{"article":{"id":100250,"heading":"Video from the Cheney Protest","author":"a","created":"2004-01-16 02:12:57","modified":"2010-05-30 17:54:05","last_modified":"Mon, 31 May 2010 00:54:05","article":"","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"video\/quicktime","summary":"A short video from the Cheney comes to LA protest\r\n1-14-04\r\n(no audio)","numcomment":10,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2004\/01\/cheney-protest.mov","filesize":"7.2 mebibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2004\/01\/100250.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":100264,"heading":"THANK YOU FOR COVERING THIS PROTEST","article":"Thank you for taking the time to go at the Dick Cheney protest and videotape this rally.  I was working that's why I didn't go. My friends and I really appreciate people like you who volunteer their time to cover protest that &quot;our&quot; media totally ignore. THANK YOU.","author":"Ernesto Che Guevara","parent_id":100250,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-01-16 06:57:48","modified":"2006-03-15 22:33:58","fileurl":""},{"id":103629,"heading":"Community colleges bathrooms closed by war","article":"<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>punish feds for locked mens rooms<\/TITLE><\/HEAD>\r\n<BODY>\r\n<BODY BGCOLOR = #FFFFFF><FONT FACE = &quot;COURIER, ROMAN&quot;><FONT SIZE = 3>\r\n<FONT COLOR = #000000>\r\n<A NAME = &quot;CCMENSROOMS&quot;>CCMENSROOMS<\/A><BR>\r\n Dear community colleges in the United States: <BR>\r\nCount the number of mens restrooms that have two or more sit<BR>\r\ndown toilets for this comparison. Are at least 80 per cent of<BR>\r\nthe mens large restrooms unlocked at each community college<BR>\r\ncampus ?? If not, It is because the federal government has <BR>\r\nfailed to keep its promise to support education including<BR>\r\ncommunity colleges and universities in addition to K-12<BR>\r\n If all the public toilets are not unlocked at particular<BR>\r\ncommunity colleges the federal govenment MUST BE PUNISHED<BR>\r\nfor failing to repair and unlock mens public toilets by<BR>\r\nremoving all pointers to selective service registrations<BR>\r\nwebsite that is almost spelled http:\/\/www.ssa.gov<BR>\r\nbut has a third s instead of an a in the ssa portion<BR>\r\nfrom that community colleges or universities or high<BR>\r\nschools website<BR>\r\n Selective Service registration beuracracy has recieved<BR>\r\na waste of federal money to register men to be drafted<BR>\r\nto steal foriegn oil with federal money that should have<BR>\r\nbeen used to repair and unlock mens bathrooms<BR>\r\nat community college campuses in the United States<BR>\r\n Community college websites are no longer obligated to give<BR>\r\nselective service free advertising on thier websites because<BR>\r\nthe no child left behind act has failed to maintain toilets for<BR>\r\nstudents at any educational place in the United States.<BR>\r\n If you are a webmaster at any educational place where more<BR>\r\nthan 20 per cent of the mens toilets are out of order or<BR>\r\nlocked please PUNISH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT by refusing to<BR>\r\ncontinue to advertise selective service registration on<BR>\r\nyour website untill all student restrooms are repaired and<BR>\r\nunlocked. Remove all links to selective service NOW!!<BR>\r\nEric Matteson  (A VOTER!!!!)<BR>\r\n<A HREF=&quot;#CCMENSROOMS&quot;>Back to top<\/A><BR>\r\nericmatteson2003november@hotmail.com or ericmatteson2001@yahoo.com<BR>\r\n<\/FONT><\/BODY><\/HTML>\r\n","author":"Eric Matteson","parent_id":100250,"mime_type":"text\/html","created":"2004-02-23 22:57:14","modified":"2006-03-15 22:32:58","fileurl":""},{"id":116040,"heading":"Restore community college funding","article":"Dear California Voters: (Monday, August 23,2004)\r\n    Governor Gray Davis made a budget that was bad\r\nfor community colleges. He first reduced funding for\r\ncommunity colleges. most bathrooms are locked and\r\nbroken computers are not being repaired.\r\n Last year Governor Gray Davis asked the legislature for\r\na series of fee increases for community college students.\r\nFall 2003 increase fees from $11.00 per credit to $18.00\r\nper credit for in state students.\r\nThen Fall 2004 increase in state fees to $26.00 per credit.\r\n In 2003 some computer science classes were canceled because\r\nof low enrollment resulting from Gray Davises cuts. Gray Davis\r\nwas RECALLED as a result.\r\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n  Governor Arnold Shwartzenegger made a mistake in his budget\r\nin 2004. He asked the legislature to increase dog pound funding\r\nto have dogs that nobody likes and have even been rejected by\r\ntheir own owners live for six days instead of only three before\r\nbeing humanely euthanized.\r\n Dogs that nobody likes that have even been rejected by their own\r\nowners are a stupendous waste of scarce state money.\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n Instead of wasting state money on dog pounds for additional\r\ntime for dogs that nobody likes, Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger\r\nshould ask the state legislature to restore funding for\r\nCalifornias 109 community colleges and\r\nalso undo Gray Davises fee increases\r\nby changing the $26.00 per unit fee back to the $11.00 per unit\r\nfee. Many students at community colleges are even poorer than I am\r\nand could benifit from resetting the fee to only $11.00 per unit.\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\r\nCommunity colleges have been mortally crippled by the Gray Davis\r\nbudget. Classes have been canceled and many bathrooms have been locked\r\nand most of Californias 109 community colleges face immediate closure\r\naltogether.\r\n I am asking Californias voters here today to restore the budget\r\nfor community colleges in California.\r\n  Priority Items for the Fall 2004 semester that starts August 30th\r\n 2004 are :\r\n Advanced Math classes Math 260 and higher. The space program needs\r\nadvanced Algebra and Calculus.\r\n Computer PROGRAMMING classes such as the C language and assembler\r\nlanguages are also a higher priority than most.\r\n  Please use your power as a voter to save Community Colleges and\r\nUniversities in California.\r\n It is extremely unfair to require Students to be the only ones who\r\nsuffer the entire burden of the Californias budget cutting.\r\nEric Matteson   ericmatteson2003november@hotmail.com\r\n","author":"Eric Matteson","parent_id":100250,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-08-24 14:29:14","modified":"2006-03-15 22:31:58","fileurl":""},{"id":160494,"heading":"Ammend proposition 98","article":"<html><head><title>Make Proposition 98 more flexible<\/title><\/head>\r\n<body bgcolor = &quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>\r\n<a name=&quot;redwin98&quot;><h2>Vote to reduce funding for bad schools<\/h2><\/a>\r\n<br>Written by Voter Eric Matteson on May 2006<br>\r\nI have been attending one of Californias 109 <br>\r\ncommunnity colleges because I am not yet able to<br>\r\nafford private school.<br>\r\nStarting in Spring 2005 the communnity colleges<br>\r\nin California have begun to hire too many janitors.<br>\r\nIt is getting harder and harder to find an unlocked<br>\r\nmens toilet at communnity colleges during breaks of<br>\r\nevening classes and after evening class ends.<br>\r\n For example, on Tuesday night at 8:45 P.M. May 23,2006<br>\r\nthe mens restroom at upstairs CE was locked and the<br>\r\nmens restroom at building B-7 was locked and<br>\r\nthe janitors were getting ready to lock a third<br>\r\nmens room as well.<br>\r\n A majority of required classes at communnity college<br>\r\nincluding advanced math and physics and computer science<br>\r\nare offered only at the time of 6:45 P.M. to 10:00 P.M.<br>\r\nthere are no daytime sections of most advanced classes.<br>\r\n The restrooms at building B-2 have had out of order signs<br>\r\non them for several months because the administration<br>\r\nhas been wasting money hiring additional janitors<br>\r\ninstead of hiring needed plumbers to fix broken plumming.<br>\r\n The computer science department recently canceled two of<br>\r\nits daytime classes because the communnity college beleives<br>\r\nthat computer science classes should only be offered at night<br>\r\n6:45 to 10:00 P.M.\r\n I have finally figured out that the reason that most or all<br>\r\nof the mens restrooms are already locked for the rest of the<br>\r\nnight <b>before night classes have finished<\/b> is because<br>\r\ntoo many janitors have been hired because Californias 109<br>\r\ncommunnity colleges are getting <b>too much money<\/b> from<br>\r\nproposition 98.<br>\r\n <i>I have heard on the radio that far too many high school<br>\r\nstudents seeking graduation are unable to pass the very easy<br>\r\nhigh school exit exam. It is probable that high school<br>\r\nemployees beleive that the state will still pay them the<br>\r\nfull ammount of money even if the students do not learn<br>\r\nanything.<\/i><br>\r\n I am hoping that the voters of the state of California<br>\r\nwill vote to ammend proposition 98 to allow the governor<br>\r\na range of funding from 25 to 60 per cent of the state<br>\r\nbudget instead of a fixed 50 per cent of the state budget<br>\r\nfor education so that the elected governor will be able<br>\r\nto punish bad communnity colleges that have hired too many<br>\r\njanitors and reward good schools.<br>\r\n <b>Lack of accountability is causing poor quality education<br>\r\nthat leads to outsourcing because employers are unable to find<br>\r\neducated employees in the United States especially in California.<\/b><br>\r\nEric Matteson<br>\r\n<\/body><\/html>\r\n","author":"Eric Matteson","parent_id":100250,"mime_type":"text\/html","created":"2006-05-28 17:15:14","modified":"2006-05-28 17:15:14","fileurl":""},{"id":179191,"heading":"Please reopen communnity college restrooms","article":"<html><head>\r\n<title> Unlock community college restrooms <\/title>\r\n<\/head>\r\n<body>\r\n<a name=&quot;jan12067&quot;>\r\n<h1>Scene in a 7th-heaven episode<\/h1>\r\n<\/a>\r\nWritten by Eric Matteson on Monday, September 18,2006<br>\r\n<i>\r\nStarship Enterprise\r\nCaptian Kirk and Dr. Leonard McCoy  <br>\r\nand Reverend Eric Camden are in  <br>\r\nthe staff briefing room.\r\nDr. McCoy is holding a big notebook that <br>\r\nhe had gotten from Dr. Flox <br>\r\n<\/i>\r\nMCOY<br>\r\nDr. Flox has provided a report on scanning results <br>\r\nfrom California communnity college restrooms. <br>\r\n There are new strains of terrible bacteria that <br>\r\nnot only resist antibiotics but also resist <br>\r\nthe strongest cleaning chemicals that are available to janitors. <br>\r\n Dr. Flox did verify that those mens restrooms with <br>\r\nat least two sit down toilets called commodes <br>\r\nare safe for men with normal immune systems <br>\r\nbecause human immune systems still kill those <br>\r\nstrains of bacteria whenever their density is <br>\r\nbelow overload threshold <br>\r\nCAMDEN<br>\r\nSometimes janitors start early before night classes finish<br>\r\nand lock up most or all of the mens restrooms.<br>\r\nKIRK<br>\r\nwhat if a janitor says to use a bathroom with only one toilet?<br>\r\nMCCOY<br>\r\nVomiting and death. When the janitors direct all men to<br>\r\nonly one toilet germs are concentrated in that one toilet<br>\r\ninstead of being spread out among several toilets.<br>\r\nIt is like swimming in the ocean when the beach closed<br>\r\nsign says that there are too many bacteria per cubic<br>\r\nmicrometer of water.<br>\r\nKIRK<br>\r\nDr. Flox has asked Californias 109 communnity colleges to<br>\r\nkeep restrooms open with at least two sit down toilets.<br>\r\nWhat is YOUR prescription??<br>\r\nMCCOY<br>\r\nEven though two sitdown toilets divide the germ density<br>\r\nenough for those men with normal immune systems some men<br>\r\nwho are enrolled in evening classes at communnity colleges<br>\r\n6:45 to 10:00 P.M. have very weak immune systems. I, Dr. <br>\r\nLeonard McCoy do herby upgrade the prescription to keep<br>\r\ncommunnity college restrooms including mens rooms with<br>\r\nat least four sit down toilets called commodes unlocked<br>\r\nat least until 10:30 P.M. Monday through Thursday nights.<br>\r\nCAMDEN<br>\r\n At GlenOak Communnity College the three mens restrooms<br>\r\nthat need to be unlocked until 10:30 P.M. are B-7 and B-2 <br>\r\nand A-3. If a janitor wants to lock B-7 early he or she<br>\r\nshould <b>FIRST UNLOCK the mens room in B-2 or A-3<br>\r\nand put up a sign that says which large mens room is<br>\r\nUNLOCKED instead of just a closed for cleaning sign on B-7.<\/b><br>\r\nMCCOY<br>\r\n What if a communnity college complains that their biology<br>\r\ndepartment is unable to confirm Starfleet doctors scanner<br>\r\nresults about numbers of germs per toilet with extremely<br>\r\nprimitive equipment even more primitive than stone knives<br>\r\nand bear skins ?<br>\r\nKIRK<br>\r\n<b> This is captain James T. Kirk of the starship enterprise.<br>\r\n I beleive that it is extremely unfair for Hollywood Scriptwriters<br>\r\nand men who are taking classes at community colleges who <br>\r\nresemble Hollywood scriptwriters to have to wait in line to use <br>\r\nthe toilet at night.<br>\r\n I fully support Dr. Leonard McCoys MEDICAL ORDER to keep <br>\r\ncommunnity college restrooms including large mens rooms unlocked<br>\r\nat least until 10:30 P.M. Monday through Thursday nights<\/b><br>\r\n6:45 to 10:00 P.M. is the most common time of most required<br>\r\ncommunnity college classes<br>\r\n---------------------------------<br>\r\n<i>This scene is written by Hollywood Scriptwriter Eric Matteson<\/i><br>\r\n--------<br>\r\n<a href=&quot;#jan12067&quot;>back to top<\/a>\r\n--------<br>\r\n<\/body><\/html>\r\n","author":"Eric Matteson","parent_id":100250,"mime_type":"text\/html","created":"2006-09-20 18:43:58","modified":"2006-09-20 18:43:58","fileurl":""},{"id":181760,"heading":"Janitors are unfairly locking mens rooms at communnity colleges","article":"<html>  <head>\r\n<title> reduce number of janitors <\/title><\/head>\r\n<body bgcolor = &quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>\r\n<a name = &quot;jantop24&quot;>+<\/a>\r\n<h1> Increase educational requirements for janitors <\/h1>\r\n Scince September 11th, 2001 there have been numerous <br>\r\ncomplaints from communnity college students and voters <br>\r\nthat janitors have been locking up most or all mens restrooms <br>\r\nat Californias communnity colleges before classes finish at <br>\r\n10:00 P.M. <br>\r\n The most likely cause of the problem is that those janitors <br>\r\ndropped out of high school and are locking up the communnity <br>\r\ncollege restrooms before classes are finished because they <br>\r\ndo not respect education <br>\r\n I am requesting that applicants who apply for the job of <br>\r\njanitor at any communnity college first pass the High School <br>\r\nExit Examination in Math and English to prove the educational <br>\r\nqualification for the job of janitor. <br>\r\n An alternative to the High School Exit Examination is passing <br>\r\nBOTH Math 125 or higher Math class with a C or better AND <br>\r\npassing English 28 or English 101 to prove equivelence with <br>\r\nHigh School skills. <br>\r\n<b> I believe that those janitors who have FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL <br>\r\nor have passed both Math 125 or higher with a C or better and <br>\r\npassed English 28 or higher will respect education far more <br>\r\nthan high school drop outs and they will UNLOCK THE RESTROOMS <br>\r\nin B-2 or A-3 BEFORE locking B-7 and put a sign on B-7s doors <br>\r\nindicating which restrooms including which large <br>\r\nmens rooms are unlocked. <br> <\/b>\r\n It is very unfair to lock up all of the restrooms and <br>\r\nit is very unfair to require all male communnity college <br>\r\nstudents to wait in line for only one sit down toilet. <br>\r\n  Most required communnity college classes are taught only <br>\r\nbetween 6:45 and 10:00 P.M. at night. Please keep the <br>\r\nlarge restrooms open until 10:30 P.M.<br>\r\n Please reopen the large restrooms at night by terminating <br>\r\nthe employment of those communnity college janitors who are <br>\r\nnot as well educated as High School graduates. <br>\r\n Written by Voter  Eric Matteson <br>\r\n<a href = &quot;#jantop24&quot;>back to top<\/a>\r\n","author":"Eric Matteson","parent_id":100250,"mime_type":"text\/html","created":"2006-10-07 15:18:31","modified":"2006-10-07 15:18:31","fileurl":""},{"id":186453,"heading":"Too many sections of Math 105 at  Communnity Colleges","article":"<html><head><title>Too many daytime sections of English 21<\/title><\/head>\r\n<body bgcolor =&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;>\r\n<a name=&quot;labelfewer21&quot;> -&gt <\/a>\r\nDear California voters and workers ( November 3, 2006 ) <br>\r\n Classes for CSU transfer students are being canceled at communnity<br>\r\ncolleges in California because of low enrollment. <br>\r\nEnrollment is low in transferable courses because they are<br>\r\noffered only at night 6:45 to 10:00 P.M. only <b>and<\/b><br>\r\nthe janitors usually show up early and lock up most or <br>\r\nall of the bathrooms before classes finish at 10:00 P.M. <br>\r\n To make matters worse, Californias 109 communnity colleges<br>\r\nhave hired at least three times as many janitors as are <br>\r\nneeded. I wish military recruiters would try harder to<br>\r\npursuade those 2\/3 of janitors that are not needed that<br>\r\nthe U.S. military is a much better job than the one they <br>\r\nhave now at the communnity college. <br>\r\n It is impossible to schedule CSU transferable classes during <br>\r\nthe daytime because High School dropout classes occuppy all <br>\r\ncommunnity college classrooms during the daytime. <br>\r\n I as voter have come up with an idea to restore college <br>\r\ntransferable classes to communnity colleges even during the <br>\r\nhighly popular daytime hours.<br>\r\n Vote for or impose a LIMIT of the number of sections of <br>\r\nHigh School drop out classes that take up valuble daytime class<br>\r\nspace. The following High School drop out classes shall be linited<br>\r\nto just ONE SECTION EACH in the daytime at each of Californias<br>\r\n109 communnity colleges --<br>\r\nComputer Science 901 introduction to computers and their use(was <i>3<\/i>).\r\n<br>\r\nEnglish 020A college reading skills (was <i>2<\/i>)<br>\r\nEnglish 021 English fundamentals (NDA) (was <i>4<\/i>)<br>\r\nMathematics 105 arithmetic ( NDA ) (was <i>2<\/i>)<br>\r\nMathematics 112 pre-algebra ( NDA ) (was <i>5<\/i>)<br>\r\n--------------------------------------------------<br>\r\nThose five High School drop out classes above took up<br>\r\n16 daytime classrooms in the Fall 2006 catalog.<br>\r\nEleven daytime classroom positions will be available<br>\r\nafter the one section per High School drop out class rule<br>\r\nis imposed or passed by voters.<br>\r\nOne can be given to Math 262 to restore its daytime section<br>\r\nTwo more can go to make advanced math available in the daytime.<br>\r\nFour daytime sections can be given to computer programming<br>\r\nclasses.<br>\r\nFour more can be allocated as desired.<br>\r\n----------------------------------------------------------<br>\r\n The janitors might be locking up all the bathrooms early <br>\r\nbecause they lack discipline. Janitors should be <b>fired<\/b><br>\r\nwhenever they show up for work before 10:30 P.M. <br>\r\n Janitor jobs should be given to needy members of the <br>\r\nArmy National Gaurd who have at least six months experience<br>\r\nin the National Guard who need jobs.<br>\r\n Military recruiters should begin to visit janitors at communnity<br>\r\ncollege campuses and keep the projectors running untill 11:00 P.M.<br>\r\nso janitors will be watching mandatory military recruiting films<br>\r\nwhile classes are still in session plus one hour after instead<br>\r\nof locking the bathrooms early.<br>\r\n Janitors really could earn more money in Iraq than they are<br>\r\nearning at Californias communnity colleges and the Iraq war<br>\r\nhas a low casulty rate. It is <b>SAFER<\/b> serving in Iraq <br>\r\nthan driving to work in Californias <b>traffic<\/b>.<br>\r\n Just Ask any recruiter if you have any questions.<br>\r\nEric Matteson  <i>A Voter<\/i><br>\r\n<a href=&quot;#labelfewer21&quot;>back to top<\/a>\r\n","author":"Eric Matteson","parent_id":100250,"mime_type":"text\/html","created":"2006-11-05 20:22:04","modified":"2006-11-05 20:22:04","fileurl":""},{"id":237522,"heading":"Remove Golf Carts from Community College Sidewalks","article":"<html><head><title>Eliminate golf carts<\/title><\/head>\r\n<body bgcolor=&quot;#FF0000&quot;>\r\n<a name=&quot;nukegolf0422&quot;>04\/22\/2010<\/a>\r\n<h1>Episode of Everybody Hates Chris<\/h1>\r\n<p> Copyright C 2010 by Eric Matteson. Permission is granted to copy the\r\nhtml text version of this script and to publish it on the Internet.\r\nNon-profit uses including student films are also allowed. <\/p>\r\nScene 1 speech class.     <br>\r\nTEACHER\r\n Todays speeches are about a <b>WHAT IF<\/b> scenareo. <br>\r\nWho is ready ??\r\n(Greg goes to the podium at the front of the class).  <br>\r\nGREG                                                  <br>\r\n<p> There are golf carts being driven by communnity college\r\nemployees all over sidewalks and lawns all over campus.\r\nIt is very unfair to run over a student while driving\r\noutside of the street!!\r\n My what if speech is WHAT IF a student is run over by a golf cart.\r\nThat student is severely injured and ends up in a wheelchair.\r\nPretend that that student in a wheelchair has computer skills\r\nthat are greater than Ferris Buelers computer skills in the\r\nWar Games movie. Pretend that he is taking physics class lab\r\nonline.\r\n At a meeting with another student just before the last physics\r\nexperiment performed on Earth.<\/p>\r\n<p><b> Making important dscoveries in physics requires smashing <br>\r\nsmall numbers of protons together at almost exactly the speed <br>\r\nof light. In my online physics experiment with the largest <br>\r\natom smasher on Earth I am readjusting distribution of force so <br>\r\nthat we push a small number of protons at very high speed instead <br>\r\nof dividing that precious force among a very large number of protons <br>\r\ntraveling at a much slower speed.<\/b> <br>\r\n<i> What if a black hole is created that swallows up the Earth ?? <br>\r\nis this proposed experiment unsafe ?? <\/i> <br>\r\n<b> If safety were important the State of California would not have<br>\r\nhired employees to drive golf carts on the sidewalk and run me over<br>\r\nand put me in this wheelchair. Before the accident I tried to talk <br>\r\nto school employees about getting golf carts into the street but<br>\r\nthose employees did not do anything to help becuase everybody <br>\r\nbeleives that saftey is unimportant. This wheelchair is PROOF <br>\r\nthat saftey is unimportant. <br>\r\nWatch this experiment begin <br>.<\/b>\r\n (on the computer screen the atom smasher proton beam becomes <br>\r\nmuch narrower so force is applied to a much smaller mass so <br>\r\na much higher acceleration of protons is acheived before they collide.)<br>\r\n And then there <br>\r\nis a series of Earthquakes as peices of rock swirl around and then  <br>\r\nenter a black hole. When the experiment is finished all of Earth  <br>\r\nfits inside a event horizon sphere less than two centimeters wide!!<br>\r\n In conclusion a golf cart accident in which a student is unfairly <br>\r\nrun over by a golf cart on a lawn or sidewalk will result in <br>\r\nALL OF EARTH BEING DESTROYED !!<br>\r\n (Scene 2 after speech class)\r\nCHRIS\r\n That was a nice speech.\r\nGREG\r\n Chris, I need your help. Pretty please talk to somebody about <br>\r\ngetting rid of golf carts. There have been numerous near misses <br>\r\nwhen I have almost been unfairly run over by golf carts being driven on <br>\r\nlawns and sidewalks here on campus and in City Parks. <br>\r\nCHRIS                                                   <br>\r\n But wahat can I do ??                                 <br>\r\nGREG                                                    <br>\r\n Actually, quite a bit. You were elected class president. <br>\r\nCHRIS                                                  <br>\r\n But I was impeached!!                             <br>\r\nGREG                                               <br>\r\n Just yesterday, at the student government election, you got some <br>\r\nwrite in votes for <b>student community college trustee<\/b> because<br>\r\nyou are a celebrity around here a lot of people are relying on.<br>\r\n The speech teacher says that your speech is tommorrow at the <br>\r\nbeginning of class.<br>\r\n (scene 3 speech class next day)\r\nChris is at the podium in front of the class. The teacher checks <br>\r\nthe microphone adjustment. <br>\r\nCHRIS\r\n You all heard Gregs speech yesterday. If I got run over by a golf<br>\r\ncart on a sidewalk I would be very angry. I would not blame anyone <br>\r\nfor destroying the Earth after being run over outside of the street.<br>\r\n I would like to go one step beyond that. All of us students should do<br>\r\nOUR PART to demand the elimination of Golf carts from this campus<br>\r\nor at least confine them to the streets. because students <b>should<\/b><br>\r\nhave a right to walk across campus on sidewalks and lawns <br>\r\n without being run over by school employees.<br>\r\n   1 ) Law enforcement agencies including untrained security guards <br>\r\nand the gestapo and the county sheriff department need to have their <br>\r\ntroops WALK THEIR PATROL ROUTES instead of continuing to drive <br>\r\noutside of the streets.<br>\r\n   2 ) The Audio Visual Department that supplies this speech class <br>\r\nis a leader because they use unpowered <br>\r\nhand carts that do not run over pedestrians instead of using golf carts.<br>\r\nAll of the  various workers need to STOP USING GOLF CARTS outside <br>\r\nof the streets.<br>\r\n   3 ) The great big <b>High Speed Shuttle<\/b> golf carts need to<br>\r\nremain in the street. Their state funding is ONLY for severely<br>\r\nhandicapped students.  I am sick and tired of seeing shuttles<br>\r\nfull of NON-HANDICAPPED-STUDENTS being driven on sidewalks all over<br>\r\nthis campus.\r\n<p>   4 ) I am dissapointed in ALL OF YOU STUDENTS.\r\nHow many of you have complained to the student government after near\r\nmisses when you almost got run over by a golf cart on a sidewalk ??\r\nHow many of you who have ridden on golf carts have asked the driver\r\nto KEEP IT OFF OF THE SIDEWALKS!!  The drivers are from foreign\r\nnations that have NO TRAFFIC LAWS but all of you community college\r\nstudents should know that it is wrong to drive on sidewalks because\r\nit is unfair to pedestrians.\r\n If the driver puts the cart on a sidewalk never ride on it<br>\r\never again.<br>\r\nIf you are not extremely handicapped do not ride in a golf cart.<br>\r\n<b> Could we begin by removing golf carts from the west side of\r\nAlbert Vera Drive sidewalk and remove them from Freshman Drive\r\nsidewalk between Albert Vera Drive and Overland so pedestrians\r\ncan walk onto the campus without being run over ??<\/b>\r\nIt is very unfair to drive golf carts on sidewalks on both<br>\r\nsides of Albert Vera Drive because even a communist country should<br>\r\nreserve the sidewalk on at least one side of the street for<br>\r\npedestrians.<br> <\/p>\r\n Every student should lobby the student government to get rid<br>\r\nof golf carts.<br>\r\n<p>\r\n Some of you have asked my position on the proposed community college\r\nFEE INCREASE for Fall 2010.\r\n I beleive that it is very unfair to continue to raise fees on\r\nCSU and UC students to pay the state for gasoline for High Speed\r\nShuttle golf carts for lazy community college students to ride on\r\nwhile those lazy community college students refuse to pay their\r\nfair share. In order to be fair to CSU students FEES at community colleges\r\nshould be exactly equal to CSU fees. To be fair to CSU students, CSU fees\r\nshould be reduced to what community college students can afford because\r\nBOTH FEES SHOULD BE THE SAME. the presigeous UC system will remain high\r\ncost to keep unqualifed poor bums out of the UC network.\r\n Student fees already have to be increased because LAZY COMMUNITY COLLEGE\r\nSTUDENTS have failed to quiclky shut down the dangerous golf carts\r\na long time ago.\r\n <b>\r\n Students can still reduce the rate of increase on student fees by::\r\n 1 )lobbying the student government to stop school employees from\r\ndriving on lawns and sidewalks.\r\n 2 )Students who are not handicapped must NOT ride the High Speed\r\nShuttle golf carts. If you see another student on a golf cart who\r\nis not handicapped please talk to them about it. They are causing\r\nYOUR fees to increase too especially when those golf carts drive on\r\nsidewalks.\r\n 3 )lobby the student government to reduce the number of janitors\r\nso mens restrooms will be open all day and all night whenever\r\nschool is open. If you get locked out of a bathroom by an extra\r\njanitor YOUR student fees will be increased to pay that uneeded\r\nextra janitors salary.\r\n 4 ) any accident in which any pedestrian is run over on a sidewalk\r\nor lawn by any community college employee could trigger a federal\r\ncivil rights lawsuit that will CLOSE ALL 109 of Californias community\r\ncolleges and the victim in a wheelchair will have a second amendment\r\nright to destroy the Earth if the military atom smasher\r\ntechnology is advanced enough during that victims remaining lifetime.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<a href=&quot;http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine\/msg\/9e1fbc652e56ddcc&quot;>Link to previous episode of Everybody Hates Chris or 64-bit progress report.<\/a>\r\n<br><br>\r\n<a href=&quot;#nukegolf0422&quot;>back to top<\/a>\r\n<\/body><\/html>\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"Eric Matteson","parent_id":100250,"mime_type":"text\/html","created":"2010-04-23 21:31:29","modified":"2010-04-23 21:31:29","fileurl":""},{"id":239585,"heading":"Problems with golf carts continue","article":"Because of the fact that there are still far too many near misses\r\nwith golf carts that have still not quit driving on sidewalks I have\r\nwritten a article REQUESTING A CHANGE OF CONFIGURATION\r\nat the big atom smasher so fewer protons at a time will be accelerated\r\nto even higher velocities when the upgrade is performed.\r\nhttp:\/\/publish.indymedia.org\/en\/2007\/06\/886724.shtml\r\nEric Matteson\r\nericmatteson2003november@hotmail.com\r\n","author":"Eric Matteson","parent_id":100250,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2010-05-30 17:54:05","modified":"2010-05-30 17:54:05","fileurl":""}]}