Letters to the Editor
Do-it-yourself cure for boredom
Dear editor,
Like most GCSU students I make the trek to Irwin Street Parking Lot on Friday afternoons. However, unlike many of them, I am doing so in order to move my car closer to my dorm for the weekend.
A disappointing number of students go home for the weekend, which has given the school a “suitcase campus” stigma. Sit on any dorm’s porch on Thursday and Friday afternoons, and you will see the mass exodus of students frantically loading their cars in order to get away and avoid a parking ticket. Some have jobs back in their hometowns, a few are still attempting a long distance relationship, but in my experience, most are going home for one of two reasons: “just because,” or because “there’s nothing to do in Milledgeville on the weekends.”
This couldn’t be further from the truth. Though most CAB events are on Wednesdays and Thursdays, there is plenty to do between Friday and Sunday, especially if you have a group of friends around. There are tons of places to go exploring that don’t fall into the realm of trespassing. Spend an afternoon at Bartram Forest. There are miles of
walking trails, plus a small labyrinth to work your way through (which is disappointingly empty of David Bowie in tight pants).
If video games are more of your forte, chances are you already know someone with Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution, Mario Kart or any number of other entertaining multi-player games. Find a friend with a car and spend the day in Macon or go to Carmike to catch a movie. We even have a handful of movie rental places (including Blockbuster) if nothing on the big screen excites you.
If you like history, we have Andalusia (Flannery O’Conner’s home), two museums (one of which is on campus), and more than two hundred years of history to explore. There’s even plenty of ghost stories to hear (other than Sanford Hall’s Cookie) if you know where to look and who to ask. And those CAB events? I’ll bet you ten dollars that if more people stayed in town over the weekend that they would eventually be scheduled on Friday and Saturday instead of in the middle of the week.
Maybe you like being with your family or have your best friends in the whole world back in Atlanta or Snellville or wherever you hail from, and that’s fine, but in my opinion, you are cheating yourself out of the full college experience by leaving. There are plenty of wonderful people to get to know on this campus, and as many things to do as you want if you use your imagination.
Sincerely,
Leigh Prince
sophomore
English major
McCain should beware liberals
Dear editor,
I have a question for Conservatives who claim that there is something honorable about not voting for McCain. Who spend more of their time beating down a fellow Republican, while ignoring the extreme liberal forces that are about to kick their butts completely out of every branch of government.
McCain may be a moderate republican or liberal from where you stand… but a pure vanilla liberal backed by a democrat infested congress will become a liberal mandate. When that happens, we will turn sharply left as a nation. Not left leaning… sharply left. Canada left. Europe left. Getting the idea?
This is not just about who will be President for four years. It’s about preventing a complete washout of all conservative influence.. How is having only 50 percent of McCain’s ear worse than having zip out of a liberal dictatorship who thinks all conservative thought is archaic?
What is honorable about sitting on your butt at home, refusing to vote – allowing all branches of government to be swarmed by RABIDLY liberal opponents who have vowed to undo everything conservatives have fought to achieve over the past decade?
I hear endless whining and griping from Conservatives, while the extreme liberals, who are bent on reversing every conservative principal, out number us at the polls nearly two to one. Is that principal, or do conservatives just have a death wish to see our country turn to the extreme left (who has no problem getting their hind ends to the polls)?
What is so conservative about beating down the (soon to be) nominee who supports our troops, instead of the extreme liberals who insult our troops and degrade them every single day in front of the entire world?
By punishing John McCain for not being conservative enough, you are really punishing all conservatives by making absolutely sure they will be governed by radical, rabid liberalism for the next four to eight years.
By stomping your feet and refusing to help, you in turn assure that the laws of the land will have few conservatives in a position of power to stop a runaway liberal train that will further infiltrate our school, explode your tax burden and socialize every part of your life it can.
If you must be dragged to the polls, then don’t bother complaining when our courts are swarmed by the liberals who will put judges in power.
Please think twice before punishing the rest of us conservatives, who may not love McCain, but are smart enough to realize the living nightmare that will ensue if things continue on the path they are going.
I see nothing conservative about being so focused on the anthill. You completely ignore the volcano that’s about to wipe your entire cause out. That is not principal. That’s political suicide. Will conservatives ever learn?
Sincerely,
Danny Vice
blogger
http://thalunatic.blogspot.com
Posted by Colonnade Archives
on Feb 22 2008. Filed under Letters to the Editor, Opinion.
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