Students’ intelligence was insulted

Rarely have I felt my intelligence insulted as much as it was last week. I would love to know where policy makers gathered the gall to move forward with a severely flawed plan of execution on the new Talley Student Center after deliberately withholding essential information from their constituents. I agree with Mr. Hinton’s article wholeheartedly, especially the part where they spend money, the origin of which we are in the dark about, and provide us with an insulting lack of information.

Where, may I ask, did the campaign get funding and, most importantly, approval for the $10,000 the campaign spent on the Rally 4 Talley campaign?

Were students forced into that round of robbery also? We are in a recession! We do not have $83 to add to the already exorbitant fees we pay to attend this institution! This fee referendum received an impressive 61 percent shoot-down by intelligent human beings who know full well this project will not be completed by 2013 or within budget, and still they think it is okay to ignore us! If you don’t care about our opinion, DON’T ASK! I can assure you that future participation will be decimated by this disgusting, dismissive display.

Alexandra Hill

Senior, technology education

White is old fashioned

Zakk, what’s the matter, couldn’t find the catalog cards? Did your microfilm roll away?

My point is that I find it somewhat disturbing that anyone (much less a student) could have such a reactionary idea about what a library should be, and I feel that it is my duty as a student to offer a rebuttal in case an administrator takes you seriously.

Ice cream is delicious, Zakk. You even said it yourself. Video games are fun. Why take that away? What do you suggest those things be replaced with, more “constructive, quiet study spaces”? Because if you visit any of the upper floors at D.H. Hill, you’ll find plenty of those, and they’re just as boring as you’d like them to be. You get like, six or seven floors of that. Come on, man.

Zakk, you were a child once (I assume); how can you be so out of touch with the people you grew up with? Can you not empathize with your fellow students who would crumble under the tedium of academic life were it not for the small amenities that let us pretend that maybe we came to the library because we wanted to? You even want to take away our cool designer chairs! I’m trying to imagine your freshman dorm, Zakk, and all I see is a military-style bunk with the Encyclopedia Britannica as a nightstand.

Okay, that was mean. This isn’t about you, Zakk; this is about the library — and I LIKE our library. I’m proud of it. I like the quiet study places, and I like the ice cream and video games. There’s no reason why we can’t have both. Non-essential accommodations are what make university life bearable. This is why I can say, without any shred of sarcasm, that the library is a cool place to hang out. Learning should be fun. Right?

Sam Brubaker

junior, art and design

Senators are pick pockets

Our Student Government has betrayed us. They asked us to take valuable time out of our busy schedules to vote about Talley and other financial issues, and then they met behind our backs and overturned our decision. Why did they even ask us to vote about Talley, if they were going to make the decision for us in the end? Why was there an elaborate ad campaign? It’s not like there wasn’t a good voter turn out. Over 20 percent of the student body voted! Out of those students 61.6 percent voted no for the Talley renovation fee. However, Student Government, whose job it is to represent the student voters, completely ignored our poll results and took the matter into their own hands.

Essentially, thirty some people made a decision that will effect over

33,000 students. The fee is on us, the students, we should decide whether we want to pay it, not some student senators on a power trip looking out for their own interests. Apparently our student government doesn’t believe in democracy.

Why has the N.C. State student regime forced this fee on us that we clearly voted against? Like pick pockets, they should not be allowed to steal $83 out of our pockets after we’ve said no and walked away. It’s our money and we voted against spending it.

Sara Marley

sophomore, environmental design