Illogical at best.

I got up this morning and drove to Colfax. I let Amber out and then went to bed. I was still tired. I figured I could either get stuff done or get some sleep. I choose sleep. I was up in time to get ready to head to Pullman since I was covering for Shane on C Shift. While at the station I was working on my laptop. I had upgraded to Visual Studio.NET 2003. I am working on learning Visual C# and web forms. I am working with a book to do this learning. I made one small app. All it does is takes a name from a field, that someone types in, and concatenates it with the word "hello". Nothing big really. But it is all mine!

I was talking to Jason and he pointed out a letter to the editor that appeared in the Daily Evergreen. It was claiming that the WSU Fire services was no longer needed. It was a horrible letter. The letter is posted below.


WSU fire services not necessary

Editor:

Our education is being undermined by WSU. As class sizes
grow and teachers and resources are spread thin, we
continue to maintain past programs that don't meet the
needs of this school. One of the most visible examples
of this is WSU Fire.

A logical examination of this program's illegitimacy
will shed light on why it should be eliminated.

We must consider who is responsible for protecting this
school If WSU falls within the city limits of Pullman,
then it would seem logical that Pullman Fire should cover
our school. WSU brings in millions of dollars for the
city of Pullman; I think the least they can do is provide
these services.

WSU Fire doesn't meet the needs of WSU students. Today's
firefighter is also a trained EMT. Medical calls
overwhelmingly predominate fire calls. Half of the school's
population is female, yet there is not one female
firefighter. Rape is a sad reality on this campus.
How well will a male firefighter meet the needs of a
female rape victim?

At a WSU-Cal football game three years ago, Pullman Fire
left the back doors of the ambulance open as it drove
across the field with an injured player.

At the beginning of this year, WSU responded to a fire
call at the CUE. They parked their truck a couple hundred
feet from the station, on one of the steepest hills at
WSU, with hundreds of students surrounding it. This is a
recipe for disaster. Brakes fail, and what if the wheel
chalks were not able to stop the weight of the truck on
such a steep hill? Fortunately, in both cases, no one
was hurt.

Many of these fire-fighters are in a learning program,
but WSU is not a fire science school. I realize the need
to educate future civil servants, but this is not the
place.

There are hundreds of institutions around the nation
that specialize in fire science and emergency medical
education. I wish the best for all of WSU's firefighters,
and I want them to get the best education possible, but I
wonder if they are getting it? How much real life
experience can the Palouse provide these people?

Next semester, when you are signing that fat tuition check,
think about where you want that money going.

Alex Whitefield
junior, CES.


Wow. That was illogical. The evidence he used does not back up his claim. I plan on writing a letter to the editor in response.