The Red and Black

Issue date: 8/21/07 Section: Opinions

SGA crucial to Key changes, campaign

Regarding Monday's '"Our Take," "Lofty Promises?," The Red & Black certainly have a high opinion of themselves, claiming responsibility for 'Saving the Key' and the medical amnesty policy.

As someone who personally oversaw the effort to "Save the Key" for Student Government Association, I'd like to know exactly what the hell you're talking about. You didn't contribute a thing to these efforts except to whine for three inches of text.

All of the actual work, including rallying students, meeting with administrators, drafting policies and organizing a voice is done by hard-working, motivated student volunteers, many of whom are in SGA.

You'd do well to remind yourselves, Red & Black, that you're just a bunch of students lucky to publish a seven-page paper without throwing journalistic standards down the toilet (which you frequently do). Next week, you'll probably tell us you invented the internet and you're the Easter Bunny.

You contributed absolutely nothing to either one of those efforts, and to claim you did takes away from all the hard work done by unpaid student volunteers who have nothing to gain except making the campus a better place.

Without SGA, those efforts probably wouldn't have succeeded. As Benjamin Disraeli said, "How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."

Jeremiah Johnson
Junior, Lawrenceville
Economics

Drivers beware of ticketing zones

Those of us that avoid the nightmare of State Road 316 have been known to take the road less traveled, Jefferson Highway. It doesn't take many trips down that road to realize it is a notorious speed trap. I was one of their victims Aug. 14 when I received my first speeding ticket. I will admit that I exceeded the posted limit. However, the amount of my alleged excess is the issue.

With my cruise control set at eight mph over the limit, I was sure the police car cutting over the median was not coming for me. I was wrong. Apparently, so was my speedometer.

I was ticketed for going 74 mph in a 55 mph zone. I will be paying the city of Arcade $143 because I can't prove anything. My advice to all of those students taking Jefferson Highway to Interstate 85 is to watch out. Your usual habit of going a few miles over the limit might get you a ticket you didn't expect.

Jordan Khail
Senior, Marietta
Biology

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