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1st Friday January 2017 - Vol. 21, #11 Each Month SUindependent.com FREE s~ 996 Year 6 1 ~20 201 2017 Arts to Zion 2017 Art and Studio Tour pairs live music and art See Page 3 ALSO THIS ISSUE: TRAVELING THE WORLD : THE ANNUAL PETER AND THE STARCATCHER TAKES CASABLANCA HOSTS MESQUITE MOTOR MORRIS MURDOCH TRAVEL EXPO FLIGHT AT DSU THEATRE MANIA & MESQUITE BALLOON FESTIVAL - See Page 5 - See Page 4 - See Pages 4 & 5 articles, blogs, videos, and more, you’d think each of us would have a better opportunity January 2017 Volume 21, Issue 11 to hear and understand viewpoints different than our own. Unfortunately, that does not to be the case. But why? Are we as humans built to have conflict? Disagreements? Maybe. It is almost certainly in our DNA that we would HOW have dissent. This could probably be pointed to as one of the characteristics we as humans RESOLVING have utilized to progress to the evolutionary EDITORIAL ............................2 GOLF GUIDE .......................13 top of the heap. It’s valuable to question. It CONFLICT helps us get to the best results for the group. ART ......................................3 DOWNTOWN SECTION .......15 So it’s seemingly innate. But so is cooperation. EVENTS ................................4 CLIP-N-SAVE SECTION WITH OTHERS We wouldn’t be where we are today without LOCAL NEWS ........................6 BOOK REVIEWS ..................18 significant cooperation, so while we are built to disagree, we’re also designed to resolve OPINION .............................7 MOVIE REVIEWS .................19 IS LIKE BEING conflict for the greater good of the group. MUSIC ..................................9 ALBUM REVIEWS ................21 So while disagreements are normal, RECREATION .......................10 CALENDAR OF EVENTS ........25 IN A recognize that the subject of an argument is often not the real issue. It’s a symptom, and RELATIONSHIP just like treating the actual cause rather ON THE COVER: ARTS TO ZION ART & STUDIO TOUR. By Josh Warburton than the symptom, you need to ask what the underlying interests or fears are. Here’s the SEE STORY ON PG 3. We all have people who we disagree with. important part: To do that, we need to have Specifically when it comes to politics. empathy for the person on the other side It’s easy to understand why. Politics are of the argument. We need to see them as about the laws and regulations on life, liberty, human, too, and that, like us, they are likely The Independent ~ SUIndependent.com and the pursuit of happiness. 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