Focus needed on what’s important

In the past few weeks, The Eagle has received many comments about Julie Davis’ articles concerning Danny Woodhead. 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. Many were upset by Marquez’s opinions about sweatpants and overweight people dressing inappropriately.

All of this begs some serious reconsideration. Regardless of the football player alumni’s successes or people’s questionable fashion sense, there are many more pertinent issues such as protests in Cairo, the repeal of President Barack Obama’s health care bill, and the recent arrest of a California man who intended to blow up a mosque in Michigan.

If items on the global scale overwhelm you, then simply look up when you walk to class. On any given day, our campus is inundated with serious problems that demand solutions and an active student body. People should be stepping up for the student trustee job, or taking over the chair of the key fob committee; however, these issues seem to be overlooked, but perhaps that’s an unfair assessment. Overlooking would imply that people are aware that they exist, but from all appearances, no one has a clue about what’s going on unless it appears as Facebook gossip.

Even in The Eagle, we have had controversial topics in the opinion section, yet little comment has been recieved about those. Is this because it doesn’t appear in the Sports section?

If those who read our paper would focus the energy they used complaining about Davis’ article towards more culturally significant topics like religion, politics, or even something as pedestrian as economics, it’s possible that Chadron State—and maybe even Nebraska—would be a dramatically different place.

Although Danny Woodhead is an important figure on our campus, there are more pressing issues than the Patriots not making the Super Bowl. Yet, many people have focused all their attention on “the Danny Woodhead Curse.”

But maybe it isn’t a curse on Woodhead at all.

Maybe instead it’s a curse on anyone that can’t seem to focus on anything but him.

The Eagle believes that Woodhead is an inspiration for Chadron State College and the community as a whole, but would like to expand people’s concerns and inquiries into other issues. Woodhead is a sports figure, not a deity.