Collegian February 6, 1986 Reader op i nion : ..4 . 040.0.1ii . - 04 watcwi. ... y .. o.throoti'sori:Erie-dittai* Dear P,aula • WBCR las had signs posted around catmints stating Amy are oir the air.and that they are "not just another Dreary Erie" radio statiou These signs were printed aand Posted arotta4 campus- lan a 'bright sunny • day; 'tt was not at all -theatT. • • Residents of Erie who ran..the city's radii" stations have a profes sionai connuitineut to:•their car; especially since they are.in . a posh. don to influence others. AS city 4 only as proud as the people who live in it. Otie station in particular, has added a toach of elass to the city. -,:wac..,-g,,:..0 . 0 - :00*.....i0*40.: Dear P=la, Let' me begin by sayingthat the 'ergi `Toreary. Erie" was not meant as a slight against this community. The term was used as'part of a piiblicity campaign in alerting the students that WBC.R. s bad on the air and that we offer a diversified program fonnat designed to appeal to a variety of musical tastes, Since WJ3CR is a service orgarOntion geared to the students, we are open to student input. We are glad to see that students are willing to 'voice their concerns. Opinions waiter a great deal to service organiza tions. We want to accomodate as many people as possible and welcome your'comments and suggestions- WBCR is lobatedixt the Reed Student UXIIOII Building and our extension is 6318. . • • Sincirdy, Jeffrei , Catairamo Generai Manager-WBCR Editorial Policy The Behrend Collegian's editorial opinion is determined by the Editor, with the Editor holding final responsibility. Opi nions expressed on the editorial pages are not necessarily those of The Behrend Collegian, The Behrend College, or The Pennsylvania State University. 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Postal Information: The Behurend Collegian (8984221) is published fourteen times annually (seven times during each academic semester at The Behrend College) by the students of The Behrend College; The Reed Union Building, Station Road, Erie, PA 16563. If the students of W Bat. wish to conduct their• club with an air of professionalism, they fmust be .sertsitive to pahlic opinion. Those .stuilextts , who are not residents *need to be aware that the club's activities may influence the thoughts of , others, And so they are tesponslble for the .way, they represent the people. around than. By: following the . professional example of Other radio stations in the area, W33Cit will properly represent the city in which it Frankly, Ariz teff J. Vta 6th Semester, MIS DONALD KAUL It's all Mondale's fault Clanking its chains like a ghost from Christmas Past, Gramm-Rudman, the balanced-budget law, has 'invaded the dreams of Congress and the-Presi dent and confronted them with their sins. "You have spent and spent and borrowed and bor rowed and now you must pay," it says. "Balance the budget." "But if we do that, poor people will go hungry, the miseries of farmers will multiply and colleges will be barren of our youth," Congress says. "Balance the budget," says Gramm-Rudman. "We shall be forced to cut military spending and leave ourselves naked to the hostile whims of godless communism," says our President. - "That's not my concern," says Gramm-Rudman. "Balance the budget." "Goodness gracious me," say Congress and the President in unison, "we might even have to do the worst thing of all raise taxes. In an election year." "If you do not balance the budget," says Gramm- Rudman, "I'll do it for you." It's a tough law, that Gramm-Rudman. It doesn't take excuses for an answer. Congress and Mr. Reagan have just started grappling with it, but already it looks as though they're overmatched. After all of that speech-making about how terrible deficits are and how much they're in favor of balanc ing the federal deficit, our political leaders are fin ding that they're simply not up to the task. The cuts needed to meet the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction target for 1986 are within reach, a mere $ll billion or so. In the fall, however, they're going to have to find a way to cut some $6O billion out of a budget that's already been on a crash diet. That's when the automatic machinery of Graham- Rudman might come into play, crashing and smashing the Great Society and military-industrial complex alike. How did we get into this mess, anyhow? I blame Walter Mondale. Most presidential candidates are content to pro mise more jobs, higher - wages, biker profits, more rain on weekdays, less on weekends, and an end to waste, fraud and abuse. Not Walter. He had to - go and promise to raise taxes and say that President Reagan was planning to also, but that he was keeping it a secret until after the election. Well, of course, President Reagan had to deny that. He said that he not only wasn't planning on raising taxes, he wasn't going to do it, not even if the Penn State-Behrend Collegian Feature Editor Jack Homer Business Manager Barb Cavano Sports Editor Rob Roth Photo Coordinators Jim Cooper Ad Managers. Dan KingSue-Rattenbury • Barb Golden Advisor Robert DiNicola Andy Seneta Paul Kitchen Mailing Address - Itiehrend Caßsofaa, Station Road, Ede, PA 16563 Office located in Reed Union Bolding Office Office Hours -9 am. - 5 p.m.; Monday through Friday Phone: 898-6221 - Opinions expressed by the editors and staff of the PanieStete-Beitrand Collegian are not necessarily those of the University Administration, • faculty, or the student body.. - Member of The Press_Association Editor Paula Maus Barrett Parker Greg Rathbun opinion 6 they held hot pokers to George Bush's feet. He said it so vigorously and so often that even he came to believe it, always a dangerous position for a politi cian. Now with the only way out of this budget mess being the raising of taxes an oil tax perhaps, or a tick of the income tax he's stuck with that promise. Nor did Mondale stop there. He also forced the President into promising never to lower Social Security benefits. Or even think about it. Never. Now, the - President can't even propose a sensible thing like taxing benefits so that well-to-do old peo ple can pay their share of taxes. He's concerned. Mondale isn't totally at fault, of course. Drive-in banking windows had a lot to do with it. I remember when drive-in banking windows came to Detroit, back in the late `4os. I never trusted them from the beginning. What if you drove up to a drive in bank, handed in your money through the window and the person on the other side simply took it and went away? You would have to park your car; go in to the bank and try to convince people that you'd thrown some money- through their window and would like a receipt. I can just see the bank manager. "Are you sure it was our window you threw the - money through?" he'd ask. "Do you remember anyone asking you if you wanted pickles and onions?" You'd have no recourse. Yet drive-in banking caught on. All over the country you had otherwise sane people driving up to banks and throwing their money through a _window in the innocent belief that it would all come out ali right. Right then, I knew we were in trouble. People were losing their concept of what money is, which is not something you throw through windows. That suspi cion deepened when banks and savings and loans started giving toasters and television sets to people who opened savings accounts with them. It got so it was hard to tell whether you were walking into a bank or a bingo parlor. A country whose citizens have to be bribed to save money is a country riding for a fall. Well, the fall is here. You've heard of the Lost Generation, the Beat "Generation and the Me Genera tion? We're the Credit Card Generation, living on past glories and future income. Or at least we were until Gramm-Rudman came along. Now the bills are coming due and we don't have the money to pay them. , Darn Mondale. Patrick Schlipf Matthew J. 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