Quacks to the students and community members searching for missing Brigham Young University student Brooke Wilberger, who disappeared in Corvallis last week. Though it’s unfortunate that the community isn’t unified under better circumstances, its dedication is an admirable expression of human altruism.
Smacks to some of the students in the audience at the recent Smoker event. Leave it to the greek community to put on a well-intentioned fund-raiser where students can pay to watch other students duke it out — in the ring and in the crowd. That’s right. At a charity boxing event, students — presumably from rival fraternities, those ruffians –couldn’t keep their hands to themselves. Children, behave!
Quacks to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for ruling that the Bush administration cannot interfere with Oregon’s assisted suicide law: No matter how you feel about doctor-assisted suicide, it’s an important victory for states’ rights and self-government. (Oregon voters affirmed the state’s 1994 Death with Dignity Act by a wide margin three years after its initial approval.)
Smacks to the Saudi Arabian gunmen who killed 22 people in the city of Khobar. As if that wasn’t bad enough, they threatened to kill 242 more people they were using as human shields.
Quacks to graduating seniors. After four years (or three or five or six or … ) of hard work, you’ve finally made it.
Smacks to the flagging (but admittedly improving), 5.6 percent-unemployment-rate economy that those seniors now have to try to find a job in.
Quacks to state Gov. Ted Kulongoski asking President Bush for help relieving Oregon gas prices. Paying $2.399 per gallon for regular unleaded gas is a poor fiscal arrangement for poor college students. (Oh, and the rest of the drivers in the state might benefit, too.)
Smacks to professors who assign a lot of work this week — it’s called “Dead Week” for a reason. It isn’t to leave your students emaciated husks of underslept, overcaffeinated humans before their biggest tests of the term.
Quacks to all those who traveled to cemeteries or otherwise recognized Memorial Day. Citizens ought to remember, too, that there are 364 other days in the year to remember the contributions of those that have given their lives for their country.
Smacks to President Bush for keeping Saddam Hussein’s personal pistol in a small study at the White House. The timing is ill for showboating, and the piece belongs in the Smithsonian, and, eventually, an Iraqi museum.
Quacks to the opening of the promenade by the art museum. Students can now travel between classes with greater ease, and it’s nice to see that the art museum is nearing its reopening.
Smacks, though, to the art museum taking four years to be completed. The open house aside, students in the class of ’04 who took four years to graduate will never have had the chance to visit the art museum while taking classes here.