Issues
Good News for the New Year – Issue 109
High School Grad Rate Up!
Although still lagging the national rate, high school graduation rates in the Eugene-Springfield region rose about 2% in 2015 to above 74%.
Look Back at 2015 & Laugh
Florida police raided a mahjong game played by four women aged between 87 and 95 because they allegedly were playing the game for money.
– George Will, jewishworldreview.com
Look Back & Laugh
Editors’ note: Columnist George Will, writing for jewishworldreview.com, recently looked back at 2015, which he labeled “a year of absurdities and overreach.” Over the next several issues of Lane Solutions we’ll share a few with you. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Here goes…
“Since federal food police dictated changes in school lunch programs, food tossed in the trash is up 56 percent, salt shakers are being smuggled into schools, and there are black markets in potato chips.”
Good News for the New Year! – Issue 107
A Renaissance for ROTC!
Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) is making a comeback at Ivy League schools!
In 2014 Columbia University commissioned its first Marine officer since 1970. Yale graduated the first two Naval ROTC officers since Nixon was President. Other Ivy League schools featuring ROTC programs include Harvard, Brown and Cornell.
Stupidest College Courses – Issue 107
Dear Mom & Dad,
I know you guys are pretty old, so you may not know who Kanye West is. He’s a way cool singer & song writer – songs like “Hey Mama” & “Gold Digger.” Plus he’s married to Kim Kardashian. He actually bought her 150 Christmas presents!
Anyway, next semester I’m taking “Kanye Verses Everybody”! Here’s Georgia State’s course description:
The designer and defender of his own celebrity, Kanye expresses an intellectual stance and an extreme sense of agency that arguably exemplify the critical perspective of our latest generation of public thinkers.
How’s that for awesome beyond belief? Thanks for paying my $24,448 tuition this year. After I graduate and get a job you’ll see what a great investment it was!
Love, Your Daughter Gretchen
Good News for the Fading Year – Issue 106
Oregon Job Rate Falls; Jobs Added!
November joblessness fell from 6% to 5.7% as Oregon added 9,600 jobs – the biggest November increase in 19 years!
Stupid College Courses – Issue 106
Pop Culture Politics
Dear Mom & Dad,
Guess what? Rutgers is such an awesome college. It’s got loads of women & gender studies courses! They’ve got so many that my whole course load for spring term will be about women & gender!
The one I’m most excited about is Women, Culture, and Society: Pop Culture Politics. We’ll discuss everything Pop Culture from memes to music videos & reality TV. And best of all, we won’t have to write any papers or even take a final!
We’ll check out Beyonce’s awesome video “Grown Woman” & even study “S**t Girls Say”!
By the way, I just got an email that you’re late with my tuition for this year. In case you’ve forgotten, it’s $29,875.
Love, Your Daughter Tiffany
Good News for the Fading Year – Issue 105
Winnebago opening plant in Lane County
“Winnebago is helping to breathe life into an industry that was largely lost during the Great Recession,” county Commissioner Jay Bozievich said in a statement. “Lane County has many skilled and talented workers in need of living-wage manufacturing jobs…”
Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Any Stupider – Issue 105
University yoga class canceled because of ‘oppression, cultural genocide’
Stupidest College Courses – Issue 105
Dear Mom & Dad,
Thanks for sending me to Cornell. It’s an awesome school!
I just signed up for PE 1657 – “Tree Climbing”.
Remember how I used to love climbing trees? Now I’m really gonna learn how to do it. They’ll teach me how to swing from tree to tree without touching the ground! And how to use ropes and stuff.
Unfortunately, I had to cancel my economics class, which meets at the same time.
I almost forgot – the course fee includes my equipment, so you won’t have to pay much more than the $64,164 you’re already paying!
Love, Your Son Micah