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Show "If those in charge of our society—politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and. television—can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need sol-. diers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves/' Howard Zinn\ 76 Wednesday, Aug. 30,2006 797-1762 statesman@cc.usu.edu www.utahstatesman.com Utah Statesman ASUSU President urges students to get involved Staff Editor in Chief Elizabeth Lawyer News Editor If I asked you to name a member of ASUSU most of you Di Lewis would probably think of some elected officer or a friend you have that is involved. What people forget is that the acroAssistant News Editor nym ASUSU stands for the Associated Students of Utah State Arie Kirk University, so every student on this campus, and on the many Continuing Education sites across the state, is a member of Features Editor ASUSU. The entire purpose of this organization is for students Emma Tippetts QUESTION l& to join together and find ways to make student life better. For H0WMWYM0RE Assistant Features Editor this process to work students must be OF THESE VICT0HI-S Holly Adams OHWESlANP? involved and it is our responsibility to Noah Riley make that as easy as possible. Sports Editor • I have spent a lot of time this sumSeth Hawkins mer considering the best way to fulfill Assistant Sports Editor my duty as an elected officer. As many of Samuel Hislop you know, a large part of my campaign platform was to move a few key ASUSU Diversions Editor offices from the third floor of the TSC down to the second floor, I felt that this Steve Shinney A S U S U V i e w w o u ' d place us in a more high traffic Copy Editor noohi@czmu.edu area to encourage students to come and voice concerns or get involved. Let me Lindsay Kite fill you in on what has developed this summer. After carePhoto Editor ful consideration and consultation with stakeholders, I have Jamie Crane determined that in order to increase the outreach of ASUSU and best utilize student resources, there are more effective Assistant Photo Editor ways to achieve that goal. Tyler Larsen In a little more than 60 up to a president of their own seen as disloyalty. Consequently, students will benefit by the increased use Editorial Board The bitter polarization of the ASUSU information desk located in the hallway on the days, voters wilt choose the party to do what they thought first floor of the TSC. This will be an extension office where men and women who will rep- was right. Contrast that with about which so many observElizabeth Lawyer students can easily become informed about student issues resent them in Congress. There the current feeble congres- ers complain is not merely Lindsay Kite are two questions every voter sional response —•- from both ideological; it is partisanship and events as well as get involved. Sammy Hislop parties — to President Bush's carried to an extreme. Instead Additionally, the student center has agreed to improve should ask of each candidate. Di Lewis claims of expanded presiden- of morphing from candidates the commons area outside of the Student Involvement and Seth Hawkins tial authority and his adminis- to members of Congress on the Leadership Center without using any student fees. My hope Steve Shinney tration's clear contempt for the day they are sworn in, today's is that this will be more accommodating to students and Emma Tippets legislative branch. legislators engage in permawill encourage them to come and help make decisions that First, if elected, do you promIn a parliamentary system, nent campaigns. Neither party directly affect them. ASUSU is the force behind empowering students to opti- ise to fulfill your constitutional power rests with the execu- is willing to allow the other to About letters mize their university experience and it can only work when responsibilities as a member of tive, and the legislative major- gain credit for an achievement • Letters should be limited a separate, independent and ity functions in a supporting tnat might help it in the next all students are actively involved. election, so the center aisle to 350 words. equal branch of government? role. But the U.S. Congress is I'll see you on the third floor. that divides Democrats from intended not to be a rubber • All letters may be shortSecond, if elected, do you Noah Riley is president of ASUSU. ened, edited or rejected promise to work in a bipar- stamp but a check on presi- Republicans in the House has tisan manner, open to coop- dential power and the princi- become a wall. for reasons of good taste, eration with members of the pal architect of national prioriBut there comes a time, redundancy or volume of ties. opposing political party? after the votes are counted, similar letters. There was a time when As the "first branch" of gov- when being American trumps • Letters must be topic orineither question would have ernment, Congress has all leg- being a member of a particular ented. They may not be had to be asked. Members islative authority and is charged political party. directed toward individuof Congress understood that with determining what the Paw The issues facing this nation"^ This summer has been a little bit of that democratic they had obligations imposed shall be and how much, if are difficult and complex. F6r?rj?|» als. Any letter directed to a specific individual may hard one for me; caffeine spirit to USU this year in my by the Constitution and that anything at all, is to'be spent examples, one need look nd be edited or not printed. only does so much to get little corner of the Statesman those obligations trumped any for any proposed project. further than immigration or allegiance to party or presi• No anonymous letters me up in the morning, and and perhaps help some dear Yet when President Bush the problems of energy dependent. For example: When thumbs his nose at Congress dence. There is a pressing need eventually we have to get conservative find his way. will be published. Writers up for something. I've found must sign all letters and I'll hit the issues impor- Democratic President Franklin — declaring his authority to for members of the House and what really energizes me tant to me. You should feel D. Roosevelt attempted to disregard legislation, permit- Senate, regardless of party, to include a phone number for the day is a good, old- free to voice your opinions pack the U.S. Supreme Court ting agency officials to lie to work together to find solutions or e-mail address as well fashioned, apocalyptic-style about the issues important with . justices more favorable Congress and to walk out of both sides can agree on. Voters as a student identification editorial page, and as luck to you in the Statesman as to his programs, the plan wa$ hearings, ignoring clear statu- should insist that they do. number {none of which ^ ^ _ well. Send in a let- opposed by his own vice pres- tory requirements — members would have it, Candidates for the House is published). Letters will ter, send me some ident, John Nance Garner, and of Congress mumble and pout and Senate will be making it's cheaper than Matthew not be printed without defeated by an overwhelmand do nothing. hate m a i l - do both Starbucks. urgent appeals to the voters this verification. Biackham ingly Democratic Congress. if you want to. If Whether it's Congress is fading into irrel- for the next two-plus months. • Letters representing \ you disagree with Roosevelt's War Department evance, and it is up to the During that time, citizens can Gay marriage, investigated by a voters this fall to demand of make a few appeals of their me or the liberal was groups — or more than abortion, immiDemocratic senator, Harry S. their prospective representa- own. One is for a Congress that philosophy there gration or intelone individual — must is no reason your Truman. Decades later, when tives whether they intend to recognizes its responsibilities ligent design, it have a singular represenvoice should go Democratic President Carter perform their constitutional and takes them seriously. And really doesn't take tative clearly stated, with proposed cutting spending duties. unheard. very much for us if they do not get satisfactory all necessary identificaon federal water projects, he to find the topics assurances, citizens can withJoin a politi- was rebuffed by a Democratic The second question to legistion information. hold their votes. Complaining h i that we passionLiberalism 101 cal group on camlators is equally important. One • Writers must wait 21 Congress. And when ately disagree on. motbiackhom@cc.usu.edu pus, or start a new reason given for Democratic is not enough; it is time for days before submitting Republican. President Reagan Ana while a casone. Throw youropposition to Connecticut Sen. voters to demand a Congress proposed a tax increase, successive letters — no cade of letters to the editor is self into your studies but also Joe Lieberman in this month's that does its job. the opposition was led by exceptions. a source of inevitable joy for throw yourself into student primary was his failure to be Mickey Edwards is a forRepublican House members. • Letters can be hand me, I thought it appropriate life. It's about more than kissa "team player"; Lieberman's mer member of the House Republican leadership. delivered or mailed to to remind you how impor- ing on the Quad or going to In each case, members of willingness to find common tant that exchange really is. The Statesman in the ground with Republicans was the games. Get involved in Congress were willing to stand On the surface, political school, student government, TSC, Room 105, or can debate is about persuasion regional and even national be e-mailed to and, quite frankly, winning. politics. statesman@cc.usu.edu But it is my opinion that Need an example? Bush or click on these discussions, even when is in Salt Lake this very www.utahstatesman.com The Government of Sudan has stopped ministers didn't show up Monday at a Security we disagree, play an integral moment. Where do you even pretending to cooperate with the inter- Council meeting on the crisis, and when For more letter part of our education here at stand on the Iraqi conflict? national community's efforts to end the ongo- Jendayi E. Frazer, U.S. assistant secretary of guidelines and a box to Utah State. Call me obstruc- Are you supportive of Bush's ing genocide within its borders. So the time State for African affairs, flew to Khartoum dursumbit letters. tionist or divisive for revel- policies or would you be has come for the world to stop pretending ing the weekend with a letter from President ing in controversy, but in protesting them? Whether that Sudan isn't a rogue state and slap it with Bush to Sudanese President Omar Hassan reality feel that defending you'd be protesting Bush or the harshest possible sanctions. Ahmed Bashir, the latter refused to show up. Online poll a position takes more skill, iprotesting the,. jprotesters, get Just a few months ago, Sudanese offi- - - - ^j _ _ ^ —World events have doubtless emboldened How do you feel about being time and brain power than down there and let your cials seemed on the verge of accepting Bashir. The United Nations, and global public back at school? much of our assignments. voice be heard. a U.N. peacekeeping force. The U.S. in opinion, are distracted by more urgent efforts What more, as a UtahThe festivities should May brokered a peace deal between the to put together a peacekeeping force for the • I can't wait for classes to raised and Mormon-bred kid begin at or around 10:30 Arab-led government and one of the largest less-deadly situation in southern Lebanon; start; Summer was too long gone liberal I can assure a.m. at the City Council rebel groups in Darfur, raising hopes that a meanwhile, the U.S. military is overstretched. you that I was just as confi20,000-strong U.N. force would soon protect Sudan sits on large oil reserves, which have • I'm sad summer's over, dent, but ultimately wrong Darfurian civilians. An estimated 2 million turned Khartoum into a bustling city and but I'm glad to be back. in my conservative youth. •JOIN U P people have been displaced from the region decreased the country's reliance on the West. • I wish summer was another I hope that I can offer a see p&ge 7 7 and 200,000 killed during a three-year bid China depends heavily on that oil and, along four months long by government troops and Arab militias to with Russia, has resisted approving intervenput down a rebellion — or perhaps instigate tion without Sudanese permission, or even a campaign of ethnic cleansing against black pressuring Khartoum to grant it. / W CMUANft RfcSPfcCT villagers. The time to act is running out. There Visit us on the Web at Hopes for peace have now completely is already an international force in Darfur W K AT www.utahstatesman.com evaporated. Since the deal was signed, vio- — about 7,000 African Union peacekeepers to cast your vote. lence has grown worse; 11 aid workers have — but they are barely able to defend even tupe w been killed, and U.N. emergency relief coor- themselves, and their mandate expires Sept. dinator Jan Egeland warned Monday that the 30. The U.S. and Britain have put together Check out these links on humanitarian relief effort is on the verge of a draft resolution for rapid deployment of www.utahstatesman.com: collapse, threatening hundreds of thousands a U.N. force, but without permission from • Archives more with death. The warning comes as Sudan, it will probably fail. If that happens, • Dining Guide COMING! the Sudanese government in Khartoum is China and Russia wilt have blood on their • Comics proposing to openly send 10,000 troops to hands. How dispiriting — that genocide in Darfur, a move that would be seen by the our time is met with unconvincing lectures • Activities and events local populace as an invasion and could lead about sovereignty and a weary collective • Classifieds to all-out war. shrug. • Wedding/Engagements • Slide shows & Video Meanwhile, Khartoum has turned a deaf This editorial appeared in Tuesday's LA. ear to all diplomatic entreaties. Its foreign Times. Bipartisan cooperation necessary for a successful Congress Nat1! View Former conservative mends his ways Countdown to genocide f |
