The Collegian
September 12, 1985
Page Six
Student sees pop machines
as a rip-off on campus
Is it difficult for you to juggle
books and a Walkman, and still
find a nickle in your pocket (for a
can of pop) without spilling
change on the floor? I sometimes
have the same difficulty. But two
years ago we never would have
had to bother with nickles. Pop
(or soda) cost $.50 a can.
I found over the summer that 1
could save substantial amount of
money by buying pop off campus.
If items are purchased one at a
time in a grocery store, the price is
greater per unit than if many are
bought en masse.
I bought one can of Mountain
Dew for $.39 at Giant Eagle. Buy
ing six-packs cuts the unit-price
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down to $.37 or $.36, depending
on the brand.
If I drink enough pop over the
semester to equal a can a day, the
seven cans a week, for 17 weeks
(orientation and finals) would be
$65.45 out of the machines. If I
bvought 20 six-packs from the
store over a semester, the price
would be $45, and I would have
saved $2O on one essential college
item.
There are about 400 cans of pop
in any one machine on the cam
pus, when full. There are at least
seven machines on campus.
There is a $.16 discrepancy in
the price of pop on campus and at
Giant Eagle.
If the Pepsi-Cola Truck fills all
the machines when it makes a trip
to campus, does that trip up the
hill cost $448 more than a trip to
Giant Eagle?
Giant Eagle can sell groceries at
almost wholesale prices because
of the large volume it moves out
each day. But I imagine the sales
of pop out of the machines on
campus compares with sales in the
store. Are we paying $.16 a can
simply for the convenience of hav
ing pop for sale on campus?
Please join me in sending a note
to Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company,
chastising them for outrageous
prices. Send complaints to:
Public Relations
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company
5701 Perry Highway
Erie, PA 16509
If 1,000 customers are heard
from, changes could be made. Be
a real student activist. Get
involved!
Thirstily,
George Michael Cochranton
Fifth Semester, Arts and
Humanistic Studies
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APARTHEID:
What are your views?
Have you ever stopped to think
of what the word Apartheid
means? According to Webster’s II
New Riverside Dictionary it is an
official policy of racial segrega
tion in The Republic of South
But does the reader know
how this disorder all began?
About forty or more years ago
whites began to move in to South
Africa. At first the Africans
didn’t think much of this until
their new neighbors began to gain
power and push them in the back.
The South Africans were given the
worst while their new arrivals
took the best. The South Africans
began to take action for what was
theirs. They didn’t want the
whites out but only wanted equal
rights and homes just like the
whites. Soon the whites began to
retaliate by using guns and telling
the blacks to stop making trouble.
The reader may ask himself, if the
blacks are the majority why not
run their new arrivals out of their
land? The answer is rather simple;
the whites possess ammunition
while the blacks have none.
In order to bring you the reader
up-to-date let us examine what’s
happening now. An article written
in the New York Times (eq) stated
that buses are segregated in most
South African citys. Beaches at
Several speakers
probe divestment issue
at University Park
Divestiture in South Africa
spurs controversy at Penn State.
Rev. Howard Hans, a minister
from South Africa spoke at
University Park and stated how
blacks are treated in South Africa.
He told students that blacks make
one-sixth of what whites make.
Their jobs are hundreds of miles
away from their family and they
are allowed to visit them three
weeks out of a year. Hans believes
if America divests in South
African stocks such as Coca-Cola
and General Motors, South
Africa will begin to come
together. Hans believes that
divestment is the right thing to do
in South Africa.
Many people and students
stand up and shout that they are
for divestment if that will solve
the horrible problems in South
Africa. JBut before you cast your
vote, did you think of the
U.S.S.R. government supplying
South Africa with weapons and
the power of Apartheid growing
worse?
Senator William Proxmire also
spoke at University Park this sum
mer and said investing in South
Africa is like investing in the
reader
opinion
such resorts as Durban have
notices saying which race may lie
on them or swim in their waters.
Rest rooms are segregated, and li
quor outlets often have separate
entrances for whites. It has also
been reported as a fact that at
birth, South Africans are required
by law to be classified by racial
group, and that classification
determines where you may live,
which schools may be attended
and, in the mining industry, which
jobs they may perform.
Blacks, who comprise almost
three-quarters of the population,
have no voting rights. Under a
new Constitution instituted last
year, Indians and people of mixed
race have separate houses in a
three-chamber Parliament, but
their role in the white-dominated
Cabinet is minimal.
As the previous facts show,
there is a problem and something
has to be done. I’m open for all
arguments and debates. Before I
close I have a few questions to ask
you the reader; should the blacks
sit back and hope for the best oi
should they stand up and fight foi
their land, honor, and dignity?
Send your views and letters tc
T. Goines in care of the Collegian
Titanic. It would be very foolish
to try to ignore what’s going in
Africa when America buys many
products for them and they buy
much from America. Should the
United States withdraw all their
sources from South Africa or con
tinue making speeches and hoping
for the best?
The University’s investments in
South Africa are expected to grow
as the University begins the
Capitol Campus multi-million
dollar fund raising drive. Earlier
in the year President Reagan
spoke of vetoing a bill dealing
with South Africa, but in the
future the President may change
his mind to avoid a veto override.
Also Hans refuted claims by some
American politicians stating that
blacks oppose Apartheid, many
blacks abolish Apartheid.
Before he closed his speech at
the University Park Campus,
Hans said these words, “People
have asked me to stay, I would be
doing an injustice to myself and
that community by staying.
Definitely my life is in jeopardy.”
Send you views and letters to T.
Goines in care of the Collegian.