SPEAK OUT

Fix what you've got

I KIND of wonder why the college wants to buy the old St. Vincent's Seminary and spend so much money on those old, dilapidated buildings when they've got a place like Academic Hall where you can't even come to a concert and be comfortable. Looks like to me they need to fix the buildings they have before they go investing in something else.

Legal pay is all relative

I HAVE a suggestion. Instead of raising the salaries of judges in Missouri, why don't we reduce lawyers' salaries to the level of judges? Then judges won't continue to have their tender egos damaged by an inferior financial status. Also judges would still be getting twice what they're worth, and although lawyers would take a financial hit, they'd still be getting about four times what they're worth.

Don't use the back door

I'M IN favor of the River Campus because, like B.W. Harrison, I wish to see the seminary preserved. However if support for the River Campus is as great as touted in recent articles of the Southeast Missourian, there is no reason authority to issue bonds can't be obtained by a second election. Have a second election and do it right. Don't go through the back door to issue bonds. Stick with the procedure originally proposed. If the alternative of issuing bonds is used, it will appear that university empire builders and the social elite of Cape have bypassed the a will of the people, and it will be a sore point for years to come. It will be a mistake that will diminish the true worth of the project.

They're losing their jobs

HEY, ALL you Clinton lovers who said Bill Clinton has made the economy so great. Well, what about the 20,000 who were just laid off by Boeing and the thousands of people who are going to lose their jobs with Mobile Oil? Plus, Boeing laid off 28,000 earlier this year. If the economy is so good, why are people losing their jobs? I could go on and on and give you other companies that are laying off people too. So wake up. It's not that good.

Arafat always has his hand out

RIGHT NOW my blood is boiling. I'm 100 percent American, but I cannot see why that Bill Clinton wants the Congress to vote on giving this guy in Palestine $500 million to build airports and sewers and so forth. This Yasser Arafat is nothing but a crook. The only time he comes to the United States is when he wants money. They're saying that Medicare is going broke. They're saying that Social Security is in trouble. But still yet we can give Yasser Arafat $500 million. This is only stupid and ludicrous. How far would this $500 million go in this country to build schools and sewers and shore up Social Security and Medicare? And while I'm at it, I would like to say something else. This man should be impeached now. He's not above the law, but he thinks he is.