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    ...ul-monroe students shoot pool.


    From the NewsStar:


    Students show support after speech

    Leesha Faulkner / Education Editor
    Posted on March 18, 2003


    How students reacted to the threat of impending war depended on whom you talked with Monday night.

    Students of Louisiana Tech met with some apprehension President Bush's speech warning Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq within 48 hours.

    "I don't like the fact that we're going to war," Pam Albright, a sophomore family and child studies major, said. "But Bush is the leader of our country, and if he feels that's what we need to do, then we have to support that decision."

    Many felt that Saddam Hussein has been given plenty of opportunity to meet the terms demanded of him.

    "The president is right on track," Josh Byram, a sophomore mechanical engineering major, said. "This is something that needs to be done, and it should have been done a couple of months ago. If we have to do it alone, that's just what we have to do."

    Lack of support from the United Nations was a let down for some.

    "We formed the U.N. for a reason, and they're not applying themselves to that reason," Michelle Underwood, a freshman basic and career studies major, said.

    Spencer Bell, a 2002 Tech graduate, disagrees with Bush's decision to threaten war without U.N. backing.

    "I think we should have U.N. support no matter what we do," Bell said.

    At the University of Louisiana at Monroe, images of basketball players taking three-point shots flickered on the big-screen television in the WigWam at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. A few studied the delicacies offered by the food service instead of maps of Iraq. Nobody seemed interested in Bush's ultimatum.

    Across the plaza, ULM students popped cue balls on pool tables, seemingly oblivious to the fact the United States might be at war in the time it takes to win a nine-ball tournament.

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    Without expressing an opinion, Leesha Faulkner showed editorial bias in that article. Surely, someone at the junior college had heard of the possible war and would have commented. A reporter has an obligation to make an effort to get comment.
    She didn't quote any NLULM students, so her observation of their behavior in the student union or servery or whatever doesn't match her conversations with Tech people.
    Somebody send her a Tech T shirt for her apparent good intentions toward Tech and forward my comment just in case she doesn't realize what she did was inappropriate.

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