Letter to the Editor
October 29, 2009
Issue date: 10/29/09
Section: Letters to the Editor
I opened the school paper the other day to find that there is a budget problem and what is the senate arguing over? Paper! Our student printing fund. On the front page it says that the university is looking to build a new Latino center. I wonder how much that is going to cost?
For a university that allegedly wants to make us all think that we're all just people underneath it all we draw a lot of attention to how different we are. Shouldn't the only thing we all need to have in common on campus is that we all have the desire to better ourselves through education?
The only place these differences should be relevant is if you're studying cultures. Aside from that our mission should be to tolerate our differences (because you CAN'T force people to love one another) and celebrate what we have in common through our shared education and common ideas so we can better develop in our areas of study.
If the university is so strapped for cash that it is auditing our printer budget, maybe it should scrap these superfluous university funded "celebrate each other" initiatives. I pay a lot of money to study economics here, that's what I pay to learn about and that's all I care to learn about. If you're Muslim, Hmong, Gay, Latino, etc, then be happy and proud, more power to you. But I don't care to learn more about you, and that is MY CHOICE, just the same as it's your choice to believe whatever you want to believe. I never cared what God my research project partners worshiped, I only cared that they were adept in the subject matter pertinent to the work at hand and I've always gotten along just fine with them.
Who you love or what you worship doesn't affect me, so I have no problem with it. What does affect me is when the university finds it necessary to spend money that I intended to use to better myself through what I wanted to study on trying to make me more "culturally enriched." People who want to celebrate who they are should be more than free to. But I feel if people want to do this they should start a club on campus and manage their own funds, rather than the university funneling scarce resources from our paper printing budget into them.
Mark Leirmo, Economics student
For a university that allegedly wants to make us all think that we're all just people underneath it all we draw a lot of attention to how different we are. Shouldn't the only thing we all need to have in common on campus is that we all have the desire to better ourselves through education?
The only place these differences should be relevant is if you're studying cultures. Aside from that our mission should be to tolerate our differences (because you CAN'T force people to love one another) and celebrate what we have in common through our shared education and common ideas so we can better develop in our areas of study.
If the university is so strapped for cash that it is auditing our printer budget, maybe it should scrap these superfluous university funded "celebrate each other" initiatives. I pay a lot of money to study economics here, that's what I pay to learn about and that's all I care to learn about. If you're Muslim, Hmong, Gay, Latino, etc, then be happy and proud, more power to you. But I don't care to learn more about you, and that is MY CHOICE, just the same as it's your choice to believe whatever you want to believe. I never cared what God my research project partners worshiped, I only cared that they were adept in the subject matter pertinent to the work at hand and I've always gotten along just fine with them.
Who you love or what you worship doesn't affect me, so I have no problem with it. What does affect me is when the university finds it necessary to spend money that I intended to use to better myself through what I wanted to study on trying to make me more "culturally enriched." People who want to celebrate who they are should be more than free to. But I feel if people want to do this they should start a club on campus and manage their own funds, rather than the university funneling scarce resources from our paper printing budget into them.
Mark Leirmo, Economics student
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Mee Vang
posted 10/30/09 @ 12:59 AM CST
This is very interesting. All across the world, we need to embrace diversity and this is just another reason why I support institutions who are funneling money to promote cultural awareness and close the gap. (Continued…)
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