Thursday, October 23, 1997
Thumbs up/ Thumbs down
Lounge living can’t compare
Thumbs down to the overcrowded conditions of on-campus housing.
For the entire fall quarter, some students have been living in
converted study lounges in the high-rise dorms instead of in normal
rooms.
Jack Gibbons, associate director of residential life, explains
that there was a "higher than normal" demand for bedroom space this
year, and that students had an option to decline and live off
campus. Students living in the lounges pay the same price as those
who have normal rooms.
Top 10 percent will luck out
Thumbs up to a law going into effect in the fall of 1998 that
will exempt the top 10 percent of Texas graduating high school
seniors from taking the SAT and ACT examinations. The students will
be automatically admitted into the state’s public colleges and
universities. Schools in less affluent areas will have higher
student admissions into the competitive universities. Schools that
are predominantly of color will be guaranteed slots for their top
10 percent.
Clinton keeps kids safer
Thumbs up to an agreement reached by President Clinton and eight
top hand gun manufacturers to equip their guns with child-proof
locks. By the end of next year 80 percent of hand guns sold in the
United States will have them. What would Gov. Wilson say about
that?
Stealing is not the answer
Thumbs down to the theft of 7,000 copies of the Daily
Californian. The incident is thought to have been sparked by a
column which criticized the campus group Coalition to Defend
Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary. There are better ways to
protest things you disagree with. Stealing newspapers is cowardly
and foolish.
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