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Phone us at: (717) 948-6440, or e mail: captimes@psu.edu Deadnefbrthe next issue is: Monday, Nov. 11 Open Position Peter Strella Connie Goodell Sharilyn Klinger Staff Stacy De Angelo Sarah Elkalban Rachel Sheperd Open Position Comments from the EdiTQR “I make my living off the Evening News /Just give me something-some thing I can use/ People love it when you lose, /They love dirty laundry”. Oh yeah. Did I air some dirty laundry last issue or what? And you know what, I’m not sorry for that. I caught a lot of flack for that, but I did achieve what I set out to do: get your attention Hopefully I still have it. There has been a lot of discussion on what should be done in the paper and we came up with a few ideas. Feel free to tell us what you think. Here we go. I was told the newspaper was too “high school” and to think like a 30 or 40 - year - old nontraditional student. That’s kind of hard for me being that I am a baby, a barely 21-year old senior. Trying to think on such a higher plane of maturity is like asking a man to think like a woman: it’s quite difficult. Along with that suggestion came that of getting rid of the police report and limiting it to just a few blurbs about some of the more main events that were reported in the police report. I said no. I think most of you will agree with me when I say that the police report is the most entertaining part of the paper (besides Pete’s sports column). So, that’s staying. However, I am willing to compromise and elaborate on one or two that deserve more than a sentence. For example, on October 31, the smoke alarm went off in an apartment on the second floor of the 8000 building in The Village (and it wasn’t mine). This alarm then triggered the alarms in the rest of the building, causing students to evacuate. So some grilling got out of hand on the balcony and some smoke managed to get into the apartment. Ok, I’ll admit I opened the door (I swear I had a good reason), but Christian, pal, you deserve all the credit. And by the way, the shrimp was damn good! Too bad that will be the end of Monday night football cookouts in The Village, but it was worth it. This was one of the more humors ones that I can elaborate on; however, there are some more serious ones such as the accidents that have been happening at the main entrance to campus. Some trucks from the local trucking company did not make their turns wide enough and side swiped cars stopped at the light cause these accidents. I know that that has happened to members of my staff and nearly happened to me. something needs to be done to prevent more of these kinds of accidents, we pay good money to come here and we should not have to worry about getting our cars wrecked coming in and out of campus entrance. This is some food for thought for the next issue along with a few other ideas such as: an advice column, video reviews (because lets face it, we can’t always afford going to the movies), covering more issues outside campus and relating them to the PSH community, horoscopes, relating the speak out ques tion to one of the topics covered in that issue. The next topic up for discussion is the letter to the editor that I received from Terry Wolf. I would like to thank Mr. Wolf for taking the time to put some thought into the letter he sent me. I probably should have put more thought into last issue’s editor’s comments. Unfortunately time and words are two things you can’t take back, so what’s done is done and what’s said is said. I was glad to receive all the feedback in the last two weeks, most of which was verbal so I cannot print it (though I wish I could). by sTAcy De Here is the most recent information on what the SGA is up to. This info was taken from the SGA’s October 29, meeting The SGA had some guest speakers during the meet and were pleased to welcome Dean. Hanes and Dr. Mahar. The SGA’s report on President Parul Luthra’s report was uneventful, stating, “Parul Luthra only had a few general comments to make regarding SGA in general. There were no pressing issues to report on.” I guess those general comments on the SGA in general were too general to elaborate on. The vice presidents report was a bit more specific, discussing the Magical Night of Giving, the OAB meeting. The next OAB meeting will be held on November 21, and $lOO was allocated by the SGA for pizza. Dr. Widolf, the SGA advisor, informed the senate of several up coming events that she feels the SGA should participate in. These events include a food drive to benefit local people and a poinsettia sale fundraiser to raise funds for the SGA. I think we can skip the old business and get on to the new business since the old business is way too old now. New business is as follows. The SGA will be having a “get to know you” dinner at the Firehouse restaurant on 2nd street in Harrisburg on November 14 at 8 p.m. Sarah Elkalban, Senior Senator of Humanities, has decided (along with her department) not to have an open forum for this semester. Her department will be distributing a survey instead. And that is all for thi| issue’s SGA report. By Stacy De Anqelo
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