Silvis clarifies parking rules
Manager of Police and Safety attempts to explain complex parking
regulations, current construction adds to parking shortage
Shill Clim
The Collegian
The shortage of parking
spaces for commuters, residence
hall students, and faculty
members continues to grow as
construction work for new
parking lots continues.
Larry Silvis, manager of
Police and Safety Services, says
he has taken steps to remedy
Behrend's current parking
problem.
Silvis has comprised a letter
reiterating previous parking
regulations and establishing new
ones. It is an effort, says Silvis,
to "create some uniformity in
Behrend's parking system" and
Raspberry fears society coming unglued
Celebrated journalist criticizes special
The Collegian
Expressing major concerns
about America's inability to
make long range plans for the
good of the whole, nationally
syndicated columnist William
Raspberry said "America, as a
society, may be coming
unglued."
Raspberry, who has won the
Capital Press Club's Journalist of
the year award and whose column
appears in 175 newspaper
including the Erie Morning
News, spoke here last Thursday.
His speech, "Perspectives on
America," was part of Penn Sate-
Behrend's 1990-1991 speaker
series.
"It's almost as though there is
no national interest." according to
Raspberry who feels the whole
society seems to be disintegrating
into special interests. Raspberry
cited Congress' recent problem
with passing a budget as an
example.
Raspberry argued for more
statesman and fewer politicians
"Each generation has
gone farther, but
that steady march of
progress may have
peaked with my
generation and that
scores the hell out of
me."
- William Raspberry
syndicated columnist
who have a hard time seeing past
the next election. Saying "I don't
think we have worse people in
Congress than we used to have,"
Raspberry explained sometimes
the political situation makes it
impossible to do the right thing.
Elected officials constantly
feel the pull of special interest
and minority groups who seek
"special privileges and
exemptions" and who promote
the "politics of difference" where
one group demands compensation
whenever another group gains an
advantage. Raspberry sees an
important difference between "a
search for inter-group justice and
a search for group advantage."
On the subject of racial
intolerance, Raspberry feels that
you cannot complain about
racism the way you "shriek about
the weather in Erie." He stressed
that the "struggle against racism
needs to make sense." Raspberry
argued that it would be foolish to
call on racists for solutions to the
basic problems facing many
black Americans. "Why look to
interest groups
the Devil (racists) for my
salvation?"
On education in America,
Raspberry sees a "new
seriousness about learning." But
he also expressed concern on the
problems of racism on college
campuses. Again Raspberry cited
group interests as part of the
problem. He communicated his
amazement at how often groups
look after their own interest and
how seldom any group sees its
mission as "knitting the campus
into a community." Raspberry
sees a bleak future if "college
kids can't live in harmony."
"Each generation," Raspbeny
said, "has gone farther, but that
steady march of progress may
have peaked with my generation
and that scares the hell out of
me."