Appropriations process works effectivelyYour reasoning in Tuesday’s editorial regarding Student Government appropriations is simply wrong. I sure would like to know on what alternate planet your editorial staff must live.

The lack of critical thought put into the editorial was disappointing from the point of view of those who are actually hard at work making appropriations happen. Let me get this straight, to paraphrase your editorial, because SG has more requests than it has had in recent history totaling more money – somehow to y’all, the system is flawed.

Sounds to me like my office, and the Senate President pro tem have simply done a better job of publicizing appropriations this year. Of course, in years past, the Technician has criticized past treasurers’ administrations for a lack of publicity. I guess we’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t.

I’d also like to add that this year we have seen an overwhelming amount of ACTIVE Student senators working with groups to get their appropriation applications completed correctly and on time. It isn’t SG’s fault that student groups on this campus are requesting more money. Frankly, that speaks very HIGHLY of our University. We’ve got a lot of active students involved in a lot of different organizations on campus. Good for us!

Many of your suggestions about systems you think would help appropriations are already in place and in use. Seems like it would have been reasonable to consult with the student body treasurer before writing such a knee-jerk editorial.

Because of the hard work of many volunteers, SG appropriations is being handled in a very effective, expedient and fair way. I’d personally like to thank student leaders who have put in long hours sponsoring help sessions and working to insure these groups get their fair share.

Kelli Rogers, chair of the Senate Appropriation Committee, has done an outstanding job preparing and I’m sure her committee will also do a grand job when the deliberations occur.

Have some faith in these hard working people and your University for electing them! Of course, this is all coming from the same paper that suggested fans be careful about post-game excitement after our great Wolfpack victory over ECU because we might lose the next game.

Scott Lassiter,junior, political sciencestudent body treasurer

Don’t criticize students for not getting to the standsI’m tired of idiot student leaders and an apathetic administration, especially when it comes to athletics.

It may be easy for Jay Dawkins to look down from the chancellor’s box and criticize the students for not being in the stands at kickoff, but more of the same blame game isn’t going to fix the situation.

Instead of having a headline about the great game or the great atmosphere inside the stadium, Technician talks about how slow students are in getting in the stands. If we had more time to tailgate, students wouldn’t be grasping at every bit of extra time to tailgate and waiting until 20 minutes before kickoff to go into the game.

Twenty minutes would normally be ample time, but not when you have to walk to the far side of the stadium and then once inside walk back the way you came to your seats. Gates 7, 8 and 9, usually have a line of 10 people – when I go to get in the student lines of 200 plus.

Am I the only one who realizes that if we had more than two far away gates that this would drastically reduce the bottleneck of students and allow the stands to fill up quicker?

Why do people think they are continually widening I-40? It certainly isn’t for looks. It is an extremely easy fix. But then again, I forgot that the official N.C. State policy is: “Take the best idea, throw it out and go from there.”

Tyler Christensensenior, professional golf management

You can’t erase historyIn response to Ches McDowell’s statement about the Confederate flag not being a symbol of racism: While the Confederate flag may not directly represent racism, the Confederacy and all states that were a part of it did support slavery. This is a fact that you cannot deny.

I, myself, am southern and have Confederate heritage. However, neither my parents nor myself go around waving the Confederate flag. And why, might you ask, don’t we do this? We do it out of respect for those that were put and kept into slavery by the Confederacy, some of whose lineage happen to be our classmates.

You can say that the Confederacy did not support white supremacy, but what is the enslavement of a people based on their race, if not racial supremacy?

Charlie Burnettsophomore, First Year College