Open your mind to other religions
It is always amazing to see the most astounding objections to things come from folks who don’t know what is what from first-hand experience. My husband and I have been involved with Scientology for more than 20 years. This philosophy has offered stability in a world of chaos and has been the guiding light in our marriage and rearing of four children. I have personally studied this philosophy for many years, and have seen the influence of the Church expand to include the entire world in social betterment programs, including literacy, criminal reform and drug rehabilitation.
My personal philosophy has always led me to find out about something myself, and not to just take the opinion of another. The objection to the two-part series of evolution of a science recently printed in The Reveille reflects the writer’s lack of truth about Scientology. I invite the writer and his readers to take the next step to find out about this philosophy themselves from the sources that are valid and not tainted by lies. In January, Images of a Lifetime, a photo exhibit detailing the life of L. Ron Hubbard, will be displayed in the Lod Cook Conference Center. Come find out for yourself. This is your opportunity to judge for yourself the works of Mr. Hubbard.
Cathy Davis, Friends of L. Ron Hubbard Foundation
Student workers should stay in labs
I would really like to understand how the system of student workers in the computer labs is run. Tonight, at about 4:45 in the afternoon, I had to use the computer lab to print a document for a class.
In the process of printing this rather large — 67 page — document, the printer stopped working. Unfortunately, this was not the only item I needed to print, as well as any of the other twenty or so students that were also in the lab at that time. As there was no lab attendant present, I went next door to the Student Government office, as well as another student who also needed something printed. The student worker in the SG office, though pleasant, informed me that this was very often an issue. An average of five students a day visit this office for the very same reason. He looked up on his bulletin board and spied a flyer for someone who worked in the Union that could fix computer problems. Between the two of them, they fixed the problem — which was very simply that the printer had run out of paper; despite the sign that states above it: “Only a student worker may load paper into the printer.”
Not once in the 30 minutes this minor fiasco was occurring did a student worker enter the lab. Ironically, as I was just leaving the lab, a girl, having a great time with her apparent boyfriend, walked by me headed to the lab, wearing her computing services necklace. Is it not a job requirement that one must be IN the lab in which they are supposed to be attending while they are on the clock? Or perhaps might this be a volunteer sort of thing in which they show up whenever they feel the need to be there?
I feel I am not only speaking up for my own needs as a student, but for everyone who has also had this problem. It is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed.
Melanie E. Breaux, Senior — English