Different Perspectives

For most college students, eating right is a daily struggle. There are just too many tests, too many shifts at work, too much free pizza and for a lot of students, not enough money to buy the good stuff. It’s a truth of the American grocery store: Healthful food costs more. As unfair as it is, I can buy a lot more Ding Dongs for my money than I can chicken breasts and vegetables, even at lower-priced stores like Wal-Mart.

The University will buy the Internet services and then offer them up to these people and community organizations at this rate. But, we are still assuming that people in these low-income neighborhoods will have enough extra cash to fund this expenditure. If this project is only targeting low-income neighborhoods, as it is, I don’t know how they can expect these families to give up nearly $20 a month for just Internet.

University police have said that it is “senseless” to increase police patrols on campus at this point. But what other kind of solution would be sensible? Though street surveillance technology and new patrol units are apparently in the works, in the meantime, the list of victims will grow even longer.

Clinical depression is a serious disease. In order to overcome it, one should find help. Everyone has failings and when put out in the open, we can overcome them together. One should not be ashamed of their problems; such a feeling only engenders victimization.