2008 Woodie Awards
The staff editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Murray State News. The dictionary defines the word interim as "for or during an intervening period of time which is temporary or provisional." Yet, at Murray State, interim has a very different meaning when it comes in front of a job title.
The nothing fight. If you are one of the rare few who has never experienced the nothing fight, then you are truly an anomaly or you just are in denial. It starts with something so simple as a sink full of dirty dishes or a wrong turn at a stop sign and turns into "I never liked your mother and your haircut makes you look like a meth-addict.
As a woman, and more importantly as an individual who embraces fairness and justice, I am compelled to set the record straight following the commentary in the Feb. 29 edition of The Murray State News. While I respect the writer's passion and concern for justice, I am concerned that she failed to consider Murray State's policies and practices when writing her commentary.
No socio-political discourse is more dazzlingly hypocritical or more intellectually bankrupt than "political correctness." On this matter, I suspect, Richard Nelson and I essentially agree. But Murray State's recent decision to include "sexual orientation" in its anti-discrimination policy does not mark an ideological shift toward "political correctness," nor does it imply a "moral advocacy" of homosexuality or any other type of sexual orientation.
In response to last week's letter to the editor "Opposition to Campus Sexual Orientation Policy" by Richard Nelson, I wish to bring to light certain fallacies in his letter. First of all, the testimony of Terry Strieter on Matthew Shepard had a great deal of relevance to the issue as Shepard was a homosexual college student who was robbed, tortured and killed by two heterosexual men.
