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Editorial
Parking hell
Newly consolidated lots cause frustration
Clinton case raises questions
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And what about character? And personal ethics? These
things do matter.
I want a president I can admire. As a woman and a
feminist, how can I admire Clinton's behavior?
It's easy to say his sexual behavior doesn't matter in his
role as president, but voters take all kinds of things
beyond mere qualifications into consideration when vot-
ing for a president.
Yes, we're holding Clinton to new standards of open-
ness and accountability that have evolved since Water-
gate, but he knew that when he was elected.
Should we have higher expectations of our elected offi-
cials, especially our president, than of other mere mor-
tals?
Sure. We do it all the time. We don't want any old
bubba with his finger on the button. We elect as presi-
dents people we believe have a higher level of expertise,
whether political or administrative or some indefinable
combination of both.
But can we expect presidents to be other than human?
I don't think so.
He hurt Hillary and Chelsea, but he also hurt Monica.
And he hurt the country too. Much as he and most
Americans may wish he could just get back to work and
the whole thing would just go away, it's taken its toll.
Hillary may have forgiven him. But I'm not sure I have
or will or should.
The answers, like the questions, are complex, as matters
of human nature often are.
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ing for me to step outside. Daring me to.
The heat wouldn't be that hard to adjust to if, in fact,
the restaurants, movie theaters and all places public
wouldn't keep the temperature at 50 below zero. All Tex-
ans are wearing as little as possible to stay cool and then
freeze their patooties off the minute they walk in the
door. I am sick and tired of dressing for winter in the
summer. Every day I think "How many layers do I need
today?" It is getting ridiculous.
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Texas whines
That old saying "If you don't like the weather here, just
wait a minute, it will change" is wrong. Texas only has
two seasons: summer and not summer. For about three
weeks in January, the sun stops beating down so the rain
can flood us all out.
Did we wrong Mother Nature in another life?
I feel sorry for those out-of-state students adjusting to
the phenomenal heat we all live with. Those poor souls
from California blessed with good weather but bad earth-
quakes probably would almost prefer those occasional
ground shakings to the relentless heat that plagues this
state. I know I would.
As always, I didn't intend to whine. It just always
works out that way. Rest assured, I don't enjoy complain-
ing so bitterly about something I can't help. Wait, that's a
bald-faced lie. I do enjoy it, but what's better is that I
know you're thinking the same thing.
Staff
Editor: Garth Lewis
Advertising Manager: Michelle Higgins
Managing Editors: Jessica Burgess, Ellen Schroeder
Commentary Editor: Bonnie Lovell
Sports Editor: Robert Thomas
A&E Editor: Jeff Fielder
Photo Editor: Jacqi Serie
Copy Editor: Nicole Scolaro
Web Editor: Eric Backs
Features Editor: Courtney Wallace
Graphics Editor: Alan Kennedy
Advertising Sales: Angela Rieke, James Cruse, Lucas Tesh,
Kristi Kennimer
Columnist/Movie Critic: Robert Snoddy
Writers: Julie Freeman, Robin M. Smith
A&E Writer: Richard Guerrero
Sports Writers: Richard Greene, Chris Roark
Photographers: Gary Payne, Vernon Bryant
Cartoonists: Andy Bowers, Stacey Medler
Advertising Artist: Micah Yarborough
If YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT . . .
My parents, on the other hand, escaped to the cool
Midwest. I fear they will never come back. I visited their
Winnebago parked in my aunt’s driveway in Illinois and
thought I had gone to heaven. The trees were actually
green. There were no heat waves radiating from the
ground.
My folks could actually spend time outside without
dropping dead from heatstroke. Sunbathing once more
became a relaxing pastime..
I had to wear a light jacket at night. OK, I only wore a
jacket once, even though it wasn't all that cold because,
dam it, I could.
As my plane returned to Texas, I thought it had been
I rerouted to the pit of hell. Even through the plane's air-
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Bill Clinton makes me nuts.
He's good-looking. He's charming. He thinks like I
think about political issues, domestic and foreign.
And he's sexually irresponsible. •
So what? He's my president, not my husband.
Never before have a president's private sexual pecca-
dilloes been paraded before the American public as being
our concern. We're hearing gory details of an intensely
private nature that are undignified at worst, unseemly at
best.
As a private citizen, I strongly believe what a president
does behind closed doors with another consenting adult
is nobody else's business. That goes for you and me, too.
Last time I looked there was nothing about sexual
behavior in the constitutional requirements for presiden-
tial candidates.
Presidents — and men and women — throughout his-
tory have dallied. If sexual fidelity were a requirement for
public office, we'd have fewer candidates — or more liars.
For one, we would have been deprived of the presiden-
cy of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who led the country through
the Great Depression and the worst days of World War II,
winning election an unprecedented four times.
Other Democrats and women who supported Clinton
are also struggling with the questions his behavior raises.
His relationship with Monica Lewinsky may have been
consensual, but it was hardly mutual. Or equal.
Here's a 21-year-old intern fresh out of college sudden-
ly in the company of the free world's most powerful man.
Pretty heady stuff for an immature, romantically inclined
young woman.
She was no match for the president of the United
States.
Power is sexy and Clinton uses that. His attractiveness
was magnified by his power, as was his sense of entitle-
ment.
It was jerky behavior, but you can't legislate against
that.
The first obstacle most students faced returning to campus this
week was finding parking places.
This was because the school decided to improve parking.
Over the summer, NT combined the general commuter and pre-
mium commuter lots. Now those holding commuter permits can
park in any commuter lot.
Under the old system, underclassmen were eligible to buy the less
expensive general commuter permits, and upperclassmen and
graduate students could buy permits for the closer-in premium
commuter lots.
After two years of college and GC parking lots, upperclassmen
felt they had earned the privilege of closer-in parking. It was some-
thing to look forward to.
The new system is more equitable. It's strictly first-come, first
served. Upperclassmen and underclassmen alike are equally unable
to find decent parking spots.
All commuter permitholders are driving around the same lots at
the same time competing for the same parking spaces.
The result is chaos.
It takes longer to find a space. The search for a parking space once
meant driving around one lot a time or two. It now involves getting
to campus much earlier or being late to class.
Some students have given up in frustration and parked in
metered parking, meaning they have paid twice.
If the school is going to make parking less convenient, the least it
could do is make parking less expensive.
Students pay $55 a semester for the inconvenience of not being
able to park close or conveniently.
How is this an improvement?
One reason cited for the change was a black market in stolen PC
permits.
That definitely will not be a problem with the new permits.
It's easier, faster and closer to park on the street and walk.
The old system was said to make inefficient use of space, but this
system is inefficient in other ways.
The parking office should take another look at this situation.
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I can't stand it anymore. I'm sorry, but I must share my
thoughts about the heat before I explode. Assuming I don't
burst into flames first.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we had a sprinkle or two. Big deal.
What is the deal? Do we get rain the first of every month
so we can bum in the days after? I think Mother Nature is
just playing with us. And to think June started out so
well. Beautifully, in fact. In my apartment with one work-;
ing air conditioner, all the doors were flung open to cap-
ture the cool breezes that I hoped would last forever.
Little did we suspect the thermometer would betray us
all so soon.
If it was 100 degrees in June, I innocently thought,
what will it be like in August? 303 degrees?
Well, boys and girls, August came and went, and
indeed, it is 303 degrees in the shade. I read a story about
a man who cooked his entire meal in a solar oven in his
front yard while he was at work. Now there's a man
using his head, or heat, rather.
I have come close to baking, but not food, just my
brains. The air conditioner that works is in my room, so
although that space is at sub-zero temperatures, the rest
of the apartment is around 90 degrees. My plants are
dead. My apartment is hot. I am not happy.
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