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Show "Language is the source of misunderstandings." Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1/ Monday, April 9,2007 797-1762 statesman@cc.usu.edu www.utahstatesman.com Communication is key - even in boxing Utah Statesman Staff Last Friday we were sorry to report that the Sigma Chi's Fight Night was canceled. This was unfortunate, because our mama said we were supposed to knock you out. In truth the shame is that the money that Sigma Chi had raised for cancer research had to be refunded. The event was an example of USU students working jr ... together to not only raise funds Our View Editor in Chief Elizabeth Lawyer News Editor Di Lewis Assistant News Editor Arie Kirk ^°r a s°°d cause ' Dut °ffer ° tner students an event they don't nor^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ mally get to see. However, due to USU administration not getting all the forms they needed, the event was not to be. Now, we're not going to accuse USU administration of being pro-cancer. That would be stupid. We are, however, going to accuse them of getting a bit bureaucratic sometimes. It seems like no matter what students want to do, whether it's hold an event, graduate or even post something on the notice board, there are two, three or more layers of administration they have to go through. Honestly, while many people were disappointed to hear what happened to Fight Night, was anyone really surprised? So what should be done to keep good events from being canceled? Everyone is going to nave to pitch in. First, everyone should pay attention to what's going on. Talk about it with your friends. Create a buzz. Now, everyone - students and faculty - who has any sort of control over events needs to keep an ear open for this buzz. If you hear something about an event that needs permission, clearance or other assistance from you, get in touch with the organizers as soon as you can. Before it's too late to get everything arranged would be nice. Finally, event organizers, you need to make sure you have crossed all your 't's and dotted all your 'i's. Double check that you've got everything squared away. Better yet, triple check. Check with different people in the same department, just in case someone else knows something that your contact doesn't. Let's not let any more good events go unheld. Features Editor Holly Mitchell ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ M Assistant Features Editor Manette Newbold Sports Editor Seth Hawkins Assistant Sports Editor Samuel Hislop Diversions Editor Steve Shinney Letters to the Editor flooding in, turning nature's turbines, generating energy in biological systems. Yet, despite spring's song of life and resurrection, I mourn. 1 To the editor: mourn because of something I sorely miss about winter. The snow's gone, the ice, I sorely miss the modesty. the freezing morning'wind Colder temperatures somechill. Spring sunshine is how encourage us to dress Keep it under wraps Don't shoot - at least until I can explain Nat'l Nat'l View • WAR MANAGEMENT seepage 12 Rebekah Bradway more warmly, more wisely, more modestly. Perhaps we no longer need the fleece and wool of wintertime to keep our'bodies warm, but ler/s keep enough clothing on to keep our hearts warm. Ben Watkins The war you're not reading about I just returned from my attention. Petraeus underfifth visit to Iraq since 2003 standably wanted us to see - and my first since Gen. this development. David Petraeus's new strategy I went to Iraq to gain a has started taking effect. For firsthand view of the progress the first time, our delegation in this difficult war, not to celwas able to drive, not use heli- ebrate any victories. No one copters, from the has been more airport to downcritical of sunny town Baghdad. progress reports For. the first time, that defied realiwe met with Sunni ties in Iraq. In tribal leaders in 2003, after my Anbar province first visit, I argued who are working for more troops to with American provide the secuEditor's note: This piece is emails, calls, and conversaand Iraqi forces to rity necessary for in reference to last Monday's tions I have had this week that combat al-Qaida. political developcolumn, "The definition of some feathers may have been For the first time, ment. I disagreed 'The Difference.'" In response ruffled. we visited Iraqi with statements to the amount of feedback he For the information of the and American characterizing has received, Scott Anderson people I will, like my last forces deployed the insurgency wrote this reply. column, use hard, proven in a joint security as a "few deaaresearch ana credstation in Baghdad l / j / > i i r enders" or being I first want to ible information that Scott Anderson an integral part V I C W in its "last throes." start by saying that I will gladly have of the new strategy. I repeatedly critiI have never, in printed so that those We held a news ~ cized the previous my life, ever been that deem my data conference to discuss what search-and-destroy strategy so misunderstood incorrect may verify than I have this past for themselves. I will we saw: positive signs, under- and argued for a counterinsurweek in regards to make sure that my reported in the United States, gency approach: separating my column. wording is right and that are reason for cautious the reconcilable population optimism. from the irreconcilable and my I am issuing this •>__.. ..., sentences are I observed that our delcreating enough security to statement to inform A n y Q u e s t i o n s ? clear which, feel, egation "stopped at a local facilitate the political and ecoall those who mis- seonderson@cc.usu.edu will enable all to market, where we spent well nomic solutions that are the understood that I understand correctly will be writing another col- the point that was trying to be over an hour, shopping and only way to defeat insurgents. umn for next Monday's edition asserted. So, please stand by talking with the local people, This is exactly the course that addressing the same subject and make ready, for the issue getting their views and ideas Petraeus and the brave men about different issues of the and women of the American in an effort to explain, once will be addressed. day." Markets in Baghdad military are pursuing. again, my views. Though I Scott Anderson is a junior have faced devastating terThe new political-military feel no such column is needin aviation technology. His ed in explanation of the mat- column runs every other Mon- rorist attacks. A car bomb- strategy is beginning to show ing at Shorja in February, for results. But most Americans ter I can see by the numerous day Look for it next week. example, killed 137 people. are not aware because much Today the market still faces of the media are not reporting occasional sniper attacks, but it or devote far more attenit is safer than it used to be. tion to car bombs and mortar One innovation of the new attacks that reveal little about strategy is closing markets to the strategic direction of the vehicles, thereby precluding war. I am not saying that bad car bombs that kill so many news should not be reported and garner so much media or that horrific terrorist attacks Faced with congressional bills setting timelines for the redeployment of combat troops from Iraq, the president and his dwindling band of supporters have been complaining bitterly about lawmakers' efforts to "micromanage" the war. Funny, you'd think they woufd be relieved! Ifs about time WORN DOWN. TOURS OF DUTY someone in the U.S. government showed an interest in managing ^^THEMPDLE - much less micromanaging - this war. ISLAMIC CIVIL WJ?. After all, the Bush administration's lack of interest in war-related details is legendary. Before the war began, the administration manifested this by ignoring intelligence that undermined its case for war. In his 2003 State of the Union address, for instance, Bush told the nation that, "The British government has learned that Saddamssein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Those infamous 16 words were justified by the existence of documents purporting to show a uranium deal between Iraq and Niger. Not, we presume, wishing to micromanage the decision-making process, Bush and his top advisers ignored evidence that the documents were fake - even though, as the Washington Post concluded last week, the documents were "filled with errors easily identifiable through a simple Internet search." And then there was the prewar "planning," a similar triumph of nonmicromanagement on the part of the administration. Someone has to manage Iraq Copy Editor are not newsworthy. But news coverage should also include evidence of progress. Whether Americans choose to support or oppose our efforts in Iraq, 1 hope they could make their decision based on as complete a picture of the situation in Iraq as is possible to report. A few examples: -Sunni sheikhs in Anbar are now fighting al-Qaida. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki visited Anbar's capital, Ramadi, to meet with Sunni tribal leaders. The newly proposed deBaathification legislation grew out of that meeting. Police recruitment in Ramadi has increased dramatically over the past four months. - More than 50 joint U.S.Iraqi stations have been established in Baghdad. Regular patrols establish connections with the surrounding neighborhood, resulting in a significant increase in security and actionable intelligence. - Extremist Shiite militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr is in hiding, his followers are not contesting American forces, sectarian violence has dropped in Baghdad and we are working with the Shiite mayor of Sadr City. - Iraqi army and police forces are increasingly fighting on their own and with American forces, and their size and capability are growing. Iraqi army and police casualties have increased because they are fighting more. Despite these welcome developments, we should have no illusions. 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