Limelight

Congratulations Central College! You have finally received positive feedback from the Des Moines Register! Today you have an uplifting article written by Dan McCool, praising you and your president in an uplifting story about the big guy who takes time to teach people how to kick.

This is, of course, remarkably different from another story that was published by the Register in May of this year. "Racial incident in Pella leads to student withdraws" was a rather difficult story for Central to swallow. The advancement office omitted to display the article in their "Central in the News" bulletin board, and many steps were taken to keep Central looking as positive as possible. The college even gave outdated information claiming that we have a 4 per cent minority rate!

Needless to say, three months after the article was published, Central is without its Director of student life and its Director of Intercultural life. These two important individuals had a remarkable impact on the future of the college, and without positive, full-time leadership, I feel we can not continue to fix the problems of the past.