SRSC shuttle offers alternative to waiting for a parking space\nAs Nick Moore's letter (Jan. 25) points out, Student Recreational Sports Center (SRSC) users who drive to their workouts often wait (and wait, and wait) for available parking. If you're tired of wasting time, energy (of the fossil fuel variety) and want a longer workout, consider riding the SRSC Shuttle.\nAlthough SRSC Shuttle ridership has doubled over the past year, I'll bet many who regularly wait for parking spots don't know that IU Transportation offers this FREE shuttle service. That's right -- no bus pass needed! The SRSC Shuttle runs every 15 minutes between the Memorial Stadium White Lot and the SRSC, Monday through Thursday from 5:30 to 10:00 p.m. Simply park your car in the White Lot, and the shuttle will whisk you to your SRSC workout in just nine minutes!\nFor more information, visit IU Transportation or IU Division of Recreational Sports Web sites: www.iubus.indiana.edu or www.recsports.indiana.edu.
Kimbery Ruff\nDirector of Marketing & Sponsorship,\nIU Division of Recreational Sports
K-Mart, Enron should be held responsible for their own failures
Why should the failure of K-Mart and Enron, two notoriously mismanaged corporations, make hypocritical the president's encouragements to support the economy (Re: "State of the Union preview" column, Jan. 30)? There's no problem in retail -- Wal-Mart is doing fine; Amazon just posted a profit. There's a more logical answer to these corporate failures than the big, bad economy wolf pounding on the door: K-Mart made textbook-worthy poor business decisions and Enron defrauded the public. \nTheir fates were set long ago.\nYou've heard the one about the Hardy Boys and the mysterious vanishing federal budget surplus? That's the second most misrepresented statistic out there. The Congressional Budget Office releases these projections, which have never been reliable. In 1997, they projected this year's deficit at $170 billion. In reality, there was a $236 billion surplus. That reflects the inaccuracy of a four-year projection; the media-hyped stat we're reading about is a 10-year projection! Additionally, the projection represents cumulative revenues and expenditures over the next ten years -- it doesn't mean we've "spent" all the money. Budget surplus is waste money collected by the government which said government doesn't need to function. If we still have a $1.6 trillion dollar surplus over the next 10 years (CBO projection), the government still has too much money!\nAny time you hear a tale about the "wealthiest x percent of all Americans," you're hearing the most misrepresented statistic. The fact you don't hear is that the lower tax bracket has lower taxes under the president's plan than they would have had under the Democratic proposal. Period. Why is the lower class's tax relief constantly compared to that of the "wealthiest x percent"? Such a figure has no statistical significance. It reflects two things: The "wealthiest x percent of all Americans" has more earning power and said "x percent" is taxed at a higher rate. Therefore, when you cut taxes across the board, their proportional decrease in taxation is always greater, as arithmetic states it should be. The "wealthiest x percent" still pays the most, by a large margin.\nDemocratic fiction may frighten the eager ears of the Democratic faithful -- just don't allow it to fool the rest of us.
Vaughn Allen\nSenior
