Empath, 1984 October 9

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Editorials
Death of the Blue Goose
Last week I was dreaming of
lights on the athletic field, but
I have been brought back to earth
by an incident that deeply disturb­ed
me and the lacrosse team.
Last Friday there was scheduled
an away scrimmage against the
U.M.B.C. lacrosse team. We are in
our fall schedule which is a learn­ing
season. None of the games count
on our record.
Despite the casual atmosphere
surrounding "Fall Ball", everyone
was anxious to play Friday aft e r ­noon.
Many of the players skipped
classes to get the opportunity to
play in a game.
As many of you already know, we
never got there. The school bus,
not too affectionately called the
Blue Flyer, the Blue Goose, the
Blue Bomber, and some other names
not fit for print, never made it
out of Southern Maryland.
The bus is suffering from old
age. It was delivered in 1973 and
has seen extensive service ever
since. From the outside it may not
look too bad, but inside are years
of boxed lunches, sweaty athletes
and wear and tear.
The lack of an operating bus
isolates many students. Large
groups such as the Wind Ensemble
and Chorus cannot fit into the vans
the school o w n s . And there are a
limited number of vans, which means
that two teams cannot be scheduled
for an away game on the same day.
God forbid that some other club
might need a van to go into W a s h ­ington,
or a class wants to travel
to attend a lecture.
The College needs an operational
bus. The lights can wait.
— M.R.
Wasted Effort
St. Mary's has been lucky
recently to be the recipient of
many gifts in the form of land­scaping.
Last year we received
azaleas and crepe myrtle. This
year an azalea garden was planted
oposite the library. These d o n a ­tions
are helping make the college
much more beautiful.
We are not protecting our gifts,
however. Everywhere on campus you
can see dead and dying bushes. We
are throwing away money, and making
the school look like Death Valley.
The topsoil in Southern Maryland
was washed away hundreds of years
ago when the land was cleared for
timber and farming. What is left
is red clay— not too conducive to
growing anything.
But the development office and
maintenance, each year, just stick
the bushes into the ground without
preparing the soil. And every fall,
we return, and see the toll the hot
dry summers take. Nearly all the
new bushes planted in front of
Dorchester are dead, some of the
crype myrtle have died. When is
this massacre going to stop?
The investment in some mulch and
manure would not be wasted. It
would be nice to bring some of our
benefactors down in several years
to show them thriving greenery. Do
we have that many donations that we
can afford to waste them? The only
thing St. Mary's lacks sometimes is
a little common sense.
— M.R.
College Press Service
Letters to the Editor
Memories
Dear Editor:
One night, a few weeks
ago, walking deep in thought
across the campus, I passed
a girl walking toward me who
said, "Hello!" She seemed
in the bloom of health, and
so full of happiness that I
was taken aback. I called
out in the darkness, "Who
are you?" She giggled or
laughed, and said, "Lisa."
I said my name and mumbled
something about wondering
whether we had met before,
and that that was why she
had spoken. She said, "No,
I just thought I'd say
hello! I'm sorry," and she
laughed. I laughed, too,
and apologized, and we each
walked our way. That was
Lisa Zsebedics.
What happened was an
outrageous crime, a blot.
We must make her life
important to us, make it
influence the way we live
here. We can make her life
meaningful also by making
sure we do not let this
happen again.
So close the event, we
know she is not gone. She
cannot be gone. A great
many people loved her here.
She knew she was loved. The
friendliness and humaness in
the moment when I met her,
from someone who could
easily have been I, will
remain in my memory forever.
Yoshe Kalb
Security Carelessness
Dear Editor:
I have read about the
improvements that security
has been undergoing and feel
that there are a few more to
be made. I watched one
security man driving around
the campus ticketing cars
for parking illegally. He
pulled out of the Anne
Arundel parking lot, spin­ning
tires in the gravel.
He then failed to stop at a
stop sign and while turning
into the Charles Hall
parking lot from Route 5, he
failed to use his blinker.
It is bad enough that many
drivers fall into these
careless habits, however,
security is supposed to be
setting an example by
following the very laws they
enforce.
I am also a little
concerned about the condi­tion
of their patrol car.
It runs very rough, has
loose fan belts, burns oil
very badly, and needs
suspension work. I do not
believe that we can have an
effective security force on
campus if their only patrol
car is falling apart.
Security has a tough job
to do, a job that would be
made a little easier by
gaining the respect of the
college community. They
need to clean up their
driving habits and fix their
patrol car so they do not
have to park it on the grass
somewhere when it eventually
breaks down.
Name Withheld
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