"Newton Society" tops Mesa trivia bowl A team calling themselves contest that benefitted the "The Wold Newton Meteorite Mesa College Mexican Ameri­ Society" came up the reigning can Scholarship Fund raising champs in the third annual around $200. Larry Marquez Trivia Bowl in Walter Walker coordinated the bowl, and the Auditorium last weekend. quiz master was Mesa Col­ Members of the winning lege counselor, Rich Baca. team were John Fowler, Arn Jose Cruz, regional director of McConnell, Todd Rutt, and the Colorado Civil Rights Tim Rutt. The other finalist in Commission was the tech­ the contest was KEXO, with nician, and Lydia Trujillo ar­ team members being Dick El­ ranged the team registration. liott, Steve Janakka, Don Cirio, and Norma Eisenhour. The various topics of the KEXO lost the bowl by a mar­ trivia bowl included movies, The "Thadeus Thootenblooten Theosofy Society" were one of twelve tnms that enterea 1aat gin •of over 100 points. sports, comics, radio, tele­ weekend's Trivia Bowl. The "SOclety" cons1at1ng of tum members Steve Ausmus, Rick Enstrom There were twelve teams of vision, music, literature, and Ralph Donnen, and Reford Theobold lost to the "Four Players." four members entered in the advertising slogans. The @RITER/ON of c0'r(esa Gollege Vol. 43 No. 23, Grand Junction, Colorado Aprll 12 1sn Criterion hits ''iackpot" in Las Vegas By ANDREA PAPAS of color photo, use of color and which several Mesa students and Criterion Staff Writer cover competition. Last year's drama staff attended last Maverick, edited by Janice November. The Criterion captured 16 Campbell, was the first yearbook Chief Photographer Leonard ~ awards at the 53rd annual Rocky to appear at Mesa College since Weddle won not only photo com­ ~~~ • Mountain Collegiate Press Asso­ 1972. Yearbook advisor is Tess petition, but also placed second :~ ciation Conference, winning more Carmichael. for specialized column writing in awards than any other school in A total of 13 staff members the Criterion. He captured first Its di\lision. from the Criterion, the Maverick The conference was held at and KMSA attended the confer­ and third place in feature photo the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas ence, which was hosted by the competition. In the news photo e-· last Wednesday through Friday. University of Nevada.Las Vegas category he placed third. The RMCPA is composed of 39 (UNLV) and Pima Community In competition for single adver­ schools from 10 Rocky Mountain College of Arizona. Varied work­ tisements, Ad Manager ~eff Wal­ thall and Salesperson Susan states. shops, seminars and tours were The Criterion placed In 12 of held for news and feature writers, Burleigh won first and second 18 categories. photographers, and those who place, respectively. Walthall also Five first place trophies were work on campus radio stations, lit­ captured first place in advertising presented to the Criterion and erary magazines and yearbooks. campaign competition. staff members for best feature The state of Colorado had Criterion Cartoonist Dave Mor­ photo, critical review, single ad, more schools participating than ton won second and third place ad campaign and page make-up. any other state in the conference. for cartoons relating to the 1976 Criterion Editor Jeff Frye won The RMCPA is composed of presidential campaign. first place In editorial writing in schools from Arizona, Colorado, The Criterion won third place journalist of the year competition Montana, Texas, New Mexico, in general excellence, and first in held during the conference. All Nevada, Kansas, Idaho, Utah and page make-up. other awards won by the Crite­ Wyoming. The top general excellence rion were for items appearing in The Criterion competed with award went to T·Staata, the newspaper of Lewis-Clark State The Criterion received 16 awards In categories ranging from the newspaper this school year. other colleges in Division Ill, which is composed of four-year College in idaho, and second advertising to Investigative stories on homoMxuals In Grand The Mesa College yearbook, the Maverick, won three awards schools with a student number of place was awarded to the Cata­ Junction. for last year's book. The Maver­ less than 5,000, who publish two lyst of Colorado College. Criterion advisor Carol Ed­ photo by Lee Gearhart ick placed third in the categories or fewer times a week. Frye placed second in entries monds, noted, "Especially pleas­ in the investigative and inter­ ing abOut this year's competition pretive reporting category for his was that we took twice as many series of articles on homosexual­ awards as we did last year, and Everest assau It to be shown ity. In the sportswriting com­ eight staff members were recog­ petition Randy Keller came in nized, compared to three the pre­ Jerry Roach, a member of the successful Roach, a professional photographer from second for a story on Mesa's out­ vious year. Bicentennial expedition to the summit of Mt. Boulder, hopes to offset part of the team's door program. "The Washington Post had its Everest, will present a slide show on the as­ expedition debt by presenting slide shows Associate Editor Don Olsen Woodward and Bernstein. We have our Frye, Olsen, Walthall, sault at 8 p.m. this Saturday in Walter held around the region. won second place in the feature The presentation will vary from the tele­ writing category for an article on Weddle, Freeman, Morton, Bur­ Walker Auditorium. leigh and Keller. Next year Papas, vision special on the Bicentennial Everest Jack White, professional pool The presentation, sponsored by the Cavanagh, Miller, McGregor and Assault aired last December. player who was here at Mesa last Mesa College Outdoor Program, is entitled fall. Entertainment Editor, Vincent Shafer are likely to join that Cost of admission for the show will be "A Climbers Eye View" and will attempt to Freeman came in first for his criti­ roster." portray conditions as experienced by mem­ 50¢ for students and $1 for the public. Tick­ cal review on "Equus," a perform­ (Related stories on p8g9 3 and bers of the expedition. ets may be obtained at the door. ance at the Denver auditorium 5) Page 2 CRITERION Tuelday, April 1 2, 1977 A re-commitment President Carter has decided to champion the hu­ man rights issue in our foreign policy, and. we applaud his action. Our endorsement of human rights 1s con­ sistent with the principles upon which this country was­ founded, and it is high time we re-committed ourselves to this cause. The right and the left have met in their opposition to the adoption of a human rights stance in our foreign pol­ icy: they say we are setting a "double standard", that it is hypocritical for the United States to impose human rights on other countries when things have not always been so perfect at home. However, this country has striven for a more egahta- • rian society since its birth, and these are our creden­ tials in this crusade. The Apostle Paul warned in his writings that we should beware of the recent convert to Christianity, be­ cause his rhetoric would be swelled by the pride of his conversion. But when the United States speaks of hu­ man rights, we are not speaking as recent converts - our history proves that. Although it is potentially dangerous to impose our will on other countries. it has become more important than ever to do this. The world is becoming smaller as the result of an increased population and improved communications. In a smaller world it has become diffi· cult for us to ignore the issue any longer - it is hard to ignore the fact that citizens of our world are b~ing jailed for dissent, jailed without formal charges being made, and tortured for their offenses. We are hardly meddling in the affairs of other na­ tions by talking about the human rights extended to citi­ zens within their borders, because as the world becoi:nes smaller, so does its culture become more ho1ne9eneousCertain definitions o~ ~iety will h_ave to be mace tor everybody. Our definition of the impor­ tance of the rights of the individual should not be compromised. James Kilpatrick, the syndicated columnist, has sug­ "We've got a mean one here, EltrJO. He was caught transporting gested that the pressure we are applying to the Soviet large amounts of drinking water out of Colorado." Union with regard to human rights is ineffective. Kilpatr­ ick suggests that we should instead oppose the Rus­ sians slmply on general principles, saying, "We should aim our sights lower." But there could hardly be a nobler issue to take with More publicity needed the Soviets, there should be no cause that we would be Students at Mesa College been warned of It? study. quicker to support than the basic rights and freedoms are required to pay their tui­ The school provided stu­ Library hours on the week­ that should be guaranteed every individual. tion and activity fees, but it dents with no vacation in ends are scarce enough at doesn't seem as if the facil­ honor of the holiday, nor were Mesa. The library closes at 5 (Note: Thia edttortal la adapted from the first-place ities those monies finance are instructors required to lighten p.m. on Friday, is closed all winning edltorlal entered by Jeffrey Frye In the ..~ required to provide regular their homework loads for stu­ day Saturday. and is open for lor college edltorlal writing competition at the re­ service in return. dents on behalf of the holiday. a six hour split shift on cent Rocky Mountain Collegiate Presa A11oclat10n First the college center staff So why was the library staff Sundays.