Capping enrollment to colleges and universities is slamming the door on many prospective students’ futures while paving their way to unemployment, a strong characteristic of the Great Depression, which is a time many college students’ great-grandparents remember quite vividly.

Mary Walsh, a 96-year-old Boca Raton resident, is no exception.

Her dad didn’t work, but neither did the four other dads in the house. In fact, of the six families living in Mary Walsh’s home in 1930, only one man had a job. He was the one who provided the lone pot of potatoes each night for dinner – and a spoonful of butter if they were lucky.

UNF’s grading scale for students is very subjective. It’s a concern exemplified largely by the process all college graduates go through upon applying for jobs or graduate school – judgment and acceptance based on GPA.

Although GPA isn’t the sole indicator for success in a job or graduate school, it is something very representative of a student’s performance, and there are a lot of pressures ranging from scholarship requirements to parental advice to keep it high.

With no universal standard for a grading scale, how can students’ GPAs be a valid gauge of anything?

Osprey Productions has brought several great musical and entertainment acts to UNF during the last several years.

To help diversify and reach a broader variety of students, OP is trying to vary the type of entertainment it brings to campus. To accomplish this, OP goes through several steps to find acts that will attract students’ interest.

Although OP is able to bring several great acts to UNF, its efforts will fall unnoticed due to lack of variety in the audience they are able to target.

Dear Editor,
While I respect the right of Corey Myers to express his opinion in his column, “College students abandoning values, virtues,” in the Oct. 8 issue of the Spinnaker, I would urge him to rethink the process of his argument.

Perhaps I am misreading, but Myers seems to be under the mistaken assumption that, once upon a time, every member of society shared his particular values. Equally troubling is the implication that every member of society should share his beliefs, and anybody who does not is wrong.

Dear Editor,
I would like to comment on the recent column written by Arielle Schneider. While reading the article, I could not help but notice she ends her opinion about Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama’s platform with a statement that is clearly untrue: “Obama’s plans may seem good but apparently, only McCain truly gets economics.”

It seems odd she would make this comment when McCain himself has stated he is not strong on
economics.