Coverage misrepresents SCRS event

By Letter to the Editor / February 12, 2008

As staff members of Student Counseling & Resource Service (SCRS), we feel it is important to note that the gathering referred to in the February 5 article, “Relationship Status: Update Needed,” was neither a psychotherapy group nor a counseling session, but rather an informal discussion around a topic that is often of interest to students....

Letter to the Editor

By Letter to the Editor / February 5, 2008

There were 12,381 applications? Wow! Go, team! And a smaller number of applicants are going to be accepted? w00t! We’re really increasing our selectivity here! Next year, we might even be ranked number eight! (Only if we can beat out Amherst, though.) But President Zimmer, this record number of applications occurred even though we still...

Ross not perfect, but in line with King

By Letter to the Editor / February 1, 2008

Matt Barnum critiques Loretta Ross, the keynote speaker at this year’s MLK memorial service, for bringing “politics into a day that shouldn’t be political” (“Ross’s Keynote Remarks Don’t Do MLK Day Justice,” 1/25/08). According to Barnum, there is only one appropriate way to remember King, and that is to focus on his message against racism....

Barnum wrong on King’s legacy

By Letters to the Editor / January 29, 2008

Matt Barnum’s most recent column on Loretta Ross’s keynote speech (“Ross’s Keynote Remarks Don’t Do MLK Day Justice,” 1/25/08) was, frankly, disappointing, both in its characterization of Mrs Ross’s speech and in its analysis of King’s legacy. Barnum argues that “what we should be honoring is King’s specific ideal…a non-racist society.” Unfortunately, achieving this “specific...

Bridge players deserve our respect

By Letter to the Editor / November 27, 2007

As snarky as I like to think Tim Murphy believes his column two weeks ago was (“Burning the Bridge to Nowhere,” 11/15/07), I was frankly insulted by the levity with which he goes about trivializing the careers, opinions, gender, and age of the women of the U.S. National Bridge Team. Clearly, Murphy believes that his...

Cyclists pose no threat on campus

By Letter to the Editor / November 27, 2007

I certainly hope Claire McNear’s article “Ending the Vicious Cycle of Violence,” (11/15/07) was a joke. If not, it is not only ridiculous, but verging on offensive. She argues that cyclists should require licenses, like train conductors or car drivers. Strangely enough, the licensing process for drivers doesn’t prevent the estimated 45,000 drivers and 4,000...

Inflation data does not reflect reality

By Letter to the Editor / November 27, 2007

As a clerical worker, I’d like to thank the University of Chicago students and community members for all of their support in our ongoing contract negotiations with the University. There has been much recent discussion about our contract in the Maroon, but important voices have been absent. I am writing to include the voice of a...

Slow response deserves explanation

By Letter to the Editor / November 27, 2007

Unfortunately, the University failed its first test on the use of its campus alert system. A shooting within the confines of UCPD patrols is no different from a gunman roaming on campus. No one can predict and warn against random violence, but occurrences of urban crimes tend to track the movement of perpetrators in a specific...

Shooting can’t sour neighborhood relations

By Letter to the Editor / November 27, 2007

As members of the Southside Solidarity Network, a group that aims to promote healthy relationships between the University and its neighbors, we are, like all members of our community, deeply struck by the tragic shooting of Amadou Cisse and the other violent crimes of November 19. We appreciate the University’s prompt reaction: The immediate community...

Letters to the editor

By Letters to the Editor / November 20, 2007

Christian chalking is offensive I found it interesting that Asian American Intervarsity (AAIV) claims that its chalking was completely inoffensive (“Christian Group Stirs Campus with Chalking,” 11/16/07). Did they ask any non-Christians for their opinion when they discussed this? Or do atheists, Muslims, and all the rest of us just not count? I have no...

Maroon shouldn’t ignore UTEP

By Letter to the Editor / November 15, 2007

We at the Urban Teacher Education Program (UTEP) were surprised and frankly saddened by the Maroon’s editorial (“A Failing Grade,” 11/2/07) decrying the University’s failure to provide its students with paths toward becoming teachers in our urban schools. We agree wholeheartedly that universities have an obligation to prepare their graduates to share the wealth of...

S.G. criticism off the mark

By Letter to the Editor / November 9, 2007

I’d like to thank the Maroon and its incredibly talented cartoonist for reminding Student Government (S.G.) of the promises we have made (“Demockracy In Action,” 11/6/07). In any democratic system, it’s important that leaders are constantly evaluated and questioned about the promises on which they were elected. If I have learned anything in the last...