Tradewinds, 1975-11-24

              (Hp1 TRADEWIND NOVEMBER 24, 1975 VOL. 4, NO. 7 UTAH TECHNICAL COLLEGE OF PROVO Thanksgiving Day Celebrated Then and Now Hunger and death had decimated the ranks of the first colonists that landed on Plymouth (Mass.) in the year of 1621.WhenThanks-giving Day was celebrated less than a year later, a very somber group planned the festival of the first harvest. It had been a harsh and hard experience since over half of the colonists had died from hunger, disease and cold. The harvest was almost in when Governor William Bradford, decried a threee-day feast to be held. On July 30, 1623, was thus set aside for special prayers of Thanksgiving. Much activity by the colonists for days produced a magnificent feast. The Indians brought in wild turkeys and venison, the 1 men went out and trapped geese and ducks, and the women and children provided fish, corn bread and succotash. The meals were prepared over open fires and pits. The custom grew with the population spread over the land. On November 26, 1789, President George Washington issued a general day of thanks proclamation. For years a dedicated newswoman, Mrs. Sarah Joseph Two Students There were seventeenstudents from UTC that were able to attend the Western Regional DECA Conference. They left on Nov. 12th 1975 for Seattle Washington where the workshop was held. They arrived there on the 13th and attended an introductory SiH f TRISHIA SHUMWAY AND JERRY GOFORTH won awards for outstanding work in the motivation section of the contests at the DECA western regional. Hales worked to get the day proclaimed a national holiday. Finally in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November as a "day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficient father." For 75 years it was so observed until 1939, President Roosevelt set the day backone week to help businessmen by lengthening the Christmas shopping seasonand remained so from that time one. It became a federal holiday. Thanksgiving, November 1975, is supposedly to be a day in which everyone gives thanks to our Heavenly Father for our uncounted blessings. But for many it will only be a sad reminder of the long term unemployment and lack of proper food, provisions, and general needs due to the breakdown In our national economy. It's hard to feel blessed when one is very hard pressed just to keep a single hot meal on the table. Look around you and see those that would enjoy the sharing of our bounties. The lonely, the elderly especially since they have the least to offer and cannot buy beyond the barest of necessities. Cop Honors meeting introducing them to the officers and getting their outlines of the events for the two day conference. Friday all the student competed in workshops, consisting of motivation, factors in management employee relationships, and management SMOKING HAS BECOME ONE of the main issues on campus lately. The issue seems to be "Do smokers have the right to breath smoke or do non-smokers have the right to breathe clean air." Smoking Becomes Hot Issue At UTC By Chad Luhr Where there's smoke, there's fire. That old saying may ur may not be true but it's certainly true that a firey controversy has developed around the issue of smoking in or around UTC. At DECA time schedule for employee. They were involved with eight western states this conference. They were: Montana, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and Idaho. There were approximately 365 students 1 involved in the entire conference. While the students were at workshops they had cordinators meeting for the advisors which Jerry Goforth said were very educational for them. Later that evening they had a banquet where they had speakers and awards were presented to the people winning awards in the three areas during the workshops. There were 25 awards given in all and two of the twenty five were given to UTC students. They were TriciaShum-way and Jerry Goforth who won awards for outstanding work in the motivation section of the competition. They attended a fairy boat ride to the Tillicim Island and enjoyed a very fine smoked salmon dinner. Jerry said that they were able to see many things in Seattle. They rode the shuttle cars down to see the underground of Seattle. They went to the space needle, got to attend a food circus fair and they went to pioneer square. The trip took them forty six hours up and back but Jerry said the new bus that UTC has is very comfortable. They rode up with students from UTC SLC, UtahState.and Weber. Jerry said "It was a very educational trip for our entire club." Both sides feel strongly about the issue since it involves the basic rights of all concerned. On one hand non-smokers feel that obvious health hazards of cigarette smoke and that their right not to be exposed to it might be in jepordy if smoking is allowed in school. Conversley, the smoking students feel that they have a basic right to smoke if they want to and feel that if designated areas were set up inside the school, they could smoke in those areas without causing any discomfort to non-smokers. The north end of the cafeteria is one area now under consideration by several groups. Carolyn Striver, the nonsmoking president of, alpha chl Omega, one of the organizations involved in trying to establish smoking areas said during an interview, "We have been in touch th local and state fire mar Calendar Nov. - 24 Nov. Nov. Dec. Dec. Dec. 27 , 28 29-1- 2 4 shals who have been checking on the legality of opening certain areas of UTC to smoking.0 She also safcT, Ve feel this can, be done without compromising the interests of health since we have been in contact with area industries on the fear-ability of having electrostatic air purifiers installed in smoking area." 'With those measures introduced both sides could co-exit without either being denied their rights." However, such is not the case at this time, and many students are upset, one said, I think its very degrading to have to stand out in the cold to smoke a cigarette, after all I have worked and payed taxes, why cant I have equal rights too?" Another mentioned, "U.T.C. is one of the few state supported schools without smoking lounges." So the debate goes on without an immediate solution in sight, and until this controversial question is settled there promises to be a great deal of dispute among the different factions. of Events INTRAMURAL COUNCIL MEETING ALL ARE INVITED THANKSGIVING VACATION FIRST BASKETBALL GAME OF SEASON. UTC vs. UTAT STATE OREM HIGH SCHOOL. 21 SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS THE AT , AWS SKI FASHION SHOW DAY MOVIE ("MASH") 12 NOON TO 2 pm