This week I want to use my few words to make a call to action. My challenge to the Mines campus is this: start caring more, and let your voices be heard.
Every week I write an opinion article because we need to fill the opinion page with something other than another advertisement. And, every week, I somehow manage to come up with an opinion about something (it’s easier when stupid things like Kanye West and balloon boy happen, but there are some times when you hit the bottom of the barrel).
That’s where you come in, noble reader. The thing that makes an opinion page valuable is the diversity of views represented on anything and everything. Issues need not be convoluted or lofty (arguments about the nature of philosophical topics, etc.), but can be as real as the problems that we face every day.
While CSM may be a more laid-back campus than, say, CU-Boulder or CSU, that does not mean that we’re any less passionate about the issues. I would go so far as to say: we’re the most academically intense school in the state, we should be more vocal.
Have a few thoughts about campus construction? Student government? Anything? We want to hear about it. A well-thought and argued piece of opinion is something that is respectable and should be discussed in the public-forum.
Why go on about all of this? The honest truth is that I am only one person; I only have my own opinions. While they might fill the necessary space, they lack diversity and run the risk of becoming stale. I can’t keep writing these articles forever, it’s your turn to be heard.
Every week I write an opinion article because we need to fill the opinion page with something other than another advertisement. And, every week, I somehow manage to come up with an opinion about something (it’s easier when stupid things like Kanye West and balloon boy happen, but there are some times when you hit the bottom of the barrel).
That’s where you come in, noble reader. The thing that makes an opinion page valuable is the diversity of views represented on anything and everything. Issues need not be convoluted or lofty (arguments about the nature of philosophical topics, etc.), but can be as real as the problems that we face every day.
While CSM may be a more laid-back campus than, say, CU-Boulder or CSU, that does not mean that we’re any less passionate about the issues. I would go so far as to say: we’re the most academically intense school in the state, we should be more vocal.
Have a few thoughts about campus construction? Student government? Anything? We want to hear about it. A well-thought and argued piece of opinion is something that is respectable and should be discussed in the public-forum.
Why go on about all of this? The honest truth is that I am only one person; I only have my own opinions. While they might fill the necessary space, they lack diversity and run the risk of becoming stale. I can’t keep writing these articles forever, it’s your turn to be heard.
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