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Show * $if ACCESS ,. ·1 J STEVE FARRELL COMMENTARY Parking requires a nod to courtesy Liberals and their sense 'Access is a recurring column through which individuals may deal with points of conern to the campus community. Today's column is by D. W. Anderson, a staff writer/or the Journal. I went out to my car one morning and Courtesy is such a simple word, yet no-one seems able to grasp its meaning. found a sticker on my drivers side Courtesy m eans being polite, not window. It was a police towing notice, getting in other peoples' way, not doing placed there by campus security. When I finally got some one from things that make others mad, following the rules, parking like a human being campus security on the phone, after many attempts that ended with no-one and not a chimpanzee. The apartment building I live in has being in the security office, I was told very limited parking, and as a result, it that the parking lot was owned by the is hard for people to be courteous, but "Shakespeare people " and that they not impossible . To a n ormal human ha'd registered a complaint about my be ing of average intelligence, when a car. I went to the office of the parking lot is full, it's full, and it's not a place that can be parked in, and it's "Shakespeare people" and asked them time to go find somewhere else to park, what the deal was with it being OK to eve n if it means s training ones self by park my car in their parking lot for two months, and then, out of the blue, walking a few blocks. Not at my apartment complex. There deciding that they didn't like my car people park on the gras s , and the th ere. They said that they didn't sidewalk, and the y park so close that r egister a complaint, and that they didn ' t have anyt hing to do with the the enamel of their cars is rubbing. One time a fellow in my apartment parking lot, and that campus security complex got a parking ticket for being was to blame. This leads me to one of three possible parked on the sidewalk, in a red zone, a fe w inches from another p ersons car. conclusions . One, campus security at His response was no t one of remorse, SUU is so incompetent that they didn't regret, or even apology. He simply said notice my car until it had been parked that he could get out of having to pay in their patrol area for two months; or, for the ticket because h e had friends at two, the m anaging office of the Utah the police s tati on . OK, so if one has Shakespearean Festival was l ying to friends in the police department, that m e; or, three, both organizations were m e ans th ey can be inco n sidera te to afraid of little old me, a mere student. anyo ne they c hoose. Am I the only one As well they should be, because who sees the destructive n ature of this ? without the money from my tuition, Laws a re there to protect us and our and every other students tuition here at property from o urse lves and others. SUU, they wouldn't have a job. The whole experience has left a bad Laws arc suppose t o be o bj ec tiv e ly carried out, and followed . No taste in my mouth . All I wanted to do exceptions, not even for those wh o wa s park s om e pla ce where I wasn't bothered, and wasn ' t bothering anyone have police friends. I of ten wondered how people could be else. If they, who ever they are, don't want me parking my car in their gravel so inconsiderate, but now I know. My solution to the parking problem parking lot, then they should put a sign was to park in a gravel parking lot a there telling me not to park there. No block away from where I live. I've been big deal. I just want to be courteous, parking in the campus owned parking and not have to spend an hour scraping lot for two months now, and not until a damn parking violation sticker off my window. last week did I have a problem. Still the students' paper, send letters The University fournal, has among its goals to provide news-campus, local, national and international- to SUUans. Also, we are designed to provide a forum for all members of the campus community to express feelings about topics of interest or concern. The only requirement for a letter to the editor is that the let ter be responsibly written; no libelous or malicious material will be accepted. Letters must be typed and include the author's name and phone number. The phone number will not be printed and the Journal will not publish any anonymous letters. In addition to the letters to the editor, we also offer an 'Access' column for those of you who want to express more lengthy opinions. . So take a few moments of your time to tell us what you think. Address such topics of concern as the upcoming presidential elections, the best way to eat a kumquat, or some event worthy of contempt or praise on campus. Drop in sometime with an opinion, and let us know the rest of the campus hasn't disappeared. Because of space limitations, we do reserve the right to edit letters, but we will print all letters that are not libelous. Please deliver letters ·to our offices. (TH 003) or SUU P.O. Box 9384. Oremail us at journal@suu.edu I of private morality "The poor fool, he doesn't know While Time might be excused for its anything!" No doubt, all have thought nonsense on the grounds that it is or said, or have been the target of those without a doubt an established who have thought or said, those exact ideologue; we cannot so easily excuse all those who agree with Time. And so words. But what qualifies one as a fool? Cicero advised orators who hoped for instead, we ask those who agree, those greatness to hold their tongues and their who might tend to adopt the judgment until such time as they knew contemporary liberal outlook on and understood their own. He proposed politics, to briefly self-examine their that those who would spare themselves beliefs by answering a few simple of such rudimentary intellectual questions. calisthenics, were, regardless of the Question 1: In the interest of public power of their argument or the skill of safety, should air traffic controllers and their oratory, by definition ... a fool, for airline pilots be subject to random drug they knew nothing. testing even though drug use is a private Similarly, scientist J.B.S. Haldane moral choice? Question 2: Should a police officer, defined prejudices as "an opinion held without examining the evidence." And whose off duty life demonstrates yet, beyond prejudice is the fellow who hostility toward the black race, be champions his unscrut- ...----......- - - - - - - - . allowed to continue as inized opinions with a a police officer in the profound sense of city of Los Angeles? religious zeal; that Similarly, if he were person, says Stephen R. summoned to testify Covey, is "a fanatic." against a black Though fanatics, warn defendant, should his Covey, should not be testimony be deemed confused with "deteradmissible in a court of mined" persons, those law? who set out to conduct Question 3: If a man's private religious faith a balanced, methodological, and thorough opposes abortion, search for the truth, and should that influence who after settling upon his selection as a a position, defend their Supreme Court Justice? hard won prize Question 4: If a man's zealously, or in other private sexual prefwords, with great erence is to be a detennination. pedophile, should he be allowed to teach in the Finally, there is that highly educated class, who may or may public school system? not be categorized as fools; unlike their Question 5: Should extensive personal counterparts, they generally have a good background checks be conducted on grasp on the game, however, their potential owners of handguns? Question 6: If we were electing a king, unredeeming quality is that they choose to intentionally manipulate the rules or who would possess absolute power, the score to elevate themselves or their would the candidates' private character cause. This group, though knowing concern you? much, would generally reject on Question 7:Does it seem contradictory principle the existence of truth, that liberal Democrats succeeded in morality, or justice, as mindless and derailing arch conservative Philip morose; yet they see the strategic Crane's bid for the 1980 Republican advantage of temporally calling some nomination over rumors of adultery; things true, some things moral, some that they succeeded in derailing things just; and so they weave a careful conservative Judge Douglas H. and complex web. Hugh Nibley would Ginsberg's bid for the Supreme Court inform us that this fellow the world after he admitted having once tried calls brilliant. William F. Buckley Jr. marijuana; and that they almost would call him an ideologue and/ or a succeeded in derailing the bid of Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court liberal debater. Some call them devils. And so based on the above, we could because of allegations of sexual say that there are a variety of reasons harassment? why some people take positions which I suppose if a liberal were honest, he appear to others as nonsensical. Using would have problems answering the this criteria, let us then critique the all above. He (or she) would have to admit too often heard defense of Mr. Clinton's that to the liberal private morality does 'private' moral problems as being "off not. And then too, if they were honest, limits;" and that it must be so because they might wonder why is it that they, as Time informs us, Americans are their mentors, and their friends, are so pragmatic and "have decided that it just zealously in support of things which are plain makes sense to carve out so constantly at odds with themselves? distinctions between private morality and public character." Steve Farrell is a political science major. |