Spring Break scam
A few weeks before my spring break, I found many ads in the Arizona Daily Wildcat pertaining to hotels in Rocky Point for Spring Break 2003. I called a few agencies and finally received a hotel for four nights at a motel. I gave two checks by phone, one for a $100 deposit and then another for $300.
On March 14, I got down to Mexico and was stranded without a hotel room. I checked in at the front desk and found our confirmation to be a fraudulent number, and the desk clerk informed me that I was about the 12th person who made this mistake. On Tuesday, I came back to Tucson and called the travel agent number; it was out of service.
My concern is that many other college students had this same problem. If we do not find these people now, then this same act could happen again.
Vicky Boyle
UA student
Supporting our troops
I am told to "Support our Troops" now that war has begun. I say, "It all depends on what you mean." I want our troops out of harm's way. I support them in their right to choose the military, their feeling that they are doing their patriotic duty, and their thinking that they are doing good. But I don't support them for what, at the president's orders, they are doing in Iraq.
I oppose their hostile entering of a country without international support. I don't support them in their targeting of Iraqi soldiers or their killing of innocent civilians. And I oppose them in their inevitable destroying of at least some infrastructure and resources that will lead to miseries in the future for many Iraqi people. Please don't look at me strangely if I can't completely agree to "support our troops."
Neil Wollman
Manchester College Professor
Magazine is boring!
Every Thursday I pick up The State Press and eventually, due to some catchy photo on the front, I will turn over to the magazine. While the photo usually looks like there is an interesting story on drugs or Tempe nightlife, it usually turns out to be some long, drawn-out personal interest story. Then there is usually a bunch of other junk about struggling young bands.
I'm sorry, but that's not what most students would call an "entertainment magazine." The magazine should tell students about club specials for the weekend or do some advice column that students could write into. Hell, I could write a whole issue about nothing but the guys who have screwed me over - at least that would be something interesting that would get students to turn over to the magazine. Maybe it's just me, but an entertainment magazine should be entertaining.
Angela Rao
Business Junior
