The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 33, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 26, 1999 Page: 2 of 8
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you as a citizen, but as a student as amendment says the state should
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Sports Writer
Props 4, 13 and 17
Several amendments for Nov. 2 election should draw interest of NT students
Staff editorial was written by
Michael Johnson, opinion editor
many times
in a school
race or just
go some-
where with
One week from today you will
be allowed to use your voice to
vote on issues that not only affect
The ills of college
Sicknesses lurk around awaiting most inconveniencing moments to attack
more than 265,000 low- and mid-
dle-income students to attend col-
lege. The argument against the
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last year. It
seemed like
when the
pressure was
really on to
get a project
done, take a
vides money for the University of
Texas and Texas A&M systems.
The permanent fund is used to
back bonds financing capital
improvement projects, while the
available fund is the money the
schools can actually dip into.
However, because those sys-
tems recently added universities
and the permanent fund increased
so little during the 1980s, allowing
of those "get better quick" remedies
that cost more than prescription
drugs and didn't do anything but
complicate the clarity between
non-profit and for-profit status
when it comes to determining
which organization should be
taken off of the tax roll and for
. what venture. In a country that is
already overburdened with the
legalese language, one could only
imagine how the lawmakers
would have to redefine the new
constitutional standards to ensure
my throat feels like someone rubbed
sandpaper up and down it. And, if
you miss a class because you are sick
and didn't go to the doctor, you
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having to dip into the lesser High-
er Education Funds, which is what
NT uses for funding.
forced to hurt someone. Every time I
tell one of my parents that I am feel-
ing sick, I get the same response:
"you're just tired, get some rest and
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well. Here are some items set to
appear on the ballot you should
have interest in.
Proposition 4, if approved,
would change the types of organi-
zations that can earn an ad val-
orem exemption without getting
voter approval. Generally, if a for-
profit institution seeks to have its
property considered exempt from
ad valorem taxes, then the Texas
Constitution states the voters
would have to give their consent.
Such a change in tax breaks
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work.
Instructors and professors aren't
much better. They always seem to call
on you when you feel the worst.
the dreaded cold and the next thing
you know you have moved from a
year as I was slightly uncomfortable state to an
Kristi Kennimer
Advertising Manager
Classifieds Manager: Charna Jones
Advertising Sales: Chris Gaiser, Matt Marrufo,
Alyssa Taylor
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Managing Editor
Michael Johnson
Assistant Managing Editor
Arts & Entertainment Editor: Jonathan Cook
Copy Editor: Nicole Nanson
Features Editor: Jacqi Serie
Graphics Editor: Dave Hezlep
Opinion Editor: Michael Johnson
Photo Editor: Mike Daley
Production Coordinator: Nathan Hunsinger
Religion Editor: Brenda Edwards
Sports Editor: Tim MacMahon
Web Editor: Justin Anderson
Arts & Entertainment Writer: Jennifer Robertson
Cartoonist: Korey Scott
Editorial Cartoonist: Paul Galloway
Film Critic: Kristiana Loye
News Writers: Catherine Atkinson, Sarah Broom
Photographers: Mike Gibson, Amy Rigby
Sports Writers: Jennifer Bissett, Michael Gunn
Julie Freeman
Editor
absolutely miserable state in just
more than 24 hours. At this point and would be better off just marking
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not take on more debt, which as of
August of 1998 stood at $11.7 bil-
lion. However it is fairly dear'the
more highly educated the work-
force, the more attractive it
becomes to new industries, and
therefore the state is able to receive
more money in taxes.
Proposition 17, if approved,
would allow money to transfer
from the Permanent University
Fund to the Available University
Fund. The Permanent University
Fund is a $7 billion fund, based on
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they can't be sick, but somehow it's
absolutely fine if we are, just as long
as they aren't.
I've recently decided that even
though I have whined and com-
plained to no end about constantly
being sick, there's not too much I can
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to students. This is definitely an
item that should be passed,
According to the League of
Women Voters of Texas, Texas vot-
ers have approved bonds for stu-
dent loans since 1965, enabling
seem to get sick and when they final-
ly decide that we are truly sick, they
yourself absent and lowering your
grade while you're at it.
One would think that our friends
would understand when you are sick
that you don't want to sit through a
football game or go to painfully noisy
nightclub and dance, but we always
seem to hear "you said you would go
to the Groovy Mule or the football
game with me, you have to go."
Yeah, we have to go out with them
when breathing right is our major
concern in life at this point.
These are the people who never
I do (work, school, athletics) but,
when someone tells me that I'm not
sick and to just sleep, I just want to
scream. I'm sure I would not get sick
as often, if I got more sleep, but it's
frequent trips to the drugstore for one you will feel better." Rest — that's a
joke. Between work, school and prac-
tice, a nap is a rarity in my life. Now, say "ooh you're sick stay away from
don't get me wrong, I love everything me I can't get sick," like they are so
much more important than us that
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blowing our noses for the majority of make me tired.
the class? Yeah, we could stay in bed After about a month of this rou-
and flunk out of our classes, but tine I realized that I was not alone in
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get a little sympathy or at least some
consideration — wrong! If I hear the
phrase "oh if s just a cold buck-up
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do about it besides trying to take bet-
ter care of myself. After all, even if I
Speaking in front of a class of 200 am sick, the world is not going to
people is just what I want to do when stop on my account.
that's probably not the most effective this constant struggle to stay well. I
course of action. So, we walk around live in the dorms like many NT stu-
campus like zombies doped up on dents do and by doing so, I have real- college — sleep is reward for hard
over-the-counter drugs that are doing ized a pattern. When one person is
absolutely nothing for us, while our feeling sick in the dorms, everyone
grades, athletics and personal lives eventually does. It starts out as an
go down the toilet. It hasn't been that allergy / asthma attack or a sinus
long since I was in high school, and I infection. Then you get on the eleva-
don't ever remember being sick as tor with a poor individual that has
time we are all probably wishing the
housing department would set up a
quarantined area for people with a
cold or the flu.
One might think with everyone
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"I do not have time to be sick."
This is a phrase I have found
myself saying more than enough
times since I started school here last
year. As if we didn't have enough to
deal with in college, most of us have
to fight a constant battle with our
immune systems at least three or four
times during the school year.
» It seems like I don't have time for
much of anything anymore, but when
I'm "sick" it just seems like there is
100 times more to do than normal.
e Going to class at 9 a.m. after a bru-
tal cross country practice (or anything
else that takes a lot of energy) is hard
enough, but when you're coughing,
sneezing, aching, having trouble
Breathing or if you're privileged
enough to be fighting a fever, class
seems like more of a torture than
usual. How are we supposed to take
notes when we're in the bathroom
the protection of that amendment, the transfer would provide more
• Proposition 13, if approved, flexibility and increase the money
would allow for the issuance of available. And most importantly
$400 million in general obligation the amendment would keep other
bonds to finance educational loans universities in those systems from
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Thanks for providing Life
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To the Editor: much about Neither of us had a chance to
» ■ Just a word of thanks to BACCHUS see it while it was showing in Dallas.
(Boosting Alcohol Consciousness Con- I laud NT for bringing that film to its
cerning the Health of University Students) students and also for opening it up to the
and others involved in showing the movie community, too. The university stages
“Life is Beautiful” in the Lyceum on many events and performances throughout
Thursday, the year; I know I don’t take enough
. A friend and I attended the showing advantage of them.
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great deal) and were glad we got a chance Susan Budilovsky
to see the foreign film we had heard so Denton resident
Editor’s comments on letter
added comfort at tough time
To the Editor: cult it is to wake up and go day to day,
(RE: “As sister deals with brother’s much less “deal” with such a sudden,
death, news gatherers should remember loss... I also had felt cheated by what the
was always
feeling "not-so-good."
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problems, I was constantly making
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I don’t often write letters compli- her for saying it so well.
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To the Editor: friends, who share the same opinions, Julie Freeman, I wanted to write and to have had Kristin’s letter shared,
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