Show r T9 ST" VS ' 7 Vlt4ii 'ffr ’ lTl 1' 1 I i i Opinion The Herald Journal Logan Utah fr&ti mui&t 'im 4 I wwAw I than Sv Ammrtemn jwM (1IT9-1M- Page 28 Sunday August 30 1998 Our view Iff Cite ‘em for sloughing but not for their looks low that Logan police have a new weapon to fight truancy potent we hope they use it judiciously The Municipal Council has adopted an ordinance giving police the authority to cite youths who are playing hooky This new preroga- TVEVbRLD ggjj with the students who are trying to get an education In the long run 5 many might be better served by gg failing early because they may vow to change their ways while they're still young We worry however that the law may not be applied evenhandedly g B' In Cache Valley suspicion of sloughing school could easily be Obviously students who skip augmented by dark skin unusual school already have little regard for hair styles pierced noses tattoos authority and are likely to break unorthodox clothing or bad reputaother laws — particularly those tions — whether deserved or undelaws governing smoking shoplift-in- g served The converse is true too: white kids who burglary drugs drinking and The ball might attend and classes play driving tive should benefit students and the public well-groom- Under the new ordinance howev- er police can stop young people who look as if they should be in school question them cite them if they are truant and force them to face a judge within a week This law should encourage kids to attend classes or at least drop out The who try to reap the social benefits of high school while teen-age- rs ignoring the educational benefits usually learn little and interfere To the editor The city of Logan is i jamul-Scoticultural nonsecUuian troop in Cache Valley The object is to provide Boy Scouting for boys 1 1 to 17 throughout the valley who otherwise have cultural and religious barriers to scouting The meeting place will be the Logan Recreation Center There are as many as 300 boys in the valley who are potential ut members of this troop Some of the anticipated major benefits to the boys and the community as a whole are: Provide scouting to more boys Develop busting relationships with local adults Establish links between families of several cultures Integrate the boys with the local culture friends schools etc Reduce barriers between cultural and racial groups Reduce attractiveness of gangs to these boys The success of this venture will be directly correlated with the number and quality of Scouters and other adults that volunteer to participate We need as many experienced Scouters as possible: Scoutmasters varsity coaches Explorer advisors etc and other reliable adults who are interested in these boys Both men and women are invited and prior scouting experience is not necessary (However participating adults will be expected to learn the bask principles of BSA) We would need at least two adults for every patrol or squad of 6 to 8 boys If you or anyone you know would like to participate we need to hear from you People from all communities of the valley are needed Speaking another language is not a prerequisite as most boys are proficient in English The formation of this troop has been reviewed by authorities of the LDS Church The LDS Church position is that this is a worthwhile community activity and individuals who wish to participate may be released from their current chinch calling to sene in this troop Expectations for adult leaders working directly with the boys are: Attend one Scout meeting per week with the boys 5 S ed be given the benefit of the doubt — whether deserved or undeserved Don’t get us wrong: Kids who are suspected of cutting school should be stopped and questioned and if guilty cited and punished lb protect against selective enforcement however police parents school officials ami Logan residents trying to be helpful should be careful not to jump to quick conclusions based on appearance alone Your view New multicultural Boy Scout troop forming 5 STS share the above time commitment then less time would be proportionally required of each adult) We also need people willing to serve on the Troop Committee to serve in support functions For more information please contact Carlos B Roundy 753-372 (work) (home) A chartering meeting will be held at Logan City Council Chambers Thursday Sept 17 7:30 pm Anyone interested is urged to contact Carlos Roundy before this meeting and 29 752-666- discuss potential participation in the troop 8 5 g S Clinton crash: We have to look By Tad M onths ago (it only seems like years) I promised myself that I wouldn't have to write about Zippergate any more Surely Monica and all the rest of the embarrassingly private stupidities of what conservative columnist George Will refers to as President Clinton' s "glandular life" would fade away and we all nationally and individually could turn our attentions to things more impor-- “ tant and less sordid TUes rfVia- gra now seem preferable But it hasn't one away at I east no farther than what has to be a fun-fill- Logan Sting buzzes through first season lb the editor The Logan Sting is a 9-- and old beys baseball team that has just com10-yea-r- pleted its first year of existence The team is coached by Scott Hyde and Keith Nelson This is a traveling team that has spent most Saturdays this summer playbaseball games from ing double-headIdaho Falls to Spanish Fork They played in the Rocky Mountain School of Baseer ball Super League and are currently involved in tournament play Most of these boys have played in over SO games so far this year In tournament play they finished in fifth place in Idaho Falls third place in Preston and fifth place in Tremonton The team is plan- ning to participate in tournaments in Mesquite Nev in October and St George in February The boys would like to thank the following businesses for helping to provide the financial means that make this team possible Contributors are Western Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Maxcomm Al’s Sporting Goods Baker Machine Cache Valley Builders Central Valley Machine Big O Tires Wolford’s Upper Cuts Logan Glass and Johnson Roofing Last but not least a big thanks goes to our families for the support they have given and the time they have invested in ed and carefree First Family frolic on lartha's Vineyard And here I am Carlos B Roundy Logan Pease too like everybody else inexorably pulled back into the queasy swamp or Clinton' s stunning lack of judgment So many of us can't seem to escape this thing with the president any more than he can him- self "Never before has so much been said by so many about so very little" Garrison Keillor observes proceeding to add his two bits "Can we get on to some- thing serious?" he huffs about the “L' Affaire Monica deluge of chaff" A year ago the world was drawn to the death of Princess Diana couldn’t get enough And here we are a year later drawn to another fallen monarchy but horrified— not fascinated— is the better term to describe how we’re feeling about this bloody car crash It seems that ther we the press nor we the public learned anything from the Princess Di are things I don’t want to know about the private practices of anyone-- let alone the Leader of the Free World who was best and brightest hope for progressive social reform in this country in a generation But as at the scene of any catastrophe we just have to look We can't help ourselves her indignation My mother from Maine When we saw her there month her lip curled and it looked like she was going to spit in her own living room Oral sex has never been latopkl wanted to talk about with my mother The other night good friends follow professorial types came over to dinner Even with all that s going cm at the end of a Jfine summer and as their delightful daughter romped with our equally delightful dogs the dinner table conversation may have started on Monday's start of school and their impending sabbatical cm a world-cruisiteaching ship our research and books we've read and movies and other normal things — but we couldn’t stay away from a squan- dered presidency and whether Bill Oin- ton should resign At a faculty picnic the night before the lawn in thejmodcsdy upscale rather staid family-valuneighborhood was a gauntlet of conversations about whether TV anchors should use the term "semen- stained" during the 6 o’clock news and echoes iftalkkced with — well let’s just say it rhymes with "snow fob" This is not your usual fare in polite company thank you very seems we can’t get away from it Time magazine put out an entire special issue last week after the president's furious televised rushing to pren on Thursday rather than its usual Monday schedule in order to provide the pub-li- c ng es Wit non-apolo- gy "service" of th analysis of "President Clinton's historic testimony" and other items of Oval Office sexual preferences and prevarication Patting himself on the back in an opening note to readers managing editor Walter Isaacson says "As reporting came in from both Washington ana around the country we became even more excited about getting this issue to you this week rather than next The whole process was indeed energizing and we hope you’ll find that passion reflected in these pages" Well I’m thinking that I really don’t want to be as excited sionate as Time is abouf this kind of topic most of which just makes me sad instead (On the other hand it is a pretty good issue I have to admit) How does Bill Clinton do it? Every time he screws up there’s some catastro were the same The killer was Janies Earl Ray Nonetheless in response to persistent lobbying by the King family Attorney General Janet Reno has ordered the investigation reopened Reno is badly mistaken if she thinks a new probe will settle anything The King family will not be satisfied Herald Journal M7 CLiNWH ActwiyA JN& r Editorial policy The Opinion page to Handed to acquaint madam wth a variety of vtowpoMe on madam of pubic Importance and provide membem of fllA mJISi Lmmh Mak a mum mumimik Pironsl ooftumm cirtooni ud Mmi Irom iviQifi ima vm opmofiM or imr wThhv viu wm oommurwiy wivi Hap ST draw attention away from Clinton's breath-takin- g arrogance and willfully t- that's still what we’re judgmenpoor talking about Nothing will take away the images that have forever stained the Clinton White House which began with such promise and hope and now ends so basely There are not many times when I can say this so I think it deserves a mention in the press but I agree with Orrin Hatch: Bill Clinton is a jerk But the reason he’s a jerk is not that 12 5 H S -- g 3 R B his televised "apology" about his "improper relationship" (but not sex) was filled with foty without contrition like a petulant and unremorsefiil child which is what angered Hatch It’s not even (or only) that he has so tunningiy ft and publicly once again betrayed and humiliated his wife and daughter who seemingly are imbued with super-humgrace under pressure Bill Clinton is a jerk because he keeps doing this crap over and over again lying about it and squandering the wonderful opportunity he was given and the promise he embodied to nuke a difference Saddened and angry and a little sick to my stomach is how I’m mostly feeling about the whole thing And the reason we can't escape it is that besides the morbid fascination that draws us all to look at bloody car crashes what we see in Bill Clinton is our own personal loss Lou of hope and future and something we desperately wanted to believe in an Tad Paasa (tpaaMaocueuadu) la head of Vie Department of Communication at Utah State University Hts column appears on Via Opinion page every oVtar Sunday rtie fg oa Mallard Fillmore &U prompted them an enormous hurricane and terrifying stock market plunges Is Russia unking and will Boris Yeltsin resign? 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