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Wednesday, September 13,2006
Letters to the editor...
Student sticks up for
Greeks, intramurals
Dear Editor,
The column written
against Greeks and the
intramural department
was way off base.
First off, the school
has been trying to save
money anywhere they can
like shutting the school
down at noon on Fridays
this summer.
The money it takes to
power on those intramural
lights is incredible and 1
know this from working
the intramural department
and for the football team.
Also, there is no
Greek league. Greeks,
organizations, and
independents are mixed
up between the leagues
during the week. Go out
on Sunday and tell me if
the scoreboard is running
and you see fraternities
playing an official game.
It’s called practice.
1 am sick of people
turning everything against
Greeks.
Did anyone see the
fraternities tilling up
Did UWG Centennial Day
events leave out students?
By Kevin Hemphill
Guest Columnist
kevin.hemplrill@gmail.com
Centennial Day at the
University of West Georgia
was a day to celebrate KM)
years of the staff, faculty
and alumni that have
passed through the halls of
this campus.
Notice I left out one
important group: the
students. Why you may
ask? It seems as though
the students were left out
as an important part of
the celebration.
Though we got the
day off from classes, w hich
some students would call
a celebration in itself, it
seemed like most of the
events were geared away
from the students.
Other than the tree
planting ceremony and the
geosciences river cleanup,
I don't know of much else
that was made available to
the students to attend. If
there were, they certainly
weren’t advertised well.
The biggest hype
about the day was centered
on the Centennial Gala.
This event was closed to
the students, which wasn’t
a difficult task anyway,
considering tickets for the
event were SIOO a seat,
and most students cannot
Correction:
In last week’s View From My Font Porch column,
Larry Peel originally wrote that copies cost 7 cents
on campus. I changed the first refence to 5 cents,
but failed to change his mathematical formula. I
apologise to Mr. Peel and anyone who may have
been confused or offended by this mistake.
-Bobby Moore
Editor-in-Chief
the stands and being the
only ones cheering in the
fourth quarter.
Next time, research
and then try to blast Greek
Life.
Craig Coogler
Delta Chi
UWG Residence Life
Employee responds to
Peel’s column
I am writing in
response to Larry Peel’s
column titled, “Is limiting
paper use at UWG
beneficial?”
I’m fairly certain
that his math is off in the
article. If students only
pay 5 cents to print off
a sheet of paper but the
cost to the University is 6
cents per page, well, 5 - 6
= -1, doesn’t it?
That means the
University is losing 1
cent per page. Thus,
a deduction of 1 cent
per page, “...times the
hundreds, if not thousands,
of sheets per day...” does
not equal a nice little sum
for the University.
Also, I think the
afford that.
The question is why
couldn’t we have had a
large event for the students
to look forward to?
1 heard of another
university who celebrated
their centennial
anniversary a few years
back and hosted a
Centennial Gala which
was closed to the students
as well. However, after
their Gala, they hosted a
Centennial Dance which
anyone who wanted to
could attend. Now why
couldn't we have had
something like that?
Several months were
spent building up the
hype to this day, and I was
looking forward to being a
part of the celebration as a
student here.
But my expectations
were that there would
be certain events for the
students to go to, such
as a Spring Fling-like
celebration in Love Valley,
or even a centennial-geared
Friday After Dark.
Instead, all we
could attend were a tree
planting ceremony and a
river cleanup.
Not that these are bad
things at all, by the other
events, such as a FAD,
would have given a good
balance to the day.
current procedures do
save some paper.
I’ve lost track of the
times that I have made
copies for my students
in class and they toss
them out, lose them, or
leave them on the desk
when class is dismissed.
Then the students ask
for additional copies or
they pay to make another
copy by borrowing a
classmate’s sheet.
My experience has
been that students hold
on to things better when
they paid for them at the
copier.
While not all students
will wait in line to read
the online article on a
computer, some do, and
those are copies saved.
Is an entire forest saved
in one day? No. But
saving a few sheets each
day. times the thousands
of students at UWG does
equal a nice little forest,
somewhere, that’s been
preserved.
Cathy Roberts-Cooper
Department of Residence
Life and Student Judicial
Affairs
We are in a time where
this university is growing
by leaps and bounds. One
of our goals as a university
to supplement this is
to have more events to
keep students here on the
weekends, and to try to
get rid of the stereotype of
being a “suitcase college.”
Instead, by canceling
classes that day and not
having events for the
students to look forward
to, they were merely
given a chance to go
home a day early.
If it weren’t for the
students, this university
would not have existed
for the 100 years it has.
Looking at the Centennial
Celebration website,
there’s not much on their
calendar of events that has
the students in the plan,
other than Homecoming.
In addition, it doesn’t
help matters much that
the only student that
was on the Centennial
Committee (according to
the site) graduated over
the summer.
I hope that this
writing will encourage
the Centennial Committee
to do a better job of
including the roots of this
university, the students, in
the year-round Centennial
Celebration events.
A tribute to my hero
By Tara Mostowy
Guest Columnist
tmostowl @ my.we stga.edu
This past Monday
morning, September sth,
conservationist, zoo curator
and television personality
Steve Irwin was tragically
killed in a one-in-a-million
encounter with a sting-ray
off the coast of Batt Reef,
Australia.
He was 44 years old.
Irwin, who acquired his
fame on the popular TV
show “Crocodile Hunter”,
is survived by his wife and
co-host Terri, and their two
children, Bindi Sue, 8, and
Bob, 3.
I have never before
felt affected by the loss
of any type of celebrity,
so this is all a very new
feeling to me.
After first reading the
news on Monday morning, I
went through the rest of the
day feeling rather hollow at
the news of this loss.
Irwin has been an
inspiration to myself and
countless others through
the years. The news
coverage alone is proof of
that. Coverage of Irwin’s
death was present on the
front page of virtually
every online news source
the day it happened, and if
that doesn’t speak volumes,
Work
continued from page 4
products he buys there
- not exactly an increase
in that person’s wealth.
As for all the people
who shop there and aren’t
in the arms of “daddy”
union, people who are
probably now making less
money than the cartpushers,
well, they’re just screwed.
Those people might as well
go back to shopping at the
local rip-offs.
Less shoppers means
Wal-Mart becomes
unprofitable and shuts
down. Now there are less
jobs and more expensive
products. Thank you,
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I don’t know what does.
The world has lost an
incredible conservationist
and wildlife icon, and who
knows that better than a
biologist?
I decided on Biology
as my chosen career path
shortly after graduating
high school. I took some
time off between high
school and college to think
over what I wanted to do
with my life, and I can
honestly say that Irwin
was an integral part of my
decision to pursue natural
science.
I spent much of my
time in my late teens
volunteering at a wildlife
rehabilitation clinic
in Roswell, GA that
specialized in the care of
reptiles and birds of prey.
I even recall one
occasion where a young
alligator was released in
our wetlands, and we in
wildlife were responsible
for removing it from the
grounds.
I vividly recall myself
and the rest of the wildlife
department pretending
to be Steve, as we yelled
out his most infamous
catchphrases like “crikey!”
and “what a naughty little
ripper!” as we captured the
three foot alligator just as
Steve had taught us in his
unions!
Now, back to Hahn’s
article. In it, she expresses
a general contempt for
companies that hire college
students, especially ones
that offer higher pay, health,
dental, “and everything”
benefits.
I’m not sure where
this is a bad thing, but...
well I don’t have a snarky
comment for that.
Also, sprinkled
throughout her article
are overtones of ignorant
hatred toward my beloved
home, the South. Again,
this is not uncommon
amongst her ilk.
Just a few weeks ago,
I was watching an episode
of Family Guy. The
West (Georgian
documentaries.
Over the years, those
wildlife documentaries
have served as an
inspiration to me, and
no doubt countless other
animal enthusiasts, as
Irwin brought 16 foot crocs
and lunging snakes right
into our living rooms.
It has been
announced that Discovery
Communications, the
company which Animal
Planet is an affiliate of,
currently has plans to
rename a garden at its Silver
Springs, MD headquarters
the “Steve Irwin Memorial
Sensory Garden”.
The company is also
planning the establishment
of a fund in Irwin’s name
to support conservation,
wildlife protection,
educatio, and the further
improvement of Irwin’s
Australia Zoo, as well as
educational support funds
for Irwin’s two Children.
The world has lost
one of its most influential
conservationists and
naturalists. This Wildlife
Warrior, this Crocodile
Hunter, will be sorely
missed by this budding
biologist.
Tara Mustoy is a graduate
assistant with the UWG
Department of Biology.
protagonist, Peter, was
speaking to someone about
the United States. He said
something to the effect of,
“Yeah, the U.S. is pretty
great. Well, except for the
South.” This seems to be
a pervasive mindset these
days.
Whereas it is
politically incorrect
to make fun of other
countries for being
backward, uneducated
and poor, it’s more
than accepted to make
such comments about
Southerners in general.
Heck, it’s so accepted
that The West Georgian
itself published an entire
article railing against the
South.