2008 Woodie Awards
Letters to the Editor
Issue date: 10/24/07 Section: Opinion
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A diagram in a Starbucks restroom signaled the collapse of America.
I don't feel that this statement is extreme or overly dramatic. Because when there is a diagram on a paper towel dispenser explaining to the user how to properly wash his hands, it can only mean that we as a society have overstayed our welcome. When we are no longer able to perform this painfully simple task without the help of a visual aid, where else is there to go?
The same public that refers to that paper towel dispenser for instruction on how to wash its hands votes in elections. But I couldn't even be sure of that. There isn't a step by step explanation of how exactly to bubble in the circle next to the candidate or proposition or whatever might be on the ballot.
I'm very aware of how trivial this is, especially with all the things out there I could be justifiably angry about. But it's the trivial things like this that get lost in the woodwork. When there isn't a President Bush or stronger Canadian dollar to be furious over, these are the issues that should warrant some conversation.
Is it really the echo that will cause the avalanche that permanently covers the "American way"? I couldn't be sure, not being a scholar on signs of the end times. But let me tell you, brother. This can't be good.
-- Joe Price, student
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I just find it appaling that even though solano college has aquired all this money through the measure G bond, that those monies are not being allocated equally.
So much of this money is being spent on the sports department and their new sports complex. The money allocated for the project was somewhere aroung $19m and now has gone up to approximatly $34m. Yet both the 1300 (Arts) and 1200 (Music) building have both been deferred from the project because no more money is available in the measure G.
Initially when walk throughs and
assesments were done in these builds, it was apparent that their were bat problems, the buildings smelled, the bathrooms were long over due for an upgrade and that the walls look like crap. All that is not being ignored and just shrugged off like nothing or little minor things just so we can give more money to the athletics department.
I don't feel that this statement is extreme or overly dramatic. Because when there is a diagram on a paper towel dispenser explaining to the user how to properly wash his hands, it can only mean that we as a society have overstayed our welcome. When we are no longer able to perform this painfully simple task without the help of a visual aid, where else is there to go?
The same public that refers to that paper towel dispenser for instruction on how to wash its hands votes in elections. But I couldn't even be sure of that. There isn't a step by step explanation of how exactly to bubble in the circle next to the candidate or proposition or whatever might be on the ballot.
I'm very aware of how trivial this is, especially with all the things out there I could be justifiably angry about. But it's the trivial things like this that get lost in the woodwork. When there isn't a President Bush or stronger Canadian dollar to be furious over, these are the issues that should warrant some conversation.
Is it really the echo that will cause the avalanche that permanently covers the "American way"? I couldn't be sure, not being a scholar on signs of the end times. But let me tell you, brother. This can't be good.
-- Joe Price, student
.........
I just find it appaling that even though solano college has aquired all this money through the measure G bond, that those monies are not being allocated equally.
So much of this money is being spent on the sports department and their new sports complex. The money allocated for the project was somewhere aroung $19m and now has gone up to approximatly $34m. Yet both the 1300 (Arts) and 1200 (Music) building have both been deferred from the project because no more money is available in the measure G.
Initially when walk throughs and
assesments were done in these builds, it was apparent that their were bat problems, the buildings smelled, the bathrooms were long over due for an upgrade and that the walls look like crap. All that is not being ignored and just shrugged off like nothing or little minor things just so we can give more money to the athletics department.
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