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Show Page The Thunderbird Motuiay April 15, 1985 4 A bevy of little irritants that ought to be fixed They are like pebbles in the shoe: only one, and you can walk enough, even though it irritates you. But five or six can make you want to send the shoe sailing through the air. So it is with several minor problems on this campus: by themselves, they dont seem like much. But students dont see them by themselves; they see them two or three at a time. And they add up. well The Indianapolis 500 , complex We at The Thunderbird believe thatidewalks were invented to walk on, as the name suggests. Quite often we feel lonely in that view. A lot of people seem to think the sidewalks are better used as driveways. It isnt just maintenance vehicles driving on the sidewalks that we object to often, albeit certainly not all the time, there is a good reason for those vehicles to be there. It is simply that just about everyone else, given any reason, will drive to a building in the middle of campus sometimes too quickly for comfort and park there, so that students have to go out of their way to avoid the vehicles. This is mighty ridiculous, and it should be stopped. Party school library hours The weekend library hours are beyond absurd! Weve complained about this before, and we are led to understand that the administration is considering ways to rectify the problem. Thats good. Even so, we hope they understand how serious this deficiency really is. What kind of image do we give our students when the library closes at 5 p.m. Fridays, and is open a sum total of 10 hours the rest of the weekend? Yes, we recognize that lack of funding is probably the difficulty. So, in that case, we call on the SUSC Institutional Council to consider ways to fund longer weekend library hours. Sidewalks that just wont grow No matter how long and how persistently our ground crews water the sidewalks, the pesky things just wont grow! It isnt always possible to keep the water or. the grass and off the sidewalks, but surely we can do better than weve done so far. Southern Utah State College has lovely green areas, and they are well kept up, but we wonder if it is really reasonable to expect students to dodge sprinklers everywhere they go. 'r Che OiunderbircC qv THt bTl nhM An lfS Oh hH HHbK UTAH STATh OH ,h C'tDAK ( 1TY. UTAH VOLUME 79, NUMBER 27 Editor Doug Christensen Associate Editor Ralph Schriock Copy Editor Paul Husselbee Photo Editors James Howells Derek Miller Sports Editor Joe Cartwright Entertainment Editor Jim Knowlton Senior Staff Writer Stewart Smith Assistant to the Editors Annette Grooms Production Manager Kelli Foy Advertising Representatives John B. Greene Mariane Perry Faculty Adviser Larry Bake- - The Thunderbird is published each Monday of the academic year by and tor the student body of Southern Utah State College. The views and opinions expressed in The Thunderbird are the opinions of the publications individual wr.ters and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the institution, faculty, staff or student body in general. The unsigned editorial directly above is the opinion of The Thunderbird as a single entity. Letters to the editor must be typed and include the name, student number (if from a student) and phone number. Only the name will be printed. Names will not be withheld under any circumstances and the editor reserves the right to edit letters for length and to preclude libel. Letters must be submitted by noon Friday for inclusion in the following weeks edition. The Thunderbird: editorial and advertising offices at 529 West 200 South, Cedar City, UT S4720. Mail at SUSC Box 384, Cedar City, UT 84720 (801) 7758. SUSC bookstore profits dismaying To the editor: While reading through last weeks edition of The Thunderbird, I was dismayed to learn that the student bookstore has made a profit of $142,000 in the past few years. Because I am from Europe, I do not know the laws of the United States very well, but if I am not mistaken, it is illegal for an auxiliary service on a state campus to make a profit. If I am correct, it seems to pie that the bookstore is stealing from the students. And if the money is transferred to other programs in the college, as your story says, then the college president and administration must know about the profit. They are as much to blame as the manager of the bookstore is. Even if I am mistaken and making that much money from the students is not illegal, I should think it is still morally wrong. The money from this profit may go to other programs, but how many of those programs benefit all students at the college? I have noticed that President Sherratt is able to fund many programs a college normally would not be able to afford. These same programs are, in most cases, causes the president has a great interest in. And he is able to do it because he has a large discretionary fund. Much of that money comes from enterprises like the bookstore, which milk students for every spare penny they have. Just a week ago, my husband bought a textbook from the bookstore. It had been used twice, was in poor shape and yet it cost $20. On the back of the book was a price tag from the BYU bookstore. The BYU price was out hed made a mistake and no longer needed the text for the class, the bookstore refused to buy the book back because they would lose money on it. e My husband is a student. He must work three part-tim- e jobs to support our family. I work as well, but because of the rising costs to live in this country, we still have a difficult time paying our bills some months. I would much rather the bookstore lose a few dollars on a book, when it has made so large a profit from the students already, than have to pay another $20 into full-tim- President Sherratts discre- tionary fund. ' If the college administration has any conscience at all, it will find some way to return the money it has earned either illegally or unjustly from the students. I $16. When my husband later found Ana D. Husselbee Price column is cruel and tactless ' To the editor: The article in The Thunderbird Price would actually admit writing is the cruelest, most that Scott tactless thing that I can think of. I understand that the view of Mr. Price is not that of the newspaper. (Thank God.) Mr. Price should never attack a person or a group of people just because their religious views are different than his own. (continued on page 5) |