Even U of C toilet graffiti is “Uncommon”

By Letter to the Editor / March 10, 2009

Dear editors, what is utility to the student of art history, to the theoretical physicist, or to the playwright?

Maroon criticisms of SGFC miss the point

By Letters to the Editor / March 6, 2009

It’s easy to find fault from an armchair.

SGFC unfairly, inaccurately represented in editorial

By Letter to the Editor / March 3, 2009

The yacht party is by no means a “booze cruise.”

Steele should take a look at the First Amendment

By Letter to the Editor / March 3, 2009

I suggest that Amanda Steele recall that the First Amendment prohibits government censorship of speech.

Editorial Board should not discourage free speech

By Letter to the Editor / February 24, 2009

The Maroon Editorial Board’s plea for students’ use of “Silent Treatment” (2/17/09) versus engaging in a counter-protest against the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) was a terrible use of its pulpit.

Prejudice should be confronted, not ignored

By Letter to the Editor / February 20, 2009

It is easy to dismiss ultra-conservative groups (“Silent Treatment,” 2/17/09) as if they were disconnected from society, but liberal “elites” often have the same problem.

Senior Class Gift has real benefits for students

By Letter to the Editor / February 17, 2009

Your gift, and other alumni gifts, will benefit not the endowment but the College Fund, which directly supports needs like faculty, financial aid, internships, and study abroad programs—urgent priorities that have not been specified in the College’s general budget..

Criticisms of Art unfair, mean-spirited

By Letter to the Editor / February 6, 2009

As one of the deans who works with Dean Susan Art on problematic student situations, I must say how appalled I was at the mean-spirited characterization of her in Friday’s editorial.

Editorial doesn’t have all the info

By Letter to the Editor / February 3, 2009

Your reporting was based on only part of the information in this particular student’s case, and was thus out of context.

Op-ed only destroys straw man

By Letter to the Editor / January 30, 2009

After reading Henry Phillips’s editorial (“When Right Is Wrong,” 1/27/09) in the last Maroon, I can only assume Mr. Phillips has grown bored of making snowmen and decided to make strawmen instead

Battle of the Bulbs a clear-headed plan

By Letter to the Editor / January 30, 2009

attle of the Bulbs was recently criticized by Ari Allyn-Feuer as “a light-headed plan” (“A Light-Headed Plan,” 1/27/09) with the main objection being that U of C students already live “more modestly” and that we should just be utilizing cleaner sources of energy—because “energy conservation is of limited potential unless we want to make ourselves poorer on a national level.”.

Quotes out of context

By Letter to the Editor / January 13, 2009

Furthermore, I am highly uncomfortable with the fact that the anti-Semitic incidents that occurred at the event, and which were the reason for my comments, were not reported in the piece.