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Eagle shows odd
grasp of security
The definition that Webster
gives for “security” is “1)
feeling secure; freedom from
fear, doubt, etc.; 2) protection;
safeguard.” Standing in a
parking lot seeming to play
Barney Fife while writing,
parking tickets seems to have
little if anything to do with the
definition of the word. But it
appears that is the idea our
new Double Eagle Security
Service has about security.
Why does Double Eagle
feel it is necessary to write a
student a ticket for parking in
front of the gym when the stu
dent is going to be inside for
only a few minutes? Does it
cause a major parking prob
lem to have the front tire out
side the lien? When a profes
sor parks in a handicapped
space and displays the handi
capped plate clearly in the
front window, should he get a
ticket?
Call us crazy, but we’ve
never considered parking a
pressing security issue. Per
haps Double Eagle was hired
to insure that our “major”
parking problem was cor
rected. It’s a cinch that we
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don’t see the connection be
tween parking and security,
but then we aren’t crack, spe
cially trained security person
nel.
What is being done with all
of the ticket revenue anyway?
The way Double Eagle “offi
cers” have been doing their
job, enough money to pay for
a student’s tuition must have
been collected by now.
The strangest thing of all is
the fact that a student’s trans
mission was stolen from un
der her car during the night —
while it was in the parking lot.
The parking lot is the very
place security is foot-patrol
ling for all of those illusive
illegally parked cars. Where
in the blue blazes were our
men in blue that night?
Maybe watching MTV and
talking about the women they
saw outside the post office
that day? No, that’s not an ac
cusation, merely speculation.
Well, keep up the outstand
ing service, Double Eagle!
Please know you are admired
and respected by everyone for
making our campus a great
place to park.
System promotes alcohol
Student drinking constant
While anti-drinking rules cost
Marquette University cheerleaders
their jobs during the holiday break
and could land two North Carolina
State students in jail, a California
State University at Dominquez Hills
professor concluded campus atti
tudes still encourage students to
drink.
Students, added CSU’s Dr. David
Nasatir in reporting the results of the
University of California at Berkeley
study he helped direct, seem to be
drinking as much as they always
have, despite intense campus efforts
to the contrary.
Most schools around the U.S.
have cranked up “alcohol awareness”
policies since 1985, when federal
laws forced states to raise their legal
drinking ages from 18 to 21.
To get liability insurance, col
leges had to demonstrate to insurance
companies they were keeping their
undoraged students from drinking
liquor.
But the Berkeley study suggested
there has been no profound increase
or decrease in student drinking since
the new policies began.
The reason is that many schools,
Nasatir said, “are lax in observing
violations of the drinking minimum
age.” Alcohol, moreover, is often an
integral part of social and athletic
events, and the “awareness” pro
grams, by not recognizing alcohol’s
role, are rendered ineffective.
Nasatir’s research, part of an on
going study of campus alcohol use,
noted fratemities have helped keep
general student drinking rates high.
“Young men living in fratemities
seem to drink more often and larger
quantities than any other group of
similar young men in dormitories, or
with roommates,” he said.
“It’s not clear whether that’s be
cause fratemities recruit drinkers or
manufacture drinkers,” Nasatir con
tinued. “But that seems to be a phe
nomenon that holds tme on all cam
puses with fratemities.”
A solution, he suggested, might
be to crack down on people and
groups who serve liquor to students.
“This has a chilling effect on individ
ual willingness to serve alcohol.”
At Marquette, however, a group
of cheerleaders quit in December in
stead of tolerating a crackdown.
Eleven cheerleaders quit the Mil
waukee college’s squad after school
officials suspended two cheerleaders
for swiping some leftover bottles of
champagne from a private party.
“They all said they could no
longer cheer” with two members sus
pended for something they all took
part in or knew about, said Mark
McCarthy, Marquette’s associate
dean of students.
Former cheerleader Kim. Heller,
one of those suspended, said cheer
leaders often took leftover cham
pagne from parties they had worked
as hostesses to save for a celebration
after the first basketball game of the
season. However, the boat company
that sponsored the party complained
to the school.
At the same time, Raleigh police
charged two N.C. State students with
counterfeiting drivers’ licenses and
selling them to classmates to use
them to buy alcohol.
The two students built a large
cardboard replica of a license. They
would then take photos of customers
standing in front of the replica, and
process the resultant artwork as a
fake license.
The students, each charged with
two counts of counterfeiting and
selling drivers’ licenses, could serve
three years in prison if found guilty.
The University of Washington,
however, may have been overzealous
in attempts to control drinking. The
school, facing a lawsuit from the
American Civil Liberties Union and
several UW law students, agreed not
to search fans attending football
games for alcohol. At the begirming
of the 1987 season, university police
had stepped up efforts to combat al
cohol use during football games.
But administrators, heeding pro
tests, agreed to halt the searches, at
least for the last game of the season.
UW officials say they will develop a
revised search policy for next season.
Prisoner seeks pen pal
Dear Editor:
I am a prisoner on death row at
the Arizona State Prison and I was
wondering if you would do me a fa
vor. I have been here for quite a while
and have no family or firiends on the
outside to write to. So, I was wonder
ing if you would put an ad in your
campus newspaper for me, for corre
spondence. If not in your paper, then
maybe you have some kind of bulle
tin that you could put it in. I know
that you are not a pen-pal club or
anything like that, but I would really
appreciate if if you could help me.
I am a Caucasian male, age 40,
who desires correspondence with ei
ther male or female college students.
I want to form a friendly relationship
and more or less just exchange past
experiences and ideas. I will answer
all letters and exchange pictures. If
interested, write to Box B-38604,
Florence, Arizona 85232.
Jim Jeffers