Take Back the Night failed

Take Back the Night was a purposeful opportunity to rally behind a vital cause that truly benefits everyone on this campus. Unfortunately, it failed.

I think everyone will agree with me when I say anyone willing to rally and support a cause designed to aid and educate people on such an important issue should never be discriminated against based on their race, gender, religion or political views. Unfortunately, that is exactly what happened at Take Back the Night.

The new rape prevention education coordinator Juliette Grimmett gave a wonderful and inspiring speech of her struggles as a survivor of rape. However, she unnecessarily added at the conclusion of her almost perfect speech, a disguised attack on a political party as she unnecessarily dwelled on the party that employs her rapist, insinuating its loathsomeness as to be acquainted with the scum of the earth.

I’ve got a [news] flash for Juliette: almost every rapist has a job, and I bet you that there is AT LEAST one rapist that is employed executively for every political party, without its knowledge. Her action was uncalled for, and I, even as a survivor of rape, WILL NOT lend my time nor give my support to such a bias leader. Once a leader lets his or her bias get in the way of this job, the organization loses all credibility as well as its ability to fulfill the reason they have been established: to help.

AnonymousJunior, Psychology and Business Management

Disappointed in SBP Mills

I am disappointed by SBP Bobby Mills’ comment about tuition increases in Tuesday’s paper [“Chancellor: Tuition increase needed,” Saja Hindi]. Mills justifies his support of a tuition increase in the following quote: “I feel, at certain times, increases are needed because we are like a business.”

Maybe the Wolfpack Club is like a business, Mr. Mills, but N.C. State University is a public land-grant university in the UNC system, and the North Carolina Constitution mandates “that the benefits of The University of North Carolina and other public institutions of higher education, as far as practicable, be extended to the people of the State free of expense.”

Regardless of where you stand on tuition increases, justifying them by comparing the goals of our University to those of a business indicates a severe misunderstanding of NCSU’s mission.

Kenneth Ball Graduate Student, Mathematics

Too much traffic?

Then take the bus.

Mike IngramSenior, Civil Engineering