As I opened The State News on Monday morning, looking forward to reading articles on the accomplishments of the MSU greek community in the past week, I was absolutely disgusted when I did not find 1 inch of information about it.
Instead of broadcasting an unprecedented accomplishment for the greek community and MSU as a whole, The State News pored over Cedar Fest. Sure, Cedar Fest was a very significant event that took place last weekend, but so was the finale of Greek Week 2008. The MSU greek community raised more than $208,000 to support the American Cancer Society and local charities. What an accomplishment!
As I stated earlier, it actually is an unprecedented accomplishment. The State News solely looked to portray the negative incidences that took place near our campus this past weekend, while there were more than 2,500 students constantly working all week to raise money to fight cancer. Maybe if The State News would look at the positive aspects of MSU and the greek community, things like Cedar Fest would not even take place. Our campus is far better than what The State News makes it out to be. Next time when a feat this spectacular is achieved, let the rest of campus know there is more to a Spartan than just tailgates and teargassed street parties.
Erin Buerger
accounting and Spanish sophomore
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