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Our Perspective
... ASU must strive for equality,
not favoring
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 We
here at The Appalachian have had our fair share of gripes over the
year.
Budget cuts, tuition increases, the search for a new chancellor
and the apathy the student body has shown to it.
But there’s one thing that takes precedence over all of these:
fear.
When you get down to it, fear is the catalyst for garbage like racism,
sexism, religious intolerance and homophobia.
While many of us are here at Appalachian State University have come
to college to further not only our education but our understanding
of ourselves and others, there are still an unfortunate few out
there who have taken that fear that was instilled in them either
from home, culture or their own ineptitude and let it become a permanent
part of who they are.
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| Idea of race has no meaning for our society |
I have two cats, they are littermates. One cat is white, and the
other is gray. The only problems that my two cats have involve unfair
sofa seating arrangements and uneven food distribution.
A person from our parents’ generation could say that my cats
are of the same race. That is, the cats were created from the same
genetic material.
WordWeb defines race as: “people who are believed to belong
to the same genetic stock.”
Nobody would claim that my cats were genetically – and therefore
racially – different because of their fur coloring. Having
known my cats their entire lives, I can assure you that not all
cats of the same colors act similarly.
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| Upcoming graduation brings many questions |
As my 1997 silver Mercury Sable with the missing hubcap died for
about the millionth time last week, I thought about the future.
It scared me.
I came to college to get an education, to better myself, to meet
new people and to broaden my horizons. I absolutely feel that I
have gotten the most out of my time at Appalachian State University.
Right now, I am scheduled to graduate in May.
Graduate … from college. Sometimes those words creep up on
me, like when I am in the student union, sitting in class, hanging
out with my friends. OK, not sometimes. They always creep up on
me.
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