It's a newspaper's purpose to report the news. When the football team at Texas A&M University-Commerce stole the Feb. 25 edition of the East Texan off newspaper racks, it deprived the paper of that purpose and deprived students of their news source.
Until now, the all-time greatest tragedy has gone unnoticed.
You can see them every weekday around noon: poor, forlorn souls who stare intently out windshields of cars creeping in circles behind Shay and Loughlen halls. Slowly, each driver realizes there is nowhere to park. One by one, they hang their heads and crank their steering wheels, headed either for freshman parking in defeat or Doyle lot in fragile hope.
At a time when it seems issues like universal health care have split the United States of America into the States Divided by Politics, it's refreshing to see an event reel us back in and remind us we are all playing for the same team.
St. Bonaventure University has used the slogan "Becoming Extraordinary" throughout my three years at this institution.
The United States is far from a perfect place, especially in this age. Economic trouble, two wars and an ever-increasing political schism fuel current American problems.
At a small school like St. Bonaventure, one of the greatest benefits we have is the amount of influence we have on campus decisions.
The New York State government is a mess. It's embarrassing. And at this point, state residents must want a giant reset button.
