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Page 2 Commentary Dear Editor: Dear Editor, Dear Editor, I would like to comment In a letter to coOege stu It has come to my concerning a letter that recently dents, Congressman Bob Wise tion that Todd Longanacre appeared in your paper making attacked the "cuts" in the student graduating from Glenville Sta allegations against the library. loan programs. It is disturbing College and will no longer t Home --Finding my way back First, I felt that the accusations to know that he would use such writing his "In My Opinion" fc: When I was young, I remember my being puzzled over were obviously made by some irresponsible rhetoric to scare The Mercury. This is a dev~ tating loss! Never again will some words that I found in a book--YOII can never go home again. one who was privy to specific students. The truth is there are 1 reminisced the strangeness of this all. After all, it seemed a rather infonnation. no "cuts." be outraged by his "right- . simple task. Later, I carne to realize that the writer was not speak Secondly, I believe that The current proposal does extremist" conservative dogrm ing about a physical home but was instead speaking ofthose intan this is infonnation that should not end the student loan pro Never again will I engage i gible elements that make up a home. They are the love and the be shared with the patrons since grams, limit any student's abil hours of spirited debate with m spirit, the conditions and those things we touch and sense that are it directly has an effect on them ity to receive a loan, or force friends, as we dissect his a not destined to remain. These conditions and feelings are subject to and therefore, was justly pub anyone to quit school because ments and render them into i change with the passing of time and experience. Often they change lished; however, I do believe that they cannot afford their loan. bitty pieces that salve our Ii our perspectives and beliefs scattering them about just as the wind it was unfair for the writer to Total funding for student loans eral guilt. Never again will I g scatters the pollen of the flowers . As unpredictable as a ship with have their name withheld. This will increase from $25 billion in to say, "Oh, come on!" out sails and as unavoidable as time itself, we accept this as inevi caused a doubt in the minds of 1995 to $36 billion in 2002. Dam. I really do wish Todd th table. some such as myself of the va More loans will be available At an early age, I left my youth. I left my classmates and 1 lidity of the letter verses the next year than ever before, ris best. He has brightened many 0 Icft my plans of furthering my education. I became deeply em anger or vindictiveness of the ing 6.6 million loans in 1995 to my days by creating somt barked in the life-style of a domestic and declined myself to live it writer. 7.1 million in 1996. Students incrdible conversations. whole hearted By age 23 , I had three children and could not look Of course, my first reac will benefit from the scheduled He lists many ofthe name: beyond the livelihood of my little family. tion was , "Why would a person interest rate reduction for new people have called him durin! Well, several years later and a few children more, the idea of who is apparently tenured not loans effective July 1998. Any his time at The Mercury in thi! week's issue. Good luck, Todd seeking a higher education was simply a dream. However, a good openly speak out?" Then, I real undergraduate who borrows We also said you were ~ friend who remembered my dream carne to me and encouraged me ized that Freedom of Speech is $17, 125 over four years will homophobe. to pursue it. For every obstacle that I encountered, she helped me currently an Issue here at GSC. save $549; one who borrows the in finding solutions. Lastly, I would like to add $46,000 maximum will save Terry L. Estep Now, here I stand at the threshold of that dream and a few as a patron myself, I have been $2,144. It contains no changes more. It secms so unbelievable that I often am my biggest doubter. fully satisfied with the wonder affect~PLUS loan interest rate I did return to try and capture something that I had left a long time ful service the library ha~ . I es for parents. Every author really ago. While this was not the classmates or the era that I had de pecially appreciate Jane, Ja I would suggest Bob Wise wants to have letters printed parted from several years ago, I discovered new friendships, new net, Prim, Mr. Tubesing, Lois, refresh his knowledge of basic Mark, Mr. Grafton--gosh, all of math. More is not less. We can't in the papers. Unable to ideas, and learned that age, time, and space are without boundary. make the grade, he drops Words cannot express nor can they act as a requital for what my them! I admit that materials are balance the budget unless our often hard to track, but for the elected officials know the differ down a rung of the ladder days at GSC have meant to me. How can one sum of something of and writes novels. such magnitude? My journey has not only brought me to obtaining most, I have been satisfied. My ence. ·P. G. Wodehouse the higher education which was oncc a drcarn I thought could not biggest problem is--who s~ts Alice Click be brought baek, but it bas been a passage to my finding an iden your clocks? tity and the person I thought had been abandoned. C.A. Dodger Perhaps, we can never go home again to youth and inno Charleston, WV cence. These fleeting elements are unconquerable by mere mortals. The Mercury Staff, Vol. 67 They stand like mystical icons before us. But maybe, not they, but Managing Editor-Sandra Gibson wisdom instead is the greatest virtue of all for it is continual and Assignments Editor-Jeremy Dean Mercury Photo Requests Copy EdItor-Jenifer Frame steadfast in the never ending flow of time. Maybe this new place Layout Editor-April Rector where it has brought me runs so deeply in my veins bocause it is in The Mercury Photogra Photo Edltor-Oene Breza a sense home. I thank all of you who have given me the opportu phy staff asks Glenville StaLe Pbotograpby-Chad Samples, Carl Wilson nity to fulfill my dream and to never say never. My memories at College faculty and organizations Ad Manager-Roger Carpenter Ad Designer-Patricia Drake GSC will always remain cherished. Lo wriLe requests for photographs one week in advance. This is in Typing-Patricia Drake, Terry Estep, Vickie Schultz order to schedule a session. Also Sports Editor-Kevin Lake Sports-Munir Ingram We welcome letters to the editor and opinioned commentary, so photographs will be sold by the Arb IUId Entertalmnent-Teresa Clark long as the letter does not discriminate on the basis of sex age race Mercury office. The prices will Staff Reporten-Lisa Belknap, Jena Ellyson, religion, or creed or is not libelous or slanderous without tru'th 0; accu~ beS2foran8xlO,S1.50fora5x7 Amy Jo Rowan, Eric Ware racy. If duplicate letters are received on a topic, it is possible that your andSI fora 3 l12x5. 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