Eagle staff editorials
This election season has been one for the books, but only on the presidential side. The presidential race has been so tumultuous that most of the media’s fodder has been focused there instead of the House and Senate races.
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As many of you know, this week is CSC’s Homecoming week. While there are decorated bedsheets hanging in the Student Center, and a few extra events on campus, there is little to show for the celebration.
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On Aug. 27, 2015, The Eagle’s editorial board published an editorial that criticized the Federal Election Commission for allowing a 15-year-old boy to register Deez Nuts as an independent presidential candidate and Public Policy Polling for putting the name on the polls.
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Many students at CSC are in their fourth or fifth year of college and will be graduating in December or May 2017. There is a faint light at the end of the tunnel signaling that the end is actually near. Along with the realization that you may be nearing the end of school and education as you have known it comes a well-known academic disease called senioritis.
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Donald Trump has dedicated a significant portion of his campaign to discussing immigration, despite the fact that only about 8 percent of Americans rank it as the most important problem facing this country. However, hidden within the immigration front is an ulterior agenda that Hillary Clinton was recently so kind as to point out.
Read MorePeople always say when you come to college that it’s now time to take control of your life. You are no longer under your parents’ control and it’s finally time for you to make your own mistakes, to grow, to love, to learn.
Read MoreWith all the media buzz surrounding Colin Kaepernick, his recent choice to sit during the national anthem should be rightfully judged on both ends of the pendulum. The first side would involve playing devil’s advocate and defend his right to uphold constitutional freedoms, which permit him to make the decision of standing up or not.
On the other end, we’d need to measure the reason behind doing so; which to many has come across immature, hypocritical and cheap. Now, both sides of this argument deserve the same amount of justification and analysis.
You don’t get a second chance at a first impression.
This statement is an overused cliché, but the odds are that you have heard this from a parent, counselor, or teacher. While the saying may be trite, it resounds with truth.
Read MoreWhen you’re green, you’re growing. When you’re ripe, you rot.” That quote is credited to Ray Kroc, a businessman who is credited with building McDonald’s into the success it is. This statement has a message that has been passed around the newsroom multiple times through the years. There is a poster in the newsroom that reads, “Oh, that’s good enough.” This poster is hanging as a sarcastic reminder that we should always strive to be the best that we can be, in all aspects of our lives.
Read MorePerson One: “Chadron State won the basketball game last night.”
Person Two: “What was the score?”
Person One: “Oh, I can’t tell you. If I do, it might hurt the other team’s feelings.”
This scenario is an extreme example of the way we see Senate elections. For years, The Eagle has been asking the executive body of Senate to release the numbers of votes in the Student Senate elections. Year after year, those running for election claim they will be transparent, and they want better working relations with all parts of the college, and year after year, our requests for numbers are denied.
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