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Letters to the Editor
Officer should come forward
I understand that everyone that works at SCSU has an important job to do which affects the way students can productively attend college. I also understand everyone makes mistakes, but this mistake made by a public safety employee is too much.
On Thursday, Feb. 6, I parked in spot #161 and paid $2.70 at the meter to reserve that spot until 4:11 p.m. (and saved my receipt to prove this was a fact). I went to class and came back to my car with some friends at 3:50 p.m. and what should I find on my windshield but a parking ticket! Since I was sure it must be some mistake, I didn't really read the ticket, I just backed out and drove to public safety to straighten the matter out. The lady behind the counter informed me that this ticket was, in fact, not for expired time as I expected, but for parking in a faculty lot. I wasn't parked in a faculty lot, and I told her this. She said that I would have to fill out an appeal form.
Since I moved my car and can't prove this (except for the stub from the meter and my friends), it is my word against the officer that ticketed me. I am writing this letter because there is one other person out there who knows and can prove I didn't do what I am ticketed for, and that is the public safety officer who wrote me that ticket on February 6th at about 1:05 p.m. So to that public safety officer, please go to the public safety office and tell them you messed up so I don't have to have this ticket on my record. It takes a lot to admit a mistake, but someone needs to step up, because it isn't fair at all for me to have to pay this absurd ticket. Thank you so much! I will really appreciate your honesty.
Crystal M. Podvin
Senior, Special Education
Maybe MGM's truth hurts
I am writing in response to the idea of cutting the MGM requirements. The reason we have general education requirements in the first place is to give us all a wealth of knowledge that covers many different areas. This is just one of the things that comes with any four-year degree. MGM courses can be anything from art to biology, from English to geography. There are classes in almost all departments that give us these required courses to build a foundation on. To those that are offended by the things they are learning in these courses, like Mr. Pederson, maybe it is uncomfortable to hear all the terrible things that happen around us, but the only way we can learn the truth and make change for the future is to take these courses, step out of our comfort zone for 50 minutes every other day and take in the harsh realities of how warped our system has been and what we can do to change it. Instead of cutting classes that many people actually enjoy and learn so much from, how about we rethink our sports facilities and remodeling proposals. Last time I checked, St. Cloud State University was an institute of higher education, not just a bunch of pretty buildings.
Tracy Maas
Junior, Sociology
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