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Parking
Student parking lot should
remain in hands of students
Student Government President Marie-Louise Ramsdale has
the students'best interest at heart when she said that she supports
the status quo in the parking situation at USC.
She doesn't want students to lose any parking spaces. That is
why Ramsdale complained loudly when President James
Holderman approved several proposed parking changes.
She was right when she said students have gotten a bum deal
this year. Students are facing increases in tuition, housing, parking
fines, Marriott food prices, and the much needed increase in
activity fees.
But students are also getting a bum deal because of the move
to a stricter, moralistic campus with the phase out of visitation
rights.
Students do need something to boost their morale, and parking
is very important to both commuting and resident
students. The administration should take this into consideration
and continue reviewing the proposed changes.
Among the approved parking changes is turning the commuting
student lots at Pendleton and Pickens into a faculty and
staff lot.
No one is arguing that faculty does not need parking spaces,
but that lot should remain a student lot for several reasons.
The most important factor is security. There is a concentration
of women's residence halls in that area. Once those spaces
are given to the faculty there will only be 427 student parking
spaces in that very heavily student-populated area.
The second reason, which ties in with the first, is that because
of the approved changes there will no longer be any difference
between commuting and resident parking. There will just be student
parking. Residents in that area would have a closer and
safer area to park in without having to worry about parking on
the outskirts of campus and walking in the dark back to their
dorms.
Third, of course, is a matter of convenience. Most students do
have very busy schedules and good parking only helps them
through their day.
Students pay a lot to the university in tuition and housing
fees. USC, after all, does have the third highest tuition among
public institutions in the Southeast. Students are the backbone
of this university, and they should get the quality service they are
paying for at every level including parking.
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Space.
An interesting concept.
Since recorded history, humans have always
dreamed about going into space. In the Bible,
Ezekiel saw the wheel. Icarus tried to fly into the
sun. And the writer Jules Verne wrote a book
about flying to the moon, which inspired a young
Robert H. Goddard to build the foundation of sending
man to the moon and beyond.
We're still dreaming.
Twenty years ago, man landed on the moon.
Fourteen years ago, astronaut and cosmonaut (a
Soviet astronaut) shook hands in space.
But we have a small problem.
Last week the stealth bomber, the B-2, flew for
the first time.
The over-budget and supposedly secret airplane
finally got its "wing," 10 years and $22.4 billion
later. The first B-2 flight lasted for two hours,
about the length Neil Armstrong and Edwin
"Buzz" Aldrin walked on the moon.
The cost of the entire Apollo program was $25.5
billion. The cost for the entire B-2 program, a fleet
Individuals can
It is very easy to ignore the environment for the
sake of our little conveniences.
It's hard to do without air conditioners in the
heat of a Columbia summer. It's hard to remember
to turn off incandescent light bulbs whenever they
are not in use (or, better, to replace them with compact
fluorescent bulbs), and it's hard to remember
to avoid styrofoam products in favor of paper ones
when possible.
We know that all of these things, along with
countless others, have contributed to the incredible
global warming trend since the 1960s resulting
from the depletion of the ozone layer of our atmosphere
and by the greenhouse effect. It's simple
enough.
But I read something very interesting in a recent
Newsweek article by Gregg Easterbrook. I read
that man's damage to his environment is not going
to mean the end of life on earth. It will only mean
the end of human life on earth.
Most of us think about taking those little steps to
improve the environment in much the same way we
think about voting: "My actions won't have much
effect in such a big world."
It is true that waste and environmental ignorance
in the home causes a relatively small proportion of
the damage to our planet, though an important
one. But if we choose to ignore that part of the
damage, what is left for us to do?
Major environmental disasters like the burning
of the tropical rain forests in countries like Brazil
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billion.
Astounding.
Each bomber will cost more than $500 million.
That could fly two shuttle missions. From a NASA
spokesperson, each shuttle mission costs between
$150 to $200 million. The price includes the
behind-the-scene work of tracking the shuttle, the
launch crews, even the janitor to sweep up launch
control after a successful lift-off.
As it stands, both the bomber program and the
future of space exploration is in doubt. Congress
has decided to make cuts in the space program each
year since 1971. This year is no exception. Later
this month, Congress will vote on whether to support
the bomber or kill it.
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could be easily enough solved, in this case by relieving
the debts of those third-world nations who are
spewing all of this carbon dioxide.
This would release those nations from the
economic stress that is causing them to allow
such measures in the first place, and the survival of
the human race is surely worth that.
But we all know that such a measure would never
become a major issue in a national election, and
that therefore we all ultimately have little to say
about it. Until we become more aware and begin to
press the U.S. government to do what is right, we
must rely on environmental groups and the rare
sensibilities of our elected officials.
So what, I ask again, is left for us to do? We
could continue to blow off our social responsibility.
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space shuttles, or 112 shuttle missions, or the proposed
Freedom space station that could serve as a
launching platform for further exploration of
space, including a manned mission to Mars.
What good has come out of the bomber program?
Much of today's technology comes from
space.
Did a bomber bring teflon? Nope.
Did a bomber give us better record needles?
Nope.
Did a bomber give us new life-saving drugs?
Nope, a bomber's sole purpose is to kill.
The B-2 is also a "slow" airplane. The estimated
flying speed is around 600 mph, similar to the
speed of a DC-10. If World War III were to begin,
the war would be over by the time the plane could
get into the air, because we live in the age of the intercontinental
ballistic missile.
But the money doesn't necessarily need to go into
space. People are starving in America, drugs are
everywhere, crime keeps growing, people can't get
adequate health care, illiteracy is a problem, and
ad infinitum.
We do not need to concern ourselves with the
destruction of earth, instead we must be aware of
the preservation of mankind as a whole. We need
to expand into space, not pulverize the people of
the world.
"Space the final frontier...to boldly go where no
one has gone before..." Star Trek
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But how much trouble would it really be to have
those leaky air conditioners repaired? How about
deciding to go through the stress and strain of finding
paper cups instead of styrofoam? Maybe even
an occasional letter to your congressional
representative?
Yeah, this sounds like something from a civics
textbook with sarcastic embellishment. But what
else do you want me to say. No one's asking you to
dedicate your life to environmentalism here.
I'm actually not even suggesting that you go
beyond worrying about the atmosphere. I haven't
even addressed erosion, beaches, disappearing
animal species, and so on.
All we need is a little effort and teamwork.
"We're all in this together," Ken Medendorp of
University Dining Services told me Monday. For
my part, I look forward to being able to choose
paper rather than plastic cups at the Grand
Marketplace.
I'm saving aluminum cans for recycling, as well
as tons of newspapers. Glass is my next project.
My blasted car doesn't even have an air conditioner
(which makes it pretty easy to complain about air
conditioners), but the one in my bedroom window
needs help.
The easiest step, though, and the necessary first
one, is to stay informed. I have just begun. I invite
anyone else out there to join me, and help if
possible.
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