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Dr. Speck, do you love your wife?

We're sure he does, but we still need to see some data to back up that claim.

This is what it's come to. Speck, in what seems to be continued efforts to rid Missouri Southern of its unique international mission, has launched a war of words....

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Ben Hinkle

posted 11/20/09 @ 10:59 AM CST

I drove down to Fayetteville a little while ago to see Ehud Olmert speak at the University of Arkansas. It was a free event just like any of ours at Southern. My girlfriend and I tried count heads just for the hell of it and both came up with a number around 500. Just to make sure we're all on the same page here, that's a former head of state speaking at a major D1 university. Southern is packing in almost twice as many people for much less important speakers, on a campus with a quarter of the student population? Sounds like a damned good international program in comparative terms.

Facts are facts. This program is one of the ones we have that is dominating our competititon and that's getting students engaged on a level that much bigger universities would envy if they heard about it. Let's get some money back where it's actually going to help the school.

Jenn

posted 11/20/09 @ 12:39 PM CST

Bravo! Merci!

Great article. Good points.

Mad Man

posted 11/23/09 @ 8:51 AM CST

Well, at least 1 person reads Crossroads.


Let's start signing our names to our articles, kiddos. That's what the big boy papers do. Because they have the balls to.

(editor, you may or may not notice the end of the previous sentence and the preposition used, not that it seems you folks notice these things)

Big Boy

posted 11/23/09 @ 11:37 AM CST

Originally posted by

Mad Man

Well, at least 1 person reads Crossroads.


Let's start signing our names to our articles, kiddos. That's what the big boy papers do. Because they have the balls to.

(editor, you may or may not notice the end of the previous sentence and the preposition used, not that it seems you folks notice these things)


Really?

Most big papers (and I assume you mean that by 'big boys') carry unsigned staff editorials. Kansas City Star? Check. Joplin Globe? Ditto. St. Louis Post-Dispatch? You betcha.

Why? Because a newspaper should take a leadership role in the community. It should have a voice that is greater than the individual members of its staff.

It is nice that The Chart has the "balls" to take a stand on issues. It is nice that The Chart has the "balls" to print dissenting opinions. Your problem isn't with staff editorials (that are the prevailing practice, despite what you claim), it is with the opinion itself.

I note that you didn't argue facts or claims in the editorial. You just didn't like that it was unsigned and then you took a little shot about grammar. Perhaps you should do a personal "ball" check.

Adam Givens

posted 11/24/09 @ 11:23 AM CST

Originally posted by

Mad Man

Well, at least 1 person reads Crossroads.


Let's start signing our names to our articles, kiddos. That's what the big boy papers do. Because they have the balls to.

(editor, you may or may not notice the end of the previous sentence and the preposition used, not that it seems you folks notice these things)



Ah! If find your responses rather silly in the sense that they are hypocritical! You talk about transparency and about how people should sign their names to what they write, yet you hide behind a mask of false names yourself!
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