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October 3, 2002 edition

In memory
Sheriff retires officer’s badge


Iron County Sheriff’s Deputies carry Edward Dare’s casket draped with an American flag to Dare’s memorial service Monday afternoon (above).
PHOTOS BY ERIN MADSON / UNIVERSITY JOURNAL

By KIMBERLY PATTERSON
UNIVERSITY JOURNAL

Edward Norman Dare’s family and friends told more than 750 people at the memorial service Monday afternoon that he was a great cop and friend with a great sense of humor.
Iron County Sheriff’s Department had its ceremonial roll call. All officers were present and stood and answered when their number was called, except 1W16. Silence remained as the number was called four times. Sheriff David “Dude” Benson then asked for Dare’s badge number, 1W16, to be retired “with honor and dignity.”
The memorial service took place on the Upper Quad on campus. Law enforcement officials from more than 40 divisions across Utah and the surrounding states came to pay their respect.

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“Let us not only mourn his death on this day, but let us thank our Father in Heaven for the time we had with him,” Benson said.
Dare was killed in a one-car rollover on the morning of Sept. 24 on his way to backup a Cedar City police officer.
Benson told of his experiences that showed Dare’s sense of humor.
Benson said Dare once told someone he pulled over that his ticket quota was whatever he wanted it to be. Benson said Dare continued to tell the man the ticket he was writing would win him a toaster, and if he gave three more tickets by the end of the shift, he would get a blender.
“Tell me you didn’t say that,” Benson said he later said to Dare.
and one sister.
“Deputy Ed Dare was a great man, a great cop, and a great friend,” Allred said.Benson said Dare said, “Yes, and I think I got it on tape.”
Brett Allred, Dare’s commanding officer, said Dare was always there when he needed him.
“No matter if he was on-duty or off-duty, he would cover your back,” Allred said.
Allred said Dare would always call him to tell him when he would be late.
“And then he would be 10 minutes early,” he said. “Eddy’s late was 10 minutes early.”
Del Schlosser, Iron County Deputy, attended the police academy with Dare. Schlosser described Dare as “the big kid in the department that made us all laugh.”
Dare’s older brother Alan said Dare rolled with life’s punches.
“There is a hole in my heart from him being gone,” Alan Dare said. “But his spirit fills that hole.” Steve Rumble, a family friend, said Dare’s love for his wife, Cyndi, was obvious.
“He was easy to like . . . and had a heart as big as himself,” Rumble said.
He said Dare was loved by the youth of Cedar City.
“Big Eddy was always trying to help those he worked with and those he worked for – Iron County,” Allred said.
Dare is survived by his wife, Cyndi, his mother, Ruth, two brothers

Leavitt in hot seat
at meeting today

By TASHA WILLIAMS
UNIVERSITY JOURNAL

Dane Leavitt, a member of the Board of Trustees, will speak to the Student Association for Free Expression regarding his letter to the University Journal’s managing director today at 4 p.m. in CN 229.
SAFE will ask Leavitt five questions organized by the group and then will open the session to questions from the audience.
“Mr. Leavitt was very anxious to set the record straight on his views and opinions regarding the controversy at hand,” said Mark Justice, president of SAFE. “His letter will be addressed – primarily the private nature of his criticism of the Journal.”
Leavitt was appointed to the Board of Trustees by his brother

 

Gov. Michael Leavitt in August. In a confidential letter to Managing Director Paul Husselbee, Leavitt criticized the Journal’s Sept. 5 photo illustration of a blue condom stretched over a banana.
In his letter Leavitt wrote, “I know there are benefactors that are less apt to contribute to the University sensing little of the ‘spirit of the founders’ in the University’s printed voice – one that appears to perhaps have too many resources and too little sense.”
The letter sparked response from Communications Department Chair Jon Smith, who replied, “The chilling effect already placed on SUU faculty, staff, and students over the last two weeks is de facto censorship.”
In a SAFE meeting last Thursday, President Steven D. Bennion met with the group to discuss censorship and the extent to which the administration believes it can monitor Journal content.
Bennion told the group that Journal editors don’t have to worry about censorship as long as the paper’s content is “responsible.”
The meeting attracted about 50 people and Justice said he believes approximately the same number will attend today.