CAPITAL TIMES, October 25, 1989
From the editor's desk...
As the Capital Times promised, we gave SGA ample space to respond
to articles and the editorial in the October 4 issue. And respond they did!
What we did not expect, however, was that SGA would use inaccuracies
and misrepresentations to prove so-called inaccuracies in the Capital
Times. By the way, SGA President Toni Mandronico agreed that SGA's
letter contains misrepresentations. To her credit, she tried to get members
of the Finance Committee, SGA, or whoever to revise the letter before
publishing it. Unfortunately, Toni's words fell on deaf ears. So, instead
of letting SGA have its say and putting this matter to rest, we have no
choice but to refute some of the items in their letter to the editor: (At this
point, you may want to read SGA's letter.
1) SGA claims that only four clubs have questioned allocations. All
clubs who have questioned allocations, should question them again
because someone isn't counting.
2) SGA's advisor, Janet Widoff, said at an SGA open forum that this
year's Finance Committee has chosen to handle allocations differently
than last year.
3) If there is no reason to believe that SGA will not receive the same
amount of money as last year, as Janet Widoff also said at the open
forum, then what's the big deal about not being able to prepare a budget.
4) The Capital Times and other clubs do face an uncertain future
because we have no budget with which to plan.
5) Whatever the justification was for not meeting individually with
reporters, the fact remains, the Finance committee members refused to
meet individually with reporters.
6) Dr. Mahar's quote is not an inaccuracy. He said it. We quoted
him. And we stand by the quote as accurate.
7) We would venture to guess that members of the Finance Committee
drew up this letter and SGA rubber stamped. Then again, that's only our
opinion.
8) This one is the biggest farce to date. And it is just what all the fuss
is about. The definition of a budget seems to be eluding our student
leaders. Their latest claim seems to be that a stack of financial records
amounts to a budget. Would someone in the School of Business please
define a budget for these people.
Second behind the budget ballyhoo is SGA's claime that they are
responding to the editor's request to place a deadline on first-time budget
allocations. Anyone who was at the meeting when this issue came up, if
they are honest, will verify that the discussion centered around new clubs
only. I did not request such a deadline.
I hope that in the future, if SGA wants to point out inaccuracies, then
they confine themselves to inaccuracies.
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OPINIONS
Nathan Lee Gadsden
Editor in chief
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Letters to the editor...
Mad engineer
explanation sounds like a good story to
me
Dear Editor,
There it is again. That disheartening
feeling that my Penn State Harrisburg
tuition and engineering surcharge dollars
are being used as kindling in the
Olmsted Building's furnace. It certainly
does not seem that monies from the
engineering students, which most likely
comprise most of Penn State
Harrisburg's funding, are being used to
better the EET program.
Sure, new state-of-the-art equipment
is expensive, but most equipment
currently in use here had to have been
manufactured near the evolution of solid
state circuitry (in layman's terms -- no
tubes), and the local Radio Shack or
hobby store is much better stocked foi
parts than the EET equipment room. It's
true that equipment updates take time,
but where has all the money from past
years gone? I ask you, how could a
small community college (from which I
graduated) that has no surcharge, and
tuition nearly one-third that of PSH,
have better second hand equipment on
reserve than what we have here as our
main store? As future engineers, we
will be entering a very high-tech world;
how prepared can we be if the first time
we encounter new technology is our first
day at work?
Another concern of mine deals with
the equipment differences between the
EET and MET laboratories. Bothe
courses of study appear to have nearly
the same number of students enrolled,
yet the MET computer lab has twice the
number of computers as the EET lab.
Am I missing something? An
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Dear Editor,
Anyone taking the time to see "The
Last Temptation of Christ," so as 'to
form their own opinion, really has no
need of commentary on it. However,
since so many people seem to be
influenced by other's opinions, I felt I
needed to refute some of David Blymire's
comments in the last Capital Times
about that "great work of Agnostic
confusion."
First, I am not sure who was thought
to be confused. The author clearly stated
in writing, on screen, that the movie
was not an accurate representation of the
Gospels, but rather an artistic attempt to
show what might have happened and
what went on in Christ's mind. Blymire
says that "As a Humanities student, I'm
willing to allow that perhaps the movie
can't be taken at face value. . . [as] a
historically accurate telling of the gospet
story." That's very big of , him since it
was never intended to be one.
Surely, there could not be confusion
on the part of a conservative Christian
viewer. Fundamentalists have long
known about the infallibility and literal
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