Beggars have been given opportunity
In reference to the article “Beggars seek money, food near campus.”
My roommate is manager of an eatery at LSU, and has offered jobs to most of the beggars at the North Gates and not one has filled out the application.
They seem to have no interest in getting a job and working.
I believe in helping those in need but I don’t think giving the beggars food or money is helping them; it is just enabling them to continue being a bum.
I think it is stopping them from accepting the offer of a job; after all why bother with a job when the students will support them?
In the Houston Business Journal, Bill Schadewald interviewed a panhandler who admitted to “current daily average gate of more than $100?”
Students should be aware that there are people in this world who will lie to you and take advantage of you. Volunteering your time or spare change to a recognized charitable organization would help the world much better than buying a bum a Coke.
My closing thought is of the photo and caption of Stubbs sipping a drink he bought from Jack in the Box after a man gave him a couple dollars. A drink from there is at least a dollar.
He could have bought at least 5 packs of ramen noodles with it and ate for a few days.
Douglas Wylie
sophomore
pre-vet
UL student suggests cleaning the lakes
I am a student at UL-Lafayette, and on a recent trip to LSU to visit my girlfriend, we took a walk around the campus lake behind McVoy.
I was appalled to see that the lake was disgusting and filled with trash and pollution.
On our walk, we counted 10 dead ducks, one dead turtle, and one dead egret- all on the water’s edge.
I am very surprised that LSU has overlooked this lake for so long, and we, as a community, should be ashamed of the current state of this area of campus.
LSU, as well as Louisiana, boasts on its wildlife conservation efforts, and yet, in a well-populated area of the campus (roughly 244 students in McVoy, not counting the other three dorms that rest on the lake’s shore)the area reeks of rotting carcasses and strongly resembles a sewage dump.
Being an Agricultural College, perhaps LSU should re-evaluate the allocation of its funds to place more emphasis on the deteriorating condition of the college’s landscape.
Devin Guillory
student
University of La. – Lafayette