Follow me as we skim the pages of today's Badger Herald and check out some articles on current issues...
Front page:
- Campus safety/ self defense
- The nonexistent state budget and subsequent (scary) budget costs for the UW
Digest (page 2):
- Patriot Act lawsuit
Page 4:
- Walkout in support of the Jena 6/ racism in existence today
Page 6:
- An Iraq War veteran returning his medals
Page 7:
- Protest of the Planned Parenthood clinic
- Public school education test scores are falling... yet still above the national average
- City government at work reviewing the permits for Library Mall food carts
...and then you get to the Opinion section. Let's concentrate on page 11:
- Rehabilitation vs. relocation for sex offenders (by Bassey Etim)
- SSFC and the question of student rights and control over seg fees (by Rachel Butler)
- SCHIP (the State Children's Health Insurance Plan) and Bush's veto threat (by the College Democrats)
- The pressing, all-important issue of concealed carry of firearms (by the College Republicans)
Seriously?! With all these urgent issues - from the expiration of SCHIP this Sunday to UW having to cut majors and faculty because of budget shortfalls, and from the Iraq War to racism in Louisiana - Sara Mikolajczak (chair of the College Republicans and author of the article) and her organization sees it essential to complain about the critical need for more weapons on the streets. "Even in a few short months," she says, "when I get a gun for my 21st birthday (hint to my daddy) I won't be able to carry it for protection. Why? Because Gov. Jim Doyle says so."
Misplaced priorities?
Front page:
- Campus safety/ self defense
- The nonexistent state budget and subsequent (scary) budget costs for the UW
Digest (page 2):
- Patriot Act lawsuit
Page 4:
- Walkout in support of the Jena 6/ racism in existence today
Page 6:
- An Iraq War veteran returning his medals
Page 7:
- Protest of the Planned Parenthood clinic
- Public school education test scores are falling... yet still above the national average
- City government at work reviewing the permits for Library Mall food carts
...and then you get to the Opinion section. Let's concentrate on page 11:
- Rehabilitation vs. relocation for sex offenders (by Bassey Etim)
- SSFC and the question of student rights and control over seg fees (by Rachel Butler)
- SCHIP (the State Children's Health Insurance Plan) and Bush's veto threat (by the College Democrats)
- The pressing, all-important issue of concealed carry of firearms (by the College Republicans)
Seriously?! With all these urgent issues - from the expiration of SCHIP this Sunday to UW having to cut majors and faculty because of budget shortfalls, and from the Iraq War to racism in Louisiana - Sara Mikolajczak (chair of the College Republicans and author of the article) and her organization sees it essential to complain about the critical need for more weapons on the streets. "Even in a few short months," she says, "when I get a gun for my 21st birthday (hint to my daddy) I won't be able to carry it for protection. Why? Because Gov. Jim Doyle says so."
Misplaced priorities?
Labels: guns, healthcare
1 Comments:
I especially like the part where she talks about how guns on campus would "maybe" have prevented the Virginia Tech tragedy. And given what happened on Tuesday, we would've all "maybe" felt safer having more guns on campus that day.
But on a related note, great job on your piece from yesterday. You didn't even ask daddy for a birthday present! Not even once!
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