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CSU needs to schedule more open forums at CSULB An open forum was held Monday in The Pointe at the Walter Pyramid to discuss what qualities students and faculty want to see in Cal State Long Beach’s next president. At the forum, attendees were able to address the Trustees’ Committee for the Selection of the President ur iew (TCSP) and the Advisory Committee to the Trustees’ Committee for the Selection of the President (ACTCSP). “We are here to listen intently to your thoughts, your aspirations and your worries,” Cal State University Chancellor Timothy P. White said. “Our task here is to find the best, not to find the best possible.” According to CSU Spokesman Mike Uhlenkamp, Monday’s forum was the only scheduled open meeting in the presidential search process. Since Monday’s forum only featured approximately 40 students and faculty, the CSU should schedule more open meetings. Expecting much of the campus community to come to a 10 a.m forum on a Monday to voice its opinion is somewhat inconsiderate. With work and classes, many interested students and faculty were likely not able to attend the meeting, and to deprive those interested in attending an open forum is unfair. equately represent the desires of the entire 35,000-member campus. For more opinions to be heard, more forums need to be held. Although Interim Provost and Senior Vice President for
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Academic Affairs David Dowell sent out a campus-wide email about the forum, there’s also a chance that students still weren’t aware of it. Perhaps a multi-million dollar organization like Associated Students Inc. could help publicize the issue. students about the presidential search and advocate for future public forums. The lack of more scheduled public forums adds to the problems
of the closed presidential search process. We agree that students and faculty shouldn’t have the right to directly select the president. We do, however, believe our voices should be heard in more than just one open forum. Although we applaud the CSU for holding Monday’s forum, we don’t think one is enough. In order to satisfy the diversity and variety of opinions on campus, there need to be multiple forums at more convenient times.
Republicans should be blamed for recent government shutdown to yield a new budget proposal, parts of the U.S. government shut down Tuesday at midnight. As a result of the shutdown, National monuments like the Statue of Liberty and the Lincoln Memorial were closed, according to the Los Angeles Times. In addition, more than 800,000 federal workers could be affected by the recent political impasse, according to the New York Times. “It does cast a very significant pall over America’s credibility with our allies when this kind of thing happens,” Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel told the New York Times. “It’s nonsensical. It’s needless. It didn’t have to happen.” Although one side is not entirely to blame for the government shutdown, it is clear that Republicans are mostly at fault. After House Republicans sent budget proposals
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to the Senate that did not include funding for the Affordable Care Act, Senate Democrats continually vetoed the measures. Debating on what programs should be cut is one thing. Continually sending a bill to the Senate that defunds the Affordable Care Act, an act that was signed into law in 2010, is another. hane Although some of the Republicans may disap-
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Continually trying to defund the Affordable Care Act is counter-productive. Americans, through their elected representatives, supported the Affordable Care Act in its initial stages. The act passed through both houses in Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama. Clearly, its passing took place through the appropriate ewell democratic process. Why are Republicans so upset about the Affordable Care Act? The Republicans had their voices heard back in 2010 and were unsuccessful in their attempts to prevent the Affordable Care Act from passing. Trying to repeal or effectively curtail a law that passed years ago is ridiculous. Is it the job of Republicans to try and repeal every law they don’t agree with, even if most other Americans do agree with it?
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reasons, it seems that many are opposing it just because they can. One conservative member of Congress expressed his views on the political ordeal. “Because we’re right, simply because we’re right,” Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) told the New York Times. “We can recover from a political squabble, but we can never recover from Obamacare.”
If Republicans bickered with Democrats over the issue of government-mandated healthcare, then it would be understandable. To say that a budget won’t be passed in the House unless the Affordable Care Act’s implementation is delayed or repealed altogether is foolish. As some government agencies begin to close, it is appalling that members of Congress will still get paid, according to CNN. It seems as though government has never been more disjointed. Political rhetoric and delays have major impacts on the American people, including the more than 800,000 federal workers who won’t get paid. Instead of representing the voice of reason, the Republicans seem to represent the voice of ignorance and stupidity. Shane Newell is a junior journalism major and the opinions editor at the Daily 49er.
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“I would go if it was at a later time. A lot of students are busy with classes [in the mornings].”
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Rights vs Responsibilities Have you been taught about your responsibilities as students or as citizens? It appears that society has raised “rights” to idol status instead of teaching that responsibilities are the correct measure of an adult. My parents used to stress that I was responsible for my actions. When was the last time you heard a teacher talk about responsibilities? The stress has been on our “rights”. Many “rights” have been found in the past 50 years. Is it a right to have free lunches at school? The other side of the coin gives responsibility to parents to supply their children with food for lunch so that someone else does not have to pay for it. The “right” to free healthcare? I was told that my grandmother had a mastectomy during the 1940’s for less than $100. Why? Doctors realized they had a responsibility to provide health care to the less fortunate. Grandma didn’t demand, she asked. Now that the government is going to provide “free” healthcare, will the doctors understand their responsibility to help the poor? The “right” to free housing? The flip side of the coin is the responsibility to be frugal, save enough money for a down payment, and then make the payments. The “right” to be not hassled by the police? How about responsibility to be courteous to policeman or anyone else who is trying to keep the community safe? The unwritten rule to all the youth was that you were courteous to anyone and everyone who was older than you were. Race, color or creed did not make a difference. I was punished if my parents found out I had “sassed” any of my neighbors, teachers, or adults. As citizens, it is our responsibility to take care of ourselves, not our right to get as much “free” stuff as we can. There is no such thing as a “free lunch.” Someone always pays. Has our adulation of rights helped breakdown our society? Who has talked to you about adult responsibilities? Were they parents, teachers, pastors, or friends? You should have these conversations. The different perspectives will surprise you.
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