Parking ticket at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: $20. Possession of drug paraphernalia: $315. Smoke detector tampering: $500.

The look on my face when I heard that anyone caught ages 16 or younger drinking at the dorms would get a $30 fine…priceless.

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If George Orwell were to rise from his grave in the United States today, I’m sure that following the initial shock of resurrection, he would be oddly gratified to find that his dismal vision of the future has come true, in a sense, in the freest nation in the world.

As I watched “Jesus Camp” recently, I was eerily reminded of the opening scene from the film “1984,” in which a bunch of mindless, angry, hate-filled morons shout at the screen for the Two Minutes Hate.

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Last Tuesday, I regretfully indulged the flashy, politically charged CENSORSHIP! I Put flyers on Union tables and attended the Students for a Democratic Society’s Winona LaDuke lecture.

Winona’s lecture consisted of her traditional Ojibwa saying and the usual anti-Bush, anti-government, anti-anything-not-American Indian rant. Two hours later, the bleak Q&A section turned scandalous when my friends and I were censored.

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Picture the ultimate of crappy mornings: You wake up late and therefore get to school late, and quickly park and run to class. After class, you find a $30 citation on your car because you parked in an RPP area. Now, I can't say this has happened to me, because I take the bus since my tuition automatically pays for a UPASS. But, let's not go there just yet. The new rules for the Resident Preferred Parking program allow only residents to park on certain sides of certain streets between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. A free permit is limited to two per household.

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In 1993, New York City was declared by the FBI as one of the most dangerous places to live in the United States, averaging nearly 2,000 murders a year and more than 11,000 other major crimes per week.

Then the city of New York, where Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly 5-to-1, elected Rudy Giuliani as their new mayor.

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Those seeking an alternative to Jim Sensenbrenner as congressional representative in Wisconsin’s 5th Congressional District, listen up: Democrat or Republican, you have a choice.

This election year, a dual and bipartisan effort to unseat the incumbent (who has held the seat since 1979), is taking place in our own backyard.

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