Here are just a few of the
problems your peers in the 212 Lecture want to see addressed.
Some of them would make fine topics for Persuasive Speeches in 212!
- smoking on public campuses
- poverty among single mothers
- social gaps in developed nations
- merging colleges
- animal harmed through experimentation
- young people not voting
- lack of recycling
- lack of English education
- poverty around the world
- losing funds for education
- CEO's deciding to outsource jobs overseas
- frivolous law suits
- America's failure as a moral leader on issues like Abortion,
alcohol use and sexual impurity
- Corruption in foreign governments
- irradiation of meat
- Fair treatment needed for ISU Clubs
- Gay people can't get legally married
- media hype over unimportant events
- performance enhancing drugs in athletics
- war and security in Iraq
- university requirements unrelated to majors
- overuse of automobiles
- immoral behavior--people have lost their sense of what is right
and what it wrong
- lack of equality grounded in gender, race, ethnicity or sexual
preference
- misuse of resources--investing in elaborate buildings instead of
caring for people
- moral majority imposing religious beliefs on the rest of the
country through legislation
- ethnocentrism
- lack of funding for college
- overpriced CDs
- students being taken out of college to go fight a war
- textbook sale/resale system
- university system for determining independent/dependent status is
wrong
- dining system plan
- lack of respect for the environment--littering
- drivers without turn signals
- too much discussion of sexuality
- increases in college tuition
- lack of world peace
- wrong perceptions of people in third world countries.
- jailing people for first offense drug penalties when what they
need is treatment
- obesity as a growing problem
- prisons are too lenient
- politicians focus on big businesses instead of small businesses
- inadequate protection for animals
- drinking age is inconsistent with other laws
- too much pollution
- cyclists not wearing helmets
- cats not spayed and neutered
- inadequate separation of smoking and non-smoking sections of
restaurants.
- diesel engines harming the ozone layer
- allowing children to be tried as adults in courts
- people don't share their wealth with the world
- people's failure to take responsibility for their actions.
- deflated grain prices
- putting down people who are different
- cost of living is too high
- disrespect--we should teach chivalry and take etiquette classes
- NASCAR is too dangerous and wastes natural resources
- people need organ transplants
- U.S. failure to sign the Kyoto accord
- people doing things just to get by and nothing more
- athletic dept. costs and revenues
- teaching of creationism in biology classes
- child abuse and lack of support for social welfare agencies
- lack of multicultural education
- lack of involvement on campus
- gas prices
- lack of volunteerism
- lack of exercise
- students don't pay attention to world affairs/news
- racism
- unfairness in drug sentencing
- raise taxes to support education