Show "Right conclusions are more to be gathered out of a mMuoe or tongues than through any kind of authoritative seiectton" — Judga Learned Mend American (Uriel (1I7Z-1M- Tuesday The Herald Journal Logan Utah" April Your view To the editor: Mrs Harris is apparently misinformed She suggests Girls State selections are made on the basis of “who you know” Wc have served on the selection committee for Unit 7 for the past several years and can attest to the fairness of the process Girls must apply in order to be considered Applications are assigned a number and the names are removed for the judging process Each applicant’s package includes a short essay telling why she wants to go Three people make up the judging team and each application is averjudged on the basis of grade-poiage school activities church and comnt munity service Additional minimal points arc given if the applicant her mother or grandmother is a member of the American Legion Auxiliary All the applicants are then interviewed by a committee of three (not usually the committee listed above) The interviews cover national and local current events The girls are also required to have a working knowledge of the Poppy Story The accumulated points for these categories arc totaled and those with the top scores are selected to go This is the point where names are matched up with applications Marie S Cowley Logan Ann Ogemaw Paradise Karen Cannon Logan further a global economy then suggestions such as these will hopefully be considered and implemented in the near at future Contact me by slstjccusuedu Barbara R S Soriano Logan Cache Clash basketball tournament a success To the editor: On March 22 and 23 Youth Corrections put on the third annual Cache Clash Basketball tournament Thanks to everyone who participated because of you the tournament was a huge success Through the generous donations of local businesses and the participation of 49 teams Youth Corrections was able to donate $256246 to the Senior Citizens Center to expand the nutritional services for the elderly Congratulations to the winning teams in each division and to the teams who played hard until the end Your sportsmanship and leadership exhibited at the tournament exemplify our community spirit and set a great example throughout Cache Valley The team effort by Youth Corrections Volunteer Action Center Logan Parks and Recreation the busi- ness community and the citizens of Cache Valley reflect the forces that can pull together to bring resources and benefits to our own neighborhoods Thank you everyone for your willing participation The teamwork and spirit alive here is what makes Cache Valley a wonderful place to live Let's broaden the base for university research To the editor: This letter is to draw the attention to a situation many may not have known: there arc very likely few first and second generation ethnic Americans in graduate school at the university "Very likely” means I don't have direct evidence since the university does not ask students to — MadonnaCMd to do national research in geriatrics Let’s broaden the base If we are a research university and if Cache Valley continues to be supportive of research to Girls State selection process not unfair Page 16 23 1996 Utah prisoner suits take the cake Jack Anderson and Michael Binstein By United Features Syndicate s ALT LAKE CITY Utah — If inmate Robert Henry Werner’s legal briefs are to be believed he has a serious religious identity crisis In 1991 Werner sued the state penitentiary here for failure to cater to his Bud- dhist spiritual He needs demanded access to Buddhist literature a worship Jim Emmett Cache Clash Coordinator Smithfield scroll and ritual beads Where were Providence critics during election? But by the time the prison complied it was too late Wemcr had and' was suing them for failure to respect indicite$ecific fcthfifcity fcVcn general' Ibtlrtediton to addressed is letter This his new spiritual needs as a Native particularly designations are voluntary “First and second generation ethnic Americans” refers to a recent status of being an We all honor our roots being from some heritage But few of those attending graduate school can say that these beginnings were from the last four or five decades What evidence do I have? Multiple ads in the student newspaper The Statesman and recruitment through the Multicultural Center for a research project comparan ing particular ethnic minority group graduate students to Anglo graduate stu- dents have brought a response of two students Why is this so important? For me the importance is critical By the end of April I need to recruit certain students into a national experimental project run by the Graduate Record Examination Bioard to determine if there is cultural bias in the GRE The project as do most such projects requires a comparison of gnyps Anglo and specified I have found two of the IS students I non-Ang- lo need who meet the Mexican-America- n graduate student criteria For other research into issues of health psychology sociology political science economics business education communication — to have knowledge of the resources presented by the diversity on the university campus is not just nice-to-kn- but essential to know If we know more about the differences and commonalities among students here we can hypothesize about the differences and commonalities we will meet in nego- tiating beyond our state's and nation's borders Political appropriateness and privacy legislation have kept us from dealing with the fine balance between need-to-kno- and w It would bctlcr-not-to-kno- w be possible for students to voluntarily seridentify themselves through vices if the campus would list research projects requiring student participation service could be available to This ail all students Cache Valley has been chosen as a site Mr Craig LaRocco and his associates representing the “Historic Providence homeowners’ Association” — a group of self-appoint-ed "lobbyists government watchdogs and beautification” people It is interesting to me that you people have so many objections so many com- plaints and so many concerns about Providence City government and officials yet last November our city held a general election with two positions on our city council to be filled Only two people in the entire city were willing to give of their time and help to fill these positions Also last year there were positions on the Planning and Zoning Commission to be filled Where were you people when our city needed someone to serve to give of their time and expertise in a meaningful and constructive way There always seems to be so many people to disagree to complain to go around stirring up contentions and so few who arc actually willing to give of themselves in a positive helpful manner Obviously none of you were willing to do that You talked of your desire to maintain wetlands open spaces and nature trails throughout the city That is a wonderful suggestion if you own the property If you do not you have no right to dictate American This time he wanted a sweat lodge a medicine bag hawk feathers access to an Indian holy man for worship and healing rituals and $27 million in punitive damages Utah like many other slates across the country has been inundated with frivolous prisoner lawsuits that cost the tax- payers precious dollars and clog the court system Prisoners primarily sue to maintain their Eighth Amendment right against "cruel and unusual punishment” In recent years however thousands of prisoners have made ridiculous assertions about what constitutes “cruel and unusual” “114 become a lawsuit mill out here in the prisons” Utah Attorney General Jan Graham told our associate Dale Van Alta A lit Hot ft By Scripps Howard News Service Some Republicans in Congress battered and bleeding from last year’s budget battle with President Ginton have dropped their opposition to the White House’s pnqwscd increase in the $425-an-ho- COKttft Witt appreciate “outsiders” trying to control what wc and our fathers and grandfathers have worked o hard to maintain Our city needs people who are willing to work together to make our city even a better place — not those who ate constantly trying to pull it apart Perhaps if you were wilting to work with our city government instead of always against it good things would happen for all Make no mistake about it: Increases in the minimum wage make it impossible for many small businesses already operating on marginal profits to keep paying as many people for as many hours of work Most economists agree on this this land for generations and do not signed into law issue Labor Department statistics demonstrate it’s true Major studies undertaken over the years support the thesis although there is an exception a study the Clinton administration now points to This study undertaken by economists at Princeton produced data appearing to show that increases in the 2? rtS WadiArtkM 06 ur national minimum wage and that’s too bad for the thousands who stand to lose their jobs if a bill is finally io ‘ywowMStt Jfo instead of the flimsier Converse tennis shoes he received He claimed he had bad feet and his doctor wanted him to have the best Judges across America have proven reluctant to dismiss such suits outright which has led to a burgeoning number of these cases In recent years however some courts have finally started to stem the tide 10th US Circuit The Denver-base- d Court of Appeals for example has already censured “frequent filer” Werner from wasting their court's time in part because of “threats obscenities and pro finally moved against Werner too making him the first to have his Third District Court filings restricted Attorney General Graham a Democrat says something had to be done about the $11 million a year it was costing the taxpayers of this stale “We have a whole division in this office that does nothing hut respond to inmates in prison — nine attorneys" she said Fed up she rounded up Utah legislators with the help of a nationally influential Republican from the other side of the political fence — Sen Orrin Hatch — and got a first bit of legislation passed to try to curtail these lawsuits The key provision of the legislation ah directs the parole board to penalize inmates who file numerous lawsuits without merit by delaying their release date It also encourages judges to collect at least a partial filing fee from inmates for each filing Because they arc declared indigent prisoners across the United States have had free access to federal courts while taxpayers have to ante up $120 each time to file a suit No wonder then that prisoner lawsuits account for 23 percent of all civil suits in federal court here — a percentage similar to that of other states “W'hal we know from at least one state (Arizona) that has required a fee is that even though a minor fee like $2 is imposed it dramatically reduces the number of petitions” Graham said “It may be their ‘constitutional rights they were fighting for before but it’s not worth 50 cents to them" law-abidi- ng Minimum wage hike not thought through Mallard Fillmoro PJWjAfp LA Gear or Reebok athletic shoes fanities" he forwarded to the judges The Utah federal court has g slower-movin- Other views to property owners what they should and should not do with their land Many of us have owned and cared for Gorecn Spcth Providence during a visit to this Western state “And we’re the suckers on the other end — we're going to court taking everything seriously responding as if they were legitimate lawsuits We go through the motions — the motion for summary judgment the motion to dismiss It eats up time and energy when all the while you know these things are gaibagc” Some examples culled by her office include the following: One prisoner deliberately flooded his cell then sued officers who cleaned it up because they got his Pinochle cards wet Another prisoner refused to come out of his cell for two days He later sued the prison for its failure to feed him A prisoner sued officers because they didn't put his cell back in a "fashionable" manner after a search for drugs and weaponry Or consider the case of Karl Winsness He may be doing five years to life for attempted murder but he didn’t think that entitled the state to force him to wear bad shoes Winsness sued the state of Utah for failure to supply him with fPMLWDfO FMfrf I ite jusr minimum wage in California and New Jersey had increased employment at fast food restaurants The study however was based on a phone survey that asked the wrong questions Others have checked actual records at the some of the same New Jersey restaurants and found that in fact they had reduced the number of hours they were paying employees to work An examination in California also exposed flaws in the Princeton study The Democrats parents minimum-wag- e Altogether earners constitute under 2 percent of the total workforce Herald Journal Editor!! (XHICVWMBMR Artsm of KHos trying to portray themselves as the compassionate protectors of the exploited would have you believe they’re trying to improve the lot of working families As statistics demonstrate those earning the minimum wage are not abused men and women in large-scal- e factories or the like They are mostly teenagers or young adults w ith part-tim- e jobs and living in households where someone else works often the The Opmbn page is Mended to aoouaM reader "te a variety of mwconb on matte mamCte ol ol putnc tewortano and comrwMty veto a bum tor toe Personal ootenne ceioons and MW's tom too opnrone of their ai aw and reader EiStona under to heading ftjr nm tv wm wuw vd Wv’ncnirirammtfNHnUJiwwl to Member boo'd odaortaf board of a odeonai BRUCE SUSTHtoubtohar CHUUXSMcCOUJJMMmgingKjaar JENNIFER HNEStity edaor RAEANNE TNAYNEmee ednr In the past many Republicans have correctly argued that government’s various impositions on businesses can ultimately thwart economic efficiency and thereby cause great social harm This time out many Republicans have decided to run from their principles and go along with the Democrats almost certainly because polls show 84 percent of Americans support a minimum wage hike The poll results aren’t surprising Most Americans after all are themselves dependent on pay they receive from their employers and have not taken the time to think through what most economists and business managers or owners could quickly tell them that cost increases in one part of an operation often necessitate some sort of curtailment elsewhere What is surprising is the way President Ginton s political victory in the budget battle has made purring pussycats out of Republicans who not that long ago were growling tigers urtersjpoi Tha Herald Journal atecomee tetter to to ador PoasnbaSy toetoua or oftanswa tens' a nd be pubtahed however and th editor reserves toe nghi to add rtl letter to conform to toe length and style tequremenw of toe loner should b Typewritten and double spaced No morn toan 50 words in Adtoeseed and include dayeme phone number tor pkspoeaa of twrAcahon Svted by to autos toon pubtetoed tetter wten any 3My period teto todtefeaamfd UhuEael com Quart ten to tfdb®iywa ar ateo amteoms to editor adwerenon and am run al |