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Opinion
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Students deserve equitable parking spaces
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contributions
The Collegian staff welcomes letters
to the editor concerning articles that have
run in the paper or on other subjects that
may be of interest to the general public.
All letters should be signed by the
writer, who should include his or her social
They come in many forms.
These oppressors of freedom want to censor anything
The Collegian is a weekly student publication serving the Tarrant County College District.
Editorial statements and advertisements do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the TCC admin-
istration.
Letters to the paper should be 150 words or less, free from libel and poor taste and include the
writer’s name and social security number. Letters may be brought to The Collegian office (CAB 120,
NE Campus), or mailed to: The Collegian • 828 Harwood Road • Hurst, TX 76054 • Phone: 817-
515-6392 Fax:817-515-6767 e-mail: tcceditor@lycos.com
TCC is an equal opportunity institution that provides educational and employment opportunities on the basis of
merit and without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status or disability.
Shannon Harrison
MANAGING EDITOR
Chris Taylor, editor-in-chief* Shannon Harrison, managing editor
Tiffany Davis, south news editor • Ashley Clark, entertainment editor
Annette Germinario, feature editor • Becky Woods, photo editor
CL Collins, Pam Garrett, Jason Hollins, Udochi Igbokwe, KC Jones,
Vanessa Kekoanui, Michael Kraft, Paul Matson, Julia Mims,
Nick Nance, Matthew Navy, Matthew Rinker,
Ines Salomon, Karen Waldroup-Swetonic, reporters
Kristen Barney, advertising director
Raphael Elizalde, computer assistant • Roxanne Holt, web designer
Stacy Luecker, business manager
Eddye Gallagher, Diane Turner, advisers
If it weren’t for us, teachers wouldn’t have a job, and
there would be no TCC. All I’m saying is instead of having
the spaces go to waste by being unused, let students use
them. I don’t think I’m asking a lot.
The faculty are not objects of gold although some of
them tend to think so. They should share their spaces with-
out objection. I don’t think it would be the end of the
world if they did.
I don’t believe that what I’m asking for should be a
problem for others. If there are 20 empty spaces, what
would be the harm in students’ parking there? I don’t think
it would be a crime to occupy a space that is more than
likely not going to be used.
We are not just young kids who could use the exercise.
There are many variations of us, and we would like a little
respect.
I feel that we are just as important as anybody else in
this school, and we need to be treated like it.
lege Northeast Campus, 828 Harwood
Road, Hurst, Texas 76054.
Letters also can be faxed to The Col-
legian office at 817-515-6767 or emailed
directly to The Collegian editor at tcced-
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“Those that kill animals to eat their flesh tend to massacre
their own.”
We’re fearful of enemy guns, bombs and missiles, but
can we close our eyes to the pain and fear we bring about
by slaughtering, for human consumption, over 1.6 billion
domestic mammals and 22.5 billion poultry a year?
The number of fish killed each year is in the trillions.
And what to speak of the tens of millions of animals
killed each year in the “torture-camps” of medical re-
search laboratories or slaughtered for their fur, hide or
skin or hunted for sport?
Can we deny that this brutality makes us more brutal
too?
Leonardo da Vinci wrote, “The time will come when
men will look upon the murder of animals as they now
look upon the murder of men.”
Mahatma Gandhi believed that ethical principles are a
stronger support for lifelong commitment to a vegetarian
diet than reasons of health.
“I do feel,” he stated, “that spiritual progress does de-
mand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow
creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.”
I agree with Ghandi when he said, “The greatness of
a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way
its animals are treated.”
Chris Taylor
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
A group of very odd people have
come up with a plan to immortalize for-
mer President Ronald Reagan.
This group’s goal is to have some-
thing named after Reagan in every county
in the United States. They also want to put
his face on Mount Rushmore and the $10
bill. Reagan just had an aircraft carrier
named after him, also. How appropriate.
Reagan spent more money on military
than any president ever.
Thanks to his unprecedented eight-
year military build-up, we now have an
enormous debt.
But getting beyond all that, why are
these people trying to memorialize him
now? At the very least, we should wait
until Reagan is dead.
Of course, the best idea would be to
wait until he’s been dead for about a hun-
dred years and let history judge his legacy.
These people probably know that his-
tory will not be kind. A lot of people are
under the impression that he ended com-
munism. Not exactly. There were many
contributing factors before him, such as
the Marshall Plan.
But Reagan somehow gets credit. To
put it into a sports analogy, Reagan was
like a basketball player who makes a bas-
ket at the final buzzer in a game the team
was already winning by 20 points.
He was a popular president, but does
that make him a good president.
If people want to do something in his
honor, why not bury him with Bonzo the
monkey. This idea makes perfect sense.
He co-starred with a monkey in the
movies and had one as his vice president.
That would be the perfect tribute to a
man who couldn’t decide whether he
wanted to be a cowboy or an actor. As
president, he got to do both.
And why is it that ending commu-
nism is such a good thing? During the
Cold War, we could always count on some
anti-communist propaganda.
Would Rocky TV have been as good a
movie without the commie villain? Proba-
bly not?
We would have missed out on many
propaganda movies like Re<7 Dawn, Top
Gun and all the James Bond films.
The Bond movies just haven’t been
the same without the evil commies as vil-
lains. Now we get break-away Russian re-
publics and entertainment moguls.
I miss communism.
The faculty, who get paid to be here, don’t need all of
these spaces. If they did, those spaces wouldn’t be empty.
There is always the temptation of sliding into one of
their many open spaces, but our wonderful TCC police,
who like to roam around during the day issuing tickets,
would not let that happen.
I believe that TCC should equally distribute the park-
ing spaces on campuses. Why should faculty get privileges
and not students? We are the ones who pay this school.
There was even a rumor that faculty were parking in
handicapped spaces when they shouldn’t be. I’m sorry, but
is it too far of a walk for you from your posh spaces?
I would just love to see, for once, faculty being made
to park where we have to. I do believe that they wouldn’t
like it. So why should we?
We need to take a stand and receive what it rightfully
ours. TCC should give the students half of the faculty’s
parking spaces.
security and telephone numbers (the num-
bers will not be published).
Letters should be typed and not ex-
ceed 150 words.
Letters may be edited for grammar,
style and space and will run as space is
I want to express my anger
about something that I’m sure most
of the students here will agree with
me about—the parking lot.
I am sick and tired of coming
to school everyday and not having a
close place to park. After driving
around for 15 minutes, I end up
having to park in the back forty.
What angers me the most,
however, is all the faculty parking
spaces. There are many spaces for
faculty only, and they use only half of them. Why is this
fair?
I spend good money to come to this school; therefore, I
should be able to have a semi-decent space. I am not ask-
ing for the front row, but at least a spot where I don’t have
to walk a mile to get to my class.
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Freedoms available for anyone
As college journalists, we have the right to express
free our opinions in columns, viewpoints and editorials as
long as our comments are free of libel. As college jour-
BACK!
BACK I SAY!
THIS WILL BE
A G-RATED
MOVIE
DARN IT!
Many people become vege-
tarian for ethical reasons. The be-
ginning of ethical vegetarianism
is the knowledge that other crea-
tures have feelings that are simi-
lar to ours.
This knowledge encourages
one to extend personal awareness
to encompass the suffering of oth-
ers.
In an essay titled The Ethics
of Vegetarianism, from the Jour-
nal of the North American Vegetarian Society, the concep-
tion of “humane animal slaughter” is refuted.
“Many people nowadays have been lulled into a sense
of complacency by the thought that animals are now
slaughtered humanely, thus presumably removing any
possible humanitarian objection to the eating of meat. Un-
fortunately, nothing could be further from the actual facts
of life ... and death,” according to PETA.
PETA also reports that the breeding process used to
produce animals for food is unnatural. The organization
says that animals are “viciously” castrated or injected
with hormones, fed a diet designed to fatten them and suf-
fer through uncomfortable trips to the slaughterhouse.
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Vegans protect animal rights, treatment
“The holding pens, the electric prods and tail twist-
ing, the abject terror and fright—all these are still very
much a part of the most ‘modern’ animal raising, shipping
and slaughtering.
“To accept all this and only oppose the callous brutal-
ity of the last few seconds of the animal’s life, is to distort
the word humane,” PETA has reported.
The truth of animal slaughter is not at all pleasant.
Commercial slaughterhouses are like visions of hell.
Screaming animals are stunned by hammer blows, electric
shock or concussion guns.
Animals are hoisted into the air by their feet and
moved through the factories of death on mechanized con-
veyor systems. Still alive, their throats are sliced and their
flesh cut off while they bleed to death.
Why isn’t the mutilation and slaughter of farm ani-
mals governed by the same stipulations intended for the
welfare of pets and even the laboratory rat?
Many people would no doubt take up vegetarianism if
they visited a slaughterhouse or if they themselves had to
kill the animals they ate. Such visits should be compulso-
ry for all meat eaters.
When we lose respect for animal life, we lose respect
for human life as well.
Twenty-six hundred years ago, Pythagoras said,
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Our country was founded on the idea of freedom.
Our Constitution protects free speech and a
press. _ _ _
However, there will always be opponents to freedom, nalists, we also have the obligation to test boundaries and
They come in many forms. encourage new ways of thinking.
These oppressors of freedom want to censor anything Everyone is not going to agree with everything
they find to be offensive. They do not bother to see if the someone else says or does, but a frank discussion in an
majority agrees with them; they just want it gone forever, open forum is the best way to combat lack of knowledge,
One thing that makes the censors dangerous is that ignorance or disagreements.
they usually do not read, listen or watch what they want Censorship has been around since the dawn of time,
eliminated. They just hear about it and are instantly and it almost always fails eventually. Elvis Presley was
angry. once considered evil. Parents were warned to keep the
The censors pressure executives or advertisers to children away from rock and roll, which was called the
eliminate the alleged offensive material. They think they devil’s music. Television censors were warned not to
know what is best for everyone, and they work to save show Elvis’ swiveling hips—all in the name of purity.
the children or stifle free speech. Of course, Elvis is now considered an American
These easily offended people contain an unhealthy Icon. His image is on stamps and other memorials.
mix of arrogance and ignorance. They do not care about That lack of perspective would be one the greatest
other’s rights or tastes, just their own. They will hide be- criticisms of censorship. It does not allow for change.
hind rights when it suits them and trample on others A college should be a place where change is held sa-
when it suits them also. cred. Change is what being in college is all about.
These people have been around always. They were The college paper should serve as a forum for stu-
here in Roman times when Christians were being perse- dents to voice their concerns. And those concerns can
cuted and executed. They were here during the Salem come from either staff members or from students at large
witch trials, labeling anything they did not like as witch- through letters to the editor. Sometimes those concerns
craft. may not be pretty or something people wish to talk
They were present during Nazi Germany, burning about, but those concerns will not go away.
books and murdering and torturing Jews, whose beliefs Slavery was once considered an ugly topic,
were different from their own. Would it still exist if nobody talked about it?
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