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FEBRUARY 5 1999 9
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UPINIONS
Tight jeans bring out the best in people
Student offers plan to change dorm rule
Dear Editor:
I feci something needs to be said by someone for the good ol"
I ll'U. that is concerned with the dorm occupancy rules. The six semester
i tile I see as very potentially damaging to Howard Payne.
I understand that Howard Payne is trying to fill the dorms com-
pletely to make them more cost effective but I feel the reverse will be
true. Many students can't afford to live in the dorms. They would be able
to get government grants for off-campus housing though. They might
leave the college (and stop paying tuition) and go to another school.
The same is true with those who need a bit more freedom than the
aveiage individual. If they have to be on campus here they might just
ti.mster to another school where they can live off campus. (Then HPU
would lose tuition which is five times that of rent.)
Also some students need private rooms. There are some people
who drive their roommate craz.y and no one should be forced to live with
them as these roommates can and often do detract from grades and sleep
thus ruining the college experience and causing them to transfer to an-
other college. Some people simply need a place to be alone. There is no
place on campus like that in the winter (where you can go. Therefore
pnvate rooms should be an option.
Overcrowding is also a looming possibility which would cause
extensive transfers. There are only so many open rooms and it must be
kept in mind that some students need (not want) private rooms. Students
could not be required to stay six semesters unless HPU opened another
doim due to oveicrowding of freshmen. People would be kicked out of
the dorm with no foiewarning making for a miserable impression of
lll'U.
There is a viable solution to keeping the dorms occupied. HPU
could offer a discount to upperclassmen w ho choose to stay in the dorms
thus making up for the saving they would experience living off campus.
If lll'U forces the current occupancy mlcs down the throats of students
there will be fewer students and less money (which I am certain is the
reasoning behind filling the dorms) and a bad reputation which HPU
doesn't need.
But I feel it is necessary that the student's views be brought to the
attention of those who influence this decision as I really do want to see
HPU succeed and have its reputation be spotless. I want to come back
years from now and see growth in the size of the student body. Simple
policies often affect fickle irrational college students. These policies are
extremely important to us as a student body.
Sting 'em Jackets!
Sincerely
Frank Wacholt.
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Editor.. .Christa Haaertv
Assistant Editor.. .Stephanie Dunaway
Features Editor.. Joe Miracle
Sports Editor...Tommy Brown
Photography Editor.. .Anita Nelson
Copy Editor...Amy Prien
Ad manager... Bethany Schroeder
Senior Photographer... Katherine Morrison
Adviser.. Julie Welker
Staff members... Obie Arellano Gina Blevins Heather
Boyd Jill Chao Curt Coffey Bo Gillespie JoAnna Hoyt
Sharla Jones Dustin Karnes Susan Livingston Lisa
McGarry John Norwood Caleb Rackley Tripp Ray Carlos
"Flappy" Rodriguez Vanessa Sanders Rick Smith Dana
Watson Rob Welker and Martha West.
The YJ is published weekly during the tall and spring semesters by the
Student Life Department ol I low aid Payne University. Material contained in
ilus publication is the w oik of university students. The information and views
contained within the paper are not necessarily those ol the university admin-
istration oi Boatd ol Trustees.
All letters to the Editor are eligible lor publication. The YJ reserves the
right to edit lor grammar libel length and Associated Press st le. All letters
must contain the name of the author and should be less than 250 words. Let-
ters should be typed and delivered to the YJ office. Art Building room 202 or
sent by email to YJHPUTX.EDU or mailed to the YJ at HPU Station Box
XV) Brownwood Texas 76801.
Christa H
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Yippy A :'l
Skippy Ws II
Maybe if she hadn't been
cussing I could have taken her
more seriously. There is just some-
thing about profanity that is hilari-
ous to me; people have no idea how
completely stupid they sound when
they display their limited vocabu-
lary. But nevertheless I guess her
choice of words was supposed to
clue me in to her distress. She was
frantic emotional and she could
not get her pants zipped.
A true tragedy.
Most definitely worth pollut-
ing the air with such flowery
speech.
She had on rocky-mountain
jeans (which was her first mistake)
and she was trying to tuck a big
western shirt back into the pants
which I was amazed ever got
zipped to begin with.
I've heard the term "painting
jeans on" but it took on a whole
new meaning that day. I was stand-
ing at a mirror in a rcstroom in San
Antonio's airport when the woman
slung open her stall door pants un-
done and shirt untucked and asked
me if there is any place she could
lay down so that she might have
better luck buttoning her pants.
Of course she said all this
with a few choice adjectives so. I
couldn't lake her seriously it was
like some bad sitcom was being
played out in front of me. So I
muttered. "Just the floor" and I
think for a split second she consid-
ered it.
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CrACKs T"t ran Uni
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But even then. Miss-I-Think-These-Jeans-Havc-Cut-Olf-The-Circulation-To-My-
Brain
wouldn't stoop so low as to roll
around on a dirty bathroom floor
no matter if her mouth was not
much cleaner than the mossy
cracks that ran along the bottom of
the toilet bowl.
I started collecting the con-
tents of my purse which I had
dumped on the counter while
searching for my chapstick. I had
turned my back to her and packed
quickly because I think somewhere
in my subconscious something
knew and was prcpanng lor what
would happen net.
And then indeed it happened
She tapped me on the shouldei and
asked "Do you think if I suck in real
hard you could button my pants foi
me?"
The split second after her
question and before my reaction
two thoughts crossed my mind: she
could be a purse-snatcher. and the
airport is her office or she could be
nuts (w hich was kind of a given any -way)
and had plans to stab me and
leave me in a pool of blood in one
of those lovely stalls.
1 thought about running
which all my friends said would have
been their one and only reaction. I
thought about pretending to not hav e
heard hot. But even while I thought
these things. I heard myself utter a
bewildered "okay."
And then it was too late.
So I tned. No luck. I tried
again. I started laughing. I tiied
again. She continued cussing in my
face. I started to get mad. but con-
tinued laughing. Then I realized
what exactly I was doing: buttoning
a complete stranger's pants in a pub-
lic rcstroom. I had never felt so ab-
surd in all my life.
I gave up and suggested she
untuck her shirt so that no one could
tell. She answered with more pro-
fanity. So I packed my purse and
walked away. Maybe sometimes
that's all there is left to do.
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