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“Yes. He reminded people what Bush is like now, how the democratic party was and what they can do this time around.”

“No. Kerry should stop trying to be the next Clinton. He won’t gain the same popularity just by having Clinton endorse him. I would have gone to see Clinton, not Kerry anyway.”

Founder’s parking lot, scanned my eyes over to the Dixon Center, just to realize that my chances of finding a decent spot in that parking lot with streams of cars were slim to none. So I drove down an aisle of the Founder’s lot, found a parking space relatively close to where I had to go for class and rushed inside.

About an hour later, I returned to my car. That’s when I saw it—the evil pink-and-yellow parking violation ticket on my windshield. As my jaw dropped when I saw the fee, a whopping $25, I stuffed it in my console and told myself I would take care of this ridiculous matter Monday morning.

The reasoning behind obtaining this ticket was that I was a resident in the commuter parking lot. Well I would like to point out the fact that, first of all, I was indeed commuting that day, for one class period. I was in the parking lot for merely an hour. Second of all, the Dixon Center was full of cars. In addition, I was extremely late, which I know is not the fault of anybody who was involved with handing this ticket out to me; however, it was part of my motivation behind deciding to bite the bullet and park in Founders for one measly hour.

Let me also remind any readers, it was Sept. 10, 2004. Just into the second week of school. Most people did not even have parking passes at this point. Even though I made sure I had a parking pass before school even began, I got punished. I can name, but I won’t, a resident student here at Cabrini who still does not have a pass, and has not had any trouble. In addition, I have seen and heard of many accounts where commuters are parked in residential spots illegally. Furthermore, last semester, an incident happened to one of my roommates. She was parked illegally in a fire zone for an entire day. Logically, she received a parking violation. However, she appealed it, and won.

My experience with appealing this parking ticket was the complete opposite. After being handed down from person to person, building to building, I finally ended up at the right office of the person whom I had to speak with. With regret, I must say that I lost the battle due to the fact that “we are cracking down this year on parking violations, and it would send the wrong message if we let you go.”

Well, if this is true, then don’t you think it would be commonsensical to apply this theory to everyone? Not just random people, as undeserving as myself? The woman whom I spoke to attempted to justify this by telling me I should call public safety when I see others parked illegally. Sorry, but I have enough homework assignments to keep me occupied. We do have people here, however, that get paid to do that job, don’t we? Furthermore, ratting someone else out does not put the $25 back into my wallet.

I might have lost this battle, but hopefully in the future we will win the war with a solution to the outrageous parking on campus.

“I don’t think having a former president or celebrity should influence someone’s vote. If they were Clinton supporters, I think they are going to back Kerry, and vice-versa.”

“I think Clinton helped. He’s very majestic in the way he speaks. I think even those who dislike Kerry went to the rally just to hear Clinton speak.”

“I do think Clinton was beneficial in obtaining voters for Kerry. Mainly because he was and is still very well liked.”