Show n i I i fr r r r - P r r r r r r r ' i -- 0 ' rJ" - r r ' hi ' TFffmrrrmnrm ' : f ' ‘i r : ? - ' i ‘ I j1 v TWconckubnitmmomKktly to Be gathend out damutUuda of tonguoo than Vwough any kind of civ? authoritative wfectm —JutfpUamMIM uiM(17-1N1- ) The Herjkl Journal Loom utST ' Sunday March 15 1996 Page 27 ' Oqr vlow program I log rock climbing and other outdoor! peiticulaiiy on a coUege stu-ev- ") Pta dent's budget t takes guts to reverse a decision a bad one So we applaud Utah State Unlveni- ty President Oeorge Emert tot once again allowing student fees to help support USU's Outdoor Recreation Crater Last spring Emert vetoed student en and the center offers quality equipment for rental at extremely reasonable rates p also maintains a yurt for those interested in a wilderness overnighter — an unforgettable experience according to ferae who have back-count- ry government's recommendation to tried it and one for which give the centra 60 cents from each types pay top dollar USU student’s quarterly fees Nearly Then there are the classes and 200 sttidentac protested by filing workshops on skiing mountaineerthrough Emert’s office and dropping ing rock climbing and kayaking 60 cents each on his desk slide shows of international expediEmert said he suspended the fundtions and of course fee annual Banff ing to review certain practices of fee film festival Centra Director Kevin centra' such as tenting equipment to Kobe and his staff are avid off-camp- outdoocs-nolHimvers- people and sponsoring commercial trips Now that the centra has agreed to stop ferae practices Emert said he supports fee student- fee board’s recent suggestion to give' fee center ’50 cents ox i proposed $2 increase for Campus recreation The amount is a pittance compared to the $27 students pay quarterly to support USU’s athletic department' buttipllfbe a big boost to a small opemiravfhatdoes atat Sieuts don't come to Logan for the hight fife Manjf choose USU beaniseof feemountain lifestyle It’s to get into backcountry ski-expensive f'A1 v -- people who like nofeing better tiian sharing their considerable expertise and safety has always been a hallmark of the program’s activities Not a bad deal for SO cents a quar- tet : ' y’ Of course' there will always be more people who enjoy sitting in fee stands than there are people who will strap on a pair of skis and head into die hills under their own power But at a university a universe of activities should be affeed And in a place like tins it doesn’t make much sense to shortchange the outdoors s : Yourvlow VV CM - tlJ : Sf’flr Disappointed in Mantua report Mrf W hat do we know and how do we know it? And how for God’s sake can we figure out what’s really real in a your Sunday’s feature media age when the distant and the — “fac brought to us from afar by people we don’t know — are more familiar and real to ua than die near and personal? r y The question of what we know and v how we know it is illustrated this week by the cel- -' ebratioo at Time oyKyan' f as foc the good of the women who work in the White House Billy would then have more time to devote to his job as John Stewart lTbo need limits CMpaign kicks off ' - fw&Snfy' sheriff rv' To theuUidr This year we will be selecting a new Sheriff of Cache County I have a friend that! fed is very qualified for tide poair help reduce mishaps with associated pain and damage caused by speeders having poor judgment andor driving V'-’- - skills tion ahd will serve the people of this 3 Mc 01iver cited the objection of a cowUy welLThis penon is Bill Larsoa USU coed fined for going about 12 mph He b a tiatiW of Cache County mar- - over feq uraer speed limiL She is a great ried'td Maq£j and they have nine chil- esampk jpr a dangerous driver with two dren nd one cranddnU Vi head comcommon drawbacks: a Bill graduated fipmXogan High bined with a heavy foot! light (If I had a bad School Weber State University Utah day I may even say: an air head and n Peace Officer! Standard and Training lead foot!) yy r and Utah Conectiotu Acade- In contrast to your feature article we myHe seryed in fee United States COMMEND fee Mantua and other Army in Military Police Corps police for their efforts in our behalf Wei BiU is faommitted to his community by may not like everything they do but it is teering In nnmerona service and only the speeders who can complain! coriunqnity programs He ia currently wdcmg1 as Deputy Sheriff wife the RJLLamboni Box Oder Sheriff Office ' Bill will formally file his declaration 1 r t mSS1 ! iSnib?bMunl Norfe Main in Logan I would like to take felt opportunity to invite all who would like to join me in wishing' BiU luck in his candidacy for Sheriff together j at dm Htdl of Justice to help kickoff hte campaign for Sheriff I ‘ ftv t Student interested - to hear from Utahns Tb the editor My am 10 yean Falls Ore I go to Mills Elementary and played for foe girls’ basketball team Our team wu undefeated and we won every single game wri played I go to the Church of Jeans Christ of Latter-da- y " See YOUR VIEW oarage 28 ‘ ’ '' he spawned is evidence that he was "hv 40r Page S DY® Bairy ' " “Dt Still Luce had few dehmkxm about Ms trade "Show me a man who dunks he’s ' 'objective and rH show you a man who’s crashes and mayhem can understand timL Back in die eariy lWPs for exam pie when European tourists iq Miami teemed to be caijacked and murdered day die perception was feat Soufe nuut be fee most dangerous spot on die planet But feat was h felse per-- perpetuated by media fnernai- -' tion with the strange and tiie extreme' die reality is that violent crime in Miami declined daring that period ' actually 1 deceiving himself” he 'once said n debnnking jouroalitm’s greatest be cannot Jonmalistt deception ' tive: it’s not feat they can’t be fur and haimvwi and try to put their own : dices aside in reporting events but Luce understood r- as do all of us who are honest and not deluding ourselves — '' feat how we each see and measure the ' although few tourists from Scandinavia world is a product of our own back-an- d believe will it Germany Vgrounds and biases rraqrien and readers ' self-eve- objec-Flan- da preju-ceptio- n - ? 'y J 0°” Henryk Luce v j M? v-and are Luce was 24 years old when his people in UDOT C Henry Time came out Mi talented safety BntonHadden wu all of 25 Then arefee upper speed limits Pftoer Tune-Wani- er the largest of is Today itisiad' good road and that as we travel at the speed limit we am often paaaed by some supenpeeden liras or Homes every momei deeds of ways from books to movies to who must think these are mimmunn! TV to magazines to cyberspace SmiraSi 'ft’ ‘ magazine of its 75m amuvenaiy y “ferJiii own 'Oliver The enhalis therein was on Built has had a — ii mu good? prompttme to observe that it would1 be' more appropriate for Billy to fallow- be neutered “for ms own good” as well BUWy "'' v 4 t what for ? whose good? TofeeedJfor Do aito the global power of the Tinm-Wunmultinational media conglomerate tiiat er j v a ity hifa suggests dud the media also can “cultivate”other kinds of felse pra-ate- d ceptions — rixwt people naal groups women businesses tod their products political candidates arid socud treads Hw niwii w Luce’s greatest contribution to jounialism and the society it seeks to serve may be his commission in the 1940s of a panel of scholars to study And of course this is trueyFew of us jourmdism and its responsibilities in n have met Bin Clmtohy tor example and ‘v matt media age Luce understood feat — or perceived downfelL And so Free and Responsi- media doesn’t know more about theV ble Press which he created and pud fix fieedom licensed under the Rnti teent'-- world and events in'fi ihq75fe “Like the Ideas that dominate the birthday of Time is worfe noting Not The Hutchins Commission ns it ' — n Uni-cyberindnstry today Time was never ony qve the events that huv?bera bricame known Mftefits ae wrties Time tomri inforoutiou Luce’s and “tittle Hadden of Chicago Chancellor Robert repotted by President Bruce Hallet in last week s iwnjarf rtwwiohnitrti AmAsm fVwtn jf venity et fintchiiu? prodniced an’admirably commemorative 75th anniversary issue and forirriila for maintuning fiveoirit ' yfaa ototouting “It was about organizing it in ways dud would enable curious people y quickly and easily” is What extraordinary about Time’s role and responsibilities of jomntlista ee 75th year is not just that cpmmiasira saidFurther maaazine survived feat Iona but the min” fee pressmust report fee facts in context: mbsmbed to isnnfe fjrtnMniiTt ivt im theory of history which hedra dud inA-'its readers and fee panoramic view : vidualsnot social ot cultural forqesh-- factual report which ia uncolored by dm backward it now offen Over what Luce? determine events That's TSmerraria of the reporter” fee report said opinions why ' termed “The American Century” itsanmul Man ofthe lfear” covehon- Aresponsible proto also must provide In the Kholariy study of mass fee person fee magazine’s eddora ' oring ' f -fonmforfeeexifeance - - - " - of effects there exists a theory enaaidw — about how mass media — from books to shaping film to TV to newspapers and news The “peat — work It’s called "cultivacourse but the Time editors hive usually rnfbvidinc "fuU day’s inlet tion theory ” Like many useful theories Whb could inject to ray of Indira Gandhi and Kate MUlett among cultivation is fairly simple and straightsuc-dn- rvwr - thenespefcj He-f- hfi' V 1 cofnmD-nicati- ra — ? forward Developed by former Universi- There is io question in my mind that Henry Luce and all feat he built have ty of Pennsylvania journalism dean George Gerbner cultivation theory holds that fee content of the mass media lively "cultivOes” and frames a way for sle to see and make sense of the As an example Gerbner suggested dial fee media’s preocemwtion wife violence and disasters can help make people think that dmworid out mere 11 meaner and dangerous than it really is And anyone who has seen local TV news that seems to contain nofeing but murder car StSiS Luce clearly crmsidbied lnmself m flm Great Man category aad he probably should be Certainly there have individuals who have made “"Hraty looitink back now it nLuce’atooycreation is Time's own ofperfoJmaiire m impact in cultivating a national anb' toes In Us 75ft international worldview and agenda and inniww jxxnr editor in terms of helping jounudism cultivate ter Isaacson notes that itself and its understanding of its own nu-m- ore founded Time role But Luce was no dreamy idealist' ' WU-Hen- ry rlallcrd Fillmoro iota t&werrt OJKtriwra teWv eVebti&jW’ Mo weip toe fitahtiam XlCiCllU JUIUiUU nmmjomWh Mw hsBlRn— MR A VW10Qf OV WMBOreWS On InMMV ofpublcImpofmnoaandpRNWsmwnbwsof ffweommunty wto alonim torSwtr town: Pwwnal ootumnaewtoona and Mmtnm edtor Potonlaty 1’ wlMtbepuUshadLIwi TvasiviiSwiiors to sdSaj and raw m 0010 toaisaraite to t IMO0IV L T‘ V f rsadsmrstlsottwopIntonsolSiatrwiSsmand' r l' ereakn EdSoilalsundartwIwadkigXhr VtoT rsprsaanl the views otthaHamd Journal adaotUnmnL Msntore of the edSorW iUylhgbK typswiman anddows iM rT' mom wltonioisffitodSOwoinitnlwiu W todrswed and Muds (riyanw pbona -' leawOFFte- - 'to : j- - ktoMronMadhiinimMlmd edtor'JSzJJ CHARLE8 MtCOUJUMAiwnagbiq 'ii VirwSwtraatotoDweloonieandaiun CJNOY YWTWeeMes edtw j r l - v “'LV 4 i? viVrftr 's ‘r-r i u ' - ' ' ‘i- |