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The North Texas Daily
Thursday, September 22, 1994
Page 2
Commentary
Editorials
W O{ERNAN
Messy desk inviting, inspirational for journalist
cally is just as bad.
even noticed that I was cultivating have the worst desks. They're too
The biggest black mark on my a disaster-area.
busy working to have clean desks."
into the majors.
That slobbiness extends to our endary. It remains the most over-,
the table.
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Ann Richards:
Does she deserve
to be re-elected?
In order to start the semester else could a desk stay pristine? It or else. Out came the huge, round, wide circles around his junk. They
with a clean slate, I decided to clean was clean enough to eat off of. His industrial wastebaskets. In went should have been issued hard hats.
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My desk is a
mess. Working
there is like work-
ing at the city
dump. Precarious
piles of really im-
portant stuff litter
its surface. And its
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All-American 83 times
National Pacemaker 6 times
Regional Pacemaker 3 times
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Jerome, whose unwelcome fate desks. Periodically we got threat- grown, dangerous-looking desk'
was to sit next to me, sanitized his ening memos warning us the fire I've ever seen. The contents of his
desk every morning. Well, no, I marshal was going to inspect the desk spilled onto the floor and into
never actually saw him, but how premises and to clean off our desks, the hall. Wary passers-by made
‘ cinating articles. No burgeoning When my boyfriend first laid the wheat Waves of panic gripped enough to eat off of. I'm ready to
TOY CUYC 1eedS [VLYLCilYl^ stacks of cute cartoons. No migra- eyes on my desk at work, he looked the newsroom for the next few rock and roll. No distractions.'
' , • , C , , tory mounds of coupons, long since askance as he asked, "Is this your weeks as reporters discovered that Clean. Barren. Sterile. Uninviting.;
* The most recent breakthrough in,research for women s ea expired. No higgledy-piggledy desk?" I wasn't sure if the look was some of the really important stuff Unnerving. Too distracting. I can't;
came last week when the hereditary gene, in e to in ente heaps of things that I have no because he usually saw me else- they tossed was really important think.
preast cancer, was believed to have been discovered, earthly idea What they are doing where or because of what might stuff. , I'm moving back to my real desk.;
. Scientists, following years of research and persistence, now cluttering up my desk. . look to a casual observer like chaos. Dallas columnist Larry Powell, The one that's a mess.
believe they can neutralize that gene, thereby reducing the per- My work desk, despite being After seeing his desk, I decided it an acknowledged authority on Bonnie Lovell is a Denton graduate '.
Centages of mother-daughter breast cancer. subject to public scrutiny, histori- must be the former. I doubt if he messy desks, claims "reporters student
i The benefits of research in the world are rarely seen until a
finding such as this one is made public. This scientific discovery _ g - - - • . — • 1 1 , ;
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takes time andI money, but until a better procedure is found for have been sending in frequenttin- caters and parents to deviseass- speed uptheprocess.EushPre ta^ereffoX minimize imnec- !
this research, it's the bestwe’ve got, ctements-ltsiscleartovotersthat temthatbestmeetlocalneedsRy sentedtasenenteenpnintplanetn essarpguncoriroiycreatemorejbs,
into a bottomless hole, instead it’s likesan investmentin our donedTexasvaluesandtraditions bureaucracy.Bushwilallowteach- before Richardsaaddressedethisis Zd“oSXX!Ste
future. Children are born every day with new handicaps and Lena Guerreroand BobvKrueger erstofosusonexcelenceinread Sebuhwinfghttohouwelst XsLessful and appealing to aU
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get serious reputation as working for people of I
about making all walks of life.
our streets Even in East Texas, where the
Ser. . majority is conservative and tradi-
The time tional, Richards proves herself re-
----- . . ----- ' has come to get gar diess of her sex and her political
Richards'record lit edMcattoh is AenZaranssaul rose 13 per- ticians out of Austin. Tfey toe touted a plentiful amoimd |
an appalling failure. Texas Scho- cent from 73,889 in 1990 to 84,892 changed Texas, and not for the bet- jobs in smaller communities,
iasti Assessment Test scores are in 1993. Juveniles committing vio- ter. Texans are through listening to Richardsis not only supplying state-
where they were in 1978, despite a lent crimes have increased 53 per- -the same,old song GovernorAnn mentsandpromises,butshefollows
$2,900 increase in per student centsinceRichardstookoffice,with and her liberal cohorts have been throughandmeetsexpectations.This
spending (source: The College murder increasing 41‘ percent singing foryears. The October edi- ismorethancanbesaidofheroppo-
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Assessment of Academic Skills on crime.,. • . . not as a substantive person.", in foundation ; _; _ •
ityeducationatop priority. HewUl thedismalRichardsrecord. Unlike strong leader with fresh ideas, Bush involved in raising Texas's stan-
start the process by abolishing the Richards, Bush will not allow pa- will lead Texas with a common dards. Richard's nativebackground
regulatory power of the Texas Edu- role for murderers and sex offend- sense, conservative principles and is, part of firm foundation in Texas
cation Agency. Bush believes ihat. ers. He Will also work' iolimirthe solidTexas values, -x... polities.
make the lives of those children better in the future. They may not wuvetenextuverarponuciart liKes IU cloW
beqour children, but they are our future, and we would certainly takqthctallbent govemor has aboutadra ]
rather have them healthy and alive. The incumbent governor has matic drop in a
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to” 9,923 in 1
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My goal? An absolutely clear lanche would send my mountains notebooks, files, clippings, press signed a six-figure book contract. :
AT 1 ® . surface. Nothing on top except tumbling into his tidy space. His releases, documents and photo- Two plastic trash sacks and one
G B f l I [ l g J C . f 1 what I need — school stuff. No baleful looks spurred me to even graphs. Nothing was sacred. The cardboard box later, the dining
; distractions. No unruly piles of fas- greater heights of productivity. chaff went, but sometimes so did room table is immaculate. Clean
career was a savage comment in a Newspaper people are notori- They're busy chasing the paper
performance review that my desk ous slobs. Once they shot a movie trail, and all the paper is on their,
tended to be messy. It drove my in the newsroom where I worked, desks.
neatnik boss wild. At the time I had No real newsperson would believe But a co-worker, barely conceal-
been at that desk only a year. It was for one minute Martin Sheen's per- ing his envy, said of my desk, "It
strictly minor league. I was just formance as a reporter. He didn't was the worst. Hands down."
building up steam. She should have have mustard or grease spots on That's only because he never;
seen it when I left. I had graduated his tie. saw Lloyd Grove's desk. It is leg-;
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