I looked today at the archives of The Sentinel which is the
KSU Newspaper. Every issue has listings about events and some features like Opinions,
Sports, and Arts & Living etc. Some
concerns or articles I saw right away weren’t exactly linked to campus
concerns. One article for example was about the various political debates and
who students liked and supported. Unsurprisingly, Bernie Sanders has a lot of
support because of his support for free public college for all. It also stated
he has support among Republicans because of the behavior of the Republican candidates.
I also saw an opinion piece featuring a discussion of Planned Parenthood and
the government funding it receives. (Though honestly it shouldn’t have been
published being that it was just the same garbage opinion being bantered about by
two people that PP are supposedly selling
parts which isn’t true but I’m not here to get into an argument. It should be
two opposing opinion---but that’s just my feelings on the matter.)
Other stories in those particular issues where contrasting
opinions on college life—and in that I mean should students be focus on “living
life” or the “carpe diem” approach or “focusing on career and grades”. Both are important to students—especially young
students who are just starting their lives. I read some more opinion articles
focused things like the lack of acknowledgement from the KSU administration
about Hispanic History Month which honestly is pretty bad not to acknowledge. I
expect better since my small technical school even acknowledged it. Another
important story was the concerns about consolidation. This is something that affects
me because had it not happened I would be an SPSU student—not KSU and I feel
like the consolidation has kind of bungled things for many SPSU students and
potential SPSU students. I also know there is parking issues on campus and I
saw this mentioned a couple of times in little comments. They are called Owl
Yaks and there are lots of little things said. It’s kind of cute.
An article I read about which seemed to be a big deal was the
recent shooting near campus. Many students discussed that while they felt they
still were safe on campus the police on campus and emergency notification
department on campus did a bad job of notifying people about what had happened.
Unfortunately, this effected some off campus housing nearby and the students
were inconvenienced so while they may have been scared by the shooting they don’t
like how they’ve changed the hours for some amenities.
Overall, I would say that still parking, safety, how to
balance college life, and their future are the concerns of this campus and
population.
So true, there are articles unrelated to KSU. Interesting how the lack of communication between campus' police officers and students came up in two different circumstances. The one you read - about the shooting by the campus - and the one I did - about the evacuation of one of the buildings not too long ago. In both cases, it seems that the communication is an issue that raises concern and one that can be improved.
ReplyDeleteSurprisingly there are a lot of articles that do not relate to KSU directly. There should be better communication between the police and students/staff on campus in order to protect everyone in dangerous situations.
ReplyDeleteI agree there are a lot of articles that do not directly go along with KSU and that there should be more stuff in the newspaper that explains what all is really going on at the school
ReplyDeleteI agree, I wrote mine on the evacuation that happened a few weeks ago. I mentioned some of the same points you did about the communication. Great job!
ReplyDeleteThat really does surprise me that there is a lack of communication between the police and students on campus. I feel like that would make the biggest push against crime and to help protect students and staff.
ReplyDelete