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  • December 9th, 2011 WESTERN CAROEINIAN. Page 4 CAMPUS VIEWS Our Take Prepare for winter season With winter officially set to begin in the mountains on Dec. 22 and since Cullowhee has already seen frigid temperatures and snowfall, the Western Carolinian staff would like to pass. along to our readers a few tips from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association that will keep you safe during oe winter season. _ ~ Assemble an emergency kit that includes: flashlight with extra: batteries (placed where you can find it in the dark), a battery-powered radio and fresh batteries, canned foods that require no cooking, manual can opener, first aid supplies, extra fuses and battery powered or wind-up clock. - Prepare for possible isolation in your home by having suf- ficient heating fuel; regular fuel sources may be cut off. For example, store a good supply of dry, seasoned wood for your fireplace or wood-burning stove. - Winterize your home to extend the life of your fuel supply by insulating walls and attics, caulking and weather-stripping doors and windows, and installing storm windows or cis windows with plastic. - Winterize your house, barn, shed or any other structure that may provide shelter for your family, neighbors, livestock or equipment. Clear rain gutters; repair roof leaks and cut away tree branches that could fall on a house or other structure during a storm. _ ~ Insulate pipes with fisnlabon or newspapers and plastic and allow faucets to drip a little during cold weather to avoid freezing. - ~ Learn how to shut off water valves (in case a pipe bursts). - Know ahead of time what you should do to help elderly or disabled friends, neighbors or employees. Check or have a mechanic check the following items on your car: _ - Antifreeze levels - ensure they are sufficient to avoid freezing. - Brakes - check for wear and fluid levels. - Exhaust system - check for leaks and crimped pipes an- drepair or replace as necessary. Carbon monoxide is deadly and usually gives no warning. - Fuel and air filters - replace. and keep water out of the system by using additives and maintaining a full tank of gas. - Heater and defroster - ensure they work properly. - Oil - check for level and weight. Heavier oils congeal more at low temperatures and do not lubricate as well. - Thermostat - ensure it works properly. _ - Windshield wiper equipment - repair any problems and _ maintain proper washer fluid level. Dress for the weather; - Wear several layers of loose fitting, fieheveene warm clothing rather than one layer of heavy clothing. The outer gar- ments should be tightly woven and water repellent. - Wear mittens, which are warmer than gloves. _ - Wear a hat. - - Cover your mouth with a scarf to protect your nea Our Staff Justin Caudell, Editor-in-Chief 103 Old Student Union Cullowhee, North Carolina 28723 jcaudell@westerncarolinian.com 828-227-2694 | Ryan Alexander, Sports Editor Lauren Gray, Staff Writer Caleb Gray, Staff Writer Ryan Michaud, Staff Writer Tyler Auffhammer, Staff Writer Allison Adkins, Staff Writer Jared Gant, Staff Writer - Bayleigh Davis, Staff Writer Asia Buss, Staff Writer Katy Williams, Contributing Writer Carvan Craft, Contributing Writer Kalen Quinn, Photographer Ceillie Simkiss, Photographer Jeffery Wilson, Cartoonist Cory Radosevic, Distribution SEEKING SPRING APPLICATIONS FOR: News Editor, Features Editor, Arts and Entertainment Editor, Pre-Press Editor and Webmaster. The Western Carolinian - P.O. Box 66 - Cullowhee, North Carolina 28723 ~ www.westerncarolinian.com -gelical: Cartoon Quotable Emergency notifications are issued when there is a direct threat to cam- pusthey arent used to break news stories. -WCU Police Chief Earnest Hudson on not sending a mass alert about the recent sexual assaults on and off campus. United States Postal Service should be privatized George Will ois ans The Jacksonian move- ~ ments to keep the Sabbath pure deplored Sunday mail delivery. Said one evan- We have: always viewed it as a national. evil of great magnitude, and one which calls for national re- pentance and _ refortnation, that the mails are cartied, and the post offices kept open, on that holy day in every part of our country. . Others, however, includ- ing Saturday-Sabbath keep- ers, said ending Sunday mail deliveries would amount to the government deciding what day is holy and there- fore would violate the sepa- ration of church and state. And Richard M. Johnson, the chairman of the congres- sional committee with juris- diction, warned of calamity:. The mailis the chief means by which intellec- _ tual light irradiates to the ex- tremes of the republic. Stop it one day in seven, and you retard one-seventh of the ad- vancement of our country. Eventually. the devout won, with help from orga- nized labor, which consid- ered this an issue of workers rights. Sunday delivery end- ed in 1912, partly because some clergy considered it a desecration of the Sabbath, and partly because people who the clergy thought should be in the pews on Sundays were instead social- izing at post offices. Two post offices still open for - Sunday delivery ; are in Ang- "win, Calif, andl Collegedale, Tenn., where many people observe the: Sabbath on Sat- 4 ~ s rag * iy ( urday. Today, the U.S. Postal Service, whose financial condition resembles that of the federal government of which the USPS. is another ailing appendage, is urging cancellation of Saturday de- liveries, perhaps en route to three-days- ~a-week delivery. The USPS lost $5.1 billion in the'latest fiscal yearaf- | ter serious cost-cutting. Total 2012 losses may exceed $14 billion, a sum larger than the budgets of 35 states. The fact that deliver- ing the mail is one of the very few things the federal government does that the Constitution specifically au- thorizes (Article I, Section 8: The Congress shall have power to ... establish post of- fices and post roads) does not mean it must do it. Surely the government could cede this function to the private ~ sector, which probably could have a satisfactory substitute system functioning quicker than you can say FedEx, UPS and Walmart. The first two are good at _ delivering things; the third, supplemented by other ubiq- uitous retailers, could house post offices: All three are for-profit enterprises, so they have an incentive to practice bourgeois civility to be . helpful, even polite. These attributes are not always found at post offices. Unfortunately, _ privatiza- tion collides with a belief sometimes deemed reaction- ary but nowadays , charac- teristic of progressives. The belief. is: In government, whatever is should forever. be. Soy efforts to prop up ahd prod: along the postal ~ spelling service, which is older than the nation (it was established by the Second Continental Congress in 1775), include the sweet suggestion of Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. Weary of gibberish in text messages from her children, Mc- Caskills cri de coeur is: Gaps in history were filled in with letters ... everything from our Founding Fathers to soldiers in the field. ... I dont think we should give up on the notion that were going to sit down and write - a letter. But McCaskills proposal an advertising campaign to revive the epistolary. cul- ture is no match for the main culprit responsible for the USPS woes: prog- ress. This includes email (even electronic Christmas and other greeting cards are gaining popularity), the digi- tal delivery of movies (as by Netflix, one of the USPS biggest customers, but per- haps not for long) and those pesky private-sector delivery companies. The USPS may shed as much asa third of its _ 653,000 employees the nations second-largest ci- = e LETTERS POLICY POSTAL SERVICE vilian workforce (second to Wal-Mart). This would re- quire Congress to overturn no-layoff provisions in la- bor contracts, which should make conservatives queasy. Labor costs are 80 percent of the USPS costs (53 per- cent of UPS, 32 percent of FedExs), in part because it has negotiated very friendly union contracts. The postal service did that because it is free from the tiresome need to make a profit and its com- petition is limited by law, which forbids anyone else to deliver a letter that is not urgent. - Mail volume has declined 20 percent in five years, and. the decline probably will ac- celerate, in spite of the odd USPS ads seeking custom- ers by saying letters dont get lost in thin air, and a refrigerator has never been hacked. An online virus has never attacked a corkboard. Surely privatization beats depending on the USPS for delivering the intellectual light that irradiates the re- public. vy (George Will is a col- ~ umnist for Washington Post Writers Group.) Ms We weltorie letters from our readers. We utge brevity: both for the sake of sfrociiveness and the demands of afenace letters should be no longer than 500 words, All letters are subject to the same editing for clarity applied to our staff contributions. We will not publish anonymous. ean praising or; criticizing professors by name; letters mak- ing personal attacks.or personally hurtful s fits; of letters to other publications. Becdus we want t6,provide- be limited to one letter every four weeks, All jetoee Uisnld be daytime phone numbers. Addresses and phone will not reserve the right not to print any letter. letters from political candidates; or copies iety of viewpoints, each letter writer will ae : Pwriters should enclose their addresses and lished but will be used to yenty ke letters. We
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