2008 Woodie Awards
Voices Articles
What SGA has done
Course availability, campus safety among year highlights
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Each spring during the SGA elections the same question is asked of the candidates. What does SGA do that helps students? While many on campus may not be aware of the impact SGA has had on the university, below is a partial listing of the most important accomplishments SGA has achieved during the past year.
Our reader's voices
By Christopher Belanger Guest Columnist The most exhaustive and seemingly arbitrary aspects of some major works of philosophy are the arguments over semantics, or what the actual words mean in a given context. Very often in these philosophical papers, page after page is filled simply as a means of clarifying exactly what one means when he or she uses a given term or phrase, for without this clarification the argument can be misunderstood and the premises must be accepted under circumstance that the reader comprehends the meaning completely.
What would you like to see the SGA president- and vice president-elects accomplish in the term?
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"I would like them to be more on a face-to-face basis with students." Tyler Duckett, Lowell senior "It would be nice to have access to the SAC through your student number in case you forget your ID." Charles Hicks, Redford junior "Slack on the UPs, so they are not so strict on what you need to take.
Western pride
WMU student government supports restriction of advertising in campus paper
We weren't aware the Western Herald was supposed to pledge allegiance to Western Michigan University. Yet the Herald, WMU's campus newspaper, has come under fire from the Western Student Association, which passed a resolution to ban newspaper advertisements from rival universities.
Graduation rates
Which is heavier: eight or nine? Anyone versed in middle school science would tell you the answer depends on each number's unit. Eight bowling balls clearly are heavier than nine feathers, and vice versa. Similarly, which is greater: 57 percent or 70 percent? In terms of high school graduation rates, currently measured through a grab bag of state-determined formulas, the answer is unclear.
