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my car here, and so should everyone else.

It is a chance that the freshmen the Founders/Widener Center parking lot.

However, during the first week of classes, cars were parked along Residential Blvd. - not only in normal parking spots, but also along the grass. These cars were not only the cars of upperclassmen, but freshmen as well. It is hard enough to find a parking spot with just upperclassmen cars on campus, and so the rules of freshmen not having their here- should be strictly enforced. In my opinion, I had to wait until I was a second year student to have

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BUYA BRICKIN THEWALL LOQUITURPERSONALS $2.00 FORTHE FIRST45 CHARACTERS 50¢ FOREVERYADDITIONAL10 the spots for non-handicapped accessible places. Takethe house live in for example, there are two parking spots in the drivewa} and then one handicapped spot, yet the house is not handicap accessible. There is a step into the house, but even if that step was not there, and a handicapped student wanted to live and park here, they would be able to live in one of three rooms with no access to the kitchen, laundry room or handicapped bathroom. I'm not trying to downsize the importance of having handicapped spots, but I think they need to be positioned better. Of course I would have loved to have used the handicapped parking spot that night that l needed a place to park, but it was taken due to the lack of other parking spaces on campus. The freshmen on this campus need to realize that rules are rules and they need to be respected.

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fuo art;ol, "P,;, Eq,,"" PA RooH<y"i, "" '""""' issue of the Loquitur. I was very disheartened by the lack of research that your staff writer exhibited in the article. I feel that had this topic been adequately researched, he would have discovered the other side of the story.

Unfortunately the other side thJt was not presented in the article was one that my family and I experienced first hand when my father died because of a doctor's lack to respond. While my father was getting an organ transplant, everything was going smoothly until heart complications arose. There was a clamp put on his heart in the beginning, and they tightened it too tight that his heart eventually exploded from the pressure. This is something that should have been avoided in the first place. I would hope that doctors entering a hospital would have sense and enough experience to remember to do something as simple as loosening a clamp. To think that my father could still be with me today, had it not been for those doctors, kills me.

In tum, if doctors are making mistakes, they should have to pay for them. The price of medical insurance in Pennsylvania is high, but that's because too many doctors are making mistakes, and people have a right to sue. In my case, my aunt decided to sue, because she was mad that our father was taken away from us (l have two sisters). Finally, three years later, we finally are getting some compensation. The good part about it is that the insurance company for Einstein Hospital in Philadelphia wants to settle out of court. My point is that if the doctors are making mistakes, then they should pay, and if doctors are leaving Pennsylvania because of the high costs, then let them go. I don't want a doctor working on me whose going to make a mistake like the one made on my father.

Kristen Getka Junior kmg722@cabrini.edu