Cash scholarships dirty pool
I'm sorry, I'm rather new to this school, but doesn't it seem like every week somebody at ASU is trying to screw the students over? I mean really -- somebody is always dreaming up some wonderful idea to suck even more of our precious dollars and life away.
The most recent idea to start giving scholarships away as cash awards is just another scheme to take our limited and hard-earned money. I am one of the lucky ones: I got on the scholarship wagon and got my tuition waiver. If I had received cash who knows what insane thing I would have purchased ($7,000 would buy a lot of Girl Scout cookies).
Sure, I would have learned not to blow my money, but at what cost? A college education?
Also, what happens when ASU yet again raises tuition? Will they raise the amount of the scholarship? Of course not. This is ASU we are talking about.
This University shows more and more each day that they don't care about the students. What they truly care about is the almighty dollar, and that is a shame.
--Justin Wells,
ASU student
Financial future deeper than Social Security
In response to Cole Hickman's opinion on taking action on Social Security, why not consider a different option? Take the responsibility of having a stable retirement in your own hands instead of letting Uncle Sam do it for you.
Hickman states: "Your future may be on the line. You may be looking forward to a private account and maybe it will pan out for you. But it may not, and then where will you turn?"
That is such a liberal remark. Where will you turn? Try taking some responsibility for your own life instead of thinking it is the government's job to bankroll your retirement.
Social Security was designed to supplement your personal savings, not replace it, as most liberals claim.
Most of you reading this are financially young (under 25). If you save a mere $200 a month after you graduate, you will retire with several, several million dollars to your name.
So if Social Security doesn't pan out, where will you turn? How about to yourself instead of looking for a handout?
--Richard Haupt,
ASU alumnus
Hull column short on appeal
Heather Hull's tongue-in-cheek article about "Fortune" magazine naming their "Most Admired Company" was the most (as she would put it) ludicrous article I have read all year.
It is a shame she, as a communication major representing ASU, would waste time and ink bragging about her ignorance of business principles.
--Brandon Kahle,
ASU graduate student
Editorial unfair to Summers
[Last Thursday's] editorial was the most asinine and ignorant that I have read in four years (and that's no small feat). A Vanderbilt University study of math SAT scores found that although boys and girls have the same average math SAT, boys are 13 times as likely as girls to score a 700 or better.
Men are no better than women at math as a whole, they are just more likely to be at the top of the field, which would certainly account for the differences in representation.
Also, Summers never implied that discrimination was an acceptable policy, and neither am I (just because women are less likely to be math whizzes as a group does not mean that each applicant shouldn't be judged individually). He was just trying to explain an observable phenomenon. (It's called science).
Lastly, one would think that if the editorial board were to accuse Harvard of widespread discrimination, they would present evidence to support their claim.
Where's the "lack of outreach?" Shouldn't "innocent until proven guilty" apply to all people?
And I thought that religious fundamentalists were supposed to be the ones who favored dogma over scientific facts.
--Peter Johnson,
ASU student
Another angle on Cisneros column
Although I feel the article written by Rosie Cisneros [Mar. 3] was reasonable and well researched, in fairness to physicians, there are a few aspects she did not address.
Her assertion that physicians can "continue on with their lives" after medical malpractice lawsuits insinuates such a case might roll off a physician's back without consequence.
However, to a physician, nothing related to medical malpractice is "easy to ignore." Physicians are required to disclose all medical malpractice allegations -- regardless of outcome -- to insurance companies, hospitals and facilities through a national database.
Physicians take professional and personal responsibility for the decisions they make with regard to patient care. The presence of warranted or unwarranted malpractice allegations will significantly influence a physician's career and cause sentiments of personal responsibility regardless of the fiscal amount involved.
--Kimberly Brandt,
ASU student
