Dear Editor,
The Chinese nationals in the U.S. have never united like this. On April 9, during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in San Francisco, more than 11,000 Chinese nationals gathered to celebrate and support the torch relay, which is the only stop in North America.
On the same day, a torchbearer, Jin Jing, a 27-year-old amputee and Paralympic Fencer, received a hero’s welcome for protecting the Olympic Torch in Paris when she returned to Beijing. On April 7, during the Torch Relay in Paris, she courageously protected the torch from the separatists, and experienced injury with chin and arm scratched.
Many American readers may not know this because most journalists only focus on the protest from about 7,000 “ Tibet independence” secessionists. However, the media “selectively” neglects that there are more than 11,000 American-born Chinese and Chinese students who are supporting the torch relay. Why does this keep happening?
I am wondering, what on earth “news” is? OK, I get it, in their eyes, “boycotting the Olympics” is news while “supporting the Olympics” is not. This is ridiculous!
This kind of biased news has misled many Americans and thus is resulting in bad consequences. Many Americans joined the “Tibet Independence” secessionist group without knowing anything about Tibet and China. They don’t even know where Tibet is and what the Chinese flag looks like. What is worse, they also thought Chinese people had no human rights, and are all opposed to the Beijing Olympics. However, that is definitely not the truth. Hereby, we only want the just reports and the truth to be heard.
Zhong, Guo-Ren, OSU student
Dear Editor,
I am writing in response to the cartoon published in Friday’s paper, proclaiming SGA as ‘worthless’ because of the personal conflicts that have arisen within the organization.
Although I will admit that petty disagreements have happened, I will not stand by and let someone imply that the entire organization therefore does nothing productive.
In fact, the front page article of the same paper highlighted the work done by SGA to help OSU students, faculty and staff send care packages to soldiers in Iraq.
This year, we have also initiated recycling efforts on campus that received statewide recognition as the ‘Collegiate Recycling Program of the Year,’ started Take a Kid to the Game to bring underprivileged children to collegiate sporting events, revived the Cowboy Cousins program to pair up more than 150 international students with American cousins as an opportunity for cultural exchange, collected more than 300 toys and raised just under $3,000 through our Toys to the Game program to provide Christmas presents for families who cannot afford them, showcased more than 200 local businesses on the Library Lawn to allow students to become familiar with all that the community has to offer in the biggest ‘Lights on Stillwater’ event to date, and just this past weekend we sent out almost 1,000 student volunteers to complete service projects throughout the community as part of the Big Event.
Students in every branch of SGA are committed to making a difference for students and have invested hundreds of hours to making programs like these come together. It is not fair to let the work of these many individuals be overshadowed by the personal “drama” of a select few whom you may occasionally read about in the newspaper.
Emilee Lehenbauer, SGA President-Elect
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