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Show My plan Editor: Reading the letter from Pat Rose in last Tuesday's Chronicle, I was delighted to find there is at least one other sensible person on this campus, who thinks as I do. It is palpably absurd even to think of granting amnesty to a heinous bunch of draft dogers and for the very reasons Miss Rose pointed out. Clearly the first notion that these people might be granted amnesty arises from a basic error in the way of thinking of certain Americans, many of whom, alas, Spaced out Editor: In response to the letter from Cris C. Coleman in Monday's Chronicle, I would like to point out a few things concerning your caption "Pigs hog parking." 1) It is not true that there are no parking problems in "A" lots. OSH parking lot, where the patrol car was parked, is just as full as the Union lot during 9:55 and 11:00 classes. I know, I had a "B" sticker last year and an "A" sticker this year and have spent many hours looking for spaces time, it may be student parking in the future that the patrolmen hog. This scene is not unusual. In fact, the day this picture was taken, I parked in the Business lot for a class in OSH while two spaces in the OSH lot were being occupied needlessly by patrol cars in two different areas of the lot. Ronald D. Mitchell Bum trip To the students of the University of Utah: This is my third day at your university. I am a student at dorm, it was in my mailbox with nothing missing. If I had lost that here, I might as well kiss it goodbye forever. I can't understand what's wrong with you people. We are all supposed to have ourselves together but you just can't be playing with a full deck if you can rip off something with a clear conscience. Salt Lake City is a really nice place but I sure couldn't stay here for any length of time. I've become so paranoid in just three days that I'd be a wreck in a few weeks. Come on people, get your heads together and quit ripping lall just for a start), I didnV 'Cc comfort in that. As : Cc concerned student, I - epi to request from lr Ho Council either r prc deletion of section U- (as code or a resolution ii. Pre be published by fc:prc defining and clar;' ie meaning and intent: sor tion. Such a resofc nyt include (1) a definl'br term "emergency cor: 3 1 (2) a clarification irei "reasonable and . measures may be U- A council. Are we til' calling out the Nat: banning student i , declaring demons etc? Or are we U' charging more rent: on the Union if they light bill? (3) Amoie explanation of the'-expiration the'-expiration of sucli amendments, renewable? Can turned by action o' or judicial bodies"; imposed for a W' 30 days under i. cumstances? If the Institutional not act to explain J month, I thin lW the Student Aff' . open hearings ftru a view to nulHfV the emergent Institutional delineated. Sc.ne1f.Dj have managed to gain prominence over the last several years. But I have the solution to the problem; by merely putting my plan into effect, we shall forever and irrefutably state our faith in the sanctity of order and established law: on July 4, 1976, the 200th anniversary of our ancestors' mistake, we simply repudiate the Declaration of Independence and declare instead in-stead our allegiance to the British Crown. Imagine it. On that day of great celebration we shall forever RENOUNCE the foolish and specious idea that men have a right to make and change the laws that govern them. Think of it. In all that bright day there can be only one insignificant blemish: it will be an extra puff of smoke arising from factories across the land as American manufacturers and packagers re-tool to labe their littlest packages of cereal soap, toothpaste, etc:, "small' instead of "large." Steve Could both years. 2) Why must the Chronicle concern itself with student problems exclusively (as Cris suggests)? Faculty and staff are part of the campus community also. And some of us, including myself, are full-time students as well. 3) I can understand Highway Patrolmen breaking laws when it is necessary for doing their job efficiently. But the car pictured was there while the patrolman was taking special classes in OSH as required by the Highway Patrol. The University has' no obligation to allow the patrolmen 1 to use the lot for these classes, but it does anyway. It would seem ! that even a law enforcement ; offi cer should show some ap- prediation for the' consideration and not tie up parking spaces - needlessly. 4) The. point of the caption is, I assume, that even though this was faculty and staff parking this Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Mich. I came on this five-day ski trip to visit a friend from my home town. I am very bummed out about several things that have happened since I've been here, namely rip-offs. In my two years at Northern, I have never locked my dorm room door except when I go home and I have never had anything ripped off. The girl I am visiting has to lock her door if she goes upstairs and her friends have had all kinds of things stolen. This girl had her new Rossignal Strato skis stolen today at Alta and my ski hat and goggles disappeared also. What's the deal? You people are really wiped over ripping off everyone. It's too bad when you can't even trust your next-door neighbor. About two weeks ago, I lost my check book with money in my account, $15 in the book and three pieces of I.D., right on the main street of Marquette and by the time I had gotten back to my off everyone! Cindy Downs Throw it out Editor: Your coverage of the campus rap was magnificently general; the only trouble was that it didn't really say anything. Section 14.02 of the Student Code "On Emergency Amendments" requires immediate clarification and such clarification wasn't forthcoming from either Pete Sorensen, Todd Hayes or the Dean of Students' office. I did hear from one guy on the near right who informed me that I was barking up the wrong tree since "the U.S. Constitution also allows Congress to suspend writ of habeas corpus, civil liberties and the Bill of Rights, so why should the student code be different?" Well, given my recent memories (I recall Augusta, Kent State, Jackson State and People's Park, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR that "property will never be valued above human life on this campus." What's happened to those resolutions? Why aren't the r'ghts of administrators as carefully defined and codified as the rights of students? (More simply, why has Institutional Council seen fit to write itself outside the law the same law it requested be enacted?) I'm getting very tired of being asked to act "responsibly and in yood faith." The students of this University have acted responsibly and in good faith during six years of national crisis. Now the burden of proof is on the high levels of P.ige Three administration. Gentlemen, why don't you toss out your escape clauses and start to act in good faith yourselves, rather than spending thousands of student dollars to write and distribute a code that you yourselves are not bound to obey? Scott Warnick (CONT.) (from page 2) series of resolutions. One of them was a declaration to the effect |