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Government
Next Wednesday and Thursday, the students of
Behrend will elect the leaders of Student Government
for next year.
There's not too many choices, though. Only two
of the nineteen available positions are being contested
by more than one candidate.
Of course there are five people running for
commuter senator positions, and five more running
for resident senator positions; but nobody there will
lose. There are five positions available for each
commuter senators and resident senators.
There is only one person running for the position
of president of Student Programming Council. This
organization wields a budget of over ten thousand
dollars and yet only one person on this entire campus
is interested in holding that kind of responsibility.
If students are not interested in running for
elected positions in S.G.A., they should never
complain about having nothing to do on campus on
weekends, paying parking tickets, taking diversity
courses, not receiving enough money for their own
club or organization, or disciplinary actions.
S.G.A. is partially or fully responsible for all of
those named areas.
Student Government is just that, a government of
the students. But it takes students to make it work.
It easy for students to gripe about what needs to
happen on this campus, but it is obviously too
difficult for most students to do anything about it.
The least that can be done is to cast your vote.
Talk to the candidates about their views on S.G.A.
or read about them on page 7 of this issue.
Then make a difference and cast a vote for the best
candidate, the person who you believe will be able to
make things happen in Student Government.
Student Government elections will be held next
Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
outside the mail room on the first floor of the Reed.
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The Collegian
Opinion Editorial
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Mad grad
For the last three years,
graduating seniors have been
allowed to stay in their on
campus apartments until
graduation day.
This year, however, that is
not to be the case, as most
seniors were informed last week
(a whole month before the joyous
event!) by an extremely hostile
letter from James Bowen,
Manager of Food and Housing.
I was deeply offended by both
the content and the tone of this
letter. Had I known last semester
that we would no be allowed to
stay, I would have found
somewhere else to live. Now,
one month before graduation. I
am faced with either being "dealt
with as a trespasser" if I stay in
my apartment as Mr. Bowen
promised in his letter, or not
going to my college graduation.
And all this, according to the
letter, because Mr. Bowen feels
that vandalism is likely to occur
during that week.
I chose to stay at Behrend
because I believed that at a small
school, concern for a student's
problems would be common to
administrators, and that a student
would be treated more as a person
than as a faceless impediment to
work. Unfortunately, it seems
that I was wrong.
Housing, at least, regards us
as vandals.
Jennifer Shelley
Eighth semester
Chemistry
Anti-U.S.A?
I am writing this letter
because I heard some
disturbing news. No, not about
parking or tuition hikes, but
about me being anti-American
(I was told by a friend who
overheard it).
I suppose I must be anti-
American because I did not
think our elected officials
(Democrats and Republicans)
did all they could to prevent a
Gulf War.
Clearly oil was not the only
issue -- Hussein is for all
intensive purposes "not all
there." What he did was by no
means legitimate. Invading
another country is strictly
uncool, for anyone to do (even
us).
In my opinion our officials
did a lot wrong. That is the
point, my opinion. As ICE T
says "Your onion is yours, my
opinion is mine, if you don't
like what I'm saying fine but
don't close it, always keep an
open mind, a man who fails to
listen is blind."
If you want to wave
something for the "Good Old
U.S.", wave the Constitution
or the Bill of Rights. My
opinion could be wrong, but
that is the beauty of America,
if I am wrong I get a second
chance. Maybe freedom is not
free, but freedom of what?
Freedom to do and say what we
feel is right.
Saddam would simply kill
anyone who questioned what he
was doing (he did and is). We
as Americans must question our
government, whether it is
foreign policy or beer tax. The
day we say "they (elected
officials) know best," is the
day this country will crumble!
We have a duty, given to us
as U. S. citizens, by the
founders of this country to
make sure our government is
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using the correct policies. We
must do more than vote (only
about 50% of us do anyway),
we have to make sure our
officials do what they say they
said they would.
Everyone should have an
opinion of the War, right or
wrong, it does not matter.
Backup your opinion and you
are an American, if you can
not maybe you should move!
I certainly support the
troops, how could I not, I am a
SEABEE in the Naval
Reserves. The men and women
in the service are the best.
They are smart, competent,
courageous and the list never
ends. They did their job, and
damn well!
I do not know who said I
was anti-American, they
probably heard it from
someone else anyway, but
hopefully you can see I am not
anti-American. I just have a
different view, one I can
backup, that makes me as
American as I can get.
Always speak your mind, do
not be scared to go against the
crowd...if you believe in your
cause! Respect every one's
ideas even if they are not your
own.
Remember: Silence = Death
P.E.A.C.E. = Positive
Education Always Corrects
Error (Professor Grill)
Third semester
MIS/Political Science
Jake Sherosky