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Kvetching board for December 3, 2010

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Rick Ingram already has a rick4sbp listserv? Sounds like UNC student government should be WikiLeaks’ next target. To the couple who helped me after I flicked them off and tried to steal their parking space: I wish I was half as good a person as you two are.


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'Senior' label perpetuates a geriatric stereotype

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TO THE EDITOR: In response to Lauren Refinetti’s response (“Words create meaning: Replace ‘freshman’ label,” Dec. 1) to Saffa Khan’s column (“Why I’m not a ‘first-year’ student,” Nov. 30): You never say or even imply this, but you, like most, probably think that the call for the use of the term “fourth-year” instead of “senior” is “irrational,” but you are thinking too narrowly. The impact of geriatric terms comes not from the sheer offensiveness of one word but in the combined effect.


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We can't afford to raise taxes in this economy

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TO THE EDITOR: It seems as though the Obama administration and Democrats still don’t get it when it comes to taxes. All of a sudden they are fiscal hawks, saying we can’t afford to continue the Bush tax rates for those top income earners who simply don’t need them.


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To dream the possible DREAM

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This week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., re-introduced the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, which would afford children of undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States before the age of 16 and have no criminal record the chance to attend college or serve in the military.





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Quick Hits for December 2, 2010

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BYOB events UNC-A and Appalachian State host BYOB events for students. At App State, students can bring in a six-pack while hanging out at a school-owned late-night venue. Maybe they have golf carts to drag home drunkards.


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A funding nightmare: Impending insolvency of escheats fund was avoidable

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Because of the General Assembly’s mismanagement of the escheats fund, UNC may not be able to award state-funded grants to every student who needs them. The escheats fund is composed of revenue from unclaimed property. It consists of capital, which gains interest over time. If the state wants to keep the fund from dwindling, they should only spend what they make in interest off of the fund. The escheats fund’s first priority is financial aid for public institutions. Irresponsibly, the General Assembly has ignored the purpose of the escheats fund in the last couple years.


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Early electioneering: Ingram's complaint to the Board of Elections is self-serving and frivolous

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Rick Ingram isn’t fooling anyone with his Board of Elections complaint about Student Body Secretary Ian Lee. Months from the elections, Ingram says that Lee is violating the Student Code clause prohibiting the student body secretary and select executive branch members from endorsing a candidate or campaigning. Ingram alleges that Lee is e-mailing friends about running for student body president. Ingram’s motives are obvious: If he is trying to hide his own campaign to be student body president, he’s not doing a very good job.


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Support the 'DREAM Act,' call your representative

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TO THE EDITOR: In the past few years, more and more brave young people have decided to “come out” and live publicly as undocumented students. Some Tar Heels have even made this tough decision. They are simply asking for the chance to earn their right to stay in the country that they call home.


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Overuse of word "rape" undermines importance

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TO THE EDITOR: Yesterday, Andrew Tamayo wrote a letter to the editor decrying the DTH’s new “Quote File” as propagating, in his words, a “rape culture.” The real problem, however, lies in the appeal to fear rather than logic by tossing around the buzz word “rape” without any explanation as to its situational relevance.


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"Freshman" title stunts progress toward equality

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TO THE EDITOR: Saffa Khan (“Why I’m not a ‘first-year’ student,” Nov. 30) argues that words like “freshman” were once “an example of the lower status of women but now represent the change in our understanding of gender equality.” Our understanding, however, is still lacking.


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"Freshman" term makes women seem non-existent

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TO THE EDITOR: I believe that Khan (“Why I’m not a ‘first-year’ student,” Nov. 30) completely missed the mark on why everyone should use the term ‘first-year.’ The problem with using ‘freshman’ is that it reinforces sexism and gender inequality in our society.


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Finding faith in study abroad

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Today is the last day of the study part of my time abroad. Not that I spent much time studying or that my classes were difficult, but, like all of you, I will be happy to finish another semester. Unlike most of you, though, my next trip is not hometown-bound. I will not be back to Stafford, Va., until January, with just barely enough time to hug my family hello and pet my dogs before I load up the car, say my goodbyes and drive down to Chapel Hill to move into a dorm I have never lived in — the day before the semester starts.


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The inherent value of learning

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When I graduated from high school, there was one complaint I thought I would never have to hear from my classmates again: “When am I ever going to use this in real life?” I am sure everyone has heard it, and maybe they have said it themselves during some particularly obtuse lecture or another. Surely UNC is a place where we can all pick a major and then only study exactly what we are going to use in our future careers — nothing more, nothing less.


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Taking one step back and two steps forward

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I graduated with a philosophy and psychology major two years prior. During exam time, I was much more devoted to the construction of the moat in my fraternity than to the tests which would ultimately result in the underwhelming grade point average with which I left UNC.


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Success, for a select few: It's great that Morehead-Cain scholars continue to win Rhodes scholarships, but others could, too

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Amid the pride at continued success in producing Rhodes scholars, UNC must avoid neglecting capable students who lack prestigious scholarships. Over the past five, ten, and twenty-five years, UNC has produced more Rhodes scholars than any other U.S. public university. It’s a notable success — the image of Tar Heels headed off to Oxford to pursue the passions nurtured here among the world’s best academics is a great one.


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Quote File propagates a 'rape culture' here at UNC

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TO THE EDITOR: The selection of quotes you chose to publish for your “Quote File” on Monday is deplorable in light of some of the articles and editorials you’ve recently published. Just last week there was an article (“Hockey team’s cube sparks discussion about ‘rape culture,’” Nov. 23) about how the Feminist Students United responded to a Club Hockey ad featuring a busty woman and the tagline “come watch us score.”


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Words create meaning: Replace 'freshman' label

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TO THE EDITOR: In response to Saffa Khan’s column (“Why I’m not a ‘first-year’ student,” Nov. 30): You argued the call for the use of the term “first-year” instead of “freshman” is “irrational,” but you are thinking too narrowly. The impact of masculine terms as gender neutral comes not from the sheer offensiveness of one word but in the combined effect.