By Jon Parton The Campus Ledger printed a bar review in Issue 11 written by me. The article contained two words that are deemed vulgar by most publications, including ours. I would like to apologize for their inclusion in my review. The words printed were the words I wrote. Neither the adviser to the paper…
Column: My achy breaky pink paper heart
Staff Editorial: College fails to recognize outstanding employees
Hole in the wall review: Haru’s Steak and Sushi
Staff Editorial: Crazy cat ladies and… dog people
Staff Editorial: Your money and the people who spend it
Staff Editorial: Transparency – A brief history: the college’s lack of communication
Column: Enough is enough; it’s time to restore the republic
By David Hurtado The year is 476 A.D., and the Western Roman Empire has collapsed beneath the barbarian hordes. Rome, which once stood as the apex of glory in the known world, has been extinguished. But Rome was not the first great empire to come to an end, nor will it be the last. From…
Column: Too much technology
By Joe Hofbauer “Oh God! My eyes!” I screamed as I fell to my knees clutching my face. The sun laughed mercilessly and continued to blind me with its powerful beams of light. Well, that’s what I get for having my face glued to a monitor the whole weekend. Technology has been on this planet…
Sports Column: Does tuition cover community?
By Mac Moore We just don’t seem to care. It’s not our fault. We are all busy. School and work, work and school; the days are filled so quickly. We have to make very smart decisions about how we spend our free time. The Lady Cavs’ basketball team is finishing up their second straight season…
Staff Editorial: The most American thing to do
Governments are chiefly responsible for five functions with respect to their citizens. These functions are spelled out in the preamble of our own Constitution: establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. According to the U.S. Census Bureau…
Sports Column: Are you ready for some Footbaugh?
By Mac Moore Originally I picked the Falcons and the Ravens for the Superbowl because I really like birds. Aside from mascot-based gambling patterns, I also think Ray Lewis, the greatest linebacker of all time versus Tony Gonzalez, the greatest tight end of all time, both playing in what would be their final game, would…
Column: Athletic entitlement
By Jon Parton As long as you make someone else a lot of money, you can get away with numerous crimes. Just ask convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky from Penn State. More recently, Lance Armstrong admitted to using illegal performance enhancing drugs for years alongside his teammates. In the case of Sandusky, part of the…
Column: Simplest solutions usually work best
By Mackenzie Clark I was fortunate enough to grow up in a nice house in an ideal, all-American neighborhood of Lenexa; a little subdivision where the streets fill with children in the summertime and Boy Scouts parade up and down the block to sell trash bags. The houses on this street don’t seem to change…
Column: Gun control laws alone cannot prevent shootings
By David Hurtado On Dec. 14, 2012, in the small town of Sandy Hook, Conn., Adam Lanza murdered 26 human beings. Since then, tens of thousands of Americans across the country have crusaded for stricter gun control laws, blindly ignoring the real problem. We live in a society that glorifies violence to the point of…
Web-exclusive Review: “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World” raises questions of mortality
By Mac Moore Sometimes we wonder about our mortality. We are humans; this is what we do. Tim McGraw enlightens us that his personal philosophy on living like he was dying involves skydiving and Rocky Mountain climbing. No telling how much simple country rhyme schemes influenced his bucket list, but it is a good question….
Web-exclusive Sports Column: Tragedy shocks Arrowhead
By Mac Moore In the early morning hours of Dec. 1, Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot his girlfriend to death, the mother of his 3-month-old child, at their Kansas City home. Belcher then went to the Chiefs’ practice facility where he was confronted by the head coach, the general manager, and the linebackers coach. When…
Column: New York City safer than Kansas City
By Jon Parton Something has to be done to curb the increasing rate of murder and violence in Kansas City. You are statistically more likely to be murdered in KC than in New York City. New York City, home to more than eight million people, had a total of 515 murders last year. Kansas City,…
Column: A shriveled red rose is all that remains
By Mackenzie Clark All of Kansas City and NFL fans nationwide are feeling the blow of Saturday morning’s tragic event. Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher first shot and killed his girlfriend, Kassandra Perkins, then took his own life, leaving their three-month-old daughter, Zoey, an orphan. I don’t like to publicize my personal life, but this is…
Column: We’ll be your watchdogs
By Mackenzie Clark In the past semester, a daunting number of changes have occurred, and are occurring, on this campus. Honestly, I’m still a bit shaken and don’t know what to make of it all. If you haven’t kept up, many faculty and staff have announced plans for retirement, including three in very influential positions:…
Staff Editorial: The temporary insanity of the holidays
The holiday season is once again upon us. No matter what holiday tradition you practice, everyone can relate to the stresses of the holiday season. Food has to be cooked, family has to be gathered, travel plans have to be made and everyone has to rearrange their schedules so we can theoretically be happy during…
Guest column by Miguel Morales: Creating change at the college
Do you want someone who will challenge JCCC’s rising tuition? Do you want someone who will explain in plain English what JCCC is doing with your money? Do you want to have a say in who will be the college’s next president? Well, Cavaliers, this week JCCC’s Board of Trustees will name a replacement for…
Column: Vote from the heart… and the brain
By Mackenzie Clark I consider myself a patriot. I feel I am incredibly lucky to have been born in America and I wouldn’t trade this gift for the world. With this gift comes responsibility. I feel those of us at the college and in this country who are eligible to vote have an obligation to…
Sports Column: At least I’ve got United
By James Russell My father-in-law is in from out of the country this week. Having lived his entire life between England and Europe, American football is not something he’s been exposed to regularly. It’s an alien game to most people on the other side of the pond – a distant game that makes little sense…
Column: Obscenity and decency – it can be easy to confuse one for the other
By Jon Parton Are we living in the 1950s? I think some Kansans still are. Earlier this year the American Family Association of Kansas and Missouri (AFA) led a petition drive to have a bronze sculpture removed from the Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, claiming it violated Kansas obscenity laws. The sculpture, entitled “Accept…
Column: Go vote! …if you know what you’re voting for
By Tasha Cook Amidst all the talk of voting and elections and officials and presidents and binders, I have honestly done nothing but gotten lost in the shuffle of all this hoopla (except the binders – curiosity drove me to Google that one). I have nothing against politics, corruption aside; I just have no real…
Guest column by Jack Van Kirk: Wingnuts on both sides of the aisle
David [Hurtado], My name is Jack Van Kirk, and I’m writing this to express my disgust at the ideological mind-prisons and false dichotomies in American politics these days. I’m sick and tired of the wingnuts on both sides of the aisle. That’s why I appaud Timothy Cardinal Dolan, the head of the U.S. Catholic Bishops,…
Guest column by Alex Abramovitz: Who is John Galt?
To Whom It May Concern: “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for men of good conscience to remain silent.” These brilliant words from President Thomas Jefferson hold just as true today as they did many years ago. Mr. Jefferson was not hinting at our first amendment right to the freedom of speech, press,…
Staff Editorial: A call to any action
The apathy on this campus is widespread. We at The Campus Ledger have had a very difficult time recruiting staff, and we’re not the only ones. There are organizations to suit a wide variety of interest groups, yet many of them suffer from low membership. The Athletics department struggles with low game attendance and lack…
Letter to the editor from Diane Kappen: Less stress with pets
David [Hurtado], Your column, “Less stress with pets,” was well written, thanks. There has been lots of research in social psychology and health psychology showing that caring for pets and the care you get back from pets improves health in everyone from little kids to the elderly. Your research on pet research shows that cat…
Guest column: Cannabis rally in Kansas, by Chuck Weismiller
On Saturday, September 29th, 2012, I was one of over a hundred supporters of medical marijuana who rallied on the steps of the Capital building in Topeka. The rally was organized by Kansas Medical Cannabis Network and was sponsored by Kansas City NORML and Free State NORML. Why did I spend a beautiful Saturday afternoon…
Web-exclusive Sports Column: KC will beat Tampa Bay – but at what cost?
By James Russell No one reads what I write. Whether in print or online, no one reads these words. I get that. But I still want to date-stamp what I think is about to happen tomorrow, if for no other reason than to be sure that it’s written somewhere. Cassel hatred reached a crescendo last…
Web-exclusive Column: If you can’t say anything nice, don’t work in customer service
By Natalie Goodwin My day started by going shopping at the grocery store. When I reached the check out, I placed all my purchases up on the belt and the frowning checker proceeded to ring my groceries with no ‘Hello,’ no ‘How are you?’ no nothing. The only thing she uttered the entire time was,…
Sports Column: A letter to Matt Cassel
By James Russell Mr. Cassel, I was at Arrowhead for this game against the Chargers. Fairly cheap tickets, as it’s all that our family could afford currently, but I was there. I took my 14 year old daughter – something I’d been waiting to do for a long time, as she’d never before been to…
Guest column by Steve Gochenour: ‘Are we our brother’s keeper?’
Concerning recent thefts (5 in one day) that the college has experienced on the second floor of the library on September 4th of this year, I am wondering if some of our library personnel would have spoken up if they witnessed the actual crime. As you read further ask yourself the same question. Today (September…
Letter to the editor from Graham MacCollum: “Columns on Affirmative Action and the failure of the Obama presidency”
Just read your column from 9/6/12 on affirmative action. It’s not often I see someone your age able to see the truth/facts through the fog of affirmative action policies—especially someone on a college campus. Although I think many of the principles of affirmative action were/are well-intentioned, what has been unleashed over the years has often…
Column: No one cares that it took you 30 minutes to park
By Jon Parton The first day I started working for The Campus Ledger, I learned that people like to complain about the parking. It doesn’t matter what time I show up to school, I’m always able to find a spot. Why are there so many people complaining about the parking? We don’t have a parking…
Letter to the editor from Evan Payne: ‘I gatta dumb it down for those liberals!’
David Hortado brought up a good point in his column about affirmative action. It’s totally reverse discrimination! Problem: those fat cats in Washington don’t know it! In fact, I couldn’t find anything in any amendments about a legal entity called “reverse racism” or “reverse sexism” for that matter! Now we find that it doesn’t protect…
Guest column by Taylor Dunn on ‘Affirmative Action: Promoting inequality since 1961′
This is in regards to the article entitled “Affirmative Action: Promoting inequality since 1961.” In the past, perhaps I would have read an article like the one in question and chuckled, or if I decided to write in, would submit a well-structured dismantling of the absurd argument made in this particular editorial. At current, there…
Letter to the editor from Brandon Terry on ‘Reveling in drunken discord’
I read your article in the in the campus ledger, “Reveling in drunken discord”. I would just like to voice about some of the text you have used in the article. In one of your sentence’s in you opening paragraph you quoted the word’s “frat boy” as a stereotype based on bias of things you…
Guest column by David Cuellar on ‘Talkin’ ’bout my generation’
Consider this an intellectual shooting spree. While I appreciate cynicism and misanthropy, as much as one can without transforming into a Carlin-esque curmudgeon, and largely agree with you, your inflammatory characterization of the rampaging “last winners” grossly oversimplifies a very complex issue while obfuscating every possible solution. There are have been mass shootings lately, and…
Sports Column: Two weeks of disappointment
By James Russell Editor’s note: Look for Russell’s column on this week’s victory online coming soon. Chiefs vs. Falcons Before anything else is stated, I would like to apologize to every KC fan worldwide for costing us this game. I have a pair of Chiefs shorts that I wear for every game which I didn’t…
Column: Campus zombies do exist
By Tasha Cook Let me tell you a story. This morning, on my way through school, I actually got the privilege to be part of a giant, life-sized pinball machine full of zombies. What, you didn’t see it? You were part of it too. This is the daily life of a college student walking through…
Column: Kudos to the administration
By Mackenzie Clark Too frequently, I find myself with some sort of bone to pick with the administration of this college. However, recently they handled a very difficult situation as well as they possibly could. If you read the article on page two of this issue, you know that former professor William Hailey was terminated…
Column: Poor people are lazy, welfare moms drive Mercedes, and other stereotypes
By Jon Parton I remember the last year of high school very well. I was homeless. It’s easy to stereotype people, even when we know that it’s wrong. Poverty is real. The need is real. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 46 million people live in poverty in our country. All the rhetoric…
Point/Counterpoint: He had his chance
By David Hurtado As the 2012 election season comes into swing, the American people have two options on the table. We can either reelect President Obama and have four more years of “hope and change,” or cast our ballot for Governor Romney and end the shadow that has fallen over America. President Obama is many…
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