BRAVO to Walter Cronkite and Dave Barry for sharing their wisdom with ASU. Both journalists were in town this week for the annual Cronkite Awards luncheon, and both stopped by ASU to talk with groups of students. The most trusted man in America and one of the funniest men on the page - it doesn't get much better than that.
BOO to ASU's new credit card fee, which was implemented Nov. 1. That means any ASU payments you make online - from tuition to parking tickets to residence hall rent - will have a 2.75-percent fee tacked on and can't be made with a Visa card. We've said it before, but we'll say it again: ASU students, rise up in protest by paying your spring tuition in pennies.
BRAVO to basketball season for starting. Finally, something to take our minds off the sub-par ASU football team.
BOO to the mandatory meal plan passing another hurdle to implementation. The meal-plan committee tweaked it a bit and then passed the proposal off to the administration to look at this week, after the student "representatives" in the Residence Hall Association and Undergraduate Student Government approved the thing. If this meal plan is so great, students should choose to buy into it without coercion. Speaking of which...
BOO to gentrification. Development is great, but it shouldn't come at the cost of pushing artists out of an area where they once thrived.
BRAVO to the Attorney General's office for opening a satellite office on campus. The office gives students a chance to volunteer, while helping other students deal with issues like consumer fraud. A government office that's easily accessible and encourages student involvement - what a concept!
BOO to The State Press for putting out two Tuesday papers. Yes, our Wednesday edition featured the wrong day of the week at the top of each page. It proved that even after the most thorough copy editing, really stupid mistakes can still slip through when you're working on a deadline.
BRAVO to Rosa Parks' memorials. Allowing Parks to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda and reserving the first seat in her honor on buses across the country were beautiful ways to remember an everyday hero who helped change the nation.
BOO to this week for being five days long. With next Friday off in honor of Veterans Day, we're already making plans for the Thursday we won't have to spend in our basement putting out a paper. Yay for long weekends!
