2008 Woodie Awards
Tangents and Tirades
Issue date: 10/19/06 Section: Commentary
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I want to suck your blood?
I really don't want to suck YOUR blood, but I do want to hear about others who do. Be sure to go to McPhail's on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 5:30 p.m., to hear the lecture "Sinking Your Teeth into Vampire Tales: Everything You Always Wanted to Know, but Were Afraid to Ask." While there you can learn all about vampires and pick up a vampire "grill" compliments of the History Club. On Wednesday, Oct. 25, (look for posters for the time and place) to go on the "Unauthorized Tour" of Providence College. The History Club will take you places where even Friars' Club can't go. Vampires = $0.00, Unauthorized Tour = $2.00, Referencing an outdated commercial? Unforgivable.
-Laura Bedrossian '07
More cars than meets the eye.
Now that I am a junior, I love having my car on campus. I have waited two years for this privilege. I love the freedom and I love the mobility a car offers. I do not, however, like the parking situation. More than once, I have driven to all of the student parking lots, but have been unsuccessful in finding a parking spot. I ended up parking in the faculty lot, and notified a security guard so that my Ford Taurus would end up in a lot somewhere. I suggest allowing students to park in faculty parking during the weekends. I do not have a solution for the work week, but my observation is that there are more cars than there are parking spaces.
- Betsy Rouleau '08
Double standards.
A few days ago, Congressman Gerry Studds passed away. Studds was the first openly gay member of Congress and a Democratic representative of Massachusetts. In addition to this, he was also censured by Congress in 1983 for having sex with his 17-year-old page in the 1970s. Following this, he remained in Congress until his retirement in 1997. When Congressman Mark Foley was caught having sent sexually explicit e-mails to a page he immediately resigned; his political career is over, as should be expected. Should the same standard have not been applied to Congressman Studds? We should be willing to hold all of our elected officials to the same moral standard, regardless of the time period in which they held office to the party to which they belong.
I really don't want to suck YOUR blood, but I do want to hear about others who do. Be sure to go to McPhail's on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 5:30 p.m., to hear the lecture "Sinking Your Teeth into Vampire Tales: Everything You Always Wanted to Know, but Were Afraid to Ask." While there you can learn all about vampires and pick up a vampire "grill" compliments of the History Club. On Wednesday, Oct. 25, (look for posters for the time and place) to go on the "Unauthorized Tour" of Providence College. The History Club will take you places where even Friars' Club can't go. Vampires = $0.00, Unauthorized Tour = $2.00, Referencing an outdated commercial? Unforgivable.
-Laura Bedrossian '07
More cars than meets the eye.
Now that I am a junior, I love having my car on campus. I have waited two years for this privilege. I love the freedom and I love the mobility a car offers. I do not, however, like the parking situation. More than once, I have driven to all of the student parking lots, but have been unsuccessful in finding a parking spot. I ended up parking in the faculty lot, and notified a security guard so that my Ford Taurus would end up in a lot somewhere. I suggest allowing students to park in faculty parking during the weekends. I do not have a solution for the work week, but my observation is that there are more cars than there are parking spaces.
- Betsy Rouleau '08
Double standards.
A few days ago, Congressman Gerry Studds passed away. Studds was the first openly gay member of Congress and a Democratic representative of Massachusetts. In addition to this, he was also censured by Congress in 1983 for having sex with his 17-year-old page in the 1970s. Following this, he remained in Congress until his retirement in 1997. When Congressman Mark Foley was caught having sent sexually explicit e-mails to a page he immediately resigned; his political career is over, as should be expected. Should the same standard have not been applied to Congressman Studds? We should be willing to hold all of our elected officials to the same moral standard, regardless of the time period in which they held office to the party to which they belong.