THE INSIDER

By: Brad Jollett



	Friends, Students, Countrymen, I've got something to say.
 I'm glad that you all have decided to turn off the idiot
 box and read this fine publication that the staff here
 at the Harford Owl have put together for you.  This 
issue brings new and exciting things for all of us, including 
this author. You see, Mark seems to think that I have a quite
 funny way of putting things, so he and our wonderful
 advisor, Laura Orem, have decided to let me have my say, and if you as readers know me, I always have my say, for the most part. So gentleman,
Start your typing.

	The year 1999 brings yet another information packed issue of the paper that keeps us informed.  1998 was filled to the rim with news of the Presidential impeachment, which absolutely dumbfounded the entire nation. News of Roger Maris' home run record being smashed not only by one man, but by two men in the same week also kept the nation glued to the television set this summer. Our hometown hero
Cal Ripken Jr. sat down for the first time in 2,632 games. Yes, 1998 was indeed strange. 
	1998 also brought drastic changes to HCC. The now defunct main parking lot  is being converted into a major project known as the Regional Research Library, and is now completely in the hands of the construction company. We, as the campus community, are at their mercy until the project is finished. Do the workers on this new state of the art structure sit on the steel that is just erected in honor of learning during the designated lunch hour and laugh at the fact that some students and staff drive for what seems like an endless amount of time battling each other to the finish to find parking? If indeed they do make mockery of our misery,  we will laugh louder and longer when this project is finally completed and we get to stay and admire the work of art that it will be for generations to come, or the Year 2000 bug clamps down on our integrated circuitous society, which ever comes first. Let's all hope that it's the first instead of the latter.  
	I would like to close this column for this issue, by welcoming new and returning students and wishing you luck this semester. It seems like that we all need a bit of luck, especially around finals week, and even two or three weeks before finals. One bit of advice, read your syllabi when you get them. They have important information that you will see again, maybe not on a test, but somewhere else, somewhere on the INSIDE.