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Show WEDNESDAY, OPINION 8 - DIXIE SUN SEPTEMBER 30, 20( The Skewed Review: One Assumptions about faith offend inadvertently nest may over the cuckoos Flu BY MALI JACOBSON Dixie Sun Staff Writer is so appropriate. Last, week I was hit witli the flu, and it was far from fun. I dont need to remind any of you whove had the flu about the lime spent in the bathroom, the body temperature fluctuations, and the gallons and gallons of snot and mucus. Sorry, I hope nobody is eating while reading this review. Whoever gave me the flu gets 35 out of 40 nose hairs plucked from his or her nostrils one at a time, very, very slowly. This person also gets 10 of those hairs stuck on his or her tongue, all day, with no way of removing them. Furthermore, students who come to school sick get eight out of 10 days of publicly having potty problems in their pants. What sort of nincompoops wake up in the morning with their eyes crusted over and a nose completely full of snot and say to themselves: Im going to be like the Democrats. Im going to redistribute my sickness? Dont think you are being a martyr by sucking it up and coming to school while under the i n T LUcnec. Have a little common courtesy and spare the rest of us from your problematic germs. Its super easy to or call your professors and let them in on your situation. Ill bet you $2 your profesaddress and sors are on number phone of one your sylpage labus. If your teachers protest, kindly remind them that the president of the United States said to stay home if you think you are getting the flu. Now who would want to go against what his royal highness suggests? Wouldnt that be trea- son Dont think that I havent considered the porcine factor, either. Believe me, yesterday asked myself, What if its swine flu? The pigs that started this whole H1N1 virus get five out of five donkey punches. Since I had to go to the doctor to make sure I wasn't dying, it got me thinking about the bigger picture. If this whole health care fiasco continues on it's current track, I might be doomed if get sick in the future. What if this health care bill passes? What will happen then? I will admit that I am benefiting from Medicaid right now, and without it, I would be lost. This new bill .the members of Congress 1 1 are proposing basically says that every citizen will be required to buy health insurance. If citizens don't purchase insurance, they will be taxed, or rather fined. I f I cant afford to buy this insurance,. I will get fined an amount most likely will not be able to pay. So w ill 1 end up sick and in jail? That wont be any fun at all. I would imagine the flu would just get continuously passed around from inmate to inmate. The sickness would be eternal. Since I missed school last Wednesday, I had a whole day to sit around and think about my bad health and what could happen to me in the future if out nation keeps going in this direction. Congress, by the way, gets one straight month of having to attend sessions in speedos and bikinis, with extra press coverage. If youve seen any of the representatives on Capitol Hill, youll know this wouldnt be pleasant. (Perhaps that would be too much of a punishment for the public, though something to think about.) If you are sick, sneezing, coughing, puking, pooping too much, getting hot, getting cold, or just plain dont feel healthy, for heavens sake stay home please. If I find the person who got me sick, the smackdown will be epic. 1 V M.W k iU MM -- t BY7 WHITNEY PHILLIPS Dixie Sun News Editor While the automatic assumption that a person belongs to the local dominant religion may be right in many cases, there can be negative repercussions when that postulation turns out to be wrong. Take, for example, an experience I had a few months ago. I was sitting in a cold operating room with only a thin hospital gown keeping me from flashing the surgical staff. I was attached to several different machines and was looking around at all the diabolical tools my doctor was going to use to break and then rearrange the bones in my big toe. Needless to say, I was alI ready very uneasy. looked hopefully to the anesthesiologist to see if he was finally ready to knock me out and take my mind away from the frightening situation at hand. I guess he ready. much-neede- Mil lt d my-foot- her. lam guilty of making sumptions, as well. I proba. bly asstune more often tliar not that people I encounter are part of the local dominant religion. 1 realize that puts up an automatic barrier that detennines the type of interaction I have with others. This is a shortcoming that 1, as well as everyone else, should be aware of. There are several possible ways to mend the ill effect of incorrect assumptions or as- ) $ 1 ,i religious affiliation. One pc j f sible solution is to stop rying so much about religion. There are many ferent faiths, so constantly 1 being concerned about wk I others believe can only to be exhausting. Another solution is to keej Pope, a our assumptions to ourfir N, Peru, selves. If we do happen to inappropria suspect a person of being a SHANNON I, member of a certain religioi Dixie Sun Si it would do no harm to with hold that assumption. jen in a ted For the most part, it is noi ryy generatic wrong to cling tightly to a ij State Col wot-- During my experience on the operating table, I felt estranged. I often automatically feel isolated because I do not belong to the religion that the majority of people in St George affiliate with. This isolation increases exponentially whenever 1 have to correct someone who takes the liberty to assume I do. I realize that as people, we make assumptions in order to gain a better understanding of others. When we know nothing about someone, we try to make some educated guesses in order to di, 12 jril ue ligion; however, it is wrong sarebothe to assume everyone in a et lJ phone given community clings the same one you do. to kphomore F ;,,acommu jrfrom St. its but re j use them dl phone diem, Cell phones mlinventio but pei s on, letters lacking full name, mailing address and daytime telephone number w ill be deleted. with attachments will also be deleted. The letter must be submitted as a plain text in the body of the mes- or of usi educated fiette .said. ils ucate and inform, not drive students into a mit hair-pullin- g, blood-boilin- g frenzy. We have all had to deal with teachers who think they know everything, and believe that vve are blessed and lucky to be listening to their nuggets of wisdom. When teachers insert their political or religious ideology into every aspect of their class it takes away and even distracts us from what we are supposed to be learning. In such classes I find myself wondering how the teachers opinion on health care reform is relative to George Meads theory of symbolic inter-actionis- Using politics or religion as an example is not a bad idea if it actually adds to what is being taught. It's when the teacher allows the topic to encompass the an unde ; et, n St. :ies Georp should fate or 'f turn someone their p noff a off in cla s distrac she sa else, Isipher when stu Teachers: Students want teaching, not preaching BY ERIK DORN Dixie Sun Staff Writer 1 hphomore sage. Information other than your name, major, year in school and hometown is kept confidential. Keep letters at 200 words or less. Concise letters developing a single theme are more likely to be published. Letters are condensed and edited. A teachers role is to ed- i area. His assumption made the situation very difficult for me to handle. It would have been hard enough for me to respond to his inquiries in a normal setting. It was much more unsettling for me to answer his questions while he was the one who would be determining whether or not I was awake to witness the . doctor sawing away on figure out that individual. However, the issue with ing on assumptions is that we often alienate the perso. if we are wrong about him LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CRITERIA: Letters from Dixie Sun readers are printed in the opinion section of the newspaper and online. V Q wasnt Instead of giving me the cocktail of d sleeping drugs, he pro ceeded to ask me about my religious practices where I had been attending 1 church, and how often was this with going. The issue discussion was that he didnt or stop to consider whether not I am a member of his rebe ligion, which happens to the dominant one in this lecture that it becomes a problem. 1 dont expect perfect objectivity from my teachers, but when all I want to do is leave the class. I dont feel like the class is a good use of my money or time. 1 didnt pay tuition in order to hear a teachers opinion on gay marriage; I paid my tuition in order to be educated. On the other hand, I have taken classes from teachers who are entertaining and informative without preaching their own opinions. When you take a class from such teachers you realize teaching is their calling. They care about their students and take time to make the material covered as interesting as they can. They refrain from their political agendas or going off on a religious rant; instead they look at how they can relate the topic to their students lives. Which kind of teacher would you rather take a class from? So when there are teachers who interject their agenda or ideology byannz Dixie Sun 'e have e on tl Jke us do and foi 'e Collef aple into their lectures time after time, what can we do? Well, the first option one pro to do nothing. We can sit Tens all test the in our chair, pass Colton H; write the papers and si- iWiore the smply gut it out until J(lies maj emester ends. However, '"wood H in doing nothing solves nothing, and inaction wont bring about any olutions to the problem. What we need to do d e s- People looks have a ;;y as ou him. Iming t students is inform those who are in authority o' those teachers that we at1 unhappy with their Ne 5eL said, 'You :lkid on ' opinion- -based method of a teaching. If you find teacher who constantly tangoes off on these speak gents, you should r but ol k referri aracter 0 iry p Qt fhe j11 funr hes e to him or her about it, dlhe loo inform the head ol their "hire be department. ahlberg We get bombarded every day from every opi" angle with peoples to want teachers ions. If on! express their opinion the tell subject, they can of their students where want (Ice is. If students to express their opinion they can take an argui"1' talion class, but please relleave political and cla1-of out igious biases discussions. room ' peoplc h he loc A Seac ,ca a si, lots O '(looks 1 ebrity ( ;;,d it's m Ja'ntanc ""led the V By !lcuntin 'irita Cla |