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Facebook should ‘Just Say Now’ to marijuana ad campaign

30 August 2010

Facebook, the social networking tool favored by everyone who thinks their night out and disdain for sobriety belong in a public forum, deserves a thank you from its millions of users. Thank you, Facebook, for saving us from the a-pot-calypse. Facebook banned the use of graphics featuring a marijuana leaf in an ad campaign created [...]

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Gubernatorial debates should include all parties

22 August 2010

Both the Republican and Democratic candidates for governor have called for candidate debates prior to the General Election. If the purpose of these debates is to provide the voters with information necessary to make an informed decision on election day then — if either of those candidates truly believe in the free exercise of the [...]

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Thus spoke our reader

22 August 2010

In an effort to better serve our readers, the Daily Egyptian staff polled students, staff and faculty throughout the university last week to determine what you want to see from your paper. Our readers almost unanimously would like to see more campus, city and regional news, but shorter and fewer stories on state, national and [...]

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Remembering Mike Dunn

02 August 2010

Dear Editor: When someone makes an impact on another person’s life, the person who was affected never forgets it. Often, though, the person who is making that impression doesn’t even know it or does so as a matter of routine and never thinks twice. Hundreds of people across the country read The Columbus Dispatch article [...]

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Northeast residents skeptical of city services

02 August 2010

Dear Editor: The article written by the Daily Egyptian on Thursday has caught my interest to the point where I feel compelled to write a letter. The logic behind this article is absolutely flawed. Patricia Niemeyer is quoted as saying, “Maintenance comes every so often, but people are too lazy to clean up after themselves. [...]

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Beware of deceptive advertising

02 August 2010

Several years ago when I was a freshman in engineering I took a course called “Straight Thinking” in which we studied mostly deceptive advertising. A similar course would be even more relevant today because we are now deluged with deceptive advertising. Such a course should be required for university students. Retailers incessantly advertise items as [...]

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SIUC holds key to Carbondale progress

26 July 2010

When one door closes, another opens. In Carbondale’s case, doors have been closing quickly. It’s now up to the city council to make sure it opens doors that citizens will want to walk through. Will a Walgreens on the west side of town be in demand with a CVS and second Walgreens so close to [...]

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NAACP plays latest race card against tea party

20 July 2010

Summertime, and the race cards are easy. The Rev. Jesse Jackson has accused the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers of racism, for treating multigazillionaire basketball star LeBron James as a “runaway slave.” This is the same James who will become his own billion-dollar marketing franchise in South Beach. If only slavery were so sweet. And [...]

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Salukis are the biggest donors

12 July 2010

Dear Editor: What’s the big deal about naming the new football stadium? The structure should be called Saluki Stadium, and not as a “placeholder” name, but as a permanent name. After all, it is the students — that is, the real Salukis — who are picking up the tab for most of its cost. So [...]

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Why search for donors?

12 July 2010

Dear Editor: Why do we need to have someone else’s name on our new football stadium? Saluki Stadium is a great name and should remain the permanent name for the new stadium. There have been many donors in the Saluki Way project and it’s not right to just put one person’s name on the stadium [...]

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Front-page photo sent wrong message

12 July 2010

I am an SIUC graduate with a doctorate degree from the Department of Psychology some years ago. I also work and reside in the Carbondale community. This is the first time I’ve written to the Daily Egyptian regarding the content of your usually excellent newspaper. I think it was a very poor decision on the [...]

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