Opinion

SAINTS PERSPECTIVE, SCCC President Brad Bennett

Last year, Seward County Community College recorded tremendous growth in enrollment — 16 percent up. Now that we’ve reached the midpoint of academic year 2024-25, our official certification numbers are in, and we’re thrilled all over again. Student headcount at SCCC is up by 17 percent.

At a time when higher education is grappling with rising costs, and a culture shift that began with the pandemic, many folks in our sector are discouraged. But that is not the story at Seward. I attribute our success to a campus-wide commitment to one goal: recruiting, enrolling, and retaining more students. In other words, enrollment growth.

GUEST COLUMN, Stanley Kurtz, The National Review

Brian Lozenski, an associate professor of urban and multicultural education at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minn., was appointed by Governor Tim Walz’s state education department to help write the statewide “implementation framework” (similar to a curriculum) for Minnesota’s new “ethnic studies” standards. It now emerges that Lozenski has called for the “overthrow” of the United States.

MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron

We often see that unlikely people are used in spite of failures because of their trust in God and His faithfulness. Adam and Eve in the Garden sinned, but even then God had a plan of reconciliation in mind. He prophetically pronounced curses: enmity between the serpent and Eve, hatred and hostility between her seed and his. From then on, Satan has sought to injure us, but eventually “the seed of woman” will crush him.

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

He probably never knew it, but around the newspaper office throughout the years we referred to Don Witzke as “Smilin’ Don.”

Back when we used to have to build a lot more real estate ads than we do today, Don’s ad was a regular, and a friend of mine handled his account.

Mike sold the ads, and I built them, and we were always part of the skeleton crew that worked on Saturdays.