I just wish to express my outrage toward the blatant self-absorption and lack of humanity by the majority of the students on this campus regarding the tragedy happening to the poor people of New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast.

On the afternoon of Aug. 30, when news came that the city of New Orleans was being flooded, I was at the Union computer lab frantically searching the web for news on the tragedy.

I was the only one who seemed to care. The rest of the crowd - mostly MSU students - couldn't have cared less. These privileged brats did not even know what was happening. They were checking their e-mail, doing their homework and happily chatting away on their cell phones.

No one was talking about the people dying and being flooded out of their homes in New Orleans. I wonder what kind of moral values these kids have been brought up with. Their selfish baby-boomer parents have instilled in them the message that they should always be the center of attention; their needs and comfort comes first - to hell with the rest of the world or society.

Fellow Americans are dying in the flooded streets of New Orleans. This is a sick and selfish generation. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

Paul Wilk
1980 MSU graduate