Critical thinking gone wrong

This article is about Nadya Suleman, and it violates avoiding emotion and assumes that the family is foreclosing on their house simple because nadya has so many children

By now, we’ve all heard about Nadya Suleman. She had 6 babies, got 8 more… and hasnt had a job in years. She’s been living with her Mom and it has recently been discovered that they house is now in default as she has not made a payment in 10 months. I hope everyone is ready to pay for Nadya Suleman’s babies, because we are doing just that through our taxes.

Research Challenge

Im still having trouble finding more online articles about how to recruit more minority students. Im also still troubled about my group and them wanting me to change my topic. I dont really want to, but it if thats what they want to know then should I just change it?

Research Progress

So I've met with my organiztion every week and they have helped me get the names of the students that came up here for college day and I wanted to contact them to see how the felt about St Cloud. The only problem is that there isnt any contact information, all I have is their names. I guess I'll just haveing to keep pushing the group to get me more contact info. In the mean time im trying to come up with a survey for the students to take that would really give me an insight to what they think of st cloud, if they would ever come here, what didnt they like, what could we do better, did the race issue have anything to do with their choice, if we had more scholarship available would that change things. I need more questions and I need to find their contact information. Does anyone have any thoughts on what other questions I could ask?

GAZA!!!

I really feel that a professor of ours at SCSU most definitely didn't handle himself appropriately the other night at the Gaza panel in atwood. I totally feel that he made himself look bad and that it looked bad upon our school and our reputation. I think that he had a valid question that needed to be answered but that he imposed himself on the panel, wouldn't let them speak when they were trying to say that there would be a Q&A at the end of the discussion where they would answer his question and for him to please sit down and wait until that time. St Cloud state already has a bad rep. for intolerance and although I don't personally believe that this is what was truly behind the professor acting out, but it did look that way to people who where just coming into the room. Its a sensitive topic with a lot of hurt emotions, but I thought the panel had a great presentation and I learned a lot more on the topic. Also, someone did wait until the Q&A part of the discussion and asked the question that the professor demanded that they answer in the very beginning of the panel, and they gave a justified answer. Its unfortunate that the professor had to disrupt everyone else's learning when he just could have waited until the end of the panel. If he had, he would have gotten his answer.

Change of Topic

Okay so I went to meet with the organization that Im working with to get some more information so I can continue on with my project, but then the president of the organization tells me he has a new project he wants me to work on instead. So im a little stressed about what to do. I've already started on my project and I am kind of already invested in it but this new topic is something that they really want me to help them solve. WHAT DO I DO!!!

Research Comparison

One of the first things that I noticed was different about the Great River Regional library than the OPAC was that you could do an alphabetical search. They both had such links as a keyword and subject search. When I did a keyword search on college diversity and found that the books from the Great River Regional Library had more to do with my topic than resulted from the same keyword search with the OPAC database. I had 7 hits with the GRRL and 176 hits with OPAC.

Recearch Obstacles

Normally, I dont have a hard time at all finding resources for whatever research problem or question I am working, but normally I usually turned to articles and journals that I can find on the internet to help me with my research. This was not the case today when I was trying to find books on recruiting minority students to college campuses. It took me longer than usual to find some good candidates in the library. After a bit of tweaking using the advanced research database for books I was able to find three books that might be of use to me. One book was located in the multicultural resource center in the library which I didnt even know existed. I was pleasantly surprised to know that SCSU had a special section for multiculturalism, but I have to admit I was a little dissapointed when I went to retreive my book at the size of the section. It was so small, I would say less than a full walls space worth of books. It was kind of off tucked away in a little corner in the back of the library. But hey I guess a small section is better than no section at all. The other two books I was able to find easily in the basement of the library. I even found another book in the section that I wasnt even looking for that might be helpful. Overall once I was able to refine my search in the database for books, I didnt have to hard of a time researching possible books. Although I still prefer to use articles and scholarly journals.