The Pilot, page 2
From
The
Fish
Tank
R. Shawn Lewis
Managing Editor
With the coming of a new decade and the
year 2000 only 10 years away, everyone is
taking a turn at predicting the course of the
events for the world. So, why should I be dif
ferent? Here’s a list of my predictions for
what won’t happen in the ‘90s:
Elvis will come back from the dead in
order to perform at Webb Jam II.
Gardner-Webb students will actually be
happy about something (this one isn’t
scheduled to happen until 2017, when Elvis
does come back to play in Webb Jam
XXVII).
WGWG will abandon its "beautiful
music" hours, in favor of an all rock-n-roll
format.
Required Convocation will be dropped
and replaced by required Thursday night at
tendance at the Pterodactyl and J-Tracks.
Opposite sex visitation will be extended
to 24-hours, 7 days a week (need I say
more?).
Domino’s Pizza will replace American
Food Management as the cafeteria’s main
supplier (Ray Cooper stays, though).
Dr. William B. Stowe will be named suc
cessor to the throne of Gardner-Webb,
leaving the Fishman in charge of the Com
munications Studies department.
Everyone passes Dr. Tom Jones’ Biology
101 class (only in your dreams!).
On a more serious note, this is our
decade to make or break. Several issues
loom heavy on the future of the world: the
environment, discrimination, nuclear
power, just to name a few.
The choice is ours to deal with these issues
before they deal with us.
THE PILOT
R. Shawn Lewis
Managing Editor
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Kathy Henson
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We Get Letters...
To the Editor,
I agree with the letter to the Editor
regarding employee parking (Letters, Nov.
4). It is time for the lower end of the totem
pole to get a little more respect. I sym
pathize with the employees problem of
parking. After all, they should be provided
with decent parking somewhere in the
vicinity of the building in which they work.
But let’s look a little further down the totem
pole. Sure the employees work 8 hours a
day, but they don’t have to put up with the
problem of living on campus 24 hours a day
and not being able to find a parking space
near their dorm. This may not seem like
such a big problem to the employees;
however, for those students who live in the
dorms, coming in after dark and having to
walk halfway across campus from car to
dorm is not only inconvenient, but can also
be dangerous.
The letter from the employee said that
for the pay they receive, they a least need to
be able to have decent parking. Well, take
into consideration that the price we the stu
dents are paying to come to this school is
not allowing us any more decent parking
than they are receiving. In fact, this year, the
parking spaces for students have been
reduced and place farther away from the
women’s dorms than ever.
It is a disgrace for the students of
Gardner-Webb College to have to put up
with such a problem. What is even more dis
turbing, though, is that an employee would
have the nerve to write such things as were
in that editorial when the students have had
parking places cut in order to accommodate
such employees. We the students get tick
ets when we park in a staff parking place,
but employees do not get tickets when they
park in student parking spaces.
This is a problem all of us must deal with
both the students and staff of Gardner-
Webb College. I don’t think it will be
resolved any time soon. However, until it is
I think it would be a good suggestion for
everyone to remember that we all have to
work or go to school here and a little exer
cise never hurt anyone. So take a couple
extra steps, employees. We the students
have to everyday.
Ali Buie
GWC Box 153
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To the Editor,
This is a formal letter of protest against
discrimination at Gardner-Webb College.
Wednesday, December 6, a dinner was held
in the cafeteria requiring formal attire
(dress pants and a tie for men and a dress
or dress slacks for women; no jeans were al-
lowed). If you did not wear the "ap
propriate" attire, you had to eat your dinner
in the DCC lobby or the commuter lounge.
That may be fine for some people, but what
about the people who didn’t have the "cor
rect attire?" What about those students who
can’t afford the "correct attire?" Those stu
dents were made to eat apart from the rest
of their friends and peers just because they
didn’t dress the right way. They were
treated like servants. Is that any way to treat
people at a college that believes, (and I
quote for the Gardner-Webb College
handbook, p.8) "We [Gardner-Webb
recognize the unique importance of the
family [of Gardner-Webb College]." Would
you treat a member of your own immediate
family this way? Discriminating against
them because they didn’t have the money
to buy nice clothes?
What it boils down to is this: WE
SHOULD TREAT OTHER PEOPLE
FOR WHO THEY ARE AND NOT FOR
WHAT THEY WEAR OR HOW MUCH
MONEY THEY HAVE. If this is the way
students are treated at Gardner-Webb,
then I want nothing to do with this college
or its "appropriate attire" functions. To see
a principle that this college is built upon,
the principle of equality, so blatantly ig
nored makes me furious. I hope that some
one will take action against this matter
before it happens again!
David McAmis
GWC Box 581
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