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Show "Man must evolve for <x\\ human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love." Martin Luther King, Jr. 72 Wednesday, Jan. 17,2007 797-1762 statesman@cc.usu.edi4 www.utahstatesman.comi While we took a quick tuition tax credits and nonbreak on Monday to cele- resident tuition. There is also brate the life of Martin Luther a plan to allocate money for King, Jr., the Utah legislative the design of our Agriculture/ Replacement session began. Many at this Classroom point might consider such a Building. I will closely follow topic boring with no direct these and other bills, and effect on them. I would argue when they get placed on the that this topic is probably legislative calendar we will one of the most important head to Salt Lake and get to things that directly impacts work lobbying for those bills every student in the V r™vk that best address our state of Utah. Troy Smith issues. We have a lot of great plans and Every year the state ideas, but we need Legislature is presentyour help. ed with a figure repreYou're probsenting the statewide ably reading this budget, and they are ana thinking there's charged with dividnot much you can ing it up between every group within ASUSU V i e w do about it. I'm here the state. Student osusuevec@ccusu.edu to tell you there is. issues usually end up There will be an information and taking a back seat to other, more politically favor- training meeting tonight at 7 able, issues. Students make p.m. on the third floor of the Here we will discuss up a large voting bloc in the TSC. state, but we haven't ever very specific and immediate turned out in great numbers, things that you can do to and our issues get pushed help. Most importantly, the aside. Students nave been more students that travel to called the "sleeping giant" Salt Lake, stand with us on because of the influence we Capitol Hill and present our could possibly have. Well, issues to the Legislature, the more effective our message it's time to wake up. will be. This year I've had the great opportunity of working with As citizens in a democrathe political science depart- cy, it is our responsibility to ment to coordinate a lobby- let our representatives know ing internship. Last semester what is important to us and students were trained by pro- how we want them to vote. fessional lobbyists and cur- This is our time to stand and rent members of the state be counted. I'll see you on Legislature, and this semester Capitol Hill. they get to put to use what they've learned. Troy Smith is ASUSU ExecuCurrently there are bills tive Vice President. Quesbeing proposed that deal with tions or comments can be higher education enhancesent to asusuexec@cc.usu. ments, college and university edu. Liberal or traditional conservative? policy is see page 13 A Editor in Chief N ii Elizabeth Lawyer News Editor Di Lewis Assistant News Editor Features Editor 1 Arie Kirk jj Holly Mitchell Assistant Features Editor 9 Manette Newbold Sports Editor Seth Hawkins Assistant Sports Editor Samuel Hislop 'SOME SKf ITS BOTTOMISS, BUT IF YOU WANT MY OPINION, WE JUST HAVEN'T PUMPED EN006H OF YOU FELLAS INTO FILUT UP YET.' Diversions Editor Steve Shinney Copy Editor Letters to the Editor ZPublicEoium Rebekah Bradwdj/ Photo Editor 'Z Aggie aggression in the Spectrum To the editor: I was sitting at a basketball game the other day and noticed an interesting trend... then again, how could anyone not notice? The derogatory comments being chanted in unison by the crowd were so loud that they probably could have been heard outside. The Spectrum has a national reputation for being a difficult place to play; chants such as "Airball!" and "You will miss it!" are trademark ways of being a rabid Aggie fan and that's great; it's what makes being an Aggie so much fun! However we, as a student body, seem to have recent- fj Jamie Crane 1 ly added additional warheads to our arsenal. After the opposing team causes a foul, the usual accosting goes something like this: "You, you, you... Yooooooou suck!" "You, you, you..." = good; "You suck" = bad. Other chants are similar in directly insulting the other team; you know which ones they are so I won't list them for space. If anyone listens before the game, there is an announcement that directs fans to have good sportsmanship by not saying anything derogatory or sexist to the visiting team. I feel like these recent trends are crossing this line of bad sportsmanship. We are together as a student body, and that is great; we feed off that energy, and the team feeds off it. When we cross into the realm of being insulting and belligerent to the opposing team, it is just a matter of time before the referees get ticked and call a technical foul on the crowd, or teams just simply won't come to play us here. I know that there are plenty of students out there that are uncomfortable with these chants, and all it would take is for the majority to not participate. What it boils down to is this: what do you want your legacy to be? What do you want our school's reputation to be in the conference and the nation? Do you want USU to be remembered for a great basketball team with an enthusiastic, supportive crowd; or a great team with a mean, borderline rude crowd? Your choice. Assistant Photo Editor ' Tyler Larsep- Editorial Board 11 Elizabeth Lawyer Di Lewis Seth Hawkins Steve Shinney Holly Mitchell ;» About letters \ • Letters should be limited to 350 words. • All letters may be shortened, edited or rejected n for reasons of good taste,,, redundancy or volume ofi> similar letters. j : • Letters must be topic oriented. They may not be >• directed toward individu- 1 als. Any letter directed to a specific individual may be5 edited or not printed. • No anonymous letters m • will be published. Writers! must sign all letters and i include a phone number 3 or e-mail address as well H as a student identification number (none of which is published). Letters will not be printed without th verification. • Letters representing grou — or more than one indi vidua! — must have a sin gular representative clearly stated, with all necessary identification information^ • Writers must wait 21 days before submitting succes-1'] sive letters — no exceptions. • Letters can be hand delivered or mailed to The Statesman jn the TSC, Room 105, or can b e e mailed to statesman@cc.usu.edu or click on www.utahstatesman.com for more letter guidelines and a box to sumbit letters. Dru Brown t vote G/ANT TV* •AMERICAN VALUES H Staff Almost 40 years after his about maintaining the status 1 went to my dad's tions from party and gay marriage, and all that death, Martin Luther King, quo. They fight for tradition Mikaylie members are a being a true blood entails. Jr.'s iconic dream lives on in andforthe interestsoftheeco- for Christmas this Kortaner way for voters in I suppose he was probably the heart of the progressive nomic elite: America's new weekend. I know, it's Republican states right. I am one of those sitting movement. Civil equality, aristocracy. Conservatives January, but my dad to get their voice on the fence. I like to look out, justice and cultural under- ultimately serve the inter- figures Christmas in heard. My dad watch what's going on then standing are the core of the ests of the powerful and the January is cheaper; progressive movement's ide- few and win elections only you get more bang laughed then indig- fall on the appropriate side. ology. Conversely, conser- because they simultaneously for your buck. nantly hung up the For me I guess the answer vatives have been and are provide lip service to reliSo it's Sunday, , phone. to the question is simple. I am notoriously resistant to the gious interest groups. Jesus or Christmas mornThe phone an American first, and I guess changes required to create wasn't a politician or an ing, and the family t h e Fence c a " brought on a maybe always if thafs what it conver-means not to care if you are an equally accesactivist, but he told, is sitting at the table mikoyiiek@ccusu.edu sparkling b etwee n a Democrat or a Republican. Matthew sation sible society. The his disciples to give eating the traditional Blockbam to the poor, and he Christmas breakfast of hash the family members, ending I'm for whoever is going to fix party names and ate and sat with the browns and monkey bread with my stepbrother saying, the problem 1 have, whether issues have changed social outcasts and with caramel sauce when the "Are you a Democrat first or it be Social Security, immigraover the years; parcondemned the reli- phone rings. an American?" to which his tion issues or education. ties are born, tneir gious institution of It's for my dad. It's the Maybe that sounds a litmother responded, "Now platforms evolve and g Democrats and they want tle selfish or indifferent, but I • ' • r, you're getting nasty. Lefs not they eventually die. the day. If anything, money. think it's the opposite. When ruin Christmas." Ultimately, howJesus would have Now, my dad is the biggest The conversation ended, I look to elect a leader, being ever, the conserva- Liberalism been a Democrat, a tive-liberal divide hippy at that. Will and most loyal Democrat I but I haven't been able to get free from a serious party affiliL . . 1010 know, secona only to perhaps the thought out of my mind ation, I am free to make my has always existed in matbiackham@cc.usu.edu conservatives hear his wife. But there's a probI'll admit: I am a registered own choice. I get to pick the any of that? society. So though any Of lem. My dad and his wife live Republican. It seemed like a man, not the money or the the far right might course not. Instead, brand us as anti-American they condemn and judge and in Idaho, one of the most red good idea at the time. But party. I get to pick the idea 1 wouldn't say I'm a hard and what I feel is a better plan Godless socialists, the real- vote based on issues like gay states in the nation. A Democrat just can't get core conservative. Two years for the country. ityy is that it was Progressive marriage and abortion, I think this works better. Religion is used to further a fair shake in Idaho. That ago, when I entered a colabolitionists who sought doesn't stop them from calling umnist contest at The Herald Unless you live in Idaho, of It both noble and evil agendas. to end the slave trade. you up on a Sunday and askJournal, my dad told me there course. King used biblical passages was the Progressives who was no way I fit the criteria. Mikaylie Kartchner is a senior fought fh ffor the h expansion off and allusions to communi- ing for your money. After my father's polite They were looking for a hard worker's rights, the Suffrage cate equality and justice. But majoring in print journalism. Movement, the Racial Civil it has also been used to jus- decline, the caller went into core Conservative, someone Comments can be sent to Rights Movement, Women's tify racism, the oppression the speech about how dona- who will shoot down abortion mikayliek@cc. usu. edu. reproductive and employ- of women, slavery, xenophoment rights, the Gay Rights bia, homophobia, murder, Movement, anti-discrimina- war, genocide and terrorism tion legislation and anti-hate across all periods of time, crime laws. And that's the Many of trie most powershort list. ful and evil people in hisBut surely America tory used God to justify their was founded on orthodox actions and, like the racism Christian and conservative King sought to end, God's values, right? No, there is name is still used to justify no greater a myth. Most of evil. It got us into this Iraq our founding fathers were conflict, and we have got to radical progressive visionar- bring the knowledge of these ies; many were also Deists, abuses to the attention of not Christians, and either our conservative friends and highly critical of organized neighbors or they will remain religion or recognized the affected by those lies, importance of a clear diviWhen it comes down to sion between the church and it, hatred and bigotry are state. The very philosophy not American values. Mo.st of a government for and by Americans wouldn't dare the people is a liberal value identify themselves as a because conservative parties Conservative if they saw have and always will support the conservative legacy for the special interests of aris- what was truly is, not as it is tocracy and corporate greed . at the expense of general society. Conservative Utah Statesman 400 Wake up, stand up, and be counted Online poll Do you feel Martin Luther King Day is still an important day to observe? • Yes, the political statement' made by observing MLK Day is still relevant. decode • Yes, we need to honor MLK as an American hero. • Yes, for another reason. . • No, MLK Day was to raise awareness problem that's not anymore. •^ meant for a an issui ^ p;^ • No, for another reason. i Visit us on the Web at www.utahstatesman.com to cast your vote. Check out these links on www.utahstatesman.com: Archives > 4 Dining Guide COMING! Comics Activities and events * Classifieds Wedding/Engagements Slide shows & Video |