2008 Woodie Awards
College is a time for people to mature into adults. Where intelligent dialogue between reasoning individuals incorporates exam-ination of decisions made by both authority and subordinates.We are not in the military, where blind obedience is the expected conduct.
What about the students? When did the college stop considering the student? After all, without students, there is no college. Recent happenings and decisions have shown a propensity to ignore the students. Take, for example, the editorial in the last edition of the Viking News.
How do you feel about the new class schedule? Do you like it better than the old one? Does it bother you classes are longer? Do you think the schedule should stay or go back to the old one? "This is a split decision for me," said Jenna Childs, a student. "I save money in gas by only coming to school two days a week; however, the classes are too long, and I get tired from sitting there.
Has anyone noticed the over-commercialization of the holiday season? A few years ago, black Friday was the beginning of the Christmas retail season. Now, by Halloween, the Christmas hype has begun, to the dismay and annoyance of many. The same holds true in the sports world.
Being a proponent of the death penalty I was enraged a county prosecutor would urge the state to abolish the death penalty. It has been a longtime belief of mine proper use of the death penalty would deter crime. I believe if a criminal knows he is going to lose his life, that he is facing a horrific death for a crime, he might think twice about doing that crime.
It is official. The cold weather is here too stay, and I know exactly what you are thinking: "I miss summer." All of your tan lines have officially faded, and those natural highlights are disappearing slowly, slowly. But even though the tease of randomly 70-degree days have come to a screeching halt, the cold-weather blues do not have to come to a peak! You can do a few easy things to make the cold weather much more bearable.
G-rock radio (106.5) hosted its first annual Winter Melt Down, featuring the band Shiny Toy Guns, in Point Pleasant Dec. 2. The show was inside Jenks Club, and at the door of the club, the Shiny Toy Drive was going on. Concert attendees could donate toys for underprivileged children.