Show Tkt Eagle Thursday Pace 2 December 7 1989 Silent Night yards full of light Christmas trees We're here and what their overall purpose means to me to learn not by JD Conover stafT writer I hope you aren't one or the individuals who is easily upset by the strange behavioral patterns or homosapien bipeds (No it's not a gay motorbike It means a person) Especially ir it is induced by environmental changes that no one seems to have any control over These changes are real obvious things like members or your community who have the gall to beautifully decorate their own yards with strings of lights Another fairly obvious one is when your neighbor loads up the entire family including the dog and all his closest relatives to go out into the wilderness and frozen tundra to find a suitable tree for slaughter After a qualified perennial needled beast is taken the trophy pine is proudly displayed in the home of the hunter The last of the sure signs is when you go to the store and find the box boys dusting off the most recognized and symbolic red suit in the history of mankind They're also putting egg nog on the shelves while singing or humming obnoxious tunes that easily rhyme and only can be heard during one time of the year It's the Christmas spirit guys! I know you're aware of it It's everywhere and almost becomes everything Ain't it great! Only at this lime oi year can you see people do the goofiest things and feel good about iL It's a y street loo Only now can I do thd goofiest things and get away with iL Christmas touches things that are fairly common in a way so that you pay attention in a way you never have before and appreciate the magic behind the season Babies are bom every day but a baby bom during the Christmas season is sent home in a large red stocking People give others gifts of some kind year round but even the smallest yule tide tokens are received with the utmost appreciation Differences between fighting siblings are dropped not just in hopes of getting a better gift from Santa but because of the closeness that exists among families during this season I guess now is a good time to admit that Fm a poor writer because I can't find the words to put down that will make everything as clear to you as it is to me I feel like quitting this editorial right here saying Merry Christmas and I'll see you in 1990 What does this to people? Why is it THEE greatest time of year? I realize that it was originally celebrated to acknowledge the birth of Jesus Christ and that retailers have made it into a commercial utopia but people have merged the two meanings to make it a yearly humbling and traditional experience It doesn't matter if you are 6 or 60 Ill bet that you can remember nearly every Christmas morning in your lifetime And even if you got another ugly tie the worst smelling perfume a clothing article that you only wore for that day or a case of the chicken pox those memories are still among your best They're not vague memories either They are so detailed that you remember what time the kids jumped out of bod who got the greatest gifts and dinner at grandma's house You can recall who wasn't there for some reason like travel delays and the weird gift from someone who meant well like a grotesque fruitcake strangely identical to the one you gave them last to admire the scenery To the Editor I would like to write in response to JD's article "What does a writer have to do to get a response from year you unconcerned people" in the Your memories bring back the sense of "family" The family is a value November 16th issue of THE that can be bitter as well as sweet During Christmas it becomes incredibly EAGLE sweeL It is a special gift that is added when family traditions are recalled First of aft I would like to disagree during seasonal decorating or when the star is reverently placed on top of with his question "Do you even read the tree damn these things" referring to THE I revel inside and thrill at the family unity I see reflected in our commusaid he was "just kidHe EAGLE nity You can see it in the brightly decorated yards and adorned trees It's ding" and I hope he wu because I in the bright smiling faces of the unknowing children and the wealth of know that many students including humanity that shows up between adults read THE EAGLE faithfully Carbon and Emery Counties may be small but it would be hard to beat the mysclL is a It way of keeping up with current kind of people you can find here Their nature peaks at Christmas time but and upcoming events on the issues you can find it all year long I really appreciate those things They mean a CEU campus lot to me and make living in this region quite enjoyable I would also like to comment on To totally cover all the greatest things about the season would take epic his complaints concerning the convolumes All I've got is this editorial and the things I can convey to struction work on campus While I others in person admit that the noise is bothersome In the future try to remember and become one of the unsung heroes that and a pain in the butt when studying make Christmas as meaningful to others as it is to you Until this year I I can't agree with his have failed to realize how much a little effort on the part of an individual about the construction could do so much good elsewhere work on around campus going There are those who are less fortunate and deserve just as much joy at this What is the big deal if campus sometime as the rest of us Perhaps it wouldn't be such a bad thing to donate old times looks like an "urban renewal things or make a small donation to programs like "Sub for Santa" If you project?" don't have something that you feel is worth giving your aluminum cans Improvements should be looked could help and so could your time The college is currently collecting cans upon as a good thing I would like to be given to Price Metal Salvage with the money going to help needy to think that we are here to leant and families organizations can use volunteers and the Boy Scouts grow not to admire the scenery are gathering canned goods mounds of dirt and yellow roped The It's such a great time of year and Fd like to make it the best it could be for off don't bother me in the areas the most people possible leasu As a matter of facl I barely Even though there is a hole in the ozone killer bees in South America notice them What I do notice even the threat of nuclear war and people who think that December 25 is just I take the time to look is the fall if another cold winter day to put the dog out don't lose your Christmas leaves and rosy checks In the warm Spirit It's a great thing! months I noticed the green lawns the beautiful flowers CEU planted throughout campus and the fountain that ran most of the season by Corey Moser and those He I'm not a goody-good- y You the tickets with the man seems to dorm taking staff writer plead desperately who know lor will vouch me thal sympathize with your story but he just won't let you in Imagine this You are slowly walking back to your car when a tall man in a large but I do try to look at the brighter The Utah Jazz are host to the Detroit Pistons in the Salt Palace and you are one of the few who has a ticket to the game You travel over two overcoat stops you "I have a ticket for the game Do you want it for $507" side of things he asks You pay his price and make your way back towards the perpetual hours in your attempt to reach Salt Lake City for the big evenL but upon My advice to JD is to look for the in back the the are ticket that the man left line of The evenL have realize destination anxiously awaiting taking people beauty in things and ignore what ofyour you you reaching your tickets still won't allow you to enter the Salt Palace It seems that the ticket fends him He may enjoy college you were sold is for a seat that no longer exists The seat was one of the 150 more if he's not always looking for the flaws I wu surprized by his seats that were removed upon request of the Fire Marshall" Our antagonist in this episode is the man in the ovcrcoal a ticket critisismssic I know from his is a go getter and a that he scalper He offered our main character a solution to his problem The pleareputation sure he experienced was only a temporary one He soon realized he was out doer for CEU and it's students of $50 and a Jazz basketball game Please don't forget that JD Take K- Jak Shewmake r— Editor on the time to stop and smell the roses! 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