Alternate energy should be concernDear Editor,

The rally for renewable energy was a great idea. Since college students are showing some consideration in the environment in which we live, this should mean something to the government.

As Lance Lewis said, “We should be leading the way, but instead we’re burning coal and natural gas and polluting our air … and that’s got to end.'”

I absolutely agree with him.

Every institution of higher learning should be spearheading the sustainability movement.

Climate change concerns, coupled with high oil prices, peak oil and increasing government support, are driving increasing renewable energy legislation, incentives and commercialism. New government spending, regulation and policies should help the industry.

Before cities and factories were built in the new world and a changing economy emerged, there wasn’t this problem of using renewable energy.

If we survived and adapted back then, can’t we do the same now?

I know times have changed and we have new technology and more advanced ways of life, but we should be able to find alternate energy sources to have a carbon neutral campus.

— Jennifer Bienkowski

Campus event not reason to move car

Dear Editor,

Earlier today, I parked my car in Warf-Pickel parking close to the Mini-Dome and was asked to move my car somewhere else because of the ETSU basketball game.

The man who asked me to move said it had to be on the other side of the barriers in a darker parking lot.

With all the attacks that have been going on lately, leaving my class that gets out at 7 p.m. and walking through an unlit parking lot is not very ideal or safe.

I pay my tuition like everyone else and that includes parking.

If ETSU is going to charge me for parking then I should reserve the right to park wherever, regardless of what is going on at campus.

It was absolutely absurd for me to move my car that is parked close to the building, especially when I have a night class.

My class is primarily women as well, so you can understand my concern for walking in a dark parking lot.

– Stacey Hoag

Lines wrong at Roger-Stout Intersection

Dear Editor,

As I was leaving the ETSU Public Safety office today, I noticed an error in the way the lines have been painted at the intersection of Stout and Locust Drive near the public safety office.

The lines that are separating traffic have been painted white, denoting that the separate lanes of traffic are traveling in the same direction, when in fact this is actually a two-way traffic zone.

These lines that separate the lanes should be painted yellow, so people will know traffic is traveling in two directions.

Otherwise, someone coming up Locust Drive could make a left into the wrong lane, thinking they are on a one way road with two lanes.

I hope I don’t have to say I told you so.

– John McMeen

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