Show ) Friday March 222002 A4 The Herald Journal Our view Keep your guard up A A local official compared a Herald Journal news reporter to Tanya Harding the other day “You just keep going straight for die nose the official complained as the reporter pressed him about rumored disciplinary action against two government employees The official was referring to former figure skater Tanya Harding's tactics in her debut as a celebrity boxer on Fbx Television But here's one case where the newspaper won’t go for the nose We're going to withhold the public official's name from this little blurb and spare him the public embarrassment of having everybody know he spent last Thursday night watching that stupid television show -- Here’s a multiple choice question for regular HJ readers: The three individuals shown at right appeared in a photograph in the newspaper this week Are they: a- ) FBI recruits ) LDS missionaries c- ) Utah college students at a protest rally d) Visiting Croatian basketball players e- ) Aides to Sen Orin Hatch The answer is “c" b- Bush makes mark on Gridiron Have a great weekend everyone and hello spring! By Godfrey Sperling Christian Science Monitor Soapbox experiences a powerful teacher de Jesus Cordero By Maria A a child my world was divided Teachers would pin notes to i me as if I were a bulletin board notes that my mother could not even read I became a translator a cultural and linguistic bridge between home and school And I 'missed my grandfather whom we had left behind in Cuba and whom I would never see again exceptjn my dreams Experience is a powerful teacher My childhood experiences taught me to be sensitive to the needs of others and to stand on the side-othe poor and the ' oppressed without ever counting the ' : N Life’s cost I wanted my students to learn these values not just' from books or through me but from their own experiences So I rd early all US presidents since Benjamin Harrison have spoken at dinners of the journalists' Gridiron Club The exception was President Cleveland — who it was widely suspected at the time was afraid he might hear a barbed lyric about his having fathered an illegitimate child much these cards meant to Jestis of No one loved Gridiron affairs course Tim did not want to take more than Tsddy Roosevelt Edmund them But Jestis insisted Tim said Mortis in his splendid new biogre- that he would take half of the cards phy “Theodore Rex" makes several and then left diem with one of the mentions of Roosevelt’s perforteachers so that Jestis could have his mances at these dinners cards back again Tim kept only one Mr Morris depicts a Roosevelt card which he now keeps in his wal- who “laughs uproariously” at the let to remind him that there is a little skits but is remembered best for on me occasion spontaneously rising boy in Mexico who was willing to and confronting a senator who had give him all that he had in the world Tim told me that the experience become his longtime adversary and on another occasion departing from ' taught him to be more giving towards others in his own life his speech to scold a heckler in the We will check on Jestis' progress crowd who guffawed when he said when we return to Sonora next year he would not run fix a second term: Our work in Mexico had a impung “Now don’t let us have any damn effect It touched the lives of children nonsense” Roosevelt said raising a on both sides of the border The other hand to quiet Ihe audience “When I night I went to Mt Logan Middle made that declaration on die night of School to see a scholarship competi- what I was my election I know ' tion and the ballet folklorico I met a about” student named Tfcddy kept that pledge even Carla who saidto me “I know you though it became clear he could easiYou go to my church St Thomas ly be reelected ' Aquinas and you help a lot Last Of Roosevelt and his successor Sunday you talked to us after SpanWilliam Howard Ttft Morris writes: ish Mass and showed us die pictures “In company or alone they were from your trip to Mexico I’m in continually roaring with mirth Tkft Mrs Innocenti’s class and our class quaking from head to foot Roosevelt knows all about it We collect newsconvulsed with laughter Members of paper articles and we cut out the the Gridiron Quh had an opportunity article about you and your students It was a nice picture We cut out the article and then we talked about it I am happy that you are helping the Children in Mexico” A Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldua once wrote that the border between Mexico and the USis an open wound I am both happy and proud Tbdieeditor that my students are participating in Congressman James Hansen’s die effort to heal dial wound I have statement (Standard Examiner March 9) that Cache Valley Republitaught them to be cultural mediators cans are “on the side of angels just as I have been all my life: could be viewed as asinine if it was-Dr Maria de Jestis Cordero la ah assisn’t for die faet that this “holier than tant professor of Spanish at Utah State thou” super arrogant Pharisee is University She recently returned from dead serious He and his ilk Le a trip to Mexico where she worked with Hatch Bennett Cannon and all Utah 22 USU students to buM homes for the state Republican legislators truly 'needy believe that they are doing the will of Mexican-Americ- an - took them to Sonora Mexico where houses uid visitwe built straw-bal- e ed elementary schools in two impov- erished communities We met a little boy named Jestis Both of Jesus' parents are in jail and he lives with his aunt in a tarpaper house Even though Jestis is six years old he is not in school because he had no one to stand in the line overnight to register him Jestis came every day to help us make the adobes After woik we played with Jestis and the Other children While we were there I think that we touched Jestis’ heart in a special way we showed him a lot of love Jestis became especii(lly fond of one of my students a young man named Tim Jestis wanted to show his apprecia- don to Tim by giving him his playing cards die only thing dial this little boy had in the world Knowing how tongue-in-che- ek soon-to-be-bo- m nt " Othor viows ’ : to see them in action as they sat I'm Laura Bush from Texas I’m as country as can be through a skit that satirized Roo- sevelt’i forthcoming role (as an ex- But never diss a cowgirl as Who's Joined a dynasty a president) I’ve cultured up old W foreign journalist” But that was seyeral yesterdays From what he used to be And look what it has got me ago This month it was die 117th annual dinner (yes going bade to Now I’m the Firp Lady 1885) that Washington journalists And some more verses along that have put on Up there on die podium line was President Bush his wife Laura Senate Democratic leader Tom seated nearby Daschle was the star speaker of the Mr Bush can be a big laugher and evening He was very funny playing kidder This night he was warm and off die Republican charge that he smiling But obviously he waa subwas an “obstructionist” “I guess I dued because of die war started obstructing” he said “when I Those in Gridiron who ran die was growing up in rural South Dako-- " show this year were worried that ta or as the rest of die country Bush wouldn’t come that he might thinks of iua secret undisclosed decide it was not die proper moment location” for him to poke fun and participate in Then came more an evening of laughter about current of why he was always explanations events including die war Also they Bush’s way He also got in standing were worried that something might off some good cracks at Bush — come up in Afghanistan or elsewhere before ending his talk with praise for that at the last minute would take Bush’s performance as a war leader Bush out of the city Bush’s speech was short appropri- But here he was ately soHe did take some pokes at And the Gridironers were reservDaschle: “I sat here tonight and lis-- ing some of their tougher satire for Senator tened to Daschle make joke Bush aides like John Ashcroft but after he said “I at expense” joke my remaining quite warm to the presi-I can’t believe once that hugged Even is that reporter who well dent known fix cutting up presidents with man” But soon Bush turned serious and called on Gridiron members to her incisive questions Helen ' remember Daniel Pearl the Wall Thomas sang to die tune “Hello Street Journal correspondent who Dolly”: HeU-oo-o was murdered in Pakistan by writing Dtibya letters to his son Mr Pns-delovya they It's so nice that you could explaining “the larger purpose he waa serving when he was killed” Come up from the farm As Morris remembered Roosevelt Later on Ms Thomas served double duty on the stage by representing so many historians of dm future may Laura Bush To The Yellow Rose of well cite this expression of compasTexas” she sangT sion by this young president What does Hansen know of angels? ' God and angels by spouting and practicing this type of deceitful Republican diatribe However they’re not fooling anybody but tfaeir brainwashed religious disciples as perusal of their voting records ' betrays diem Their Voting records reveal whose side they’re really on and it most certainly isn’t on foe side afangelsl I’ll tell you whose side they're really on Ip it the aver- age Utahn struggling to survive by working two jobs at minimum wage1 because these Republicans are vehemently opposed to unions? Is it the t‘ Mallard Fillinoro ? iV ’V ' homeless foe poor or the disadvantaged? NoiWho else could it be but big business corporadona and mil- lionaires like it has always been is now and always will be? WhQ will we get as Hansen’s replacement? Who elsebut another “holier than thou" Republican who ' thinks he is on the “side of angels" and doing God’s wffl Good Lord i have mercy on us! 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