Columnist was wrong
The column by Johnathan Sharkey of The Minnesota Daily that ran in the Sept. 16 Argonaut is just sad.
It’s sad he is blasting Sen. John McCain for lying, while he is either blatantly lying himself or is just lazy and failed to check his facts.
The story about McCain’s ad claiming that while in the Illinois Senate, Obama supported a bill that would teach sex ed to kindergartners has been all over the media. Sharkey has clearly only been paying attention to CNN or NPR and has never actually looked at the bill.
“The only part of the bill that had anything to do with kindergartners was a section designed to protect young children from sexual predators,” Sharkey wrote. That is a complete lie. Sharkey would have known this if he had seen the bill.

Lines 13-17 of SB 0099 read, “Each class or course in comprehensive sex education offered in any grades K-12 shall include instruction on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections including the prevention, transmission and spread of HIV.”
The bill does not mention unwanted sexual advances until section four.
I am not disappointed in Sharkey because it was his uninformed opinion.  I am disappointed in The Minnesota Daily for running his article and The Argonaut for picking it up.

Sali opposes Obama-Minnick plan
I support Congressman Bill Sali because he supports the best form of early childhood education — loving parents. Sali wants to protect families through seeking lower taxes, limited federal involvement and common sense. Walt Minnick, on the other hand, supports Barack Obama’s early childhood education plan that represents the largest intrusion of the federal government into intimate family issues American has ever seen.

Research shows that Head Start, daycare and pre-kindergarten are all poor substitutes for the loving, individualized instruction and interaction that responsible parents give. The Obama plan which Minnick supports relies on the failed standard of government daycare — a downward spiral which leads to higher government spending and higher taxes, forcing more parents into the workforce and taking additional time from their children. Couple this discredited state-child model with Obama’s desire to have the federal government teach sex education to kindergarteners, and we can start to see the radical shift the Obama-Minnick plan really is.

Sali supports motherhood and families by wanting to lower government spending so they can perform the important work of early childhood education. Sali supports the institution of the family. He has my vote.

Student voices missing from article
I was happy to see The Argonaut finally profiled the Residence Hall Association and Campus Dining’s joint efforts to change the name of Wallace Food Court to Bob’s Place. While the article (“Back to Bob’s,” Sept. 16) does a nice job of detailing the process the Residence Hall Association went through to work with Campus Dining, I felt it lacked any information or opinions from students themselves.
Having had the responsibility last year to meet with Campus Dining representatives and Mike Jolly, the assistant vice president of Auxillary Services, and hammer out our differences, I have personal experience with the process of changing the name. I know other student leaders, such as Katie Boudreau and Sarah Reichman, as well as the previous year’s hall presidents and vice presidents worked hard to make their opinions known and urged those in charge to make the name change.

In addition, I’m sure while the reporter was walking around Bob’s Place, he or she could have asked any number of student workers or diners their opinions about the whole thing and quoted them in the article. In the future, maybe reporters can make a more concerted effort to ask the students their opinions about things that affect them.
Finding a student living in the residence halls or on the Residence Hall Executive Board isn’t that difficult. Maybe they could be quoted every now and again instead of being referred to in the abstract.

Get informed about money
“Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.” — Thomas Jefferson
“The capitalists, in their subconsciousness ashamed of the mean greed motivating their own conduct and anxious to avoid social disapproval, encouraged their sycophants, the economists, to proclaim doctrines which could rehabilitate them in public opinion.” — “Human Action,” pg. 78
Dear University of Idaho community, I strongly encourage you to learn more about our current financial crisis.
Listed below are some Web sites to get you started. My only agenda is concern for the welfare of your family and friends.

http://www.shadowstats.com
http://www.dollarcollapse.com
http://www.financialsense.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nkZ3eHeXlc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afMA_v-I42I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYZM58dulPE
                               

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