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Show Page 8 Signpost May 17, 1974 parking pre fry enlisting h . 'WHJU Guest columnist Nixon's The White House seems to be winning its campaign to blunt Republican demands for President Nixon's resignation. Less successful, is the White House effort to link the fate of the This commentary was-written by George J. Marder of United Press International. GOP to the President on Watergate. There are basic points of similarity between the effort to get the President to quit and the campaign to line up political support for the President on impeachment.Both are outside the Constitution; both seek to avoid resolution of the issue solely on the merits. White House staffers are on solid constitutional grounds in arguing, as they did, that the party will suffer for years, perhaps be destroyed, if Republicans stampede to force the President to quit under fire. But those constitutional grounds vanish when they use the same argument to line up GOP support for the President on impeachment.If the House of Representatives h - 12 TOfeS' A PAY.' ' z9C winning (partially ) can be considered as the impeachment version of a grand jury and the senate as a trial jury, some of the White House efforts to influence the outcome would be clearly illegal. Extracurricular contacts with jurors to influence verdicts are strictly forbidden. The demands for the President's resignation snowballed after release of the edited transcripts of President Nixon's Watergate talks. The White House has tried to make it seem as though the adverse reaction to the transcripts was based on a holier-than-thou attitude regarding obscenity. The fact is that's far removed from the truth. There's very little obscenity left in the edited transcripts; more was cut out than left in. What disturbed the Republicans and if the polls are correct, the American people at large, was the President's role as shown by his own words : ...his consideration, possibly even his temporary approval of blackmail payments ; ...his efforts to protect himself rather than the national interests ; ...his search for a story to tell the people about Watergate Fhil Frcnk V way tPsrixsuo. rather than a simple search for the truth. Even in the first conversation released, there was an incident which disturbed members of Congress, Republican as well as Democratic. The President openly discussed how to intimidate members of a House committee to get them to call off or go soft on a planned Watergate investigation. It included discussion of ways to get embarrassing information about the members and threaten them with release of it unless they kow-towed to the White House. It was a discussion which bordered on blackmail. Later, a transcript showed that the President discussed the possibility of calling a grand jury investigation not to get at the truth but to block the Senate investigation.The President pointed out government witnesses could invoke the Fifth Amendment and could have convenient loss of memory before grand juries but might not get by with it at a congressional investigation. It is those things, more than the obscenity which fed the flames of the resignation demands... flames which now seem to have subsided with an assist from the Democrats. Who says the administration doesn't listen to people when they complain? Students here at Weber State College have been complaining about the parking situation ever since this school moved to its present location back in 1960. Every single year the complaint has come : ' 'Why buy a parking sticker if there aren't any places to park?" Every single year. And every year the administration comes out and explains just how much parking space is available. They go to great pains to show that if a student was just willing to walk a little farther he would have no trouble parking. There are a lot of empty parking spaces available across from Promontory Towers, they explain.And so what happens finally the administration does something about the problem. They create a new parking lot. In case you still haven't figured out what is the problem with the one road that goes past the Administration building and the Social Science Buildings. ..it's now a parking lot. Faculty lot And mind you not just any kind of parking lot. It's a faculty parking lot. You know the kind no students allowed. It seems kind of funny to us that the administration can constantly make excuses about student parking here on campus but cannot do the same to our faculty members. A little longer walk each day wouldn't hurt most of them either. However the cases may seem different to WSC President Bishop and his administration. If a student 'Signpost' says gi issues predictioh Well, it's almost over. The school year has just about drawn to a close. Which means of course that there is J not very much time to get that studying done before-exams or to finish that research paper before it's due. For those of us here at the Signpost, our year is .; finished. This is the last issue of the 1973-74 school year. We here at the newspaper would like to thank some of -1 those who helped make this year a success : 2r First of all to this year's two staffs no one can say how much work you have done right up to today. You put in more hours of work than any other group of students on campus and the only thanks you received was criticism, an occasional thank you and still more : complaints. - Secondly, a big Thank You should go to Randy Hollis for playing sports editor when he didn't have to. He Z must love it, although he'd never admit it, otherwise why would he keep coming back for more? The Signpost would like to thank its printers for this r last year: The Roy-Sun Chronicle. You've made some mistakes and we've made some mistakes but at least we learned to get along with each other. And lastly the newspaper would like to extend its thanks to the entire studentbody, faculty and ad- - - ministration. Each one of these groups helped to make the Signpost a better newspaper. All of these groups had complaints (some valid, some not) but they were also 2 willing to try and understand some of the problems we've had. And now is the last effort, we here at the Signpost have |