As a journalist, I take it very personally when anyone takes an issue or a statement out of context. Context is essential for understanding the complexities of any controversial subject, including the appointment of a university president. The major daily newspaper in Colorado Springs, The Gazette, ran an editorial on Feb.
Opinion
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I was well aware that bugs crawled through the bunkhouse where I slept, but I was terrified the morning I woke up to a tarantula net woven to my bedpost.
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Why does Colorado caucus?
The process is not only outdated, confusing, belabored and inconvenient, but it also quietly disenfranchises anyone who cannot devote three hours of their lives on a weeknight to the caucus extravaganza.
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Dear CU Faculty and Students,
Wednesday I attended a public dialogue that addressed issues of racism on the CU campus as perpetuated by this publication. This meeting was attended by faculty members, members of UCSU, members of various diversity groups on campus, members of The Campus Press and other students.
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Last Monday, an opinion column written by Max Karson was posted on the Campus Press asking white students to rise up against the Asian students on campus and Americanize them against their will. Many of us — we do not speak on behalf of the entire Campus Press staff — disagreed with the publishing of the opinion.
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I remember the day I learned about heaven and hell in Sunday school. My teacher told us that Jesus was the way to get into heaven, so I asked about my dad, who is Jewish. I asked if he could go to heaven, too. She paused for a moment. “Well, sweetie, you have to believe in Jesus to get into heaven.
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I was well aware that bugs crawled through the bunkhouse where I slept, but I was terrified the morning I woke up to a tarantula net woven to my bedpost. It was so thick I couldn’t see through it, and it hadn’t been there when I went to sleep. This nighttime visitor wasn’t the only thing that shocked me while I was staying at Casa Guatemala, an orphanage in the rural area of Rio Dulce.
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What is it with the let’s-have-a-baby syndrome? Everyone I know is popping out children, left and right. I cannot imagine having a baby, now or in the future. There is simply no appeal to being fat for nine months, having your vagina stretched to the size of at least a grapefruit, and suffering the repercussions of stretch marks and the never-ending battle to get back to pre-baby shape.
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Parties are supposed to be social events where you meet new people and establish new connections. But when booze is involved, it changes everything.
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I’ve been spending a good amount of my free time studying the intricacies of what’s technically my original tongue: the Korean language. I am doing this because I refused to learn properly my parents’ native speech when I was a younger lad. The reason for this refusal can be found- or at least a great deal of it can- within the following two questions: “Are you Chinese or Japanese?” “Oh, then what are you?”