Editorial: West-changing winds
It seems that 2008 was a good year for everything west-related.
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It seems that 2008 was a good year for everything west-related.
Twenty-seven people trickled into the town-hall meeting at the Polytechnic campus on Monday afternoon to discuss with University officials the repercussions of the University cuts to campus-specific programs.
Bravo to Body Pride Week, a flurry of campus-wide activities put on by the Student Organization Resource Center. The event, dedicated to raising awareness about body-image issues and providing students with support and information, is much needed and often under-appreciated. In 2005, the National Eating Disorders Association estimated that as many as 10 million females and 1 million males are fighting an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia. Millions more are fighting binge-eating disorders. On a campus full of self-conscious young adults, Body Pride Week is doubly valuable, especially in terms of cutting those numbers down in the future.
There are three distinct advantages to having stairs in your place of residence: You can use them as a convenient tool for fitness purposes, you can house a precocious boy wizard underneath them, and you can employ them as an instrument with which metaphors can easily crafted.
In 2002, Michael Crow took over as president of ASU. In his inauguration address, Crow set out a vision for a university unlike any other. He called his personal vision for ASU “the new American University.”
In March 2005, a former ASU football player shot and killed another former ASU football player in a Scottsdale parking lot. The incident obviously sent shockwaves through a University that, before that fateful night, was largely — thankfully — a stranger to gun violence.
According to a Reuters article published over the weekend, job losses in the U.S. in January hit 598,000. While it might not be directly affecting everyone yet, the unemployment rate is bound to touch at least one aspect of our lives. More often than we’d like to admit, the Great Depression — of John Steinbeck fame and the reason our grandmothers buy 10 boxes of cake mix on sale when they only need one — springs to mind.
Over the weekend, as the infamous state budget cuts were making their way from being a shameful and destructive idea, to being a shameful and destructive bill, a moment of levity appeared out of the blue.
On Monday morning in Punxsutawney,Pa., Phil, the groundhog, surfaced from his customary burrow and saw his shadow. As tradition has it, if the world’s most famous prognosticating rodent sees his shadow,winter will last six additional weeks.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Boo to a nation full of Cardinal-haters. With the betting lines in Las Vegas lingering around seven points in the Steelers’ favor, and with millions of people doubting our hometown team’s chances against an experienced Pittsburgh squad, the Cardinals were dealt another blow before Sunday’s Super Bowl kicks off: President Barack Obama will be cheering against them. If Obama truly does have control over the entire concept of “hope,” things look bleak for Arizona. Where’s “change” when you need it?
On Wednesday, the horrific mess that is the budget crisis of 2009 landed its first major blow.
When the ongoing saga of the proposed state budget cuts starts to make us feel blue, there is always one thing that can constantly renew our spirits: listing ways that ASU is superior to UA.
Bravo to the life of Tom Dillon, the voice of ASU athletics for 18 years. Dillon, a play-by-play broadcaster who won Arizona Sportscaster of the Year 17 times and was set to call the ASU-UA game this Saturday, died unexpectedly on Monday night. He was 65. Dillon’s presence in the Valley exceeded just his voice; he was, among many other things, a part of the Flight for Life program, an organization of pilots who donate time flying across Arizona to transport blood. Dillon’s charity work and benevolent public profile is just part of what endeared him to the ASU community. He will be missed tremendously.
It was nice to see five-plus hours of ASU-only coverage on that eternally self-promoting network Friday night. But with all the attention on Sun Devil athletics, the script was flipped. The football team won and the men’s basketball team lost.
Thanks for the inevitable laundry list of self-indulgent holiday editorials. Every year at this time, some schmuck writers go off and pen long, self-righteous opinion pieces relaying all of the things they’re thankful for. We hate to say it, but … well, this is that very opinion piece and we are those schmucks. But, hey, it’s a Thanksgiving thing. It just must be done.
In America, there are certain things we are supposed to unilaterally love: hard-hitting football, television shows involving crime scenes, either great tasting and/or less filling beer, dollar menus, funniest home videos, celebrities who have no right being celebrities.
Boo to two UA students who seemed to think their Halloween costumes would be funny. The couple dressed us as an airplane and one of the Twin Towers (including little people jumping out of the windows). While most of our disgust directed at Tucson dwellers is out of respect for the fun of our long-standing rivalry with the Wildcats, this case is nothing of the sort. We are absolutely disgusted that anyone — be it any student anywhere, even ASU — could do this and laugh in the faces of the thousands of innocent lives taken on Sept. 11, 2001. We wish their appalling, shameful acts do not go unnoticed and un-chastised, though we do not wish them harm. Yet it seems others on the online community, including thedirty.com where the pictures were first posted, do want blood. Ironically, the pair will be needing new costumes, after all.
Admittedly, the headlines of The State Press over the course of the semester have not been the most positive.
This year, ASU President Michael Crow will make about $720,500, including a housing allowance, pension and other benefits, according to the Arizona Board of Regents.
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