Prospectus

I feel that the topic got stale when it got closer to the end.
The piece was a tad too wordy for my taste.
Give me more of a reason to spend my time reading the paper.

Discrimination is a Virtue

I feel that the media is way too concerned with the excitement of having the first black president or the first female president to take office. It makes me sick to think one would be voting because of the race or gender of the candidates. The public is not discriminating the issues at stake in the upcoming elections this year. The nominees seem to do nothing but tear each other down why do we want people who act like school children on stage to be our president. There is no real coverage on the issues the hopefuls want to see happen in office, all we are previewed to is how they are constantly one upping each other. Voting based on race or gender is wrong, one should not be blinded by what the media says. When it seems as if one of the candidates is being favored by the media or the candidate would like to think so they can lay a guilt trip on the public. Such as Hillary’s claim that Obama is being favored because he is black, when that should not matter in the first place. We in turn are almost sucked in by the race issue when we are at a crucial point when we need to be focusing our attention on discriminating the issues at hand.

Logical Fallacies

In the Lumberjack there was an article using the bandwagon approach, stating how good the university was for going green with the new information systems building. While this is an important issue you can’ t tell people that everyone is going green what about people who cannot afford the make the changes to go green, it is not cheap to go green. They failed to mention the problems that the building brought along with it, such as the ventilation shafts over flowing with water when we had the heavy rains in the fall. The damage caused by the flooding , We saw some areas where we cannot go green for the buildings sake.
The snob approach was also a fallacy they said everything was going green in retrospect not every place can afford the change who are they to tell people who are not going green they are bad. They paper was being snobby by placing us in the third best eco friendly schools. What about all the old buildings on the campus that are in bad shape, I guess it is ok for the paper to ignore those buildings it would weaken the praise they are trying to provide the school.
There was one more article in the paper on separating boys and girls at the elementary levels. Which is another important subject it is this country’s future. It was full of the stacking the deck fallacy the entire article was on why not to segregate the sexes at that age. How do we know what the other side of the argument is? This one really made the author sound ignorant. Even though you may not agree with the other side you should tell the audience why they are wrong by using specific examples.
I was amazed at the amount of fallacies in the school paper. I never thought how misguided I could be

Teens getting the Pill

On of the points of view are, by giving out birth control you are encouraging teens to have sex. It is thought of the same as it would be giving out low tar cigarettes, and that there should be a law against giving out birth control. It is thought that by keeping these kids in the dark they will not have sex.
On the other hand the other point of view is that of where these students are coming from. Many of these are newly arrived immigrants and under privileged students. When a middle school has seventeen underage pregnancies there is a serious problem, and it should be the states responsibility to protect these girls from becoming pregnant. These girls are in school and should not have to think abot raising a child.
One of the counterarguments are about the pills just being handed out without the parents knowledge. On the other hand there is the fact that it is an long journey full of counseling and the nurses inform them of the dangers of under aged sex, which is the refute of the counter argument.
The perspective of the student I felt was overlooked, because how do the student themselves feel about having. There was no insight on how the students would feel about someone in the school system would provide them sex education. Do the students feel it would actually be effective for them, and would they use the resources.