Letters to the Editor

Campus must be ‘environment where all students are welcome’

The day after the bombing an African-American friend of mine came up to me and asked me if I had heard about the threat.

He was visibly shaken and afraid, he then took me by the arm and I said to him that if he was going to die, I wanted to die right beside him.

WE MUST stand together and protect each other. An attack on one of us, is an attack on all of us.

This University must protect its students, staff, and faculty. It must also create an environment where all students feel welcome and are respected.

We need to work to expand Ethnic and Women’s Studies and ensure that every student is required to learn about the different cultures on our campus and that they have an understanding that will lead to mutual respect.

To this end, I want to strongly encourage all students to get involved in their student government.

We take $97 of your dollars and you deserve the right to have a say in where it is spent.

Come to the 3rd floor of the union or call us at 278-6784 and find out what services and programs we have for each of you.

We want you to get involved and help us increase the amount of student POWER on this campus.

I can be reached at 402-9741. Thank you.

— Sean C. South
Vice President of University Affairs
Associated Students Inc.

Rec Center vote? Never again

Apparently, one thing students at Sac State are not apathetic about is the proposed Rec Center. And I, for one, have never been more proud of my university.

For the second time in a year, loud and clear, we have voiced our adamant “NO!” to our administration and to the ASI powers that be.

Not only did the voting population double from Fall 1998 to Fall of 1999 on the referendum, but the voting percentage was double against the Rec Center Referendum (Hornet, Dec.1, 1999).

Geoff Sakala was quoted as stating that maybe it was the increase in semester fees by approximately $100 that did the referendum in.

You think, Geoff? Could it be? Do you think that the first time we voted it down in April we were just kidding? An April Fools’ joke perhaps? Or could it possibly be (indulge me for a minute Pres. Sakala and ex-president Davis) that in an initial survey of Sac State students, only 10% of the student population used a recreational facility within a 10 mile radius of Sac State (Hornet, April 7, 1999).

That would mean, (stay with me fellas) that over half of us still voted against the rec center because it would benefit only 10% of the population here at CSUS while increasing the fees of 100% of the population. $50,000 well spent on a survey that “raised awareness of this project” confirming what we already knew — that we DO NOT WANT A REC CENTER.

In fact, I could conduct a survey on how students feel about spending $50,000+ on worthless surveys, guys, for under $150 — in fact I’d do it for free if we could lay to rest the rec center issue.

Carol Ackerson and Geoff Sakala both take the Terminator stance (“I’ll be back”) in reference to the rec center.

I am not so sophisticated, and therefore I am taking the Dr. Seuss stance in order to get my point across regarding the rec center once and for all:

We do not want it Geoff and Carol-I-Am

We do not want this political scam

We do not want it here or there

We do not want it anywhere

We do not want it now or later

We do not want it with an alligator

We do not like it Geoff and Carol-I-Am

We do not want this political scam

Not in a car, not in a tree,

Not in a re-vote — You let us be!

We do not like it Geoff and Carol-I-Am

We do not like this political scam.

— Jessica Heskin-Higgins
Graduate Student