6/FEATURES CAPITAL TIMES September 13, 1993 Don't just kvetch about it-do something!!! Michael Starkey Capital Times Staff The summer of '93 is burned in melanin tracks across the exposed sections of my body. I spent the days and nights scrambling together facts and figures for my masters production. For comic relief (when things get too hectic for my brain to organize) I always turn to the editorial pages of the local fishwrapper. I make it a point to disallow seventy percent of what I read in the commercial news because of my healthy dose of skepticisim, and I don't believe a damn thing I see on the telly 'cause I know deep in my heart of hearts there are legions of accountants hounding the "news" people to improve "the numbers." But let us backtrack to the hard copy folks from Harrisburg. Within a two week period the scions of the op-ed page of The Patriot bemoaned the fact that higher education hasn't a clue regarding the skills needed to survive in the real world and then NIGHT, from page 2 Pictures were developed by photo editor Michael Starkey and some of his photographers. Over the weekend, Saturday and Sunday specifically, the paper was laid-out and pasted together. First Person Perspective In one corner of the office, a table is folded up and used as a paste-up board for copy. That's where Amy DeCubellis, a senior Accounting major, is working on a graphic for page 3. Tilt; overall process may be linear, but the putting together of stories, columns, reviews, photographs and advertisements was not a linear process. Trev Stair is creating different graphics--an advertisement for Matrix, making the staff box, and other tasks. In another corner Mike Reteneller, Layout Director, is pasting copy on a page. As each one encounters difficulty or needs input, they call out i "Michele" to summon the editor. On a blackboard are written various tasks that must be performed, which are erased as they are completed. The blackboard also acts as a sort of scratch-pad for column names and headline ideas. The hour grows late, but the work still needs to be done. During a quick break, we go down to the basement to get snack food and drinks from the vending machines. On the way up, someone suggests writing a story, detailing how the issue was put together. As I perform this task, the terminal I am using suddenly turns off. for Pennsylvania Beauty Show Professional HAIR SHOW FREE - HAIRCUTS FREE - COLOUR FREE - PERMS FREE - Nexxus Products TO ALL MODELS Models need to be present tor Modal Call & available for at least one day of the three day evonl. they snivel about the lack of So there I was, reading and literacy iv adults in the U.S. Well, writing my little buns off, learning excuuse me! What is it you guys how the process of critical thought STARKEY'S SANCTUARY want anyway? If I read it right, the editorial presented on Tuesday, August 24 wonders aloud why no one is hearing the call for a three year college education. We know how easy it is to pay for school, buy books, pay your lab and "computer" fees, and then cover survival costs such as food/shelter/clothing, all this and more spread out over I guess a working knowledge of the language gleaned from the careful scrutiny of the classics and several hundred years of western thought as exposed in all the lit courses I waded through is of no use to the company I eventually will work for. Perhaps the philosophic basis of our culture I was led to discover by several patient profs is ought for naught, w admit to taking a few years off who really needs to know WHY we before finishing my bachelors do the things we do when HOW . will suffice? degree, but when I returned to FOUR years is still a chore. Do you really want the opportunity to scramble year-round for three years then jump out to face the vagaries of the current job marketplace? I school I lit the candle at both ends and then took a torch to the middle Statistics show us (those of us just for spite. who were lucky enough to have Another frustration, but one we people who have only committed to deal with. writing have come to help put the paper together. The equipment is antiquated, but useable. The students wish for The staff orders out for pizza, better equipment, but make do. pass disks back and forth on the computer table as they edit stories, None of them earn any money for their work here, but that does write headlines and create graphics for ther not stop them from giving it their issue. all. When the laser printer spits out copy, who's ever closeby hands it "That's what blows me away," to the people who need it. Michele Loeper says. 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WANTED MODEL CALL.''SdtUtOCSy; ''.''..:::',.'...'.H.'1'!'. : :'''.•...:.: October. 2nd:. someone guide us through the dark Whatsamatta, sales of your rag and arcane forest of statland) the take a sudden nose dive? Somebody largest group of non-English cut you off makin' an illegal left speakers in the U.S. are conversing turn 'cause they couldn't read the in a romance language based on one sign? Sheesh! Yes, we have a of those Ancient tongues, so I literacy problem!!! Why don't you guess we don't need to know what piss and moan and groan a little those folks are saying 'cause they louder when the WAM funds aren't in the majority and they don't dribble out? own all the newspapers Yeah, that's it...just get the skills local literacy project, or spend a few you need to do the job, (get in/sit hours a week helping someone who down/and shut up) never mind the wants to learn to read find their way ability to question or reason or around think independently. Spend learning the tools and forget the public library (and don't your get me started on funding for time libraries, Tom Jefferson and Alex about the big picture, we have ways Hamilton would freak if they knew of making you talk! Become a what we were doing to our mindless consumer, the network repositories of knowledge). Get folks know just what you need and someone in your research section to just how! digup studies that correlate nutrition with scholastic ability Two weeks later on September then lambaste those politcos who whining that half the adult 10, those same wise guys are would cut funding for school population of the U.S. is lunches (I had a vegetable on my f functionally illiterate. Big deal! fries last night; remember ketchup When did you fellows first discover and Ronnies newthink on dietary that your fellow citizens were the concerns for school kids?). largest collection of dummies on the planet? 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The times and locations listed below are pick-up and drop-off points: During finals week (12/ 13 - 16) the above times and stops will be added to the schedule Get some funds sent down to the Maybe you could explain the Fall Schedule of Events Schedule and Hours 6:00 p.m. 6:10 p.m. 6:20 p.m. 6:30 p.m 7:30 p.m 7:40 p.m 8:00 p.m 8:10 p.m 8:20 p.m 8:30 p.m 9:00 p.m 9:10 p.m. 9:20 p.m. 10:00 p.m 10:10 p.m 10:20 p.m 10:30 p.m 10:40 p.m 11:00 p.m 11:10 p.m 11:20 p.m Time 12:00 a.m 12:10 am 12:20 a.m generational gift of illiteracy, you know those folks who can't read so they can't help their kids with school work? Stir up the populance so they heave their televisions into appropriate recycling bins and go on a binge of reading and travel to discover more about the country they live in. Make it chic to be smart and not just in possesion of lots of loot. Sure, the business community complains they can't find literate workers, but if the experiences my friends who just graduated are any indication of the value placed on expensive and thorough education I have to remind you of the used cars sales associates' (please note PC title) credo-" Money talks and bullsh*t walks." I'm a student so I have no answers, just an ever increasing list of questions that I will wrestle with in my own time. The rest of you will have to fend for yourselves but heed these words of wisdom taken from the long gone comic strip P0g0... 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