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Show SUSC THE THUNDERBIRD Letterssolved Drug problem by new legislation TO THE EDITOR: The government finally got tough on drugs. I knew they had it in them, I knew the government could muster the conviction to do something besides talk about the drug problem. I knew sooner or later they would get tough. It seems hard to believe that only yesterday I was shaking my head with woeful dismay as I read the statistics in Sundays paper and tried to translate them into human costs. One headline made it easy, New York Drug Deaths Hit Two A Day. An average of two people per day were murdered Think of all the money to be gained from students who'll not keep the pledge. for, or because of drugs in just one city in the United States last year. It's scary to think what the statistics are for this nation as a whole. I prayed for an answer to the drug problem and lo and behold there it was in the March 30 Thunderbird. It seemed so simple. Why hadnt someone thought of it sooner? Make students seeking financial aid sign a pledge of abstinence from drugs. Hey, where do I sign? Better yet, maybe I could send my urine to Congress. Think of all the lives that would be saved in New' York City alone, once all those sleep half-starve- deprived, 3.7 grade point average biomedical and pre-lastudents struggling to make ends meet at New York University stop spending their aid money in d cerebral pursuit of comatosis (hey, Id do it, but my aid like most students barely covers tuition. Besides, I think Id have a hard time filling in the dots crack-induce- THURSDAY, students trying to .TILT Sandwiches S.Salads i i i Buy one Foot Long Sandwich or Salad at Regular Price And Get a Second Foot Long Sandwich or Salad of Comparable Value for j only 99 C Does not apply to Super Subs. Limit One sandwich per coupon. Offer expires July 31, 1989 i i Buy Any Regular Foot Long Sandwich or Salad and a Medium Drink for only j $299 I ! I Does not apply to Super Subs. Limit One sandwich per coupon. Offer expires July 31, 1989 THREE LOCATIONS: THREE LOCATIONS: 765 E. 700 S., St. George 628-400- 7 765 E. 700 S., St. George j 514 No. Bluff, St. George 667 So. Main, Cedar City David V. Pena 628-547- 7 J 586-43- 514 No. Bluff, St. George 667 So. Main, Cedar City The other afternoon I went to SUSCs game room in the Student Center to play a few video games and relax while I waited to meet someone. When I entered the game room it looked like a daycare center with more kids in it than I cared to count. Apparently, Cedar Middle School had just been released and all its students made the trek to our game room. I dont mind these kids roaming around campus much, but my belief is that they shouldnt be allow'ed in the game room. Its a college atmosphere in the Student Center and made for students. When I go to the game room to have fun, I dont want kids I running around or doing what and me hate: really watching telling me how to play when I already know how. havent done anything to those kids yet, but I ve been tempted to shove some of them out the door. 1 I dont understand w'hy these kids are allowed in the game room to play, while at the same time they are not allowed to be served in the cafeteria. Twice Ive seen Cedar Middle School students being told to leave just as they set foot in there. Why are these rules just the opposite on the other end of the Student Center? Another college that I know of allows high school students in their student center. But if the younger kids want to come in they must be accompanied by a parent. SUSC should require students to show I.D. to enter. Since we have a supervisor in the game room at all times, or at least we are supposed to, this would not be too difficult to initiate and uphold. If this plan was implemented by SUSC, I dont think Id ever be bothered by some know-it-al- l video punk again. Peter J. Maynard 07 628-54586-43- COUPON FREE TOPPING WITH SMALL OR LARGER CUP GOOD ONLY AT OASIS FROZEN YOGURT, 80 WEST CENTER, CEDAR CITY. 60 FROZEN YOGURT FROZEN YOGURT NOW OPEN WITH HOT SOUP AND BAGELS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF COLLEGE AVENUE APARTMENTS FLAVORS (6 DAILY) 22 DELICIOUS TOPPINGS GOURMET YOGURT SHAKES "COME TASTE THE DIFFERENCE" 80 W. CENTER 586-521- 7 SUSC student is miffed by game room crowding TO THE EDITOR: 628-10- (South of Hansen Stadium) (South of Hansen Stadium) better themselves sign pledges and pay the price for a mistake they are also going to expect the same from other recipients of U.S. aid, like General Motors, or Columbia, or that machete-wavin- g pile of manure from Panama, Manuel Noriega arent they? PAGE MEAL DEAL 1 r on the Scantron when Im trembling through a serious withdrawal). Not only that, think of all the money that the U.S. would save or get back in refunds from students who did not or could not keep the pledge (that is, unless they must drop out of school, already in debt, and addicted to drugs). We could go one step further and make repayment retroactive. It boggles the mind to think how many students of the 60 may have done drugs. I suspect that all you liberals out there are going to scream foul. I would too, were it not for the fact that I know that if our government is going to make hard w'orkmg APRIL 6, 1989 s 594 South Main Gitano Ladies Bike Shorts $11.97 Ladies Splice Tanks $9.97 (Available Colors: Black, Heather Gray) Pink, v nous i; 586-211- 3 Ladies Swim Suits $16.97 & up shorts $7.97 Aerobic Shoes 50 off Mens pull-o- n 5 |