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Meredith Herald September 22,1999 Campus Opinion Fight for clean water From the Uniil last week, I ate pork. Granted, I did not eat it often, but as a North Carolina native, I sure enjoyed barbecue. It was last week, however, that I began hearing more about the hog farms so common to Eastern North Carolina. Murphy Farms, the largest hog farm in the state, is one of the main sponsors for I the new arena. Now, Smithfield Foods, I gf largest pork preparing compa nies in the country, is buying Murphy Farms so that Smithfield can do business without a middleman. The regulations that the state places on these hog farms are quite hard-to-regulate. That is why huge cess pools, romantically referred to as lagoons, are allowed to build up on the banks of rivers like the Neuse. When these lagoons build up, and when heavy rains come through and cause flooding, as was the case last week in Hurricane Royd, the pools overflow into the rivers. How can we, as North Carolina residents, allow this overflow to occur? Why are we not leaning on the slate legislature and gov ernment to enforce regulations and increase penalties? If enough people react to the present conditions, the legislature will do something. Tliat’s why they were elected—to listen to their constituents. In addition to the hundreds of gallons of hog waste currently flowing into the Neuse River, another hog-related problem has resulted from Hurricane Floyd; drowned pigs and other livestock. Sunday’s News and Observer ran a front-page picture of pigs climbing and trying to stay alive on top of a bam—they had sur vived. An inside picture showed a hog farmer trawling for pig car casses. And thousands of chickens and turkeys also drowned in the floods. Tliese two pictures highlight the effects of the hurricane on these animals. They were kept too close to conditions that made it possible for them do drown, and these bodies, combined with the cess pools' overflowing, will cause dangerous conditions for drinking water. Even President Clinton, in Monday’s speech in TarbMX). emphasized the need for clean drinking water. But the water will not be clean unless the citizens of North Carolina fight for it. Meredith Herald Edtt» in Leslie Maxwell NewsE(^or. .^ristisa Hofder Copy Parsons Arts & Basiness — Dwdas Reponers ....Alexia Andrews, Leesha Atisun, Kris^ l^iissa Ao^da Flet^)er, ‘Tracjr HarwAKl» Christina Holder MtehelteHalse, Rebecs jduuon, Stephanie Jc^n, Nikki Norris, Ayaa» Rfaodes, Knstio SchBeider, loni Smith. Mby Spacer, IVacy Lcafi'nUiBaR, TaorafaaWUIcims . > Meliss&Castcm&Lcrallllinao ffikkj Norris & J>. R^Kcca Duncan Dii^ri^tion Subscriptions Faculty Adviser. EdHoriai Polky: The Meredith Heraid is publist^ by die College thrwghout du academic yew. The paper is funded % fhe 0>lwge 4nd thiottgh independent advertising. Ttw opinions exp^ssed in editcmal columns do n« necessarily reflect Okmc of rtie GoIJcge administra tion, faculty, or student l»dy. H9W to If yoa have a article idea ftw the eontart the office at 7^ 2824. You can also e-mail the paper at ^maxwetll @meredith.edu>. All ideas will be considered but may not necessarily be used. Guarded at the gate Sara Parsons Copy Editor A few Thursday nights ago, a friend of mine was returning to campus late after a night out. Upon approaching the guard gate, she realized she did not have her CamCard. She was turned away despite the Mered ith parking sticker on her car and some earnest pleading with the guard. She could not get in touch with any of her suite-mates or other friends living on campus to come out to help her. policy should ever force a stu dent to drive further than she has to late at night. In addition, not every student lives in a place so nearby or has someone they could intrude on so late. Where would they go? What would they do? Students should not be turned away from their own residence late at night because they do not possess a plastic canl when it is obvious they live on campus. Weren’t poli cies made to keep students out of danger, not put them in it? Clarification: Last week’s article on stu dent parking should have said that from 5 p.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Monday, resident stu dents may park in commuter parking spaces. Only seniors may park in senior parking spaces, and students may not park in fac ulty. staff, visitor or reserved parking spaces or fire lanes. Though, being forced to even try to call on them lA such late hours for something so trivial is completely ridiculous. So, she was forced to drive to her parents’ home in North Raleigh, waking them up with an unexpected visit. To me, this “no CamCard, no entrance” policy is exces sive and could put a student in a very dangerous situation. No ' ■leafers • are. Invited.-, to the ETHICAL LEAOERSBXP RECEPTION. ' Wednesday, septeitifaer-.29,, 1999- 7-8S30' p.m. ' „ Kresge Auditorium . , ■ - ' ' reshments and a paneldisct^s'ion^ Freshman Run-off Results: President: Taylor Waren Secretary: Megan Deane Already elected officers are: Vice president: Amanda Warren Treasurer: Kristen TVipp Historian: , Camden Watts Letters to the Editor Policy: Everyone in the Meredith community is invited and encouraged to write a letter to the editor. All published letters must be typewritten with a contact name, address, and telephone number. All letters must be signed by the author in order to be published. The Herald reserves the right to place any other article submissions on file until needed or to choose not to print them. The Herald also has the right to edit submissions for space restrictions, grammar and style.
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