Moody column ignores identity
Moody overstepped his bounds in coining majors like Chicana/Chicano studies, aomen's studies and a "host of others" as "useless." To not study those subjects, give them credence and attention is to rob them of identity.
Moreover, not everything should be a marketable commodity. This is a very corporate, capitalist society where the dreams of Adam Smith have been mangled to sickening proportions.
But if everybody sought only business degrees, economics degrees, etc., and we scrapped those "useless" majors, society would be nothing but a massive gray building full of calculating bean counters and social problems would be left unchecked.
--Christopher Kark,
ASU student
One of these things is just like the other
I was quite surprised, and unsympathetic, in response to Katie Kelberlau's expression of tearful mourning over President George W. Bush's victory.
My surprise stems from the fact that there is very little difference between a big government Republican and a big government Democrat. Bush is not an exemplar of conservatism or small government philosophy. Domestically, his policies -- expansion of the Medicare welfare program, record spending on non-defense programs, expansion of the federal role in education, etc. -- are indistinguishable from a Democratic regime.
...So why all the hand wringing and sorrow?
Bush's lack of commitment to limited government is why this Libertarian Republican bailed on him and voted for Badnarik, the Libertarian dork. If I'm forced to choose between the lesser of two evils or a dork, I'll choose the dork every time.
--Jose Duarte,
psychology student
SPM cover hypocritical
On my way to class Thursday mornin,g I picked up a copy of The State Press as I always do and began reading it while walking down Forest Mall. Once I got to class I turned it over and saw the picture you have on the front of SPM this week.
After reading the article, I was saddened to the point of tears. I, too, am an HPV victim. I honestly felt as though Emily's story was my own.
However, I felt as though the cover of your magazine was a double standard. In the article, Sarah Bannan talks about getting rid of the stigmas surrounding STDs, but the cover of SPM shows a hazardous sign that reads "Infectious Waste."
Notice the spelling of waste: it was not spelled like waist on a human body, but rather trash -- a kind of trash to avoid.
This made me feel disgusting and dirty. I felt you did just what your article pleaded with people not to do, you stigmatized those with STDs and I am very saddened.
I have never felt so dirty and different than those around me since discovering I have HPV as I did today, after reading your article in SPM.
I know I am not the only one at ASU who has HPV or an even more dangerous STD and I personally think your staff owes everyone in that category an apology.
-- ASU student
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was modified from its original form June 28, 2005.
