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OPINION
Thursday, September 29, 1994
PARTY OF ONE
Bad^ speler speeks out
By Rusty Robison
I cant spel. I never coud.
Tuday I am comming out of the closset.
Tuday I am jouyning "Bad Spelerz
Anonumus."
I beleive that it woud be safe to say that
aboutl5 to 20 persent of the population
canot spel ither (you know hoo you are).
Dont be afrade. Your not dum
Histry has ben plaged by bad spelers, al
the way up to the present- day "potato"
event. F. Scott Fitzgerald*? This Side of Para¬
dise contained about 100 mispellings.
Andrewjacksongavelitlethouttospeling,
he was more concemd that the cuntry knew
he was not inttimidated by "Urope."
President Theodore Roosevelt tryed to
order simplifed spelings of 300 words on all
executive documents including dropt for
dropped and thru for through. Too the
disfortune of all bad spelers in America,
Congressdestroyed all his thoughtful eforts.
So I woud cawtion any "good speller"
thatmtendesonconectingaperson'sabilaty
in speling with their intellegense quociant
(that includs all my elementry scool teach¬
ers hoo ever made me suf er thru a speling be
or test). Intellegense and acheivment is
measured by cognitive skils. Speling is a%
funtion of the visual memmory, not of-
cogitive leming.
No mater how many times I
reed the word "definitely" it
will allways come out -
"definately."
I woud like to argue that I am not a dum
student because of this. I was the first in my
kindergardin elas to be able to read. But later
on, as the curiculum began emfasizing
orthografy more and more, I, along with
most of America's bad spelers, sufered a
patern of failure that frustrated not only my¬
self but my parents and teachers.
You see freinds, we are cursed by a completly
non-fonetic language. It's full of leftovers
fromother languages such asGerman, French,
Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish,
Chinese...allmost every language has
conntributed somthing to the on-going stress
and frustration of bad spelers everywere.
In-my father's generation, my condition
See Speller, Same Page
I have been to the
mountaintop...
-LETTERS TO THE EDITOR-
Dear Editor.
Texan Michael Huffington, af¬
ter buying a seat in the VS. Con¬
gress two years ago, is now at¬
tempting to buy one of California's
two U.S. Senate seats. In fact he's
broken the record for personal
spending on a US. Senate cam¬
paign, going over the $10 million
dollar mark. He plans eventually
to spend in excess of $20 million or
"whatever it takes." This from a
man who has lived in California
for only three years, has no legisla¬
tive history, has spent a record of
running failed companies and who
now refuses to release his tax
records and let as know where till
this campaign money came from.
To win the election, this Texan
is counting on the votes of college
students in November. He won't
get them! Because Huffington —
whose Fortune 400 father paid the
bill for his Stanford education—
just doesn'tunderstand the issues
that today's students face. Time
and time again, when he's had tine
chance in the U.S. House of Repre¬
sentatives to take a stand in favor
ofaffordable, accessable education
Speller, from Same Page
woud have ben legitimit grownds
for abandaning my dreems of a
carreer in jumalism.
Luckely, I will never agin have
to fret over my orthografy condi¬
tion Some genius (prabably a bad
speler himself) invented the di¬
vine Spell Checker. Salvation just in
tyme.
My father likes to question my
"abuse" of such a program, say¬
ing that I wil never lem the skil on
my own.
To this I must mention that it
was the printing pres itself that
cawsed the problem in the first
plase.
It stabilising the language, thus
trowing ouVal but one speling of
evry word. Since teknology put
us in this situation, it i^only fiting
that teknology get us out again.
As good -spelling perverts con¬
tinue to knit-pick and point fin¬
gers, I wil stand behind Ben
. Franklin in saying thaf an edu¬
cated man should be able to spell
any word - at least six ways.
and expanded opportunities for
students, Huffington has not come
through. He's failed college stu¬
dents in the four following areas:
National Service. Huffw|Jon
voted against the national service
program, which passed despite his
short-sighted opposition. The pro¬
gram will provide students up to
$9,450 in exchange for performing
community. service—a program
that will strengthen our commu¬
nities, and will help middle class
students afford college.
Student Loans. Huffington
voted against legislation requir¬
ing that 60 percent of guaranteed
student loani. be made directly by
the government. The plan, which
will be implemented over the next
five years, will not only eliminate
the costly fees students pay to sub¬
sidize the banks and other institu¬
tions that run the current system,
but will allow students to stretch
out their monthly loan payments
over as long as 30 years, or only a
fixed percentage of their incomes
for up to 25 years—a big relief for
students with mortgage-sized
s debts who would have to pay off
their loans in only ten years under
the current system. This year, six
California schools will be among
the first in the country to partici¬
pate in the new, Huffington-op-
posed program.
Education Funding. Last year,
Huffington voted against $28 bil-
* lion in federal funding for educa¬
tion, including $8 billion fcr Pell
Grants and other financial aid, $2.2
billion for guarenteed student
loara,and$292millionforresearch.
Job Training. Huffington also
turned his back on young people
who are not able to, or chose not to,
go to college by voting against
spending $5 billion for job training
and employment services.
Does this man deserve your
support? NO! NO! NO! I urge you
to reject Huffington and support
Dianne Feinstein, who voted in
favor of every one of the four criti¬
cal issues for students outlined
above. Feinstein stood up for you
Now stand up for her, on Nov. 8!
X_BiU Press, Chaif
* California Democratic Party
EDITOR !N CHIEF
MANAGING EDITOR
PHOTO EDITOR
NEWS EDITOR
SPORTS EDITOR
ADVERTISING WAN AGER
BUSIMESSMANAGER
PRODUCnONWANAGER
ENTERTAINH&T EDITOR
p COPY EDITOR
COPY EDITOR
M. CRISTINA MEDINA
OLIVIA REYES
BRYAN CHAN
STEPHEN WALSH
ROBBIE MINER
RICHARD NIXON
BRADFORD WILSON
SHAYDA FATHIPOUR
JOEROSATOJR. '
LAURIE GIBSON I
TIM SPRINGER
J STAFF WRITERS: Paulo Albuquerque. Chui Ming Ang, Casey Angle,
| Chris Baxter. Brent Batty. Dennis Claborn. StafanicHard, Charlton
Jordan. David Chare*. Maria Hugo. Raina Jennings. Draegcr Martinez.
i Elliott Milieu. Leah Pench. Mitch Prince. Rusty Robison, Erin Smith,
j Jeff Smith. Tim Springer. Pete Stewart. Annette ITiie»scr), Jacqueline
• Tucker,
Stephen Walsh, David White
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OPINION
Thursday, September 29, 1994
PARTY OF ONE
Bad^ speler speeks out
By Rusty Robison
I cant spel. I never coud.
Tuday I am comming out of the closset.
Tuday I am jouyning "Bad Spelerz
Anonumus."
I beleive that it woud be safe to say that
aboutl5 to 20 persent of the population
canot spel ither (you know hoo you are).
Dont be afrade. Your not dum
Histry has ben plaged by bad spelers, al
the way up to the present- day "potato"
event. F. Scott Fitzgerald*? This Side of Para¬
dise contained about 100 mispellings.
Andrewjacksongavelitlethouttospeling,
he was more concemd that the cuntry knew
he was not inttimidated by "Urope."
President Theodore Roosevelt tryed to
order simplifed spelings of 300 words on all
executive documents including dropt for
dropped and thru for through. Too the
disfortune of all bad spelers in America,
Congressdestroyed all his thoughtful eforts.
So I woud cawtion any "good speller"
thatmtendesonconectingaperson'sabilaty
in speling with their intellegense quociant
(that includs all my elementry scool teach¬
ers hoo ever made me suf er thru a speling be
or test). Intellegense and acheivment is
measured by cognitive skils. Speling is a%
funtion of the visual memmory, not of-
cogitive leming.
No mater how many times I
reed the word "definitely" it
will allways come out -
"definately."
I woud like to argue that I am not a dum
student because of this. I was the first in my
kindergardin elas to be able to read. But later
on, as the curiculum began emfasizing
orthografy more and more, I, along with
most of America's bad spelers, sufered a
patern of failure that frustrated not only my¬
self but my parents and teachers.
You see freinds, we are cursed by a completly
non-fonetic language. It's full of leftovers
fromother languages such asGerman, French,
Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish,
Chinese...allmost every language has
conntributed somthing to the on-going stress
and frustration of bad spelers everywere.
In-my father's generation, my condition
See Speller, Same Page
I have been to the
mountaintop...
-LETTERS TO THE EDITOR-
Dear Editor.
Texan Michael Huffington, af¬
ter buying a seat in the VS. Con¬
gress two years ago, is now at¬
tempting to buy one of California's
two U.S. Senate seats. In fact he's
broken the record for personal
spending on a US. Senate cam¬
paign, going over the $10 million
dollar mark. He plans eventually
to spend in excess of $20 million or
"whatever it takes." This from a
man who has lived in California
for only three years, has no legisla¬
tive history, has spent a record of
running failed companies and who
now refuses to release his tax
records and let as know where till
this campaign money came from.
To win the election, this Texan
is counting on the votes of college
students in November. He won't
get them! Because Huffington —
whose Fortune 400 father paid the
bill for his Stanford education—
just doesn'tunderstand the issues
that today's students face. Time
and time again, when he's had tine
chance in the U.S. House of Repre¬
sentatives to take a stand in favor
ofaffordable, accessable education
Speller, from Same Page
woud have ben legitimit grownds
for abandaning my dreems of a
carreer in jumalism.
Luckely, I will never agin have
to fret over my orthografy condi¬
tion Some genius (prabably a bad
speler himself) invented the di¬
vine Spell Checker. Salvation just in
tyme.
My father likes to question my
"abuse" of such a program, say¬
ing that I wil never lem the skil on
my own.
To this I must mention that it
was the printing pres itself that
cawsed the problem in the first
plase.
It stabilising the language, thus
trowing ouVal but one speling of
evry word. Since teknology put
us in this situation, it i^only fiting
that teknology get us out again.
As good -spelling perverts con¬
tinue to knit-pick and point fin¬
gers, I wil stand behind Ben
. Franklin in saying thaf an edu¬
cated man should be able to spell
any word - at least six ways.
and expanded opportunities for
students, Huffington has not come
through. He's failed college stu¬
dents in the four following areas:
National Service. Huffw|Jon
voted against the national service
program, which passed despite his
short-sighted opposition. The pro¬
gram will provide students up to
$9,450 in exchange for performing
community. service—a program
that will strengthen our commu¬
nities, and will help middle class
students afford college.
Student Loans. Huffington
voted against legislation requir¬
ing that 60 percent of guaranteed
student loani. be made directly by
the government. The plan, which
will be implemented over the next
five years, will not only eliminate
the costly fees students pay to sub¬
sidize the banks and other institu¬
tions that run the current system,
but will allow students to stretch
out their monthly loan payments
over as long as 30 years, or only a
fixed percentage of their incomes
for up to 25 years—a big relief for
students with mortgage-sized
s debts who would have to pay off
their loans in only ten years under
the current system. This year, six
California schools will be among
the first in the country to partici¬
pate in the new, Huffington-op-
posed program.
Education Funding. Last year,
Huffington voted against $28 bil-
* lion in federal funding for educa¬
tion, including $8 billion fcr Pell
Grants and other financial aid, $2.2
billion for guarenteed student
loara,and$292millionforresearch.
Job Training. Huffington also
turned his back on young people
who are not able to, or chose not to,
go to college by voting against
spending $5 billion for job training
and employment services.
Does this man deserve your
support? NO! NO! NO! I urge you
to reject Huffington and support
Dianne Feinstein, who voted in
favor of every one of the four criti¬
cal issues for students outlined
above. Feinstein stood up for you
Now stand up for her, on Nov. 8!
X_BiU Press, Chaif
* California Democratic Party
EDITOR !N CHIEF
MANAGING EDITOR
PHOTO EDITOR
NEWS EDITOR
SPORTS EDITOR
ADVERTISING WAN AGER
BUSIMESSMANAGER
PRODUCnONWANAGER
ENTERTAINH&T EDITOR
p COPY EDITOR
COPY EDITOR
M. CRISTINA MEDINA
OLIVIA REYES
BRYAN CHAN
STEPHEN WALSH
ROBBIE MINER
RICHARD NIXON
BRADFORD WILSON
SHAYDA FATHIPOUR
JOEROSATOJR. '
LAURIE GIBSON I
TIM SPRINGER
J STAFF WRITERS: Paulo Albuquerque. Chui Ming Ang, Casey Angle,
| Chris Baxter. Brent Batty. Dennis Claborn. StafanicHard, Charlton
Jordan. David Chare*. Maria Hugo. Raina Jennings. Draegcr Martinez.
i Elliott Milieu. Leah Pench. Mitch Prince. Rusty Robison, Erin Smith,
j Jeff Smith. Tim Springer. Pete Stewart. Annette ITiie»scr), Jacqueline
• Tucker,
Stephen Walsh, David White
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Steve R. Fuj.moto. Ken Kollei.
I"ommy Monrcal, Zia Ni/ami.
mi coufci
n publ.ihtd loui
fui »nd by the Mudtni. of C*lifomii SQr UmvmwT. Ftrw
in-.nwn.r,P.r.^J,nlHFl OLt F(.U\ „t no, „„„„„!, rc(VttlK»oliho« ollWnK«COUiCIAN Hiit T
Mm mm thr .igh, 10 edit Icwi. fei trnph ind d*IK) To t* |
