A resource to help all students succeed

This is in answer to a letter by Amanda K. Selah in the Nov. 30 issue.

I am a student worker at Clement Hall for the Student Success Center. You can find answers to many of the questions you have there.

The counselors and employees working there are there for the purpose of helping students succeed. If the answers are not known, they will find someone that knows them.

Clement Hall is located directly behind the University Center beside Cooper Hall. Free math tutoring is also available to all students. We look forward to helping you.

Abbie Jones Palmersville

Even UTM athletes are prone to mistakes

This letter is in response to last weeks article concerning charges filed against a football player.

As UTM athletes, we feel it’s disheartening that you find it necessary to place an article on the front page displaying a mistake made by an athlete, yet only acknowledge our successes in the sports section.

Recently, a UTM athlete was recognized for his athletic ability, scholastic achievements and leadership skills as one of six conference athletes to be named 2004 OVC scholar-athlete (the highest individual honor that can be earned by a conference athlete). That didn’t even make the sports section!

We understand that athletes are representatives of this campus. However, we feel the success stories should be deemed more important than the failures.

The sole reason this article was placed on the front page was because it involved a student-athlete. If you find it necessary to print articles of this nature, why not put them in the sports section, which seems to be the only section worthy of UTM athletics?

Kristin Runyan Overland Park, Kan.

Emily Webb Hohenwald

Good things actually do happen to good people

In our lives there are certain events that make us sad, but at the same time make us feel good as well.

This was blatantly evident when my grandfather passed away recently. He died suddenly of heart failure at the age of 85; the funny thing was that if he had not died he would have attended the Ohio State Michigan football game two days later.

Now Ohio State was a two touchdown underdog to Michigan so it looked like all the world that Ohio State was not to have any sort of chance of winning this game. Boy was I wrong, not only did the Buckeyes win but they won convincingly by the score of 37-21.

I spent that Saturday in Columbus grieving the loss of my grandfather, and seeing this victory made everybody in my household tear up because we all knew that he was watching and, in a way, willed a buckeye victory. In Columbus, the Ohio State/Michigan game is the biggest event year in and year out. There is nothing greater than Ohio State beating Michigan.

So when the game clock hit triple zeros and that score was flashing on the scoreboard, our family all looked at each other and said to ourselves that papa would have wanted it to end this way, and we then said that hey maybe good things really can happen to good people.

Brendan McMahon Jackson