Erb Essentials
missed essential point
Now that the verdict is in on deciding whether or not to sell tobacco to young adults at this University, I must express my disappointment. I am in agreement with professor V. Pat Lombardi. I don’t understand how an institution, designed and funded to help young adults prosper through education, could also promote a product that does the exact opposite! How is this not unethical? What’s worse is the University actually benefits from causing this type of harm. My suggestion to the EMU is to formulate a new source of income through fundraising and the like. A lack of finances is not uncommon to the University and the setback can be dealt with.
Christa Shively was quoted as saying that she doesn’t think it to be “an issue of morals or ethics” but an “issue of choice.” This is true in that students who make that choice to buy tobacco can do so off campus. The moral and ethical issue lies in the fact that the University is maintaining such a harmful choice.
That being said, I congratulate the University Bookstore for making the right decision. As for Erb Essentials, they have lost my business until the right and moral decision is made to discontinue selling tobacco products.
Emily Poulsen
freshman
pre-journalism
Harrington hype
was too costly
The point is not whether Joey Harrington won the Heisman Trophy, which he didn’t, but the frivolous spending of $250,000. People were laughing at the University for placing a billboard of Harrington in Manhattan at the very same time that the University needed to get out of the second and third tiers.
Just think about how many scholarships the money could have paid for. Please don’t say it was private money. That excuse is quite short on fundamentals.
The University of Oregon is not Virginia, Wisconsin or North Carolina. Just check the Princeton Review or U.S. News & World Report. Do you want to know how Wisconsin promoted themselves a couple of years ago? They faxed and mailed their propaganda. They could not have justified spending $250,000 on some jock!
Could you ever, ever envision Stanford doing that?
Robert McShane
Scottsdale, Ariz.