Our View: Listen to the campus

Last week students were told to remove chalk art from the sidewalk. The university apologized and Tim Vitale, USU’s public relations and marketing directer, was even quoted by A-TV saying “good for them for expressing their rights I would say.”

This is an incident that has been well documented by local media and we will not touch on it further in this column.

However, we would like to point out and congratulate the culture of this university for the variety of opinions and opportunities to learn about different opinions.

At the Statesman we get a lot of people asking us to cover their events. A variety of guest speakers, conferences and functions that display unique opinions and experiences flow through this campus. We wish we could cover it all; it pains us that we can’t actually. But that is no excuse for students not attending these.

They are on our calendar, the university calendar and social media, among other things. But these events are out there putting insights of religious, political and social topics on display.

You don’t have to agree with a speaker or event to listen — by all means disagree — but as a whole we all could benefit from taking a small amount of our free time to listen to this campus.