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Show FRIDAY, MARCH 11,2005 11 UTAH-'WATESM AN LETTERS From Page W Lighten up about Republican shirts Editor, This is in response to Leia Weston's letter to the editor on Wednesday (March 9). Leia, if I could hand you a tissue I would. Although it was expected by a few overreactors, it's unfortunate that you view these shirts as spewing "intolerance and hatred" to the point that you're "disgusted." I don't really know what to say, maybe just lighten up. It's been a long traditional rivalry, Repub Means vs. Democrats. It happens all over the country. College Republicans have decided to use humor (and you've got to admit ... these shirts are hilarious), to sell shirts in order to raise money to go to Washington, D.C., to help Tom Robins get elected to an executive position for the National College Republicans. I believe these shirts fit perfectly into that rivalry. On yeah, and we do practice freedom of speech at this school. Remember those BYU shirts . As part of our fund-raiser, we've extending a challenge to our schools faculty and administration. Any professor or administrator who will wear one of our T-shirts while teaching class will receive that T-shirt for free. They must be willing to let us take a picture of them so we can put it under our "Hero's of Higher Education" section on our Web site. We feel that by using humor we can encourage conservative professors to "come out of the closet" and be proud of their politi- cal ideas, even while being surrounded by possibly hostile co-workers. If any faculty members are willing to take on our challenge, visit our Web site and let us know. To the administration we say, "conservative professors are good and desired, break out of the lemming mentality and diversify your staff." Our next plan is to lobby the Affirmative Action office to consider political conservatives as a minority that should be promoted under their programs. Inquisition. Visualization: This is the idea that if you think about something long enough that it will come to pass. If this were true, adolescents would be having sex about every five minutes and the NBA would be full of slow, stumpy 45year-old men who could dunk from the foul line. Atheism: This is arrogance carried to the extreme in that the brain thinks there is no superior being anywhere in the universe. Right Brain Left Brain Theory: This is just an attempt on the brain's part to double the amount attention it deserves. I can never remember if it is my right or the right of the person who is looking at me. Then when 1 look in the mirror I really get mixed up. I suggest north, south, east and west brains for accuracy. Baldness: The brain's last ditch attempt to draw more attention to itself as the rest of the body tries to age gracefully. Dennis Hinkamp's brain was out of the office this week enjoying spring break in the confines of a far more attractive and prudent body. 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In reality, most brains can't even remember where you parked your car at the grocery store 25 minutes ago much less antics performed during the Spanish D Wafch mouies n £arn Cash . n save a tire TSUNAMI From Page 10 Presumably, one of the first documents Fagan will find is a news handout explaining that because it studies the Pacific Ocean, the PTWC has not deployed gauges and buoys in the Indian Ocean that would have warned of an impending tsunami there. The same handout indicated that once the NOAA registered the earthquake, it took immediate steps to alert other nations of potential danger. They included a Tsunami Information Bulletin issued at 3:14 p.m. Dec. 26, 15 minutes after the earthquake, explaining what the agency knew regarding location and magnitude. That announcement was followed by a second bulletin • at4:04p.m. advising about the possibility of a tsunami near the quake's epicenter. Throughout the day, NOAA communicated with the International Tsunami Information Center, the Australian government, the Sri Lankan navy and several U.S. embassies in the region, disseminating whatever information it had despite having no obligation to do so. These facts alone should lead to dismissal of Fagan's lawsuit. But even if the facts favored the plaintiffs, their case should be dismissed as a mat- ject to mechanical and human error. A faulty buoy could fail to register an earthquake or measure its magnitude incorrectly. An NOAA official might erroneously guess that the quake is not likely to cause a tsunami. Governments could fail to act upon NOAA warnings. The judiciary is Despite these problems, no a tool for justice, one would doubt that we are better off with a warning center not for trial than without one. lawyers to spin Fagan's lawsuit would hold liable anyone who has inforconspiracy mation about tsunami activity and fails to share it as widely theories in the and as quickly as possible. The hope of making effects of such a rule are as obvious as they are frightening: a quick buck. Fearing future damage lawsuits, the government might shut down the PTWC because ter of law. A judicial finding it can't be held liable if it doesthat a center designed to miti- n't have information. gate the effects of a natural disFor the same reason, other aster could be held liable when countries would have a strong a disaster occurs would have disincentive to create an Indian deadly effects on public policy. Ocean tsunami warning cenThe U.S. government creat- ter, which could have mitigated the PTWC as a public serv- ed the December tragedy. ice to gather and share inforAnd private scientists would mation in the hope of saving think twice about studying lives. Like al! systems, it is sub- oceanic activity if the informa- H Become a blood plasma donor & make a difference tion they gathered carried with it the potential for legal damages in the event of a natural disaster. Fagan might respond that by creating a warning center, the government held itself out as the "official" tsunami monitor, discouraging efforts by others to do the same. But this theory has little merit. Other groups are free to monitor the ocean alongside NOAA. Their decision to trust NOAA instead, and spend their money elsewhere, should not turn the U.S. government's generosity into a liability. Congress has passed sweeping bipartisan reforms that limit the prospects for class-action lawsuits. 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