There is a lot going on in our homes, community, jobs and most importantly our world. With the upcoming election, the war in Iraq, a steady declining rate of jobs and AIDS, students have much to think about.
The declining rate of jobs has not only both students and professionals wondering about the odds of getting a job and keeping a job.
Tina Watson, an underwriter for dental and vision from Long Beach, Calif. says the even though she is in a career the job rate affects her because “when people lose their jobs they lose their coverage which puts my job in jeopardy with the type of profession that I have.”
Students have a different perspective on the rate of jobs. “Seeing as though were here to get a degree for good jobs, but if there are none then what is the point of going to school,” said Robert Jackson, senior computer science major from Westwego.
AIDS is another case that has a people in alert. According to the website www.aids.com, there were 816,149 new cases of AIDS and 467,910 deaths but by this year there were 24.9 million deaths and 5.3 million new cases.
In 2004 Baton Rouge rates #2 in new AIDS cases in the United States. This has students at Southern feeling uneasy and concerned.
Jayson Dogan, a senior zoology major from Atlanta said the AIDS problem is most important to him. “It is misinterpreted and misunderstood,” Dogan said. “Everyone is focusing on Baton Rouge when its much bigger that that.”
Although a lot of students focus is on the declining rate of jobs and the AIDS problem in Baton Rouge, the war in Iraq is still a major focus on some students minds. America officially went to war in 2001 and is still fighting the same war there are more people getting killed and troops dying.
“People are dying for unjust causes,” said Michelle Hardin, a sophomore accounting major from New Orleans.
