The recent proposal to merge undergraduate School of Natural Resources and the Enviroment into the College of Science, Literature and Arts has caused some debate amongst SNRE students. This merger is intended to combat the declining enrollment and budgetary problems SNRE is facing. They are worried about losing the personal attention and smaller, more focused quality of SNRE - and with good reason. One need not look further than the Office of LSA Advising for an example of alienation. After a basketball game, thousands of fans and other students in a college town gather in the streets and cause serious damage.
Police come and use tear gas while frustrated people are injured or damage property.
True, but it also serves as a description of last Friday's riots at Iowa State University, University of Wisconsin and Purdue University. Campus rioting should not be tolerated - by the police or by the students themselves. It is not the proper way to celebrate an athletic victory and it reflects poorly upon the university involved. Lately there has been an outreach program taking place in cinema. It moves beyond Websites with static content about the facts of a film.