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Show i % %% br@stanesnrfen.iisu.epu lstatesman@.cc.ijsu.e ih OurView AboutUs A higher level of rivalry should be kept Assistant News Editor Rachel A. Christensen I Features Editor j Courtnie Packer Assistant Features Editor j Amanda MearS n-state rivalries are one of the great aspects of college basketball - and the USU men's team is no exception to that fact. Thank goodness, therefore, that the USUBYU rivalry returns Saturday. Student tickets go on sale Monday at 8 a.m. in the East Ballroom of the TSC. v Some have expressed frustration that the game is being played at the EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City. It's a neutral court and student tickets are limited to 2,000 per school. This sort of takes the power out of the college basketball experience - especially for a rivalry such as this. This is a silly situation that could have been avoided if only the Cougars would have cooperated. For some cockamamie reason, BYU head coach Dave Rose refused to come up with his team to the Spectrum last season. Apparently the Cougars had more important opponents to put on their schedule. The only agreement that he could make was to play on a neutral site a season later. .: ,, Yeah, whatever. If strength of schedule was the real issue, the series record wouldn't be 5-5 since the 1996-97 season. The Aggies always compete with and often beat the mighty, mighty Cougars. Why on earth would a person suddenly want to stop a tradition that has been going on between these two teams for 224 games? Rose no doubt wanted to avoid the inevitable loss that is sure to come every other year from visiting the Spectrum. • Whatever his logic, the one principle Rose failed to understand is that these rivalry games are critical to basketball in the state of Utah. Let's hope an incident like this doesn't happen again. But, as the song says, every Rose has its thorn. Debra Hawkins i Sports Editor Assistant Sports Editor M « RADICAL N\U5Ll^ A&"«ic MALL SANTA \W5 NOTVOUR B K T IDEA, PERKINS.,., FRIGHTENED AWAY ALLife CHILDREN <W ME "TORE DOWNflu.'PEACE n EARTH' BANNER." Forum Lette rs Perfecting the fairness doctrine To the editor: Is it just me, or does anyone else find it weird that a third of the U.S. population does not pay taxes but they still get the right to vote? I just don't think it is right for a person who is living off of society to get the same vote as a person who actually contributes to it. By no means am I alone in this position. The Founding Fathers themselves believed that not everyone should get the right to vote. While it was a good thing for blacks and women to get the vote, I do not think it wise for the (excuse the phrase) "leach- Letters to the editor • A public forum S blood circulation stopped, causing me to slowly black out into a pitifully helpless death. This freaky dream scared me to tears, night after night. I tried to-.telj:myselfthat in reality, if a person tourniquet-ed my wrist with a firm grip, the worst possible thing that could happen to me would be a sleepy, tingly hand, perhaps temporary paralysis, but, as I previously stated, all common sense departs when eyes shut for the night. I have troubles falling asleep at night. It is a gospel truth that any type of noise, no matter how insignificant, is exemplified times a hundred when one is trying to sleep. People whispering in the hallway sound like they are shouting in your ear. Roommates that are straightening their hair sound Tike they are steam rolling an asphalt roadway. I always feel bad for my roommates when I sleep in my swishy pants, because they have a superlative aptitude for noise. Even when there is not any extraneous sound, I have troubles succumbing to sleep, because my mind whirs at 80 thoughts per second. If you think my columns are tangential and random, you should take a peek inside of my head. It's a lot less organized. Copy Editor ] Lisa Christenser) Photo Editor | Cameron Peterson Assistant Photo Editor Tyler Larso Web Editor \ es" of society to have it. Seth R. Hawking Now that we are all about the "fairness doctrine," I say Editorial Board that we make this system a little more fair. If you don't Arie Kirk contribute to American Debra Hawkins society, then you should Courtnie Packer not have the right to decide Sammy Hislop where it is going. Lisa Christensen Seth R. Hawkins ] Tyler Thomas About letters Sleep: A strange phenomenon Know Your Detroit \lSee TERROR, page 14 ' Tim Olser leep is a strange phenomenon. Why do our bodies have a desper-' ate dependence on this thing known as sleep? We go tra-la-Ia-ing all throughout our days, only to crash into our beds at night and have Mr. Sandman give us psychotic dreams during the REM cycles of our slumber. Dreams are odd, because while you are dreaming them, they seem perfectly realistic, but when you wake up, you need to Pats and Jabs remind yourself that hurA pat on the back to Brent Guy for leading ricanes do not happen in the football team to a huge victory Saturday in Logan and humans do not the last game of the season. bounce like rubber balls. I And a jab in the ribs to the fast-approaching have always wondered why people say, "Pinch me, I'm Finals Week because, well, it's Finals Week. dreaming/' because I have never pinched myself in a dream. I wholeheartedly accept what my subconscious is telling me, at least until I wake up. When I was in fifth grade, I had a horrible, recurring nightmare that involved my UMBAI, India - The man's lips are twisted, being chased by a tall man whether from disgust or because he has a physi- with a long blond ponytail, cal problem, I can't tell. Skinny and balding, he and since this was a nightsidles up to me in the crowd. I don't know why he's chosen mare, I tried to run as fast me, of the hundreds milling here. But out of the side of as I could, but could only that twisted mouth, he mutters: "Chinmaya Sir has come, move as slowly as a snail, and I tried to scream as Chinmaya Sir!" My brow furrows. Who's Chinmaya Sir? As I repeat the blood curdlingly as I could, words in my mind, I realize what he's trying to say. I ask: but no sound would come out. As helpless fate would Chief minister? He nods vigorously, then spits out a curse word and have it, the creepy man caught up to me, grabbed says: "Why has he come? They will throw bullets at him and my wrist, and proceeded to he will fall over!" He holds his right wrist and flops his squeeze it so tightly that my hand over. "Like that!" I must look nonplussed, because he suddenly chuckles, too loudly, and sidles off. I see him muttering out of the side of that mouth to someone else, repeating that hand gesture, clearly looking for some taker for his chuckling theory about terrorists "throwing" bullets at the chief minister, the head of the government here in the Indian state of Maharashtra, and the CM falling over. We're in wait-and-watch mode here outside the Trident hotel on the seafront in Mumbai, where terrorists have killed and wounded hundreds and are still battling police and commandos. We've all seen the horrific images - fires, explosions, bodies, shootouts on streets so familiar that it's a punch in the gut to see them like this. It's why we're here. Yet in front of the Trident, where terrorists are^still holed up hours after this outrage began, very little is happening. I've met people anxious about relatives, journalists desperate for news - and also bystanders offering their varied and peculiar takes. Things are surreal in this city under siege. While everyone talks of the terrorism, it's also as if we're at a brand new tourist attraction. Plenty of backslapping as friends catch sight of one another, wisecracks at the expense of authorities, terrorists, whoever. Altogether, there's an air of cynical bonhomie that I've not sensed after previous atrocities. I mean, there's anger and despair in me, in circulated e-mail, on blogs. And Hearing giggles amid terror in India j Sammy Hislop But, generally, when I fall asleep, I fall asleep for good, and do not get up again until the day is just previous to dawn, and my alarm clock rings with frenzy.-The best kinds of days though, are the days that start without a blasting alarm clock. I love waking up at the last minute possible, when the only reason I have to awaken is because my bladder demands it, and after I flatter my bladder to make it gladder, I jump back into the snuggly warmth of my comforter. Oh, sweet morning of luxury. I smell wafts of pancakes griddling and bacon frying from the kitchen. Mmm. My butler is serenading me with pan pipes. Hmm? Pinch me, I must be dreaming. As much as I look forward to sleep, sometimes sleeping is not a picnic. For example, once I had a hideously ticklish cough that scratched my throat all night. My cough syrup only lasted for an nour or two, and my throat lozenges had the potential to drown my respiratory tract with a mixture of saliva and menthol, so I was in quite the predicament. It was not a good night. It is not a good idea to suck on a cough drop when your spine is parallel to the floor and your eyelids CI See SLEEP, page 14 i • Letters should be lim- \ ited to 350 words. i • All letters may be short-) ened, edited or rejected for reasons of good j taste, redundancy or • volume of similar let- j ters. • Letters must be topic oriented. They may 1 riot be directed toward ! individuals. 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