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| By Kayleen St.
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| CSU-Pueblo has been an institution of higher learning for over 75 years and is still going strong. While the years have seen the university change and ultimately evolve into what it is today it can still be traced back to its roots at the Pueblo County Courthouse in 1933. | |
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| Decision CSU-Pueblo: ASG Elections ‘08 | |
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| By Rebecca Packard Editor-in-Chief |
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| CSU-Pueblo’s
Associated Students’ Government will hold elections on March
18 and 19. These elections will determine who fills the seats of the student legislature. All of the ASG seats are up for election. |
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Sportsmanship: Learning to Lose With Grace
ThunderWolf Voice President
However, the thought of losing the competition reverts some back to their childhood years. These individuals lose with the graces of a jealous child in a schoolyard, ready to jump up and down and hold their breath until they turn blue in the face.
During a recent contest to design and create the new uniforms for the new CSU-Pueblo football team, people from campus, the city, the state and the country submitted ideas. Entrants included individuals both young and old; amateurs as well as professionals and people that just wanted to give it a go. They all gave it a shot to be part of history.
One lucky winner walked out victorious, head held up high, knowing the time spent working on the design was more than worth it. However, the victory and conclusion of the contest left some entrants angry because of the hours they spent coming up with ideas, designing and submitting ideas that didn’t make the cut. Everyone that puts time and effort into something has a hard time accepting defeat. However, at some point and time in life, learning to take the bad with the good is all part of growing up.
What boggles the mind is the immature attitudes that those that lose are willing to show, simply because they believed that they were unbeatable. Some of those that ended up losing proved what bad sports they were by sending angry e-mails to all the contestants, including the contest winner.
These e-mails not only called into question the quality of the winning design, but went so far as to claim the contest was rigged. Some also resorted to base name-calling and mud-slinging. This is just one example of bad sportsmanship, something that should be avoided, whether on the playing field, participating in a contest or in life in general. Let’s set higher standards for ourselves.
As for the sore losers from the design contest, “grow up” is the most fitting phrase that comes to mind.
Finding Your Voice as a Student
Staff writer
But does your college experience have to be included with that? I say, no.
I would like to challenge the conventional method of coming to college just to rush to get out and get a job.
College can be a time of enlightenment, a time of personal and spiritual growth.
For many, it seems it is just a hoop to jump through to be able to do what one really wants to do. There are so many talented people that attempt the college track and become quickly disillusioned by what many would say is nonsense.
Are you satisfied with your college experience? Is college a time where you have been introduced to new ideas and has it made you grow as a person? Do you realize your power as a student?
When I was a freshman, I was so molded into the good girl image, made into someone who does not start trouble or disrespect and talk back.
I sometimes wonder what it would be like if I could go back to those freshman classes when the professor asked “Are there any questions or comments?” Would I say something?
Class time is your time to shine, to debate, to challenge and discuss new concepts. How many students really approach learning this way? How many professors do as well? Should college really be about how many papers you can write and how much homework you can do? Or should it be the balance of work ethic in combination with character development?
What do employers look for more, credentials or character? It seems the ideal would be both. The wave of the future is an institution that challenges a person academically, physically, and philosophically, to produce a person who is strong in mind, body, and spirit.
As a senior, I would like the new freshmen to meditate on the concept that it is not the destination that is important but the journey. Take a class that challenges your greatest fears or that you have always been interested in.
Finally, I would tell them to courageously interact with subject matter during class time. Furthermore, I would like professors to always keep in mind that a “good student” is not just about grades.
There are many passionate people and undiscovered geniuses that get overlooked simply because they don’t always play by the same rules of being a good student.
Yet, you will see those students participating and thriving in many clubs or organizations as it directly pertains to their personal interests.
My definition of a good professor is one that takes the time to recognize a student’s potential beyond academic performance and cultivate those characteristics.
A little nurturing, validation and support can go a really long way to challenge and awaken the spirit within to be its best and be a truly good student.
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