SUPPORTING THE HOME TEAM
A message and a plea to the students of ASU: Come out and support the basketball team at the last two home games.
I understand that the team’s record is not what we all hoped, but that is a microcosm of life in that adversity is always around the corner.
As a graduate of ASU and season ticket holder, I am embarrassed that a university with 60,000 students cannot fill their allotted seats on a regular basis!
On Saturday it looked like only a few hundred were used.
A plea to the students of ASU — come on out, take a few hours out of your day and support your fellow students. Get involved and do it beginning with the next home game.
Rollin L. Stark
Alumna
A CRIME-INFESTED WORLD
(In response to Kailin Biggerstaff’s Feb. 18 column, “Identity theft and college students.”)
Identity theft has become a major, major problem! And living without protection is like living in a crime-infested neighborhood and not having protection on your home.
You would probably at least have a really good guard dog and a fence, right?
Well, not protecting your identity today is the equivalent of living in that neighborhood and refusing to even lock your door.
It’s so sad that it’s come to this, but there are always tradeoffs in life.
Because we want better medical coverage and a nicer car we pay more to protect and insure them.
Likewise, with something as amazing as the Web, there are tradeoffs also. One tradeoff for us having access to almost everything is that others have access to almost everything about us, our information.
And that includes our personal information like Social Security numbers, banking information and even your medical and criminal history.
Luckily there is a lot of information out to help us understand and protect ourselves from these heartless criminals.
Mansoor Khalid
Statepress.com reader
