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The Blue Banner
September 19,200.
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Opinions
Blue Banner Editorial
Speak, the campus will listen
Much of our time spent at UNCA comes with a lot of
complaint about what the university does wrong. Things
are far from perfect, but imperfections only give us
room for improvements.
For example, a story ran in The Blue Banner last spring
semester about new emergency phones place around
campus. This story contained a quote from a student
who was concerned about having to use a pay phone
from building to building on campus.
She wanted to be able to call her roommate and let her
know she'd be staying late in a building on campus. The
student expressed a desire for courtesy phones to re
place pay phones in each building, especially for short
phone calls that barely cost the 35 cents it takes to use
the pay phone.
After returning this fall, we found courtesy phones
placed in buildings around campus.
We don't know sure if the students quote spawned
this action, but this should show that even the smallest
of comments can make a difference.
Students, stop whining and complaining about things
and write an editorial to The Blue Banner. Or when a
Banner reporter asks for an opinion on a story for the
newspaper, give one.
You never know when something you say might make
an impact on campus.
Surprisingly enough, people do read the newspaper.
Important people want to hear constructve criticism
and suggestions for the improvement of the university.
With that in mind, we would like to make another
suggestion.
At night, the areas around Founders Hall and Mills
Hall'seem to get darker and darker.
With all the construction going on, there are plenty of
scary, hiding places between the parking lot and the
tiny sidewalk that connects the residential halls to the
parking lot.
Additional lighting would benefit that area. Even if it
made student fees go up, surely safety is worth the small
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Columnist
Even if briefly, consider for a
moment the crucial implications of
a new term to replace George W.
Bush and his direct sponsor’s idea
of homeland security and war on
terrorism.
I hope readers will consider Re
form National Security, a concept
of security based in an idea con
ceived by Jane Addams in her 1932
Nobel Peace Prize address.
Addams said, “The good we se
cure for ourselves is precarious and
uncertain...until such good is se
cured for all, and incorporated into
our common good.”
It’s the Marshall Plan and Cru
sade for Peace outlook on foreign
policy and the fundamental idea
behind Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s
New Deal polices for the home
front - normal stuff used when mod
ern America is in crisis.
But, radical changes are occur
ring, and we need a framework for
opposing radical, counter-intuitive
ipproaches to real problems in
America and the world we live.
Imagine we have a wall of issues
that remain unaddressed - a rotten
social contract, a broken electoral
system, a terrible economic out
look and an existing environmental
disaster.
Yet, Bush is almost totally vali
dated by the crisis. Can we then
assume the war on terrorism and a
Soviet-style department of home
land security is the only Bush policy?
Richard B. Cheney hinted at some
thing more in a collateral damage
conference at the Cato Institute
June 23, 1998. Cheney said, “The
good Lord didn’t see fit to put oil
:nd gas only where there are demo-
cratically-elected regimes friendly
:o the United States.”
If you think George W. Bush and
his direct sponsors are saving the
world from evil and are creating
strong foundations for America’s
complete systems security require
ments, please, get into the facts.
Start with books like “War on
Freedom” and Zbigniew K.
Brzezinski’s “The Grand Chess
board: American Primacy and Its
Geostrategic Imperatives.”
If only half of the indicators in
these books are true, we are in seri
ous trouble.
But, the first step is to admit we
have a problem. Then, we must
commit to a new dialectic - Reform
National Security.
I suggest re-examining history
since the Monica Lewinsky im
peachment, the Rehnquist Court’s
radical ruling on Bush vs. Gore and
Sept. 11, 2001.
There really isn’t a strong multi
lateral analysis of this era domi
nated by a focus on markets and
crucial environmental issues.
I might suggest going to
www.senate.gov and searching for
Senate Bill S. 1867. It calls for a
national commission on terrorist
attacks on the United States. One
might even considering calling or
writing Washington to support the
measure.
If we really, really trust Bush with
our lives, we need not bother. But,
if we believe normal everyday
American life is good and believe in
our views about what America needs
to be doing (the normal intentions
of genuine conservatives and
progressives alike), then we need to
push at the Washington politicians
one last time to do a thorough job
with the Sept. 11 commission.
The Bush Administration fears
this commission. Therefore, it be
comes especially important for all
of us. But, for many of the victim
families of Sept. 11 and concerned
citizens who want accountability
from the massive, highly autono
mous, super powerful, super influ
ential and outrageously expensive
corporate-public national security
institution, the official story on Sept.
11 issues doesn’t fly. Instead, the
story acts as one of the most exten
sive frauds ever set upon humanity
and thrown against the spirit of
God.
The preamble to the Bill of Rights
provides yet another reason why we
can and should consider Reform
National Security.
The people “at the time of adopt
ing the Constitution, expressed a
desire, in order to prevent miscon
struction or abuse of its powers,
that further declaratory and restric
tive clauses should be added, and as
extending the ground ofpublic con
fidence in the Government will best
insure the beneficent ends of its
institution.”
First, in a democracy, you always
want the system authority enforc
ers under the control of the people,
not controlled by a self-appointed
power sect. We have always had a
terror threat.
To drop democracy (however
cheesy it’s become) for what Bush
and his direct supporters have in
mind for us is suicide.
Donald Rumsfeld once said, “We
have a choice, either change the
way we live, which is unacceptable,
or to change the way that they live.
We choose the latter.”
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UNCA and Transportation
UNCA commuter students drive 29,000 miles to school and home every school da^
Together with faculty, staff, and residential students, UNCA drives an average of
34,000 miles every day. That's equivalent to driving from Asheville to San Francisco
14 times.
For the whole year, UNCA drives over 10,000,000 miles and uses around 450,000
gallons of gasoline. That would fill 30,000 kegs and If you stacked them:
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