EDITORIAL & OPINIONS What's Up with Meade Heights? By Geoff Conklin Capital Times Staff Writer Meade Heights dwellers may have noticed that the last few weekends around here looked like a cheesy new millennium version of "21 Jump Street." Several parties were busted the last few weekends, and more than a dozen stu dents have been convicted of underage drinking since August. This past weekend I felt like I was in a ghost town. I stepped out of my palatial apartment and almost tripped over some tumbleweed drifting down the street. The police seem to be scaring kids away from their homes. Starting Thursday afternoon, I sat and watched cars get loaded up and driven away. I guess cars getting loaded is OK, but don't anyone under 21 even consider it around here. No parties equals no kids left on campus on weekends. You can't help but ask yourself if the problem is that the police are being overbearing, or if kids around here are just so stupid they can't help getting caught every week. Kids in college are going to occasion ally drink. How can the police or anyone else expect a 20 year old living with three 22-year-old roommates to remain perfect ly sober? Every time an underage resident opens Most everyone has them...no one likes them. (Toyota Echo can help.) Echo gets up to 38 miles per gallon*..that limits your spending on gasoline. (Good start.) Echo has an amazing amount of interior room...seating for 5...50 it will hold a lot of something, like up to 4 paying passengers on Holiday trips home positive cash flow to further limit your spending. (Another plus.) Now you try one (Hints: It's Toyota...very dependable. And its an Echo, starting around $13,500 well equipped.) So the next time your spending limits come up for discussion, you'll be all set with a positive suggestion...A visit to your nearby Toyota dealer www.gelloyotLcom the refrigerator in their own apartment, they're tempted by rows of Yuengling and Bud. Even if you are able to control your self on weekdays, what is one to do on weekends when their over-21 roommates decide it's time for a party? Go home? Lock themselves in a room? No. When in college, you enjoy an occasional brew at a party and hand your drivers license to the cop at the front door on the way out. He'll hold on to it for you for three months. Albright College in Reading, is a pri vate religious school with strict rules when it comes to drinking. Even there, however, underage drinkers are given one warning before the police get involved. Also, when is the last time you saw a sober person at University Park on a Saturday night? Now maybe they're allowing drinking up there to help stu dents deal with the horrible football sea son we're having, or maybe the police there are more realistic, only helping if things begin to get out of control. The closest thing to "out of control" around here was when that chopper land ed on the doorstep of the library the other day. I'm surprised the campus police haven't called them in to help on a Thursday night. "EPA estimate 3158 4 door, 4-speed automatic. Even better with 5-speed manual Cam - pus Question & Answer In the Oct. 23 issue, The W. Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, Capital Times requested feedback PA 17057 or e-mailed to capti from readers on current features mes@psu.edu. and new ideas. The Campus Editors of The Capital Times Question and Answer Column will seek input from appropriate received a unanimous nod from campus or university sources and respondents. publish responses Beginning-with the Address questions to: to as many ques- Dec. 4 issue, The Q&A Column tions as possible. Capital Times will The Capital Times Dr. Susan publish responses Olmsted W 341, Richman, associ from people with 777 W. Harrisburg Pike ate dean for acade answers to questions mic affairs, is Middletown, PA 17057 cur posed by the campus rently preparing an or e-mail to: community. answer to our first Questions could be, captimes@psu.edu question. "When will the library parking lot Submitted questions must con be paved? Why are the parking tain your name. However, The spaces to the left of the Olmsted Capital Times will offer anonymi front door roped off?" I'm sure ty in posing questions to campus everyone can think of something. authorities and in publication. Questions concerning campus- Please direct any questions con wide issues, policies and proce- cerning the process to Cathie dures should be addressed to Q&A McCormick Musser, Editor In Column, The Capital Times, 777 Chief. ECHO
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