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2 The Rambler October 25, 2001
Opinions
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Do you believe as a profes-
sor that it's your duty to
inform students they may
be following the wrong
career path?
Dr. Carl Smeller
Assistant Professor of English
"Yes, I do. 1 think that part of my job
is counseling students and I should be
as honest with them as possible."
Rod Erakovich
Visiting Assistant Professor of
Management
"I think it's my duty to inform stu-
dentts of the benefits and drawbacks
of various career paths and let them
make their own decision based upon
their goals and objectives."
Kit Hall
Associate Professor of Art
"Yes, I do believe it is the obligation
of the professor to open doors for stu-
dents through the advising process
that would lead to their own discovery
of what might be the best path, career
wise, for the students to go down."
Billie Hara
Director of the Wesleyan Collegiate
Institute and Professor of English
"No, I would not directly tell them
that they're following the wrong
career path. But I would help them
find something that's more suited to
them instead of this discipline."
Dr Mary Anne Clark
Professor of Biology
"I think part of the advising process is
to encourage students to follow a path
that will maximize their talents. If I
see a student who seems to ignore a
path that might be productive for them,
I try to encourage them to follow it."
Jeff Walter
Division head for Visual and
Performing Arts
"It probably is my duty to be candid
and honest with students. However,
instead of focusing on something
which I may not know, I prefer to
focus on helping students seek career
paths which I think might be best for
them."
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Money, speeches can't solve everything
Step one: Grab the pen.
Step two: Grab the check-
book.
Step
three: Sign
the check.
Step four:
Donate it to
the American
Red Cross.
Since the
terrorist
attacks of
Sept. 11,
celebrities
have been donating millions of dol-
lars to the relief effort.
According to the American
Red Cross website, Julia Roberts
and Sandra Bullock donated $1
million apiece.
Others, such as Calista
Flockhart, have done public service
announcements [PSAs],
Actors Robin Williams and
Jose
Valdez
Elliot Gould have donated blood.
In addition, President Bush and
other high-ranking officials have
toured the disaster sites and offered
handshakes and comforting words.
Sounds like the American Red
Cross is in good hands. It should
be able to raise its estimated goal
of $300 million to provide ongoing
disaster relief services.
But what is missing from this
picture?
Celebrities are donating funds.
They're doing PSAs. They're giv-
ing blood.
Bush is shaking hands.
What is missing?
The missing items are time and
sweat.
It seems like every time there
is some type of national disaster,
the same cycle starts over again.
Celebrities raise funds and
politicians make tours.
Has anyone from either camp
actually helped the emergency
crews remove debris?
Has anyone offered to deliver
food and drink to the thousands of
men and women working day and
night under difficult circumstances?
Apparently not.
The closest anyone has come
to actual work has been Ben
Vereen. He helped by lifting
boxes.
Granted not everyone has time
on his or her hands to help out. but
those who have the means should.
It's fine that money is being
raised and speeches are being spo-
ken, but that only goes so far.
Celebrities and politicians
should acknowledge there are other
ways of helping.
The hardest one is doing physi'
cal labor. The easiest is donating
money.
Oh yes, let us not forget the
photo opportunity. With each dis-
aster there are tons of photographs
of someone important doing one of
the aforementioned items.
In each photo, they are always
clean and well dressed.
i have yet to see a photograph
of an actor, a mayor or a president
wearing his Dickies' pants and
shirt, work gloves and bandana
sweating alongside the workers.
Almost immediately after the
disaster, emergency personnel from
across the nation descended on the
afflicted areas.
In addition to the masses of
'emergency personnel, citizens from
every walk of life helped by doing
manual labor.
They did the jobs the others
failed to do.
It's time someone took the ini-
tiative and did some work for a
change.
Jose Valdez is a senior majoring
in mass communication antl is the man-
aging editor of The Rambler.
Ivy League schools fall short on life's lessons
I just read an article that point-
ed out a fact about our top
universities that bewilders me. Dan
Sullivan, a guest columnist writing
in the Oct. 22 Newsweek, wrote,
"Since
Vietnam,
Ivory Tower
disdain for the
military and
national-secu-
rity agencies
has been a
fact of life on
many campus-
es. In some
cases it's offi-
cial policy."
I have heard this accusation of
our "Ivy League" just once before,
and have personal friends who feel
the same about government service.
Sullivan continues, "As anyone
who has attended a top college in
the past three decades knows, patri-
otism in the eyes of many
Lam Van
Lee
professors is synonymous with lack
of sophistication at best, racism at
worst."
Those friends, I endearingly
call "tree huggers." I use this term
broadly, encompassing more than
just an active concern for Mother
Earth.
Let me explain.
The intentions begin with con-
sideration of others, the
environment and a sense of respon-
sibility. There is a concerted effort
to match the actions with the neo-
model of the New Age: the
sensitive guy or girl.
This posture can be afforded
because of the relative richness of
America. Many people fail to see
the evolution of such high minded-
ness. Only it goes too far, into
absurdity.
"Consideration of' becomes, in
effect, the avoidance of displeasure.
My time in the armed services
has served me well. I remember on
many occasions when soldiers were
tasked out with duties that involved
leaving their loved ones, their
homes—really, their entire lives—
behind, praying that unfinished
business would take care of itself,
yet knowing things usually won't
stick without their presence.
They never really do, if you
know what 1 mean.
I was relating to my best friend
a similar ordeal that a young female
soldier I knew was going through.
I had been touched by her story.
Perhaps, to not poeticize the
soldier's injury my friend
remarked, "Other than the military,
in 'real life' you shouldn't have to
do anything you do not want."
I felt like I was hit with a bag
of bricks.
Is it this type of sentiment and
faulty logic about the purpose of
life that still pervades our top uni-
versities? Has the elite of our
academia learned nothing?
Did the firemen want to run
into and up a collapsing building
when everyone else was running
away and out of it? Didn't they
have daughters, sons and wives to
come home to and kiss that night?
No?
Did the policemen and other
ordinary people want to stop just
yards from the exit of the collaps-
ing building to help fallen brothers?
Didn't they have uncared for busi-
ness to tend or loved ones to meet
later that evening?
No?
Courage, duty, and possibly
"meaning" are solidly defined for a
majority of Americans minds that
just a month prior had been
diaphanous with "trivial" pursuits.
I'm just stopping short of saying
"academic."
They should know better.
Lam Van Le is a senior majoring
in mass communication and is a con-
tributing writer for The Rambler.
Rambler Ratings
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Thumbs Up to all students and faculty or staff mem-
bers who rolled up their sleeves and "gave till it
hurt" during the blood drive on campus, Oct. 23,
Especially students from the nurse anesthesiology
program-more than 50 of the 100 students donated.
Thumbs Up to Cedric Adams and the members of
SOA who worked together to organize the Fall
Festival. It just goes to show you the power of work-
ing together for the greater good and the students
emerge the winners.
Thumbs Up to Linda Lee of the Wesleyan switch-
board. After she discovered The Rambler didn't have
updated faculty and staff phone lists, she offered to
not only print one for us, but to make certain we
were given updated ones periodically.
Thumbs Up to members of Alpha Phi Omega and
Gamma Sigma Sigma for volunteering their time
and muscles to Cowtown Bmshup.
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Thumbs Down to students who steal humanities
portfolios. Every student is required to take six hours
of humanities and those portfolios are the bane of
their existence. They require many hours of reading,
writing and reflection. So....
Thumbs Down to humanities professors who have
their students drop those portfolios in an unattended
box, especially when there has been a history of
theft. Wouldn't it make more sense for students to
give their portfolios to a staff member in the library
who can put them into the designated boxes behind
the help desk?
Thumbs Up to the men of Lambda Chi Alpha for
participating in the walkathon benefitting the
American Lung Association.
Thumbs Up to representatives of freshman and trans-
fer admissions, as well as the faculty members who
participated in last weekend's Major Exploration
Day. Events such as this and people such as these
make Wesleyan the school to consider.
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