Show '" rin M'pf ‘Ttiahtcondu8lon8anmonBk8lv to be gathered out of a multitude of ktohfthmVmugh any kind - lay d ' J tawtoM )wW p7HM1) j Saturday March 25 2000 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Page6 ' ' i- -' Our viow Sexual abuse sentencing does make yoti wonder I deported Of course we understand a t was bad enough when a local child molester got an easy judge must weigh each case on ft sentence after a retired District its own merits But in this case Court judge sat in on his sen-traci- ng healing Now another recent sex abuse case has us wondering if it's not only whom you know but what color you are that determines the' path of justice in Cache County While Karl Lusk a 33-ye- ar- old North Logan man is free on certainly seems Lusk — who upon his release was bound over on six new sexual abuse allegations — poses more of a danger to society than does Torres-Crwho will be deported In most cases in fact foreign nationals who commit crimes are simply deported and not allowed to return to die country us bail after spending just four Make no mistake: We're not months in jail after pleading condoning what Ibnes-Gru- s did guilty to a reduced charge of Rape of a child is a reprehensiattempted sexual abuse Jorge Mexa ble crime and probably does merit at least 10 years in prison ican national will spend at least ' We only hope our courts are 10 years in prison after pleading not compounding the evil of child sexual abuse with the evUs guilty to raping a After his he’ll sentence be of classism and racism gill Torres-C- ms Your viow aren t pets even m Texas K Gas prices chase Ffor folks out of valley lb die editor I moved to Logan in' 1987 because of the comfortable feeling of the town and the spirit of camaraderie It is sad how one segment of business can practically destroy that feeling I went to fill up my car at the gas station today and I came away mad One dollar and eighty-si- x cents a gallon is an insult to the American public I feel furious that an industry has the guts to claim any association to die American ideals of patriotism and perpetrate this type of a farce upon did American pubuc in tf&Air ftxce As 4uchI Worked hard to achieve that position I volunteered far the service I believed in this nation I was proud of it I flew missions in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations Presently we (die public) are in a sickening squeeze brought about by foreign and domestic greed During WW H I was naive enough to think that my service was helping to establish a Utopian society I no longer am so naive but I am patriotic enough to be concerned about the plight of the American public versus the gouging of an industry affecting that public Presently I am driving out of the city of Logan to save from 5 to 7 cents per gallon It appears to me that the gasoline dealers in Logan should work to lower the price rather than work to get as much as they canIf gasbline were a little lower in price it would bring people into town to pur- chase gas rather than to chase them out - This letter was written as a protest to the gasoline industry and as a letter of encouragement to all young scientists to develop an alternate form automobile propulsion isn’t over $186 per gal- - By Bonnie Elbe Scrippa Howard News Service This T Arthur Millecan Logan University morale is Emerfs business V’-::- JL exas has given birth to a lot of strange laws or rather lack thereof And it’s not just the most obvious example of gaping legislative holes (gun control far example) to which I v refer: To the editor As the pending review of the university president approaches a quick peek at the university policies seems saddest-mosto be in order Under the USU policy completely manual No 104 section 32 which avoidable and covers public relations I find “The unnecessary President is also responsible farprev scenes Of child renting to the publlcfayottbfo m&tiliti&yt image of die tdwskMdjtssn- - we'veioh sion “ Section 3 3which dads with served in quite responsibility to the staff and faculty some time then states “The president is also Innocent and responsible for promotion of high adorable 4- morale and professional ethics among year-ol- d Jaytoo Hdwell stuck his aim in the cage of a Bengal tiger owned University personnel" When measured against those crite- - by his unde Lany and the apparently ria statements in the paper such as miserable confined animal did what are angered about just about any unhappy unfairly con“Employees what they call an unwarranted firing fined wild animal might be expected and hostile takeover Still they are to do The tiger tore off the unsustight-lippabout their identities pecting child’s arm At first blush the public’s anger fearing ” giv$ one reason to wonder if sections 32 and 33 as listed above and dismay might reasonably be ' directed at die tiger But actually the meL fyday-to-d- r tiger was just doing what any wudlife ous employees of the university gives expert would accurately predict he would in such circumstances Take me no choice but to express my opinion that morale arnopg university per- any wild creature out of his native sonnel is not high This in tarn habitat confine him to an inhumane-lsmall area Cage him away from causes me to ponder how favorable the image of me university environ- - contact with others of his species ment call be in the public eye when kero him from acting as die wild aniemployees are publicly “feanng they mal he is and you are courting disaswill be the next ones locked out of ter they will correctly predict the budding” Bengal tigers are not kittens Nor ir are they Emmy Awards to be Erie Rasmussen our book shelves as one of so maty trophies we have accumulated during the course of our careers i-SKSS- SErS t ed y I show-cased- weeks and maintains the proper type of cage Lany Tidwell was not violating the law by keeping the tiger as a pet but past week the nation witnessed what apparently his cage did not meet code He will have to put in a roof and a concrete floor (one can assume must have been one of the saddest most completely avoidable and unnecessary scenes of child mutilation we've observed in quite some die tiger will really love that being an inhabitant of India’s deep woods) But what does Tidwell intend to do about the 120 square mile territory the Bengal tiger is used to roaming in his native India? How does he plan to replace that? Neighbors said they were surprised die tiger attacked die boy because the tiger was normally so “passive” What about thefect that in the wild there is no such thing as a “passive” tiger? In theiruattnillgr-rounding- s they must hunt to stay alive Natural instinct makes them v time "longpneimfitary careers tn at washed out yean ago ou the beaches of sqme Southeast Asian country yet so many Americans parade them around — tigers lions ocelots monkeys parrots you name it — as if these thinking feeling individual creatures were bred to be no more than leash ornaments for humans Now where does Ifcxas and its lack of laws come in? According to the Houston Chronicle in Harris County the unincorporated county where the mauling occurred exotic animals are perfectly legal This is far from true aggressive Arid status-hung- ry - in most counties across America although it is true more often in rural counties than in urban counties In my own county of Arlington Vs far example it’s illegal to keep' a horse overnight much less an exotic species Dogs and cats are perfectly legal Dogs must be licensed Without instinctual aggression they die of starvation For humans to expect tigers to become “passive" is beyond folly Harris County’s lack of laws banning wild animals has already led to multiple tradings of children and toe unnecessary killings of exotic animals who never should have' been kept as pets in the first place How many more such episodes are Harris county and other such Counties going to totoate before they ban the prac- tice of allowing people to keep dangerous and unhappy wild animals as pets in private homes? The Larry Tidwells of the world will just have to comfort themselves with cats or dogs to spare the Jayton Tidwells the loss of limbs and die Bengal tigers the misery of living as pets In Harris county all species are legal as pets even “a rhinoceros" according to Animal Control spokeswoman Colleen Hodges as long as the owner obtains a permit for the animal once it reaches die age of 12 Bonnie Elbe host of the PBS program To the Contrary” writes this column for Scrippa Howard News Sendee ai bonnleerbo(aQCompuServexom Other views United States should tpke action to control global tuberculosis Scrippa Howard News Sendee Maybe you thought TB was mostly a thing of toe past something dreaded and awful in the early pat of this century but long since scooted off center stage You would be wrong It is back and back with a vengeance Among infectious diseases TB is now the biggest killer of them all Last year it slew a record number 2 milium and its bacteria infect a third of the world’s population It is a mer- ciless monster this disease called tuberculosis but it is not omnipotent It can be defeated A place to start is passage of bipartisan legislation sponsored by Rep Constance Morelia and Sherrod R-- Brown io As they explained in a recent conference call with journalists the bill would provide $100 million to be i next yean While they believe billion a year is what is actually needed to kill this killer they are hoping these funds would lead to Investments by other developed $1 nations and by private founda- But wait you say Charity should begin at home Well Morelia and Brown point out this is a global age in which millions of Americans visit foreign lands some of them some of them TB-rtdd- en lands where infection is just a sneeze awty Let this airborne disease grow ever more devastating outside ourfarders and watch while it grows to more of a threat within our borders Yet even if that were not the case the instability resulting from this disease’s handiwork - can only make the world a tively painless action we can take that would make a significant difference? 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