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Show OPINIONS 9.7.2009 xploitation Never mind the bollocks, here's the sex scene is choosing those things to be your entertainment for the evening by placing a recreative value on sex and There's recently been violence. And you particia sudden surge of my old pate in this visual economy high school friends coming Sf recreation regardless home from missions trying of the film's actual rating. to get used to being around So to value guts and gore other old friends who've on Saturday night only to "changed." It's still difficult value reverence and divine for them to resist urges life Sunday morning is to shake hands and shove hypocritical. blue books into people's When I hands, so ^^^^^^ ^ ^ ^ watch a movie, they socialize 1 usually object more pasThe typical to how rampant sively with action movie the decapitations "guy's night will likely be full are sooner than I out," which of gains, blood avert mine eyes is essentially and boobs, and during the sex when guys choosing to scenes. If one's foreswear watch an action morality must association movie is chooswith any relafactor in during ing those things tions to the entertainment, to be your enter- one should fairer sex (be tainment for the they casual weigh in how evening. girlfriends the sanctity of or wives of life is handled ______ with the followseveral years) _ ing sensibility: to assert sex is often a magnification "maleness." And the best of life, while violence is way to do this, apparently, often a magnification of is to sit down and watch death. To shun the former action movies. and take pleasure in the latWhat I've noticed is that, in an attempt to appear ter seems strange to me for members of a religion that hip with the times, play along and not "be that guy," preaches love and peace. most of these otherwise Now I'm definitely devout Mormon returned not saying that sex canmissionaries will cheer not ever be pornographic and laugh at the violence and violence cannot ever during movies - or at least be moderate. What should appear apathetiCtowards matter in your choice is to the amount olbloodshed on the extent to which a film screen. Yet when the beach will mock or abuse sex and scene comes on and all the violence. I believe a film girls in bikinis start dancthat celebrates gratuitous ing, or when the muscular amounts of violence is hero wipes the glistening distasteful while a film that sweat from his face as he celebrates sex is emphasizleans in for a passionate ing human life and love kiss, these same guys will whether the hero is married turn their heads or become "to the girl or not. conveniently distracted If when you want to by the living room coffee select a movie "with the table. guys" but so desperately want to shun any semThis is a misplacement blance of femininity that of moral priorities. The you can't stand to watch a typical action movie will likely be full of guns, blood sex scene ... perhaps you should find something else and boobs, and choosing to do. to watch an action movie ^^H .. -.• • ? n r , ; r - . Mi^________________H_l * MATTHEW A. JONASSAINT Asst. Opinions editor Ai Mitton/UVU Review Factory farms are stewards of profit milked. What's worse is that they are playing'the socially conscious card: "If you buy our product, you are doing your part to help out the environment." We really need to challenge the assumption that companies like this should even exist in the first place. Dairy has to be one of the worst things for human consumption. Loaded with animal fat, hormones, antibiotics, pus, and bacteria. Each glass you drink makes you fatter and hinders your immune system. The very fact that they claim to use nine million cows more efficiently then 26 million only goes to show that they are giving these cows some serious drugs to pump out that much milk. Also, at what point should there ever be nine million cows? It makes you wonder how much of the agriculture sector goes into feeding and watering that many cows. In short, dairy is rape, unnecessary for humans to survive, and should be reserved for mothers to nurture their children. Go Vegan. offspring, is sold to hurnans. Instead the calves get an iron deficient diet to Opinions writer make their bodies tender. What has two eyes, two ears, Milking cows is definitely not the two ovaries and is subject to routine idealized process where the farmer rape? If you answered dairy cows, sits down with a bucket and relieves you are correct. How ____^^_ ^^^^^m the cow of her bursting else do you think udders. Instead, they Milking cows is dairy cows are able hook up vacuum tubes to consistently give definitely not the to the each udder, and milk? Cows don't idealized process let those suck the milk get to "do it" the out of her. This causes where the farmer old fashioned way, swollen udders which sits down with a instead dairy farmers bucket and relieves leads to sores. The sores artificially inseminate become infected and pus the cow of her the cows by collectgets into the supply. This bursting udders. ing the semen from is what you get from the bulls and injecting industrial capitalism. it straight into the fe~~ — — Quick, efficient exploitation. males. Now you may wonder what happens to the offspring So when viewing ads from the from this little fiasco? Answer, they Utah Dairy Council for "Stewards of become veal calves that are chained the Land," keep in mind the horrific to the ground and kept completely im- process that provides you with the mobile for the remainder of their four product you savor. Their website is month existence. The milk that would curiously devoid of any pictures of the normally go to nurture mother cows farms where these cows are raised and Correction In the Aug. 24 issue in "Professors With Class" by Matthew A. Jonassaint, Dr. Laura Hamblin was quoted as saying, "Poetry is propaganda." This was a misquotation; Dr. Hamblin said, "Poetry is not propaganda," emphasizing her belief that, "Poetry is the most honest language." Outside food should be allowed DAVID SELF NEWLIN Opinions editor There are many commandments that govern what activities occur on campus and how they are to be administered, and among these rules is this simple one: no outside food shall be bought with institutional money and brought onto . campus. I don't think this commandment should be as hard and fast as it currently is. Perhaps guidelines or suggestions are a better approach. Here's the deal: Spending money on food made off campus sends money away from the institution into the black hole that is the local economy, never to be seen again, whereas hav- ___••_____•••_•_• we are willing to donate. However, there are clear reasons why one might want to bring in ^ • f ooc j ma( je ing the food Spending money off-campus. catered by For one, on food made off dining serthere is not campus sends vices keeps always the money away from the money appropriate the institution into within the kind of food the black hole that school, available is the local econcirculatfrom dining omy, never to be ing through services. For the various seen again... example: if departments the Animal budgets like Allies club were, say to give a demonblood through our veins. stration on vegan food and We need to be thrifty and smart with cash in these bring in some excellent examples of such, this presents depressing times, and cona problem — Dining serserve the amount of blood vices does not offer vegan food choices. But of course, bringing in food made at a vegan restaurant is out of the question. This seems to prevent the proper functioning of a totally acceptable and morally responsible club activity. Another example: the Pizza Lovers club wants to demonstrate the availability of various kinds of pizza around town, and perhaps get a tip or two on how to toss some dough from the pros — the rules simply don't allow this. You could keep constructing situations — the Baking club, the Corned Beef club, AD INFINITUM. Not to mention the possibility that what dining services has to offer is just not up to snuff in some situations. I, for one, like the food that on-campus catering produces, but the number of people/clubs/ departments bemoaning the impossibility of outside food suggests that perhaps what is offered on-campus is not meeting the needs of those they are trying to serve. Now, I'm sure that whoever wants to bring in food from outside will find a way; I've seen too many Papa Johns' boxes stuffed into trashcans to think otherwise. But this has got to f be the result of some kind of semi-clandestine manipulation of the system. There are lots of situations in which it seems perfectly acceptable to bring .in outside food, and yet it is not,currently permitted. All we need to do to address.this issue is to create a process whereby an organization can explain and justify the need for nondining-services vittles and thereby acquire them for their get-together. It doesn't have to happen often and it doesn't need to be encouraged; but it absolutely does need to be possible. |