Letter: Umbrella movement more dynamic than represented

By Letter to the Editor / December 2, 2014

In his op-ed “Under My Umbrella” (10/24/14) David Grossman arguest that the Umbrella Movement, Hong Kong’s protest for a more democratic election process under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party, will end as soon as the CCP says it will. As an international student from Hong Kong, I quibble with such an assertion. It...

Letter: Asian Americans must stand in solidarity with fellow students of color

By Letter to the Editor / November 25, 2014

Yesterday’s announcement that the UChicago Electronic Army did not hack a student’s Facebook account only serves as a distraction from the real stories of other students who live in fear of being targeted by racist threats. Until now, Asians have remained on the sidelines while black and Latin@ minorities have been expected to carry the...

Letter: I’m sorry

By Letter to the Editor / November 25, 2014

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Letter: Katz talks about discrimination too narrowly and zionism too broadly

By Letter to the Editor / November 25, 2014

I am sympathetic to Katz’s complaints of discrimination in “That wasn’t funny” (11/18/14), having been at the receiving end of racism myself. I was thus disappointed to learn that Katz chose to highlight anti-Semitism over other types of discrimination. Katz alleges that fabrications about Jews have somehow gone unnoticed on campus while “other awful minority stereotypes”...

Letter: Admin pay in perspective

By Letter to the Editor / November 25, 2014

Dear Maroon, As the author of work cited as background to data analyses of a November 21 Maroon article (“Univ. admin pay not outlier, Maroon finds”), I would like to offer both compliments and clarifications. First off, numbers-driven investigative reporting on higher education is much needed both here and across the country. Pretty much every...

Letter: OBS urges student solidarity around petition

By Letter to the Editor / November 21, 2014

In light of recent acts of racially motivated hate, the Organization of Black Students (OBS) would like to express our firm stance and complete solidarity with all victims of intolerance, marginalization, and targeted personal attacks. While some may be inclined to perceive this most recent event as an isolated incident, this is instead the latest...

Letter: Chancellor Wise shouldn’t have spoken on diversity

By Letter to the Editor / November 14, 2014

On Monday evening, the University of Illinois–Urbana Champaign Chancellor, Phyllis Wise, spoke as a part of the Biological Sciences Division and the Office of Diversity & Inclusion’s Diversity and Inclusion Speaker Series. We are delighted that the University has a series focused on the vital issues surrounding diversity (or the lack thereof) on our campus. However,...

Letter: Students stand by the IOP

By Letter to the Editor / May 30, 2014

“How much we value the right of free speech is put to its severest test when the speaker is someone we disagree with most.”—American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Hate Speech on Campus Last week at the Institute of Politics (IOP), Dan Savage was a guest at a seminar hosted by Spring Fellow Ana Marie...

Letter: Wessan’s claims uninformed

By Letter to the Editor / May 9, 2014

Eric Wessan’s general indictment of Student Government (SG) in “Electoral Dysfunction” (5/6/14) is so filled with contradiction it hardly merits a response. However, we in positions of SG leadership would like to address a few of the factual inaccuracies in the piece because, to Wessan’s point, it is important that correct information be available to...

Letter: McAvoy doesn’t know everything

By Letter to the Editor / May 8, 2014

In a recent response to Grace Koh’s article “Faith and Fear” (4/18/14) entitled “Not Fit for Print” (4/25/14), third-year contributor Spencer McAvoy makes a serious plea for the Maroon to toss aside principles of free inquiry and to censor views—such as opposition to gay marriage—deemed too bigoted and nonsensical to express in public. In doing...

Letter: Outgoing SG slate reviews year in office

By Letter to the Editor / May 6, 2014

Now that our term is coming to a close, we on the Student Government (SG) executive slate would like to take this opportunity to reflect on what we have achieved and to assess what next year’s SG can still accomplish. But first, many congratulations to the United Progress slate on their victory in the recent...

Letter: Alum Geffen does disservice to Alpha Delta Phi, WHPK, and the larger community

By Letter to the Editor / May 2, 2014

A Saturday ago, WHPK and the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity hosted a free show at Alpha Delt that featured rising pop musician Frankie Cosmos’s band, supported by local bands The Lemons and Richard Album and the Singles. At this show, one of the members of the Chicago band Twin Peaks took the microphone and heckled...