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Had it with
pampers
Last week Students Today
For Tomorrow's Earth (Penn
State Behrend’s environmental
group) sponsored a Wintergarden
Gorge Hike and cleanup. First, I
would like to thank everyone
that showed up their help. The
reason I decided to write this
letter is not simply to thank the
people that helped (although I
wish it was). We started
cleaning and soon realized there
was far more than simply a
couple cans and bottles to pick
up. We finished with around
twelve bags of garbage. If it had
not been getting dark, we would
have picked up more trash. This
volume of garbage amazed me,
but even worse were the items
that we retrieved. To name some
types of trash: cans, bottles,
paper, tires, plastic pipe,
cigarette butts, a melted beer
ball, pieces of metal, socks,
underwear (or a jock strap....too
indistinguishable to tell), shirts,
and maxipads (unused).
Personally, these items were
enough to make me realize that
people really do not care what
the *#s% happens to, the
environment. But, if the
previous examples are not
enough to prove the point,
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maybe the next example will.
We found around twenty-five
Dirty PAMPERS (I lost count
after awhile.) Dirty Pampers in
the Gorge.... Are people that
ignorant??? Evidently. I could
get into details on the condition
of the pampers but that would,
maybe not so needlessly, make
you sick. I'll just leave with
you the fact that they had bugs
crawling all over them. Caring
about the environment does not
mean you have to be a tree
hugger(as some people like to
say). What caring does mean, is
that you should clean-up after
yourself and not needlessly
throw trash everywhere.
This letter is hopefully
appearing in the Erie Times
News and The Collegian (Penn
State Behrend's newspaper). I
hope that this letter makes
people slightly more
conscientious towards the
environment but, I will not hold
my breath. In conclusion, if you
are a Behrend student, faculty
member, or a member of the
community, PLEASE at least
have the decency to clean-up
after yourself, or anyone for that
matter. Thank you in advance.
Jake Sherosky
President of Students
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MISBD 6th semester
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Opinion
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Gamma Beta
Lambda
I am Patrick from Gamma
Beta Lambda. We were pleased
with the article that Danette
Parette wrote about us. It was
well written, and non-biased.
There are two things,
however, that we feel we must
clarify. The article claims that
"There are 243 gay, lesbian, or
bisexual students in the
minority population alone."
There are actually 243 total
minorities (non-white). Also,
according to an actual survey
taken in Spring 1991, 2SO
students answered as being
either gay, lesbian, or bisexual.
This proves that we are the
biggest minority on campus—
bigger, in fact, than all other
minorities combined.
Secondly, we must apologize
to Sue Daley, for continually
misspelling her name. We had
it correct on our ads and posters,
until we called her office to
check. They told us D-A-L-Y.
Our first set of posters has it
spelled this way. When we
submitted our ad to you for
publication, we had it again
spelled correctly. But, needless
to say, it was printed wrong.
We cringed once more.
Other than these minor errors
we liked the paper.
Thank you,
Patrick
Editors Note: We allowed
an exception to our letter
policy, but in the future, we
will need the author(s) real
name(s) and semester standing.
How about
some mail this
week?
From The Hip:
Sometimes I wonder just why exactly I’m here.
I wasn't sure that I wanted to attend college, yet, right
now, there's no place I'd rather be. I wasn't sure that I
wanted to take over the position of news-editor, yet, well
anyway, at least I enjoy it—sort of. I guess I'm in it for
the fun. I mean, money-Mom and Dad—really. Your
money's being well spent so that some day I’ll be
making lots of money and well-maybe I can spend it
well.
Anyway, back to why I'm here. I've decided to
take full advantage of the chance I have offered to me. I
really don't have to be here if I didn't want to. I could
be back in the home town, scanning groceries for a
living and shucking com to help Ma make dinner for Pa
and the boys. I always had nightmares about that
scanning noise though, and let's just face it, that family
bonding stuff just isn't for me.
Back to why I'm here. Well, I really don't know
yet. All I can say is I'm making the best of it and I'm
sure enjoying myself. I believe that someday I'll really
make a difference in this world. Today is the chance that
will make that someday happen. Frank Lloyd Wright
once said, "The thing always happens that you really
believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
So I guess what I've been trying to say is,
believe in yourself. I have complete faith in my abilities.
If you don't give yourself a chance, and believe in
yourself, it's your loss. You're the only one who can
make your beliefs into your reality. You'll never have
the chance again.
Thursday, October 1, 1992