"complexity of dating" would have
instead been more appropriately
concluded nonsense.
Joe and friends
Penn State
Proud
Dear editor:
I am writing to express my concern
over the January 24, 1990 edition of the
Capital Times. Although many of the
articles within the publication were
interesting, as a Penn State student I
was appalled and embarrassed by the
numerous typographical and grammatical
errors in this edition. I feel the
publication should have been edited and
proofread much more closely.
This suggestion to improve the
editing of the Capital Times is made
because it negatively reflects on our
basic education--the very fundamentals of
English, spelling, punctuation, and
writing as a whole--which we are
building on here at Penn State. I am a
proud "Penn Stater" and feel we should
all take more pride in our student
publications and education. I hope future
editions are edited with more scrutiny.
Sincerely,
Michele Shannon
Dear Michele Shannon and other
concerned "Penn Staters,"
The Capital Times staff appreciates
hearing your opinion, and have already
taken action. Since the January 24
edition of the paper I became the copy
editor, so I hope to correct the
Students Speak out:
Carol R. Graf'
Major: Communications
Age: 25
1. Sexual assault upon one person
by another whether they are on their first
or hundredth date.
2. Yes. The extent of the attack must
naturally be considered when trying to
decide on the sentence. However, an
typographical and grammatical errors in
future issues. At the time the January
edition went to press, the Capital Times
did not have a copy-editor or even
enough staff to write articles, help with
lay-out, etc. On Tuesday, March 20 we
will have a meeting in room W-315 at
12:15 for anyone interested in joining.
the staff. We are also proud Penn State
students and plan to make the Capital
Times the best it can be!
Sincerely,
Victoria Cuscino, Copy-Editor
Unfair Huta
Rates
Women can't count on Casey for
Lower Auto Premiums
Car owners shouldn't count on
Governor Casey's new auto insurance
law to deliver lower premiums this year.
Look at what happened last year when
the Casey administration "eliminated"
sex discrimination. Starting March 1,
1989 young women were hit with big
premium increases that make them pay
double what young men pay per mile for
insuring their cars.
Women with "adult" class cars are
overcharged the same way because
insurance premiums aren't tied to miles
actually driven and, at every age women
average half men's annual mileage and
exposure to risk of accidents. Whether
it's fraudulent "unisex" for young drivers
or "adult" for the rest, pricing that
overcharges most women is sex
Students were asked the following questions concerning date rape: 1. How
would you define date rape? 2. Should an automatic jail sentence come with a
date rape conviction?
Oai Lam
Major: EET
1. A rape is a rape, whether it
happens on a date or not.
2. Yes, it may not help the victim,
but it will prevent at least one more
victim.
discrimination
Governor Casey could have done an
honest job of ending sex discrimination
by having premiums tied to each car's
on-the-road exposure. How? By ordering
insurers to convert each class rate-defined
by territory, car type, etc.--from dollars
per year (say $9OO per year) to cents-per
mile (say, 9 cents per mile), as used for
some commercial vehicles. The
odometer is the car's exposure meter.
Besides providing genuine unisex
rates that don't overcharge women,
metered insurance coverage:
-Allows consumers to control their
insurance expenditures to the same
extent they can control expenditures for
gasoline.
-Provides for the first time a valid
statistical base line for meaningful cost
comparisons among territories and other
risk classification.
-Ties premiums to driving and
prevents insurer windfalls when driving
decreases for any reason.
-Provides direct economic incentive
to drive less and use public transit or van
pools more. Air quality and energy
conservation would benefit.
The fatal flaw in Governor Casey's
new law is that promising everybody a
discount does nothing to end cost
shifting. Owners of cars driven fewer
miles than average for their class should
not have to subsidize the cost of
insuring cars driven more than the class
average.
Our representatives in Harrisburg can
guarantee everyone premiums based on
individual cost by adding one sentence to
the Rate Regulatory Act: "For driving
What Do you think.
Karen Surace
Major: Accounting
Age: 20
1. Anything after the word "no"!
2. Yes! Rights should be taken away 2. No, each case should be judged
from them as they were taken from the individually.
victim.
March 21, 1990, CAPITAL TIMES
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coverages of private passenger
automobiles, the exposure unit shall be ,
the mile as recorded on the odometer of
the insured car." Like gasoline or
electricity, auto insurance is too
expensive not to meter.
Chris Niebrzydowski, President--
National Organization for Women
Poor Taste
Dear Editor,
A sketch portrayed to look like me
was inserted in the January 24, 1990
edition of the Capital Times.
The sketch had the following caption:
"I get all my news from the Capital
Times, shouldn't you?" This caption is
untrue as I read Other newspapers besides
The Capital Times. On page 11 the
same sketch is smaller and the following
caption says: "Cap. Times Sports run
with them!" This caption is also untrue
because I do not follow the activities of
the sports teams at Penn State Harisburg
on my own choosing.
Last semester Jenny Cahill misquoted
what I said to her in The Capital Times.
She wrote that I didn't care about the
Holocaust. Again this is untrue. I am
distressed about the Holocaust! I wrote a
lettter to the past editor stating the error
but it was never published.
I did not appreciate the sketch. Nor
did I appreciate the misquote.
Sincerely,
Scott Alper
J. Panetti
Major: EET
Age: 28
1. Forced sexual intercourse by
someone you thought was your friend