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SeptemBer 20, 1991 page two Letter to the Editor To the editor: I would like to address tiie article, “Why Can’t I Have Fun Anymore?” featured in the Sept. 13 edition of the Herald. I am a recent re-entry graduate of Meredith and I have been a homeowner on Brent Road for eight years. The essay that is to be featured in this issue of the Herald concerning the “Rise and Fall of Brent Road” was authored by me about four years ago as a English 111 assignment. 1 felt the tone and approach of that essay was much too mild for the conditions that prevail today on Brent Road, so I offer the following addi tional comments for your consideration. Jessica, I ask you, would your parents allow you to have a party at their home, or would you consider having one at your apartment, at which: your guests urinated by the hundreds on your back porch, took beer and liquor bottles and burst them in your driveway for fun, climbed all over your car and scratched the paint, took your flower pots and threw them against your front door to break them? A party at which your parents, or you, were robbed of 500 dollars worth of power and hand tools, at which your guests put your heating and air conditioning unit out of order—and then— when you or your parents spoke up and simply asked them to leave your property fin a polite way) they replied to you, in your own home, ‘‘If you don’t like it you G D n B_t_h then why don't you move?” Would you have, or be allowed to have, a "party” such as this? 1 seriously doubt it. But this, Jessica, is only part of what hap pened to me at the last Brent Road Bash on Labor Day weekend And you think I should sit back and not demand Police protection? What we residents are compl^ning about, Jessica, has nothing to do with taking life too seriously or with us trying to prevent you or anyone from having fun. Of course, that depends on what you call lijn. What we are complaining about, what we are ap palled at, is the tota] lack of respect for other people and their property—to put it mildly. We’re talking about mob rule. We’re talk ing about an attitude that says: anything goes on Brent Road ‘cause I wanna have “fun,” and furthermore, the property own ers there should pay taxes in order to provide a street where thousands of people can come and get drunk and break the laws that apply everywhere else but shouldn’t apply or be enforced on Brent Road. Even though the residents of Brent Road abide by these laws in respect of me and my property, they have no right to expect the same from me, ‘cause I wanna have “fun!” At everybody else’s’ expense. Don’t try and come back at me with the lame excuse that all anybody wants is a place to go and you’ve got no place to go. You’ve got the brickyard and fraternities, but you can’t go there and break the laws of public drunkenness or underage drinking— these places are too closely monitored. If you honestly just wanted a place to gather, you could gather there—or gather at your parents’ homes. Again, what you are asking for is a place to come where laws aren’t enforced and you want the private citizen to fmance it and then have them sit back and watch while a drunken mob destroys what they’ve financed. No way Jessica. Noton my dime. Get the Brent Road Bashers together and buy your own place out in the country, large enough to accommodate your ‘^parties” then the Bashers can vandalize their own property and steal from each other and finance it themselves. Till then, I’ll not only complain, I’ll fight ‘em till I drop! -Jeanne Stancil WINGS Meeting is a Success hy Kotfuyn Jone.s Our Sept. 9 meeting was a great success, with over 50 re-entry students in attendance. Jamie O’Briant, WINGS President, intro duced WINGS officers, WINGS faculty sponsors, campus ministry support persons, and our Student Life Representative, Mercedes Taliano. She explained that the WINGS representatives and the campus ministry serve as support systems for re entry students, while Student Life serves as a channel for initiating changes at Meredith. Sandra Close of the Continuing Education on Oct. 5 and 6. The title change of this special event, formerly known as “Parents’ Weekend,” now acknowledges the presence of re-entry students on the Meredith campus. As part of Meredith “Family Weekend” Dr. Heining-Boynton will lead a workshop on Saturday, Oct. 5. This workshop is specially designed for re-entry students and their significant others. Child care will be pro vided for children ages 1 year and up. The cost for Family Weekend is $25 per family and includes a pig pickin’’ also to be held on Saturday for all family members. 'Mcrcdiih 'Jfcvald Letters to the Editor Policy Everyone in the Meredith Community is invited to write a letter to the editor. All published letters must be typewritten with contact name and address and telephone number. All letters must be signed by the author, but names will be withheld from publication upon request. Submissions may be dropped in the iHeraCibox next to the Cate Center box office. Deadline for submission is Tuesday at noon. Managing Editor KeUy Parker Publication Editor Amy Im Voy Copy Editor Jessica Cook Business Manager Jane Kennedy Advisor Nan Miller Features Editor Amity Brown Club Events Editor Kendra Neese Photography Editor Julie Smith Staff Suzanne Averette Betsy Zimin Gilda Boyd Trista Schagat Sonali Kolhatkar 'MereditH ’Htroid Meredith College 3800 Hillsborough Street Box xl33 Raleigh, N.C. 27607-5298 (919) 829-2824 Printed by Hinton Press, Mebane, N.C. Editorial Policy The 9^&reditft :MeraCd\s published by Meredith College during the academic year. The paper is funded by the Col lege and through advertising, retains the right not to publish material containing personal attacks, insults, ridicule, or libelous statements. All letters to the editor must be signed. The opinions expressed in editorial columns do not necessarily reflect those of the college administration, faculty, or stu dent body.
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