Show V I J iiI I 4 Re I n nd d JJ m d 1 bJ 1 ft i v- v I I I I St o fi i tt j if t tf U h of 5 i D 1 r t. t f. f Letters To The Editor f DEAR EDITOR T r In regards to your absolutely biased narrow narrow minded editorial that appeared in the November 1 1972 issue of Tech Topics I would beg to differ with you First I would like to point out that Put Your Butt In The Right Place wa was the only editorial in the paper Apparently this problem keeps you up at night bec because use of the importance placed on it If this were the most important problem the school had I feel we would be in pretty good shape In reference to asking smokers to grow up and deposit their butts in the urns let me ask you to wake up and suggest larger and more urns be placed at the entrances The expensive butt urns could have been sacrificed and more suitable economical urns purchased This is not the Palace of Versailles so lets think a little more practically The entrance of our 39 million Technology Building would not have to be buried with butts if the Administration would consider a respectable convenient smoking area in inthe inthe inthe the building I am not speaking of a dimly lit way the stairwell All smokers should consider that stairwell a personal slap in the face In reference to your foot 20 trench idea lets place all the narrow minded cry baby smokers non-smokers in your foot 20 trench with one exception lets fill it in over them This campus is for everyone so lets show a little equal rights for the smokers PS We will make an effort to zero our aim in at the 10 inch diameter urn um singular Dear Editor I applaud your editorial on inconsiderate smokers and their mess around the Technology But I dont don't think you hit the real problem In the realms of cause and effect smoking and the resultant cigarette butt on the just effects of a cause After years of observation I have concluded that the cause of all these anguishing effects is a disease that I have named Watch the smoker When he or she gets through puffing the remainder x of the cigarette has jias turned into a small missile which while still lit is drawn up tight between the thumb and first finger and flipped to the theT T ground or at something In some instances smokers have an advanced 1 stage of this disease which carries anger These people step down on their r butts and with a twisting motion of their foot snuffing out the life of the cigarette in the most vicious manner Just think of the mayhem that would abound in our nation if that anger where exited in some other form fonn It is only natural to have cigarette butts on the ground in the flower flowerbeds flowerbeds flowerbeds beds and around ash urns urns- smokers cant can't just put the cigarette in an urn r They have to flip it somewhere flip it at flowers at cats at spots on the sidewalk and even at ash urns I say dont don't condemn smokers for being smokers Lets Let's take up a collection and save them from being flippers Laura Beane |