PARKING: 150' PER DAY IS TOO ITICTI Each term, Shortly after registration. the Business Office issues a statement to the effect that all cars parked in the Behrend Campus parking lots must have stick ers or them. The cost of these "stickers" is $750 per term. If nearly 450 day students 'olly these and other forms of parking permitr. for three termsthe total revenue from park ing lots is in the neighborhood of *lO,OOO. (The exact figures and tabulations were not Made known.) The Nittany Cub does not know That this money is used for, although a logical conclusion would be maintenance. Ten-thousand dollars is certainly a hirrh price to pay for maintenance for t , .ro black top lots s , - , c 3 a r:ll'dcly rTnvel lot. It 4 6 , 1 e s -, 77,e5t - T_on of the staff-' . ' of the NittL , ny CI°D ttiist the term parkin): fee of $7. -, 'o be 10-'ered to $5.00, and that all other rates be lowered accordingly. The students end faculty should then feel obligated to fully comply rather then defy Campus parking rules and regulations. If sl , pport is given to this suggestion by the administration, faculty, and students the parking and heavy traffic on the Behrend Campus will flow cheaper and more according to la—. The Nittany Cub editors welcome letters on vital topics from all readers. These letters may be turned in to the editors or other members of the staff. The author of the letter must sign his name, 'but if he requests not to have his name printed we will comply. We reserve the right to print only those letters which we deem appropriate and to print only excerpts of others. LaVlM.jKfagijWliffil To the D'itor: As a member of the Student Government Association, I have found no justice in your criticism of it. You have stated that you accept all letters to the editor. You should have stated they must agree with you. This is my third such letter disputing your editorials on the SGA. lam tired of -riting snd not satisfied with their recertion. As the only circulated mear; ^f communi cation on the campus, you have succeeded in an attack, but you have rot informed the student body of any facts other than those you critcize. I will no longer refer to your previots articles, since you will not accept criticism. I will instead direct my pleas to the student body. You, the student body, have the right to be better informed on the situation in question, end I am hoping that you will demand this from the Nittany Cub, Any reply that is received will prove the student body is not as apthetic as the Cub has said them to be. POLICY To the Editor: I have been reading the Nittany Cub faith fully from cover to cover for the last five weeks. I particularly liked the article where you stated this years Cub wanted to print the student's veiws on issues brought up in the newspaper. That is why I cannot understand why the few letters to the editor have all been in favor of the paper's stand on these controver sial subjects. I know it is not that everyone agrees with everything prirted in the Cub. I also understand that you have "editors privelee" which means that you can revise any letters. Is this so and if so in what ways can you change them? To the Editor: what in blue blazes gives some people the supreme gall to criticize a newspaper that's doing exactly what it is supposed to...inform the students on what's going on around here? I'll tell you, it takes a lotbf nerve to write a letter like the one's published in this issue. It is a right... an undeniable right, at that, for a person to voice his opinion. We don't belittle this. Nobody can challenge this . right. It's basic to our society. But it becomes a downright abuse of a right when someone attempts to slander the operation of a newspaper that is probably the greatest motivating force in keeping a tight rein on campus politics. The letters submitted, as you can well see, are nothing more than a bunch of malarkey expounding the virtues of the SGA without so much as offering a hint of solution to the problems the paper presents. These letters are meant as nothing more than a jibe-a smear. They attempt to accom plish zero and do just that. Constructive criticism with answrs, or counter-solutions is the acceptable method of accomplishing what you want. You can't, get something published that is just a confeder ation of jibberish. I'm sure you'd get the same affect if you tried to have a discertation of the beauty of cumulus clouds published in any other newspaper. It's all along the same lines. The paper is doing exactly what it is sup posed to do. If SGA members do not like what the paper is saying about their organization, then let's see them do something about it, in deed not word. That's the paper's goal. They'll contin ually be subjected to attack from the people whose toes they step on, whether SGA or not. An appropriate statment to tack on the door of the publications room would be one uttered by Abe Lincoln a long time ago. It went something like this: "You can please all of the people some of the time and you'can please some of the people all, of the time, but you can't pleabe all the people Oa of the time. Patricia Franz An Interested Student
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