Your support was awesome at the NCAA Division II National Women’s Basketball Tournament held in St. Joseph, Mo. last week over 288 other Div. II teams. It was a beautiful sight to witness the ESU band, cheerleaders and over 200 students pulling together as one, to cheer the Lady Hornets on to a National Title on National T.V. What energy, what enthusiasm!! Every group was well-behaved and gave their heart and soul to the Lady Hornet’s team.

You will cherish those memories the rest of your life.

Many, many thanks from a proud local alumnus and the other 56,000 other ESU alumni throughout the U.S.A. You helped to make history.

Robert D. Chatham

B.S. ‘57

M.A. ‘61

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To the Editor, THE BULLETIN:

If America’s citizens let Republicans regain their recent, short-lived control of all three branches of government, democracy as we have known it will continue to be broken for a long time.  By desiring to cut, or even do away with Medicare, the GOP shows its “survival of the fittest” philosophy.  It is a philosophy that’s not morally or spiritually-sound and is keeping us from getting needed health care reform.

With fiery passion, right-wing talk radio host Rush Limbaugh tells his audience daily President Obama is destroying our country.  Even before Social Security and Medicare became law, the Republican Party opposed both programs and would kill them today if they could.  Greed and selfishness are the motivators for doing away with them.  That is what’s destroying America.

No matter who is president– Democrat, Republican, Independent–or what party controls Congress, Washington, DC is never going to change as long as big, special interest money determines how we do politics and our economic system runs on greed.

Sincerely,

Paul L. Whiteley Sr.

1960 Graduate of Emporia State

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My husband and I have taken advantage of the opportunity to use Emporia State’s Volunteer Tax Assistance services, offered through the School of Business, the past three years. We appreciate the chance to travel back to Emporia and make an evening out of it, visiting campus, having dinner, and preparing our taxes.

However, we are very dissatisfied with the changes made to the program for 2010. It was difficult to find information on the service and ultimately impossible to utilize the resources that are available to schedule an appointment. After e-mailing both Lyon County State Bank and Emporia State University several times in addition to calling the reservation line eleven times, I have been unable to make contact with anyone regarding the service. Ironically, it doesn’t matter if one calls at 7p on a Wednesday evening or throughout the day and into the afternoon on a Thursday, the message on the appointment line notes that the volunteer is unavailable and to NOT leave a message, but call back at a later time.

I must say that it is incredibly sad that such a utilized service (533 tax returns filed through the service just for the 2009 tax year!)  has become so mis-managed that individuals are left willing to go elsewhere and pay for the services that were formerly made available at no cost.

Natasha M. Jenkins (BSE; 2007)

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