ASU keeps staff in sweaters
I want to thank you for Ryan Kost's piece on the cooling costs at the University ("University's cooling costs not looking so hot," Nov. 30).
I work in the Administration Building, and we have been freezing over here all year. Several people in our department have made calls to Facilities Management. And they have sent people over to check, but the building remains icy cold. Many of us wear sweaters in the office when the temperatures outside are over 100. It's ridiculous that Facilities Management can claim that temperatures aren't as low as you state -- they don't have to work in this building every day!
When ASU is raising tuition for students and failing to give their employees raises that match inflation rates, it's appalling that so much money is literally being thrown away by keeping buildings uncomfortably cold. The environmental effects of this waste are equally appalling.
Diane Boudreau
Faculty/Staff
Crow cares about Facebook
Macy Hanson, you have completely missed the mark ("USG Senator: Facebook influences Crow," Dec. 1). If you were there when Crow sat down with student leaders at Yaser Alamoodi's house (which you weren't), you'd know that Crow spent a significant amount of time complaining about the rumors and misconceptions that students have -- specifically mentioning Facebook as a major cause.
You say that Facebook is a place to gossip, but the point isn't how students see Facebook but how Crow sees it. To Crow, Facebook is a powerful networking tool that, if gone uncontrolled, can ruin his efforts to fix his PR image ...
Richard Sales
USG Senator, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Stick to the theme
As a Chinese student on campus, I would not mention [the] many biased arguments referring to Chinese government and Chinese people printed last semester in The State Press ("Taiwan plea deserves answers," March 28 and "Lifting embargoes should require change," April 18) ... But today, even an entertainment article ("Geisha falls flat on culture scale," Dec. 1) included such arguments [as]: "Many Chinese, censored from voicing their views of their own authoritarian government, express anger whenever they perceive any sign of national weakness before Japan."
Entertainment is entertainment. Why [does it need to involve] strong political arguments which are totally unrelated with "culture," as this article [is] titled ... ?
Yingying Chen
ASU Student
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