AUTHOR: Nathaniel Vos
The biology midterm is over and while I would have felt pretty
confidant about it, I actually missed the last and eigth page. As one
might imagine, this is not exactly a way to get a 90%. So I scambled to
fill in some bull within the two minutes I had left. Whatever. Sheer
stupidity in inevitable in high stress environments, and while I wish I
was not one of the afflicted, I am. So, I hope I am ready for stats
tomorrow, and it is a good thing it is tomorrow, and total apathy is
dangerously close to overtaking my faculties.
I was reading today that Miami is actually 62% immigrants. Now, I have
absolutely no problems with latinos/latinas. Some of my better friends
at the U of A are actually from Central America, but I do think that
the US should begin to encourage the immigrant population to diffuse
into the rest of the US, out of the urban areas in the southwest and
Florida. America is a melting pot, or at least, it always was, so more
should be done to encourage "mixing". While I doubt the US is going to
become anything like Canada, with an official bilingual policy, I think
they had better start encouraging the English language and better
integration.
Which brings me to another topic. I am a conservative Christian white
male and a geek in University, and I find that I am in the minority.
According to Statistics Canada, only 42% of the students in university
are males, and this is only going down. Furthermore, it would seem that
the conservative population around here is in the decline as well.
Fine, I can deal with reality, what I have hard time dealing with are
the comments made by some referring to people that are socially
conservative as rednecks. Minorities have fought for special rights in
Canada, and in many cases achieved them. It is no longer politically
correct to direct epithets or slurs at homosexual individuals, and as
such, I believe that the white male, who is now the minority in the
University, should be given special status too. Language that offends
them it to be avoided at all costs, while I see absolutely zero respect
for the conservative minorities beliefs, like course language in
something as public as the Gateway. While this University is cutting
programs and staff due to lack of funding, and yet still directing
funds at polarizing projects like the Women's Only Space, I think it is
only fair to direct equal funds at the real minority in the university.
Just my two cents. Hasta maƱana.