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| Who cares about student apathy? |
Jim Sprader
Senior
JS38339 |
To
The Editor
After two or three editorials and an entire article
about student apathy, I have learned one simple thing: I couldn’t
care less.
If you want to stop student apathy, quit wasting space
in the paper complaining about it, or with commentaries about proposed
NBA teams in Charlotte and aging rock stars, and start generating
interest in topics by writing well about topics of importance to
this campus.
You did well by raising the ire of one Dr. Koch
of the Faculty Senate when you rightly called them hypocrites.
Now, just stay focused on these issues, take strong
stances on one side and in time the students will follow.
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| Pointing fingers gets everyone nowhere |
Kreg Goad
Senior
KG45426 |
To
The Editor
I realize that there is a marginal group of people
who are dissatisfied with President George W. Bush. I say marginal
because of his overwhelmingly high national approval ratings. It
is important to point out a few things about Bush and his policies.
First, it is always easy to be critical of someone
when you have never held their position.. It’s like the old
saying, “never judge a man until you have walked in his shoes.”
Bush has weathered many difficult events thus
far in his career. I know of no one person who could lead a country
during the worst terrorist attack in American history, juggle a
slowing economy and deal with threat of mass destruction from Iraq.
Many of the political measures he has taken to
strengthen the security of the nation have received mixed opinions.
If you really think about it, he is faced with a no-win situation.
If he does nothing to strengthen homeland security, he would be
pressured by conservatives and the moderate liberals to do so. If
he decides to tighten security, he is criticized by ultra-left wing
groups. I realize that some will never agree to cut Bush some slack
simply because he is conservative, but I ask you, does it make sense
to heavily criticize someone before you have objectively studied
them? I feel that we as Americans should be more supportive of our
President.
It is vital that we stop finger-pointing our
leaders and start focusing on the real problems our great nation
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Burr speech not equally represented
Editor’s Note: Congressman Richard Burr
from Winston-Salem spoke on campus last Thursday as part of a panel
discussing war tactics in Iraq. |
Justin Thrasher
Freshman
JT53322 |
To
The Editor
Representative Burr sees us attempting to disarm through civilized
means, and if, and only if, that fails we will choose to take limited
military action. Professor White’s speech was very much based
on his own opinion and little based on factual information. He seemed
to want to close the door on any connection between Osama bin Laden
and Saddam Hussein without any evidence. I believe that without
evidence to disprove this possibility we must continue to seek out
positive, factual information that will answer this question. The
second professor spoke very specifically about war tactics and the
effect on civilians in the region if war were to come to pass. Without
personally being involved in the development of these tactics it
is ridiculous to make statements in a public forum such as hedid.
Overall this forum was a ridiculous representation of our university.
To ask a leader in our country to come and speak, obviously representing
one political party, and then to counter him with three representatives
from our university with beliefs in the opposite political party
was bogus. To make these statements, they summed up the beliefs
of 12,000+ people through the use of three people with the same
view.
The organizer behind this forum should be satisfied with this show
of liberal propaganda that was shoved down the throats of the students.
To represent my university without giving people of different opinions
the room to speak is wrong. |
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| Abortion insert an outrage to alumni |
Jeanne Irwin-Olson
ASU Class of 1992
jrirwino@uncg.edu |
To The Editor
I attended Homecoming this weekend
along with my husband and another couple (all of us alumni) and
was disappointed, outraged and hurt to see the very eye-catching
advertising supplement in the Oct. 24 issue. As a student at Appalachian,
I occasionally wrote for the paper about cultural happenings and
wrote many editorials.
At the time I was there, the staff of The Appalachian would have
never allowed that type of extreme misinformation to be placed in
the paper. Has funding declined? Is the paper so desperate for advertising
dollars that it will allow this insert? Or has the campus climate
changed that much in the 10 years since I graduated that it is controlled
by those with a very right-wing agenda? In any case, I was saddened
and outraged at the same time. I hope you hear from other students,
faculty, staff and alums whom are also upset by this disservice
to students. The issues of being pro-choice or pro-life are important,
and both sides of the debate should have their place to be expressed
via the media. However, the advertising and editorial staff of The
Appalachian should have had better judgment than to allow something
that is no more than a glossy pack of lies to be associated with
a fine college newspaper. |
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