 million people are not riding the rides. That's what So obese in the U.S. when I came up with a tell us? tell does that Ill means. it great idea: Why not make what First, you everything bigger? I need to stop eating people mean, if you can make one one food (this junk of the scats a little bigger, includes me); and second, why not just make every we, the overweight comseat bigger? If amusement munity, are on the majoriparks would do that, more ty; and third, the world people could ride the rides needs to change the way and not feel like they are things are made to make too big for the rides. In all them bigger and stronger reality, they would come to accommodate the back to the park again majority. because they actually had I am not joking. I fun riding the rides. That in to went Lagoon recently means more money for the northern Utah, a place that obesityi-namerica.or- I amusement park. Think about it, if 65.2 percent of the population is overweight, why would you still make things with a weight limit under 225 pounds? Take plastic chairs, for example. I am sure the manufacturers of those chairs have never had the embarrassment ot sitting in a chair eating and having a good time, just to have one of the legs buckle because of your weight. Trust me, it is not a good feeling. We obese people cant even sit down without being reminded that we are a little over- g, 1 weight. Clothing stores are the worst. I have an ongoing bet with my friends that every time we go to the mall if they can find something in my size, I will buy it. Now I am not talking about Sears or stores like that (but even then it is tough to find clothes that fit right); I am talking about Hollister, Buckle and American Eagle. Why dont they make XXL shirts and pants that are bigger than a mens size 38? Do they not realize that 65.2 percent more of Americans would shop in their stores? I mean, just because I am plump does not mean that I dont want to look good for all the ladies. So America, start your change for once. Start by changing the way you build things. Obesity is not going to go away anytime soon; in fact, the problem will get bigger before it gets better. Wait... was that a fat joke? Multilingual skills benefici BY NADIA VAN DER WATT Dixie Sun Staff Writer With the increasing effects of globalization it seems to have become ever more necessary to speak at least two, if not more, languages, but how necessary is it to our ultimate survival in this world, in which boundaries are being surpassed and walls broken down on a daily basis, to speak another language? Although currently not imperative to our economic survival, I believe that there arc benefits to being multilingual that cannot be overlooked. There are several causes behind the almost communication barriers in our world. One is the ease of travel from one country to the next, stemming from flight and car travel. There may be an entire ocean between friends and relatives, but in our remarkable world they are really only a simple phone call away, and with non-existe- nt the aggressive competition between phone companies calls can cost as little as 3 cents a minute. Companies locatheadquarters may be while ed in one country their product is made in another, and then shipped to even another. It is due to these and includmany other reasons, more a competitive ing work environment, that many students are wondera ing if they need to learn second language in order to be ahead of others in the work place. If things keep going at the rate they have it may be mandatory in just a few years to speak another language in order to work for certain companies. The demographic of the people in the United States has been shifting ever so slightly over the past decades. There is a growing population of Spanish-speakin- g citizens in the U.S. Because Spanish is the first language of many of these individuals, companies that provide services, food industries in particular, are trying to reach out to this population by hiring workers. Spanish-speakin- g It is also a common belief that children who are raised to speak more than one language while at a young age develop certain areas of their brain to a greater extent than those who learn to speak one language. I cannot imagine that con. being multi-lingupossibly hurt anyones chances in the world, contrary I believe it wo. be quite beneficial. However, I am not quite sold that only speaking al to language is as tragic as. many people want us believe. English is the langua. choice around the work one might call it the tin sal language, I suppose the other hand, I know ; personal experience th, is extremely beneficial, learn another language just because of the ling. advantages, but fromtt to experience of learning another culture. Along with other cub r V !- - f V r tv M J it SFT AWy IJXck'jc1 ' 'f OfcA Alr CcCfLC CXtyf MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 20C3 7pm COX 1U ElACX CENTER MTS DIXIE COLLEGE Fill! Ff)jg (first coma, first served; doors open tit The entire state of Utah was downwind of many of the 928 nuclear bombs the U S. and 1992. EXPOSED government exploded in the Nevada desert between 1951 To mark the one-yea- r explores the human consequence of our nuclear history. sold-ou- t, world premiere run, EXPOSED hits the road (courtesy anniversary of the of the Compton Foundation) to offer a series of free staged readings across Utah. discussion with the cast, director and playwright. Followed by a post-sho- presented by dixii college theatre bepmtm dst MOM INFO AT TNsw- PLANSTHXATEE.OECEXPOIEBTGIL BY Sto lamoi mal. I couldnt help'jdesir think as I read this tt. died we were the only offumo on campus hurting funding. I think that told her that all officii that my office could not are working under do it alone, because we sure right now, and "push could not provide just needed to do our enough working hours part. and in kind matching As we talked about vouchers that could EStats time, but with the help of the college we could used I stated that theW count the working time lege picks Up that coTon of security and the time not my office. 1 ntad Apa this office would put in sure that told her tl jllo on starting a program to could be picked up on violence our office and at Rose M help stop These Odettes office locaKlr campus. types of are be the vice president ofiaid. what could things used for matching funds dents office. for the grant. I did not tell her ttdon' I am not the office was only wbi happy with words that were used in from 8 a.m. to noon pen come and get help. Once the article, like I was She was told that it bpei to took forced to let my my again they open from 8 a.m. words and turned them employees go. I was p.m. and if they nees; around and made it all never forced into anyto talk with me then Tom sound bad. thing like that. I worked office was down the higl 21'frei The grant they are with the budget I had other hall in room and made decisions on referring to as lost is Since the article hell's the SIG-how the Wellness Center grant. Wc did written, with the not lose it; the grant time could best function. Del Beatty, dean of'a had expired. As was w never said that I was dents, we have no job theWehu quoted in the third paraon a minimal decided that working graph, the grant had budget. might have Center will be open FflT ended, not lost. said that the only budget Monday through I am informed the writer 9 to with from a.m. working 4p.lr right that we were looking at a now is the Barbara Johnson. college budgnew grant, which would et, but never said how Wellness Center co:fitb tno be for violence on cam much or that it was mini- - nator This article was written in response to Minimal budget left after Wellness Center loses grant printed in the Oct. 22 issue of the Dixie Sun. In regards to the article that was done on the Wellness Center I would like to add fny comments how the article affected me and some around me. My idea of doing this interview was to let the students know that the Wellness Center is available to them and where it is located. I did not want them to paint a picture of doom but the fact that we will be growing and offering a place where students could pus, but in order to apply for that grant we would need to find matching funds. Matching funds does not have to be money, so when I stated fo prcjclass 1 : oi K. w 1 1 dw-te- A. k UDCH b BY F. 2XjCR WatftcLy SU cial al 1 Tv to language being a huge-o- Di culture, we are expo to different ways of tk ing, of looking at then and others. It is for this a,, s son more than every ot put forth in the previous paragraphs that I supptr ,;a,u an extent, the notion tlsimp isii being multi-lingu-least beneficial, if not it pletely necessary, in on, world. Letter to the editor: clarifie Wellness Center article fad ; from 1 A A .ft dai. j Bock iwU ik csj Ail OyHich: r -- , hav |