Show LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Attacks Writer's Stand On Tobacco Ads Editor In last month's Chronicle you gave prominence to a letter from Marion D. voicing his emphatic and righteous disapproval of the recent proposal by some degenerate infidel that the university publications be permitted to accept tobacco advertising as a helpful and badly needed source of While the subject is one on which both time and ink are thoroughly wasted considering its utter lack of 1 am convinced that the implications involved are worthy of comment along the following First of the original proposal that such advertising be accepted is justified by its shadowy proponents as the good old Yankee moral ground that it would We grant the fact but deplore the weasel reasoning that is willing to use it as a basis for Somehow there is a strong odor of intellectual dishonesty surrounding this so practical a I am moved to reflect that of such stuff arc It is highly that the suggestion was based on these grounds in the certain knowledge that the weakest part of a moralists' anatomy is his If I salute a practically but still prefer the honest especially since in this case there is a most obvious comes the good who makes liberal use of such gentle terms as in his academic treatise on other people's His letter moral issue of the question and the accepted fact that Pity he didn't disregard as but since he I am obliged to conclude that what Hanks has been indoctrinated with per and is past particularly for us execrable to this dictum that condemns a good part of mankind to a heretofore unknown abyss of amazingly good let us consider his next gem of righteous wisdom which is a paragraph deploring the to discourage originality or the of thought and and the which is the bane of university in all is Hanks describing himself or the above execrable For it seems to me as far as our campus is the charge of mediocre conformity cannot seriously be leveled at the on the contrary it has impressed me during my three years at Utah that quite the opposite is the I believe the Chronicle should by all means accept tobacco simply because the University of Utah is a state supported institution and as such has no responsibility requiring it to lend its name or shape its policies to the peculiar taboos or prejudices of any particular section of its student tion or of the state population it If there is any moral issue it is that of the propriety of including secular prohibitions in the regulations of a constitutionally non secular In closing I would like to point out to Hanks that there are several publications in Utah that do not publish execrable tobacco and they are all secular Are we to con that the Chronicle is classed with Nick Students Deserve First Chance At Dance Tickets Says Students Editor This is really a letter to the members of the dance but perhaps you will give it your Why is it necessary to open the sale of the New Year's Eve dance tickets to the whole city when it is supposed to be a university If there was room for both the townspeople and the university students it would be But when there is a limited number of tickets available I think the students should be given first Besides being unfair to the students in that those who do happen to be fortunate enough to get tickets expect to come to a college dance and suddenly find themselves at a high school let's keep the in so far as it is possible and within the confines of our Everyone would be Sincerely An Unhappy New Year |