EDITORIAL
Shoot The essittds
Our duly authorized police officers should be permitted
to carry guns. Our student patrol should be permitted to
carry guns. Professors should, no doubt, be permitted to
carry guns. The ladles In Vendorville should have guns.
Para-professionals must be kept in check.
These criminals are everywhere. The paraprofessional
of today permeates our society just as air or water pollution
seeps into our skies and rivers. They should be shot on
sight with no questions asked. And, here, at our own
Capitol Campus if our security force does not have guns it
would be difficult for them to kill anybody.
There are too many people in this crazy world of ours'
anyway. To eliminate undesirables is a service to
humanity. And let's face it pare-professionals are not
desirable.
Para-professionals are easily recognizable. They all
have beady eyes. They also have a sort of intelligent look
about them, and are, indeed, intelligent. For they know
resident students are steeped to their ears with the
accumulation of worldly goods. They weigh the risk
involved coming to the conclusion that breaking into a
house is worth it. What sound logic.
With the re-instatement of capital punishment we can at
least sleep somewhat easier knowing, beyond any
reasonable doubt, that some crazed madman has been
deterred from committing a crime. Imagine how restful
your sleep would be knowing our campus police have guns
to protect you. You'd have that secure feeling similar to
money in the bank or a refrigerator full of groceries.
But /et's not go half-way. If there were to be another
war, a world war, we certainly would not stop short at
anything but victory. Victory as attained by any and all
means available. We are in the same situation. We are at
war with the pare-professional. We must win. Therefore we
should not stop short when applying techniques to insure
ourselves.
Let us institute our own form of punishment. It can be
called Capitol Punishment. Here's how it would work.
instead of shooting the pare-professional when he is first
seen, you capture him, bind him, and then bring him before
the firing squad. But here's the twist. Let us, the
newspaper, have our photograper there. Let him take a
picture of the bullets entering the pare-professional's head.
Let' the picture appear on the front page. The shock value
would be phenomenal. Para-professionals would make a
B-line and high-tail it out of our area.
The rate of crime of campus has become incredibly
high. Our student government has compiled facts and
figures that are unquestionable. We need the type of
thinking that results in action. If you have not already been
asked to respond to the guns on campus question, then
you can evince sound thinking similar to that of Hermann
Wilhelm Goering, the Nazi political leader, chief of the
German Air Force in WW II and the Commander of the
'Storm Troopers, who once said, "whenever I hear anyone
speak of culture, I reach for my revolver." Let's nip this In
the bud before these undesirables get a chance to further
their dastardly deeds.
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An Inveshnent In Swamp Land
By Tim Adams
One of the strange phenom
ena of going to college is that
you pay to have somebody tell
you what to do.
The bad part about this
arrangement is not only do you
pay to get belittled, but the
professor can hold grades over
your head in order to make you
perform.
What happens if you get a
defective professor, one who
bores you, tells the same
stories he's been telling for his
entire tenure, and his only
preparation for class is up
dating his sad collection of
notes?
If you bought faulty
merchandise at a store and
couldn't return it or the store
didn't live up to the guarantee,
you could call the Better
Business Bureau.
Unfortunately, if this hap
pens to you in college, you're
stuck for ten weeks and there is
no guarantee that the professor
will live up to the warranty. In
other words, his material may
not last for ten weeks.
I was explaining this
dilemma to my friend P.T.
Appleby the other day and he
told me he is currently working
in a program called Better,
Education for Indentured Stu
dents.
iefkts:
I'm writing this letter in
response to the current issue
concerning the arming of the
Capitol Campus Security
Police.
First off, I am one of those
"thoughtless" students who
voted in favor of arming the
security police in the petition
circulated by the SGA. It is
apparent to me, as I am one of
the people who helped to take
the poll, that the residents of
this campus want the security
police to be armed in order that
they may be protected from
violent crimes. Also they
expect the security officers to
conduct themselves as official
professional police, which hap
pens to be the wish of every
citizen subject to police
protection. Now I ask, how in
the hell can the security police
perform these duties if we don't
give them one of their most
important rights, the unalien
able right to protect them
selves? If they can't protect
Letters:
To the Editor,
I feel that my letter
appearing in the February 24th
issue of the C.C. Reader did not
state all of the points which I
would have hied to make;
therefore, I feel that this letter
is necessary.
I feel that many people have
missed an important point in
their arguments against arming
the Campus Police. They seem
to think that the Police do not
He told me this program is a
sort of insurance racket that
will see that students get what
they pay for.
"How does the program
work?" I asked.
"It's. simple," Appleby re
plied, "we have a questionnaire
we send around to all
professors. We also send
a similar questionnaire to
students. We then compile all
the data to see if it jibes."
"How has it worked out so
far?" I queried.
"Just as you might expect,"
he said, "the students respond
ents were less impressed with
the talents of their professors,
than their professors were."
"We have a section at the
bottom of the page that allows
students to give further
explanations of their answers,"
Appleby continued.
"For example, a question
reads, "Does your professor
give stimulating lectures?
Always, sometimes or never?'
"How do you decipher the
information," I said.
"We have found that many
prpfessors check the Always
box to this question. while the
students in that class check the
Never reply," Appleby ex
plained. "That's why we need
further explanation. because
one of these answers is
Thq Don't lie, Note
themselves, how do they
protect us? I don't know!
The accusations implying
'that the security police are
motly and ill trained are quite
false. The campus security
police are well trained in police
duties and responsibilities, as a
matter of fact they have
attended the same training
schools as other professional
Pennsylvania police. If the
security police were egotistical,
malevolent 'maniacs, they
wouldn't be here in the first
place. They are well trained,
confident law enforcement
officers, who put up with a lot
of shit that Township or
Commonwealth Police would
not.
As for asking the com
mutors, staff, and faculty their
opinions on this matter- THEY
DON'T LIVE HERE. The
students who reside on campus
are the ones in need of the kind
of protection that warrants the
security of a side-arm. The
Didn't Side M The Points
need guns because all they do is
hand out parking tickets. They
have forgotten that the Police
have the responsibility of
protecting us from violent
crimes. Just because they have
never exercised this responsi
bility doesn't mean that the
responsibility has been re
moved. Furthermore, who is to
say there will never be 's violent
crime committed Oh this
campus? The reasoning of these
critics is like that of putting a
incorrect"
"One professor explained
that he thought he was
stimulating because his voice
was well modulated, his
material was well researched,
and quite frankly he knew what
he was talking about."
"However, the students in
that class were so vehement in
their refutation of this claim as
to make us wonder if we had
the right class. They said he
was monotoned, indifferent to
the material, and when asked a
question rarely gave a coherent
answer."
"What does this data mean
to the college students and to
higher education in general?" I
asked.
"Well," Appleby retorted,
"first that professors are
sometimes liars (or at least
more enchanted with them
selves than the students) and
secondly if this is the case, no
wonder we are suffering from a
bad case of post 60's lethargy."
"What recommendations do
you have for students?" I
asked.
"Get a job," Appleby
replied. "At least you'll be
getting a check for the
aggravation; but if you insist on
going to school, buy one of our
insurance policies."
people who visit the campus
eight hours a day are the ones
who warrant the "volumes of
traffic citations."
As a personal example, two
weeks or so ago on a Sunday
night I was sitting in my.living
room enjoying a brew when a
car pulled into my driveway
sideways and sounded the horn
repeatedly. The person driving
the car turned out to be a
mental patient who was
delirious. The incident proved
harmless to the people and
property involved, but it shows
that we are subject to more
than just students invading our
own little universe on campus.
Think about it; what a place
to hole up in if someone is
looking for you. There are a hell
of a lot of crazies out there.
Wm. C. Long
SGA Senator
John W. Earnest Jr.
EDET
traffic light at a dangerous
intersection after someone has
already been killed. Let's look
at this realistically: violent
crimes do exist. There is no
getting around this fact.
The danger is nitt ift police
having guns, but rather in guns
lying around the house. Officers
trained to use guns to protect
the public are less likely to
create a problem than an
untrained public forced to
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