The Red and Black

Issue date: 6/25/09 Section: Opinions

Is change for the job market imminent?

Every day I watch the news and learn about more job closings and our ever-increasing unemployment rate. Thankfully there is legislation moving through Congress that could help turn things around by seriously investing in a new energy future. The World Resources Institute recently released a report showing that we could reduce our energy use through energy efficiency by 13 percent by 2015, saving consumers $6.3 billion and creating nearly 9,000 new jobs.

The bill is not perfect, provisions to drive renewable energy and efficiency should be strengthened along with requirements that big polluters pay for the pollution they emit.

The bill has been called the American Clean Energy and Security Act and a vote is likely to happen this week so every reader concerned about putting our country back to work should make a call to their Congressman and urge them to strengthen, not weaken the bill.

Nobody cares more about our friends and family than we do, so let's help get them employed while strengthening our nation by shifting to a new energy economy.

Teresa Tamburello
Senior, Cartersville
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Theft does not go unnoticed

This seems to elude the folks running the strength and conditioning room at Ramsey. Why do pieces of free weight strength training equipment keep disappearing?

In the last year or so, we've lost an excellent T-bar row, a set of really versatile plyometric boxes, one of the squat racks and most recently a set of hang straps for ab crunches; all of these were in working order, which is more than I can say for the forest of machines in the S&C. Questions directed to the staff get the same shrugging reply: "we moved/threw that out". No deeper explanation is given. To put it simply, I'm paying the same rate each semester and getting less and less return.

That's not an unusual thing in my life these days, but here's the problem: the University already owns the equipment, so it's not costing any more money to keep it around and it's not stuff that requires maintenance in most cases. Any funds to get new equipment seem to be directed toward sticking video games on top of the exercise bikes.

In short, these thefts cause me to feel neglected, and cause me to consider joining some gym off campus.

Grad. Student
Greenville, S.C.
Microbiology

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