Letter to the Editor

By Letter to the Editor / October 17, 2006

Pillowman accent This brief note is in response to Ethan Stanislawski’s recent review of Steppenwolf’s The Pillowman. I would be very grateful to have it passed on to him. Mr. Stanislawski criticized Yasen Peyankov’s choice to play “bad cop” Ariel with a Russian accent. I just wanted to make Mr. Stanislawski aware that Mr. Peyankov...

Letter to the Editor

By Letter to the Editor / October 13, 2006

Abortion insert When a newspaper, whether it is a university or a national newspaper, clearly supports one opinion over another, it can no longer claim to have a non-discriminatory policy. This is exactly the case in the letter from the editor in the October 10 edition of the Maroon, which was a response to at...

Letter to the Editor

By Letter to the Editor / October 9, 2006

Abortion Insert I am writing to express my disgust and dismay with the insert from the Human Life Alliance that was included in the October 6 issue of the Maroon. To find this insert included in such a way was quite a shock, especially without some sort of disclaimer on the part of the newspaper....

Letter to the Editor

By Letter to the Editor / October 6, 2006

Affordable housing I write in reference to the October 3, 2006 news article “Local residents rally against gentrification,” by Sarah Hetherington. First and foremost, I would like to commend the Maroon for its coverage of the rally last Saturday. Moreover, the Metropolitan Tenants Organization (MTO) should also be recognized for their organization of the event...

Letter to the Editor

By Letter to the Editor / October 3, 2006

Early Action: According to the Maroon (09/29/06, “In defense of early action”), Early Action does not actually distort the college application process in anyone’s favor, and so removing it, like Harvard did, would be “silly.” If you are like me and a have a sibling in high school applying to college, make sure you tell...

Letter to the Editor

By Letter to the Editor / October 2, 2006

Wages Alec Brandon’s ponderous exhortation (9/16/06, “Slamming progressives on minimum wage”) to “progessives to stop consuming themselves with the fight against poverty and… focus on actually trying to win the fight against poverty” is as daft as it is mystifying. Brandon visits violences on the truth with a brazenness that would have had Richard Nixon...

Letter to the Editor

By Letter to the Editor / May 23, 2006

Frat stereotypes Teage O’ Connor’s May 16 article entitled, “Unfortunately, Frats Defy U of C Stereotypes,” is insulting, arrogant, relies on inaccurate and untrue assumptions, and proves only that the author holds many pre-formed notions about fraternity life; notions he appears determined to project onto the University of Chicago fraternity system. In the article, O’Connor’s...

Letters to the Editors

By Letters from Readers / May 16, 2006

Horowitz On May 9, the College Republicans invited David Horowitz to address University of Chicago students on the issue of “Race Relations on College Campuses.” However, instead of confronting the issue of race relations on college campuses, Horowitz attacked leftist views, spoke on U.S. political agendas including the war in Iraq, and complained about the...

Letter to the Editor

By Letter to the Editor / May 12, 2006

Fermilab I applaud Usman Ahmed for being alert to the very recent National Research Council report on support for elementary particle physics in the U.S. (“U of C Site Vies for New Particle Accelerator”, May 9, 2006). Unfortunately, in a brief phone interview, which I cut short because I was late for a seminar, Mr....

Hamilton needs to straighten her facts

By Nick Juravich / May 9, 2006

Laura Hamilton’s recent Viewpoints column on the removal of caloric soda from public schools is absolutely ridiculous. Her main point seems to be an issue of choice: she decries a “liberal” desire to circumscribe what she considers the “right to choose” one’s own school food. I can only assume Hamilton has never been in a...

Letters to the Editor

By Letters from Readers / May 5, 2006

United 93 I have less right than those who lost friends or relatives in any of the 9/11 attacks to speak about this. My legitimacy comes only from my being a resident of a New Jersey town close to Manhattan and being, well, myself. And I think it is too soon. Maybe the fact that...

Letter to the Editor

By Letter to the Editor / May 2, 2006

Estate Tax A recent article in the Maroon by Ms. Gwen Smuda left me stunned (“Retain American Values, Keep the Estate Tax,” 4/28/06). Normally, were one to read the line “The House has just voted to deprive the American people of more than one trillion dollars over the next 10 years in fiscal revenue,” you...