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As if Behrend doesn't already have enough problems
with its current parking situation, another one has arisen.
Last week new reserved parking signs appeared in the
large parking lot between the student apartments and
Lawrence Hall on campus. However these signs don't
reserve spaces for school staff or faculty, they reserve
spaces for certain students.
Below the word "RESERVED," the sign reads,
"AUTHORIZED FIRE DEPT PERSONNEL."
These spaces have been reserved for Behrend students
who serve as volunteers at the Brookside Fire
Department.
This is unfair. An organization outside the school has
gained preferred status for its members who are students
here at Beluend.
These students have not paid any more money for their
parking permits than other students, but they now have a
reserved parking space waiting for them in the lot.
There are other students who work as volunteers in
other capacities off campus. Should we give all of these
volunteers reserved parking spaces? Of course not. These
students should not receive this preferred treatment,
either.
They should have to be forced to take their chances at
finding a good parking spot just like every other student.
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opinion
From the hi
We could all learn
from children
Have you ever been around a little kid who says something out
of the clear blue sky that tends to shock you out of your seat? I had
a six-year-old ask me the other day if I was in high school (high
school age seems very old to a first grader).
When I informed him I was in college, he proceeded to let me
know what the next step in life is: Marriage. To him that seemed
like the only logical thing to do after you finish with college. His
dad just chuckled and asked his little boy if he was trying to
propose to me.
Life to young children is pretty cut and dry. There's no
complications and everything seems pretty logical. They're content
with just being themselves and being honest about everything.
I love kids and sometimes I catch myself just staring at them in
amazement when they're doing the simplest things. They're so
sweet and innocent and haven't yet had their perfect little worlds
tainted
We can stand to learn a lot from young children. They have no
preconceived notions about anyone. They don't yet understand the
"adult" world of prejudice and hatred. They just go on their ways
accepting everyone for who they are and not what they are or what
they can do.
Yes, all of us can learn from these young people whose
supposed childish views aren't practical or real. Maybe if we could
all act more like these children than the mature adults we are, the
world would be a better place to live in. The playground of life
could be full of laughter and innocence instead of stereotyping and
backstabbing.
Maybe, just maybe... Well, probably not. We're not childish
enough for that sort of thing.
How about some mail?
If you would like to voice include the semester and major of of The Collegian.
your views on an issue, why not the writer. All letters should Letters should be submitted to
write a Letter to the Editor? provide the address and phone The Collegian office, first floor
The Collegian encourages number of the writer for of the Reed Union Building or
letters on news coverage, editorial verification of the letter. The Collegian mailbox located in
content or University affairs. The Collegian reserves the the SGA suite also on the first
Letters should be typewritten, right to edit letters for length and floor of the Reed Building no
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more than two persons. libelous or do not conform to prior to the desired publication
Letters should be no longer standards of good taste. All date.
than 400 words and should submitted letters become property
Thursday, October 10, 1991
Entertainment Editor
Christi Luden is a fifth
semester business, liberal
arts and sciences major.
She has been a member of
The Collegian for over
two years and is the
newspaper's official
peace-maker.