Show Tuesday 1 2003 April A4 The Herald Journal Regional view A friendly advice to From The Salt Lake Tribune little friendly advice to the administration at Brigham Young University from your media-savv- y friends up the road: Don't expel Caleb Proulx If you do it will turn a small but principled act of civil disobedience into a national if not international cause celebre with your university cast as the bad guy The BYU student put his matriculation on the line by getting himself demonstration arrested in an anti-wat the federal building in Salt Lake City Technically the young man is charged with creating a disturbance on a federal facility That's a misdemeanor for which he could be sent to prison for 6 months and fined ar $10000 Also technically he could be found to be in violation of LDS Church-owne- d school's Honor code That is a code (hat unlike the federal law Proulx signed and that unlike federal law is a matter that is to be resolved totally at the discretion of BYU officials They run a private institution and have the right to admit or expel just about anyone they please But the code also includes some flexibility for those officials flexibility they would be well advised to use to the maximum by declining to punish Proulx for his principled act of civil disobedience or by limiting that punishment to a letter of repri- - bit of BYU mand ' Getting oneself carted off to the clink as a way of demonstrating moral principles is a long and honored tradition in America and elsewhere Its more revered practitioners include Martin Luther King Jr and Mohandas Gandhi Following in those footsteps certainly does not make Proulx a dangerous person the kind a university might reasonably want to bar from its campus for the protection of its other students Of course a key part of serious civil disobedience is not just getting arrested but taking the punishment It i$ an excellent way of calling attention to oneself and thus to the cause one espouses It is unlikely that Monday's demonstration will cost Proulx any more than his legal fees and a small spot on his record when he goes to court something that will be of note to only the local media and probably of scant interest even then But if the young man is tossed out of BYU for as it will be explained exercising his First Amendment rights that is likely to hit the worldwide wires through a media encampment already focused on the area to observe the Elizabeth Smart case Not only would that wound the image of a major Utah institution it would also undermine the very First Amendment protections that guarantee the academic and religious freedoms the university justly prizes Your view By Jack Anderson and Douglas Cohn United Feature Syndicate TX he behavior of Russia and France in the Iraq crisis is beginning to defy logic — or is it? Is something sinister at play? Before coalition forces commenced ground operations to oust the regime of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein there were reasonable arguments for and against the action Coalition-countrie- 22803 Opponents of wolf reinlro- - Misconceptions plague wolves To the editor: The wolf represents inany things to many cultures from a great warrior to a cold blooded killer Negative stories myths and folk tales have plagued this animal for cen- turics One reason for our ancestors' about wolves could he because their behavior is so similar to humans Wolves arc highly social animals that live in family units called packs Like humans some wolves stay within their family their entire lives Only one pair of wolves- are allowed to mate the alpha pair This helps ensure the unit doesn't outgrow their territory They are also the ones who make all the important decisions concerning the pack's welfare Wives communicate with each other hy howls and have sophisticated sign language example: the position of their tails ears lips let other wolves know whether" they are submissive want to play or arc going to attack They have a society just like ours They are excellent parents and the whole pack helps raise and take care of them Wolveshave the urge to hunt: they learn what to kill and how to kill from the pack Once adults they rarely experiment with new prey Wolves do occasionally kill - livestock but in smaller numbers than the resulting hatred can justify A new study of a major elk wintering near Jackson Wyo finds that wolves aren't overindulging and the elk aren't being driven outolithe area says the Billings Gazette frightening-storie- US to dominate world oil prices duction said that wolves would flock to the elk feeding grounds to kill large numbers and force elk out of the area But the new study confirms that has not happened These elk have adjusted to wolves being around just as they did for centuries before they were eradicated Healthy wolves don't attack humans repeat don’t attack us They just want to be left alone s - ' Tracy Swenson Logan Support troops set led by the United States and Great Britain claimed a clear and present danger of weapons of mass destruction as justification for the attack Opponents led by Russia France and Germany said UN inspectors needed more time and their mere presence in Iraq acted as a deterrent against Saddam Further there was no secret that Russia and France had significant economic ties to Iraq but these — especially in light of UN sanctions restricting trade with Iraq — were not significant enough to cause a political confrontation with the United States Clearly US altruism and humani- - aside differences ' being a member of the cartel itself It was able to play both sides giving lip service to lower prices while reaping the benefits of higher prices With coalition victory in Iraq those days will be over France is not an nation but it does build oil equip- ment and oil pipelines and it too will find itself shut out as those lucrative contracts wend their way to American and British companies So it is reasonable that France and especially Russia are hostile to what they correctly perceive will be tacit US control of Iraq's oil and more particularly of world oil prices Other nations and groups will also object but in the end the world will benefit — as it always does when oil prices fall After all it is said that the largest peaceful transfer of wealth in history occurred in 1973 to 74 when OPEC raised oil prices from $300 per barrel to $1200 per barrel US price setting will simply reverse that trend albeit not so peacefully The United States has not been in this position since the heydays of Texas oil production Prediction: Oil prices will fall from around $3000 per barrel to the district — 445 Glenwood Circle 4 Providence 84332 Cory Yeates —representing Logan district No 1—281 S 100 East 7 Logan 84321 KOixson i— represonung Rainy Logan district No 2— 335 N 400 9 'West Logan 84321 Craig Petersen —representing E 1220 Logan district No 3-- 1440 8 North Logan 84341 North Logan 84321 Political Correspondent Eleanor Clift contributed to this column 1 ‘ ley don’t now how many residents of Cache Valley are' serving around Jhe world but I do know one indi- vidual serving in Iraq He is a 2001 graduate of Mountain Crest High School His name Corporal Andrew P Hayden He is serv- ing with the First Marine Division Alpha Company Third Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion He is also my son Because Fox News has a reporter Rick Levenlhal traveling with the Third LAR I at least have aq idea of the extremely difficult conditions with which he has to cope I try to I Here is a list of addresses and phone numbers for some of Cache Valley's representatives in government: - COUNCIL LOGAN-MUNICIP- 752-315- 52-13- 84321753-752- 9 752-196- 753-510- 752-677- CACHE COUNTY EXECUTIVE CACHE COUNTY COUNCIL Darrel Lee Gibbons —representing the north district — 840 S 1600 West 8 Lewiston 84320 S Brian Chambers —representing the northeast district— 654 E 2160 4 North North Logan 84341 258-523- 752-057- John A Hansen— representing the south district 252 EMain Hyrum Executive: Lynn Lemon 120 N 100 West Logan 84321 716-71Assessor Kathleen Howell 179 N 0 Main Logan 84321 Attorney: George Daines 11 W 100 1 Ngrth Logan 84321 ' Auditor Tamara Stones 179 N Main Logan 84321 3 ' Clerk: Jill Zollinger 170 N Main 0 Logan 84321 Recorder: Michael L GleSd 179 N Main Logan 84321 0 Sheriff: Lynn Nelson 50 W 200 716-710- 716-836- 716-712- 716-715- Paul Cook —representing the south Herald Journal Editorial policy "WeFlRCT KBL fed The Opinion page intended to acquaint readers with a variety of viewpoints on matlara of public importance and providewtembers of the community with a forum for their views Personal columns cartoons and letters from readers reflect the opinions of their writers and creators Editorials unddr the headngXXir View represent the views of the Herald Journal — m— i OOnOnBJ DOfllU j MOmOOfV Ofi VIO OunOiUU DOofu DARRELL EHRUCKdty editor CINDY YURTHffeatures edtor BRUCE SMITHpubiisher CHARLES McCOLLUWmanaging edtor wJWpog-£Ootvme- to begathendout of a t NMain Logan 84321 US 716-839-4 SENATE-UTA- H Sen Robert Bennett Republican — US Senate Washington DC 20510 4 Utah office: 4225 Fed(202) eral Building 125 S State St Salt 3 Lake City UT 84138 (801) Sen Orrin Hatch Republican — US Senate Washington DC 20510 Utah office: 8402 Fed(202) 224-52eral Building 125 S State SL Salt 0 Lake City UT 84138 (801) 224-544- 524-593- 51 BRANCH 716-718- 1- -' conclusions are mart 715-740-0 Treasurer Karen A Jeppessen 179 524-436- 71 84319245-658- 4 See LETTERS on A8 east 752-902- Thomas Kerr 35 N 1400 East 1 Logan 84321 Alan Allred 1535 E 1500 North Logan 84341 753-822-4 Steve Thompson 37 S 200 West Logan 84321 753-601-9 Karen Borg 1670 N 1600 East Logan 84341 753-696-3 Tami Pyfer South PI Non Sequitur "tyfit $1300 to $2000 per barrel range when Iraq’s oil fields once again start pumping near capacity Lawmakers To the editor: am writing this letter with regard to comments expressed by some residents of Cache Valley It appears that some people feel disconnected to the war in Iraq and elsewhere in the world and that the war has no impact on Cache Val- s tariariism have played a role as have national security and regional politics The Iraqi people are suffering Saddam poses a threat and the creation of an Arab democracy can have a reverse domino effect upon neighboring states The United States has no colonial ambitions and the idea that we are fighting to steal Iraqi oil is preposterous But oil politics are a factor and it is the factor that makes sense out of the apparent illogical actions of some the current war’s foes When the coalition forces defeat Saddam Hussein's regime and ensure the installation of a democratic gov- eminent its place the United States will not — as enemies have suggested — take over Iraq’s oil wells But the United States will have a new best oil friend Democratic Iraq like democratic Germany and democratic Japan after World War II will have a strong loyalty to America And if America objects to OPEC oil prices it is safe (o assume that Iraq will accommodate with lower prices And because Iraq is second only to Saudi Arabia in oil reserves its prices will dominate This means that the United States not OPEC will have primary influence on world oil prices Enter Russia Russia's primary natural resource is oiL and high oil prices are For key to its economic well-bein- g has been Russia years benefiting from OPEC’s price fixing without i US SENATE-iDAH- O - 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