Dear Editor,
I would like you to know that in the Feb. 16 paper, the article about the married couple really was a waste. The story it detailed was not special or unique. You plastered their article and sappy pictures on more than a page for no reason. They are married. Wahoo. There are a lot of other students on campus achieving great things that deserved that praise more. I have been married two years now. We both both attend classes full time, have GPAs around a 3.0 and work about 15 hours each week. We are also raising our two-year-old little girl.
We are about $17,000 in student loan debts, and we still have two years left to accumulate more. We are not dropping out to work, we have no excuses for the way we have chosen to live our lives, and the couple featured in the paper shouldn't either. We are not special: We just live our lives differently. If you want to inform the student body of exceptional students, why don't you look at the students who commute, work full time and run their families? Look at some of the single moms and dads on campus who do it all by themselves. Look at students who are beating the odds or making great accomplishments. Being married isn't any harder than having a roommate, and dropping out of school because of money is nothing but a cop out. If you are going to donate a worthwhile page of the paper on someone, please make sure they are actually doing something worth reading about.
Amanda Manuel
Junior
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