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College stabbing

To the Editor:

This is a response to the article on the front page of “The Loquitur”, dated Oct 25, 2007.

My son is a junior, and felt, as we do that the response of the college was superior. My family’s prayers and sympathy to all involved and to all the students on campus who now feel violated.

Your college’s president is a person who understands that you can’t lock people in or out, that people have to take responsibility for their actions, and for the actions of the persons they allow on campus. Colleges are not jails, there is no lock down or lock out. Students and friends can come and go as they please on campus. That is a fact of life on any campus.

Think about the major universities. I attended one and you can’t police the entire campus every minute of every day. College students need to understand this hard fact of life.

Kudos to President Iadarola and her stand on this. In today’s society to many people want to blame the people in the administration for other’s actions. Not only blame, but ask for the removal of that person.

My husband and I are so tired of that line. We were thrilled to read her statement in “The Loquitur” concerning the college’s responsibility towards the students. It was caring, compassion- ate and understanding of the situation, but at no time did she or others in the administration take responsibility for the student’s actions.

This is a lesson all on campus need to learn, unfortunately it involved a student’s life, and a near tragedy. I thank God it did not turn out to be any more deadly than it was, which was horrible enough. The campus and administration reacted with the utmost speed and did all that they could do in the matter.

In reading the articles in the paper, which were all written from the students’ view points, not once did the students mention that a colleague of theirs was to blame. Their angry words came from not knowing it had happened till they awoke on Saturday morning. Do they really expect security on campus to wake each and every student up to let them know? No, security had a much bigger problem on their hands at the moment.

And for the students who could not get back onto campus at that time of early morning, well, sometimes in life a curveball is thrown to you. You will have to learn to deal with it sooner or later. Security could not allow anyone onto campus as they did not know at the time where the assailant was.

One other angry student wanted to know why they weren’t out looking for the assailant, well, that’s the job of the police and Cabrini Security did as they had been instructed. They did leave it to the police and got Cabrini back up and running as fast as they could have.

As a parent I am pleased with how Cabrini responded to the situation from the moment it happened to the letter I received in the mail this past week.

- Patricia Gross

Parking Injustice

To the Editor:

On October 18, I saw injustice in the parkinglots. Tickets.

Sure, tickets have their purpose at Cabrini; make students buy permits for parking spots that are nonexistent. I saw the parking “authority” giving tickets to those without a permit. Fine, good, it’s part of their job. Injustice? Not Yet.

I followed them, watching who they gave tickets to and why. Overwhelming numbers don’t have permits or permits that are out of date. Are they to blame? Absolutely not, they are lucky to find a parking spot after 9:40 a.m. on a Tuesday or Thursday.

So who is to blame?

Some would say it would be the residents, you know, the guys with the yellow stickers.

Surely, I as a commuter have cursed them at 10:50 to 11:05. If I were to park in a resident lot I would probably be towed.

I have to leave at 9 o’clock for an 11 o’clock class just to find a parking spot. I, however, do not blame the laziness of a few residents that park in commuter lots.

Do I blame the new gate? Kind of, that money could have been better spent on parking upgrades. I understand that it’s only function is to satiate neurotic parental fears, but a gate won’t stop violence from outside, this was written previous to the recent incident at Cabrini, so, case in point.

So it is not the misappropriation of funds directly that is the culprit. The culprit you ask? Those that write the tickets are.

I’ll say it: “Ticket the Residents in the commuter lots.” I saw 30 plus residents in commuter parking that were not ticketed. Those are spots for commuters, those who have permits and those who don’t, because why buy a permit if you get ticketed? If you are going to write tickets, do it across the board.

In my class with Officer Bird last year we talked about discretion and how authority uses discretion, but there is a fine line between discretion and discrimination. No tickets for Residents?! Ticket them, have them park in their own lots, open up space for those who need it, that is justice!

I saw them waiting and ticketing people arriving minutes after they had left their vehicles. I saw a girl arrive and said that she ought to move because the parking authority was ticketing. She had no permit sticker, but the parking authority backed off and went elsewhere to dispense discrimination I suppose. Some backbone, you men!

Is that why residents are treated better, because they are always around and the commuters don’t have a place or way to make a stand? Does your pay function on the dysfunction of the parking system?

I challenge you, oh, great parking authority. I will no longer leave early to find a parking spot; I will park on the grass and in your driving lanes! I will wait to further document the injustice you perpetuate. I will not fatten your wallet with your discriminatory tickets even at the cost of academic transcripts. It is bad enough I pay for gas for a 25-mile roundtrip commute to this college just to suffer under you financially because there aren’t enough parking spots?

On behalf of those commuters having difficulty finding a parking spot, give use justice, give us parking spots, give us a reason to buy a permit, or (and I apologize for being colloquial) just give us a damn break.

- Vincent Davalos

Abortion

To the Editor:

One major statement bandied about by the proabortion types is “KEEP YOUR LAWS OFF MY BODY!” If we use this kind of logic rape, assault and murder would all have been considered ‘legal’,since the laws would not have been applicable.

Remember that Nazi Germany’s Kristallnacht and eventual Holocaust were both state-sanctioned by law.

Roe vs. Wade was forced on the American public by unelected, unaccountable judges.

Simply because a particular action is legal does not make it right. Abortion is too lucrative to abandon immediately, but the main solution is to prosecute those who do the abortion itself, not the woman who has it done.

It is estimated that one of three abortions performed worldwide is forced, and in many nations, female babies are more likely to be killed by abortion than the preferred male babies.

I am not surprised that abortion was invented by men,the only real beneficiaries of the pro-death mentality.

As a man who came out of a womb, I have every right to speak out against this evil. I hope that other men will join me.

- Russ Sapienza

Show cancelled

To the Editor:

I was very displeased to listen to “Dog” Duane’s phone conversation.

He has proved how racist he and part of his family is. “We say Nigger in the office.”

Glad to hear that A & E suspended the show, but it really needs to be cancelled permanently!

If you allow the show to air “once the smoke clears”, A&E will be telling America that “we agree with “Dog’s” views towards African Americans. Are you willing to risk A & E’s reputation and viewers?

It goes back to the familiar saying, “If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.”

-Shawn Whitman