At Chadron State College, athletes are used to playing sports with these phrases repeated in the background.

Many readers have questioned Woodhead’s “team’s failure” and despite a clarification from Davis, people continue to send angry comments. The controversy surrounding this issue is of similar magnitude to that about last semester’s columns by Jon Marquez.

Perhaps it is merely this college’s fate to see generation after generation of students who are simply trying to get a degree without incident and move on into the career world.

We’ve recently seen a rise in violence in America. From the most current incident in Tucson, Ariz., involving the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, to the “endangered disappearance” of middle-school cheerleader Hailey Dunn, to Nebraska’s own Tyler Thomas, it seems that our nation is increasingly prone to violence.

Is leadership a lost goal among students at Chadron State College? Astonishingly few students out of the entire student body demonstrated their desire and enthusiasm at the recent election to serve in the capacity of student government representatives. Of the five who ran for office, four were already senators.

The Eagle, which has been the voice of Chadron State College since 1920, is pleased to announce the beginning of another exciting year of publications. Our goal is to be as open as possible, so your opinion is what counts. Each reader is of great importance to us.

We feel members of the Senate Finance Committee acted irresponsibly and without regard to the effect on our readers on and off campus.

We are curious why the Student Senate, and by extension the Senate Finance Committee think discussions about how the student body’s money is spent should not be shared with or explained to the student body.