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As college students, we have mourned that we have no fall break, like many of us had while we were in high school. It was during this time we could let our hair down and let our brains take a mental vacation.
Over winter break, two events passed — one garnered attention from all corners of the globe, while the other unfortunately passed with considerably less attention given to it. The calamity that grabbed the nation was, of course, the tragedy in Tucson. The other was the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Bravo to STD testing. For opening a platform for endless STD puns and also for helping about 200 ASU students at the first-ever “One Glove” Sexual Health Awareness Event. Although the turnout was only a fraction of the ASU populace, the Maricopa County Department of Health footed a much-need bill. In the annual Trojan Brand Condoms 2010 Sexual Health Report Card, ASU’s Tempe campus ranked No. 89 out of 141 schools. No bueno. Even if you practice safe sex, it’s important to check in every now and then for the sake of all of your past and future sexual partners and theirs. So, as random shirts indicated at the event: “Let’s get tested and feel alright.”
As the semester comes to a close, it’s important to look back on everything that has shaped our community in these last few short months. If it seems like an uneventful few months, just take a look at some of the biggest stories we’ve seen this fall:
Bravo to the ASU football team for bringing the Territorial Cup back to Tempe after two years in Tucson. We can’t even pick an MVP from this game; too many players made it possible. From Thomas Weber’s 5-for-5 day kicking field goals to James Brooks’ two blocked extra points and Brock Osweiler’s gutsy performance, the Sun Devils did it all and gave ASU fans one sweet memory from what’s been a mostly painful season.
After all the ASU football team has been through this season, it seems hard to believe that it has yet to play its most important game of the season.
Maybe you’ve been whining about not learning a thing in so-and-so’s class, but now you have a three-page study guide. We get it.It’s one week until Reading Day, Sun Devils, which means we have only seven more days to try and make up for all of this semester’s procrastination. It’s been just over three months since this semester kicked into gear and those final deadlines, PowerPoint presentations, 10-pagers, holiday stress and annoying TV commercials are pushing the stress level over the edge. Therefore, in order to prevent a widespread epidemic of explosion — think Visioneers — a few campus or dorm-friendly activities can relieve the muddled mind and reboot your system before crashing head on into finals week. Here are a few more events to keep you peacefully procrastinating and to help you chill the finals out.
Imagine a world without the English language. It may be harder to do than imagining one without war or religion.
American diplomacy is being tormented by the trickling taunt of WikiLeaks’ big drop Sunday of more than a quarter-million U.S. documents, threatening to “uncloak U.S. diplomacy,” as The New York Times put it. According to the Times, only about 11,000 are classified as “secret” and 9,000 contain information considered too delicate to be seen by foreign governments. The rest of them are described as records of “backroom bargaining” and “frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats” and only go back about three years.
Boo to Wednesday classes. Although some students are sitting at home with family this Thanksgiving Eve, a good portion of us are in those few ASU classes that were either not canceled or couldn’t be skipped. Although we’ll all be rushing to get home in time for pumpkin pie tomorrow in the name of catching up with a syllabus hopelessly behind schedule, enduring that one last lecture before a four-day weekend will just give us one more thing to be thankful for.
Is anyone else tired of this Four Loko buzz? We here at The State Press sure are.
Over the years, the pope has made headlines for making ridiculous statements.
Boo to a world without peace — at least one that won’t award it with the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. This year’s winner, Liu Xiaobo, is serving an 11-year sentence for subversion to the Chinese government and will not be permitted to accept it. In similar situations in the past, detained winners’ family members have accepted the prize on a winner’s behalf. However, Liu’s family isn’t likely to attend, according to a New York Times article. What’s worse is that China has called a boycott of the award ceremony and countries, including Russia, Iraq, and Cuba, have all agreed to forgo the ceremony. No offense China, but peace can’t wait for it to be OK on your watch. Even if you think you corner the world’s watch manufacturing.
In this week before Thanksgiving, just about everyone is daydreaming about gathering around the dinner table, watching football or just having four days away from campus. But even if you’re looking forward to seeing your family in other cities, there’s little reason to get excited about the traveling process itself.
Counter-culture and protests, once so influential and known for reviving the pulse of entire generations as it did in the late 1960s anti-war movement and the early ‘70s civil rights movement, have fallen to the wayside in American politics. For some people, participating symbolically toward a cause has personal rewards. But despite the abundance of sensationalized small gatherings, our society has moved beyond substantive demonstrations.
From understanding the origin of the University to developing alternative fuels, ASU is certainly on its way to becoming a household name as one of the most ambitious research institutes around.
This weekend there were 757 broom-clutching Muggles competing in the most intense magic-turned-Muggle sport around. That’s right, Quidditch. Nay, it gets better, The Quidditch World Cup.
Bravo to Arizona for not saving daylight. Clocks around most of the country rolled back on Sunday to mark the end of daylight saving time, which might only exist to confuse us here in the Grand Canyon state. Even technology can’t figure it out, with iPhone users around the world reporting problems with their alarm clock apps not adjusting for the time change. In the U.S., Hawaii and Arizona are the odd states out, but we get along just fine without it, and the others would too. The biggest hassle here is trying to remember how many hours apart we are from everywhere else, and what effect that has on our television schedule. The biggest drawback this year? We’re still stuck watching Conan at midnight.
With the new Legislature getting ready to take office in January, the state’s departments all await the impending budget cuts. Perhaps the most nervous are the heavily slashed health and education departments that are still nursing their wounds from earlier this year. But, if the recent buzz rings true, our legislators may be finding the political will to consider cuts to the state’s prison system, which has been relatively overlooked in the budget slashes of recent years.
For students hanging around downtown Phoenix or living on the Downtown campus, there has historically been little to do aside from major events. Nothing against Starbucks and all the independent coffee shops in the area, but when you don’t want to study or grab a cup of joe, you can either sit outside in the Civic Space Park or inside the University Center. Time-killing is a bleak activity in the surrounding financial district. The coolest thing until now has been the few nearby theaters, city hall and access to the arts district.
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