Collegian (Hurst, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 1990 Page: 2 of 15
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2 / Collegian
Opinion
Wednesday, January 31,1990
INFORMER
Trey Holcomb
Dear Informer,
Why does the library not own copies of textbooks for
viewing?
Bookworm
Dear Bookworm,
Library representatives on all three TCJC said it is the respon-
sibility of the students to purchase their own textbooks. Ralph Man,
South Campus Learning Resources Manager, said the library budget
does not include the funds to buy and update textbooks. Interim
Director of the NE-LRC, Paul Vagt, said if someone were to donate
textbooks or donate money specifically to buy textbooks, the library
would carry them.
★ ★ ★
Dear Informer,
I suppose the following questions about parking rules are
in order:
1. Where does a non-stickered visitor park?
2. How often does a visitor come before he is no longer a visitor?
3. Why does the ticket state to “disregard the notice?”
Dazed and Confused
Dear Dazed and Confused,
Well, first, visitors may park in the visitor’s parking lot located
at the front of each Campus.
Second, Jim Harris, South Campus public safety supervisor,
said cars parked in the visitors lot are run through a computer check
on the license plate. Cars that are determined to be owned by
students are given citations. Cars that are not registered to students
are considered visitors and not ticketed.
Methods of enforcing the visitors parking lot rules vary from
campus to campus.
According to NE Campus Public Safety Supervisor, Lt. Harry
Liles, cars parked at NE Campus more than twice in the visitors lot are
given a citation.
This brings me around to the answer of your third questions.
On each citation is a notice to visitors to disregard the ticket, sign it on
the backside and return it to the public safety office. Visitors who
receive a ticket need to sign it and return it to the public safety office
located in the administration building and the ticket will be dismissed.
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Correction:
In the last column I incorrectly said there were no political party clubs
on any campuses except NE. NW campus has an active College
Republicans club.
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Contact the Informer Monday through Friday, 1-4 p.m. at ext. 391
(NE) or 656-6619 or mail letters to the Collegian. On NE Campus, drop
letters in CAB-119.
The Collegian
Editorial Staff
Editor in Chief
Troy Hatch
District News Editor
William Stewart
NE Campus News Editor
Trey Holcomb
NW Campus News Editor
Kim Hatley
South Campus News Editor
Department Editors
Feature Editor
Lisa Warner
Entertainment Editor
Greg Gosdin
Sports Editor
Bruce Bowen
Photography Editor
Steve Gariepy
Production
Managing Editor
Phebe Cornell
Page Editor
Julie Rainey
Photographers
Wayne Day, Juliana Robles,
Scott Bjornlie, Crystal Ray, Joe
Walker, Bert Torres, Tony Coley
Writers
Vaness Douglas, Norma
Hofmeister, Melody Mayer, Scott
McCollum, Donald Munsch, Kelly
Patterson, Hank Sinatra
Illustrator
Editorial Consultant - Diane Turner
Adviser - Dr. Joe Norton
Kathy Cermak
Director of Advertising
Grayson Mitchell
Letter Policy
The Collegian is a bi-
weekly student publication
serving the Tarrant County Junior
College District. Editorial
statements do not necessarily
reflect the opinion of the TCJC
administration.
Letters are welcomed,
should be no longer than 150
words, signed, include social
security number, free from libel
and may be brought to the
Collegian office (CAB-119) on
NE Campus, Assoc. Dean's
office on NW Campus, SUB-104
on South Campus or mailed to:
Collegian
828 Harwood Road
Hurst, Texas 76054
656-6619
the bottom line
At best, 1989 was a horrific year for the environ-
ment.
Exxon’s disastrous handling of its Alaskan oil spill,
the realization that our drinking water closely resembles
the sewage we dump into it and Mr. Bush’s declaration
that he would clean up the air by increasing the amount
of pollutants in it should be enough to scare the aver-
age citizen into a sacrificing frenzy.
But regardless of the sacrifices the general
citizenry is willing to make, the federal government also
must make sacrifices, such as finding alternatives to
the mass consumption of fossil fuels, which, when
burned, cause acid rain and contribute significantly to
the greenhouse effect.
Natural gaS is one alternative to oil, though it could
become extremely expensive. But solar- and wind-
power have yet fo be developed to their potential and
an effective mass-transit system does not exist.
As well, industry in the U.S. pumps at least 10
pounds of cancer-causing toxic chemicals into the air
for every person in the nation each year, to say nothing
of the pollutants we add from automobiles.
In fact, during a two-year period, Avtex Fibers,
Inc., a Virginia company, was convicted of nearly 2,000
violations of its water discharge permit, willful violations
of asbestos-removal laws and was identified as the
nation’s second largest source of toxic chemical
emissions.
Finally, last fall, the federal government shut down
the plant, but only after government contracts with the
company were met.
And oil spills were not the only causes of pollution
in U.S. coastal and fresh water.
In the last two years reports of medical refuse
washing up on East-Coast beaches were not uncom-
mon.
Even the Mississippi River, from which the Mid-
west and Plains states drink, receives one-fourth of all
U.S. sewage as well as toxic runoff from farms and who
knows what else.
The EPA last year reported that more than 10
percent of the nation’s lakes, rivers and coastal areas
are contaminated by toxic chemicals and metals.
Abandoned mines in the Rocky Mountains that
have filled with water and are now allowed to flow freely
contribute tons of metals to drinking water in the moun-
tain states each year.
And in response to public pressure, Mr. Bush,
waving his clean-air banner, sent proposals to Con-
gress that would supposedly make cuts in toxic emis-
sions from automobiles. In reality, however, his pro-
posals would allow many automobiles to emit more
toxic chemicals into the air than previously allowed by
the 1970 Clean Air Act.
When Mr. Bush said, “No new taxes,” he may as
well have said, “No clean environment."
Americans are ready and willing to sacrifice tax
dollars and some of their free time if government will
sacrifice the time and effort needed to clean up our
environment. And industry must find a clean way to
make money or sacrifice some of its profit.
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Collegian (Hurst, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 31, 1990, newspaper, January 31, 1990; Hurst, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1183212/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room.