Carolinian

In February of 2007 when the UNCG Student Government Association was placed on probation, it was because the SGA failed to give the university 12 hours notice before holding an event on campus. It was a small rule broken, essentially a technicality. In March of 2008 our SGA was placed on probation again, for what we again can essentially call a technicality.

It is hard to deny the widespread enthusiasm driving Sen. Barack Obama's historic campaign. By all accounts, he is a fine orator who stirs audiences with a fusion of memorable phrases and policy ideals. Obama has created an aura of "urgency" around himself, but some lingering issues bring into doubt Obama's claim as a new generation leader.

Barack Obama, you disgust me! Never have I seen such a terrible candidate for the highest office of our great nation. How dare you try to move people with the spoken word! Who do you think you are? You ought to be ashamed of yourself, making everybody feel so optimistic about politics and their country! How dare you have Hussein as your middle name! Don't you know that you can eliminate your heritage and conform to the wishes of society by filling out some paperwork and banishing that name? I mean, don't you know that that name refers to the former dictator of Iraq, the one dictator in the world, among dozens, who we as a country made it a point to pursue an undeclared war with? Where is your patriotism? How dare you attend an all African-American church whose pastor has fairly radical views! Me? Oh, well my all-white Southern Baptist church is extremely accepting.

For those of you who are avid Carolinian readers, you may recall an article I wrote last November which hit home for many college students. It was basically a 600 word meltdown about what I was going to do with the rest of my life, what my major would be, and even what classes I wanted to take.