Letter: Abortion issue requires consideration of all involved

By Letter to the Editor / April 25, 2008

The characterization of the political debate on abortion in Matt Barnum’s column (“Abortion Comes to Life” 4/18/08) inaccurately depicted technical aspects of the abortion procedure, as well as omitting the real paradigm of abortion itself. There are four kinds of induced pregnancy termination available in the United States. The first is emergency contraception, which acts...

Letter: Maroon should engage SGProgress, not dismiss

By Letter to the Editor / April 24, 2008

I was disappointed at the editorial board’s Student Government (SG) endorsements (4/22/08). Yes, some candidates this year, including the SGProgress slate, are advocating things “which fall outside SG’s traditional purview.” But that traditional purview is not working. These elections mark the first time I have thought of SG all year, since my year elected its...

Letter: Coverage of Moose Party misses the point

By Letter to the Editor / April 24, 2008

The recent editorial on the Student Government (SG) debates, (“Student Government Endorsements” 4/22/08), was steeped in unapologetic sanctimony with hyperbolic statements such as “the Moose Party’s belligerent and sexist treatment of the SG debate crossed the line from farce to folly.” Sexist statements? Really? Referring to people as unattractive, as one Moose Party candidate did,...

Letter: Zhao a poor candidate but not worthy of ridicule

By Letter to the Editor / April 24, 2008

I read with dismay the treatment of Nick Zhao in your Tuesday paper this week (“Executive Slate and Liaison Candidates Debate” and “Student Government Endorsements,” 4/22/08). I wholeheartedly agree that he is not a good candidate. I object, however, to his ridicule. Specifically, the statement made in the front page news article is unfortunate: “The...

Letter: On divestment, University not part of solution

By Letter to the Editor / April 23, 2008

There were several important issues raised in Ryan McCarl’s Viewpoints pieces (“Bad Council,” 4/15/08) regarding the City Council resolution denouncing the University for its refusal to divest from companies doing business with the Sudanese government that should be addressed. My experience has not been that most people in the University community have “moved on.” In...

Letter: No candidate can compare to Jesus

By Letter to the Editor / April 10, 2008

Nathan Bloom’s piece “He’s No Messiah” (4/8/08), presents an image of Jesus that is rarely recognized or acknowledged in society—Jesus the unpopular servant and sufferer. Bloom eloquently writes, “He did not ride the tide like Obama, but crashed violently against the waves of mighty Rome and human degradation.” The Roman occupation fundamentally influenced Jesus’s life...

Letter: Time is not right to leave Iraq

By Letter to the Editor / April 3, 2008

Yesterday, Stand Up! For Progress held a candlelight vigil to commemorate the 4,000 American soldiers killed in Iraq and the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. The e-mail invitation I received for the event also mentioned that the event would include a discussion on how to end the war. Since I am currently deployed...

Letter: Putting a price on carbon emissions

By Letter to the Editor / March 4, 2008

I appreciated reading Alec Brandon’s recent article (“It’s Not Easy Being Green,” 2/26/08). He reminds us that not all personal green efforts are easy to accomplish without environmental consequences of their own. However, his description of some of these consequences borders on hyperbole. The mercury in a compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL) is tiny, averaging...

Letter: Third world cafe is first-class

By Letter to the Editor / February 28, 2008

As a frequent customer of the Third World Café (located at East 53rd Street and South Kimbark Avenue, across from CVS), I’m offended that James Kraft called it “the worst-run coffee shop I’ve ever been to” (“Weary Epicurean,” 2/26/08). Okay, so the service is a little slow. But the Third World Café is a small...

Letter: Moving forward after graduate aid error

By Letter to the Editor / February 28, 2008

I am writing to add some information to the February 26 story (“Major Error Inflates Graduate Aid Estimate”) about the calculation error that appeared in the report of the Working Group on Graduate Student Life in the Humanities, Social Science, and Divinity School. When the committee was calculating the cost of fully incorporating current doctoral...

Mearsheimer brief misrepresents talk

By Letter to the Editor / February 19, 2008

I was at the Mearsheimer lecture last week and thought it proceeded smoothly. I was therefore surprised to learn from a front-page caption that a student was “visibly shaken by his address.” When I flipped to a news brief about the lecture (“Mearsheimer addresses CFI,” 2/18/08), I further learned that “tension was palpable” and “one...

Racism not cause of all social ills

By Letter to the Editor / February 12, 2008

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