EDITORIAL: And another thing ...

Fri. April 24, 2009; Posted: 03:16 PM

Here's a success story for you. Herald-Times editors got a tip from someone in the Ellettsville area that the potholes along a certain stretch of Union Valley Road were so frequent and deep that they might be called wheel killers.

Everyone is interested in potholes, so our reporters planned a special report, complete with a pothole-cam, a video experience of driving a car over the bumps and craters. We envisioned a video that jumped and jerked with each new hole.

But. By the time we had a reporter and camera out on the road, the holes had all been filled. Had someone been reading our mail?

Anyway -- kudos to the county road crew for keeping up with the pothole situation.

Wasteful prank should carry consequences

The Earth Day announcements included mention that Sigma Alpha Mu is the greek winner of the IU Energy Challenge this year. The fraternity was the house that saved the most water and electricity among the participating houses.

We heard on good authority that one frat house was the victim of a prank during the competition, though. Members of an unnamed sorority reportedly sneaked in and turned on water taps to keep the consumption numbers high.

That's not only mean; it's wasteful.

We're also told the sorority members have been reprimanded. Maybe they ought to be made to do without water for a couple of hours each day, to learn the value of the resource they've wasted.

How much is a good cup of coffee worth?

Our recent taste test of Kopi Luwak, the coffee made from beans that have been eaten and passed along by the civet, resulted in a verdict of "good, but not THAT good."

This coffee costs upwards of $180 a pound, because the labor required to collect it is, shall we say, special?

Kopi Luwak is a wake-up call to get back to simplicity. There is no reason people need to pick through poop or pay $180 a pound for a cuppa joe.

Sunday court is a Little 500 tradition

It's Little 500 weekend, and that means different things to different people. Students revel, residents hunker and police scramble. And, come Sunday morning, a judge will be residing over a big bunch of people who got caught misbehaving.

Sunday morning court this year will be presided over by Judge Mary Ellen Diekhoff. She'll be up early to hand the miscreants their sentences, and many of them will be doing a stint on the road or campus cleanup crew, a punishment that is fitting to the crime.

Thanks, Judge Diekhoff, for giving up your Sunday morning to keep the wheels of justice rolling smoothly.

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