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| SGA elections will be open soon |
To the Editor:
To anyone who has ever complained
of student apathy: A unique opportunity has presented itself. The
positions of Student Government Association President and Vice President
will soon be open! The Elections Committee of the S.G.A. is taking
applications through Feb. 20, 2004. Requirements for office include
a 2.25 G.P.A, and at least junior status. An informational meeting
will be held Wednesday, Feb.18, 2004 at 5:00 p.m. in the Student
Government office.
In addition to these offices, a number of senate seats are open.
Come by the S.G.A. office and pick up a petition. S.G.A. allows
students from all backgrounds to come together and shape the way
students as a whole view the university. Please come by the office
with any questions.
Cordially,
Dorothy M. Andrews
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| Don't criticize problems, help them |
To the Editor:
This letter is in response to Jennifer
Schneider’s article on college girls’ obsession with
weight, dieting and exercise. Although I agree it is a shame that
many women have problems with their image and seek to achieve the
“perfect” weight in sometimes drastic measures, Ms.
Schneider’s approach to getting girls to stop checking the
scale is unsympathetic and ineffectual.
The only actual advice that she gives is to “be sensible about”
losing weight and offers only weak suggestions on alternate choices
of food such as “salad instead of that double cheeseburger,
or fruit instead of those french fries.” She criticizes women’s
views of themselves and claims that eating more and realizing that
not everyone has to fit into the perfect size is the answer to all
their problems.
To many girls the bathroom scale is a threat, eating that last cookie
does seem like the end of the world and someone telling them to
just stop worrying over something they ate last week is not going
to make them better. It is obvious that women who obsess over their
weight and count every last calorie have more psychological problems
than telling them to get over it can deal with.
If you really want to help girls with these types of problems try
offering them some real help, such as contacts to ASU’s Counseling
or Wellness Center. Criticizing their problem and attempting to
solve it with a simple “life will go on” message is
not going to do them any good.
Heather Jean Brink
Sophomore
History, Secondary Education
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| Powell should be investigated instead |
To the Editor:
FCC Chairman Michael Powell has been a very busy man lately. Janet
Jackson’s breast was clearly more than he could handle. He
immediately launched an FCC investigation to discover how a breast
found itself bouncing around his airwaves, which are usually reserved
for gratuitous acts of violence, and the corporate reconstruction
of our reality.
How many millions of our tax dollars is Mr Powell going to squander
on his hunt for the cause behind the outing of one of Janet’s
top agents? Maybe he could hire Kenneth Starr to sniff around Janet’s
drawers for oh, lets say 50 million or so....
Does Mr. Powell really imagine that Americans are depraved enough
to see the glimpse of a mammary gland as more dangerous to the welfare
of the United States than Mr Powell’s own recent efforts to
dismantle our First Amendment rights?
The damage done to the people by his weakening of the already insufficient
limits on media monopolies is far more pernicious than Janet’s
televised anatomy lesson could ever be.
How strange that a human breast can turn Powell into such a raging
moralistic tiger, and yet the selling of our airwaves into the hands
of a few monster corporations leaves him purring like an overstuffed
pussycat.
Mr Powell, we don’t want our only windows on the world controlled
by the likes of Rupert Murdoch and clearchannel. You and your FCC
have blatantly betrayed America’s trust in appointing Fox
as guardian of the henhouse of America’s information.
Yes, Janet showed her baby bottle. But it is you Mr. Powell who
has disgracefully exposed himself, by shamelessly unzipping your
corporate fly and relieving yourself all over our First Amendment.
Mr Powell, you are the one who should be investigated - for corruption
in using your FCC post to help foster mega-media monopolies, and
helping destroy the laws ensuring the People’s right to an
unabridged free press and free airwaves.
David Singelyn
Warner Springs, Calif.
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| Appalachian has inadequate system |
To the Editor:
I am writing to you because of the woefully inadequate system Appalachian
has in place for class delays and cancellation notifications.
It seems as though less than one week ago, when we had weather that
was quite comparable to the ice blasting we received last night,
we were all sent notifications saying that “if class are cancelled,
there will be a notification on the Appalachian home page.”
However, it is already 8 a.m., and as of yet, no such notification
has been posted. I had to find out this information from Ray’s
weather!
Let’s see if our school might be able to figure out a system
that works, and actually STICK TO IT!
Erika Bowen
Senior
English Education
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| ASU needs clear operating procedures |
To the Editor:
ASU needs to come up with a better system for alerting its students
when school is closed or delayed.
For those students who live off campus and don’t have a computer,
coming to school only to find out upon arrival that classes are
cancelled is extremely troublesome.
This university ought to have clear operating procedures which every
student is made aware of for these situations.
Right now I am going to walk back home in the rain, as my only class
and reason for coming to campus this morning has been cancelled.
It was either walk here, uncertain, in the rain or stay home and
risk missing class. These two options are totally unacceptable.
Ryan Dulaney
Junior
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