Letters to the Editor

By Letters from Readers / April 25, 2006

Global Warming The impressive ignorance of climate science displayed in Laura Hamilton’s recent global warming column puts her very much in the company of other self-described “modern reactionaries” in the media. She, however, has less excuse than most, since she is resident at a University where in fact it is quite easy to learn about...

Letter to the Editor

By Letter to the Editor / April 21, 2006

Chicago Weekly In his rambling column, “Chicago Weekly: Ethical Journalism Needed,” on 4/18/06, Andrew Hammond uses one or two semi-relevant facts and a good deal of speculation to argue, without success, that the Chicago Weekly is an unethical work of journalism. It was certainly a lapse of judgment for the Weekly to publish a photo...

Letters to the Editor

By Letters from Readers / April 18, 2006

U of C Presidency I understand that, by its very nature, the Maroon tends to be ahistorical, but there was a great irony in the column by Alec Brandon regarding Larry Summers (“Summers Coup Is a Failure for All,” 3/7/2006) and it needs to be acknowledged. You don’t have to travel to Harvard to find...

Letter to the Editor

By Letter to the Editor / April 6, 2006

Organ Donation RE: “Finally, an approach to organ donation better than complete apathy” (4/4/2006). You wrote that you weren’t sure what to think about the morality of the LifeSharers incentive structure or of directed donations. LifeSharers creates an incentive for people to donate their organs when they die. We do that by giving members an...

Letter to the Editor

By Letters from Readers / April 4, 2006

“Israel Lobby” Alec Brandon writes that the critics of the recently published paper on the influence of the “Israel Lobby” rely “almost exclusively on smearing the authors by accusing them of anti-Semitism.” This is simply false. Though there have been a few references to anti-Semitism here and there, the vast majority of the criticism directed...

Letter to the Editor

By Letters from Readers / March 7, 2006

Student protests The Maroon’s March 3 editorial “Sound and Fury” is a transparent smear-job against the Spartacus Youth Club for protesting military recruiters, and by implication anyone else who opposes the administration’s arrest and threatened discipline of four anti-military recruitment protesters at the Reynolds Club on February 21. The administration’s act of blatant political repression...

Letter to the Editor

By Letters from Readers / March 3, 2006

Cartoons at the U of C I recently came upon a leaflet distributed by the Ayn Rand-loving crowd (“The Undercurrent”) that prominently features a rendition of one of the racist anti-Muslim cartoons that were printed in the Dutch newspaper Jyllands-Posten. This newspaper is well known for its unabashed support for Hitler and the Nazis in...

Letter to the Editor

By Letters from Readers / February 28, 2006

Hamas election I am writing in response to Benjamin Farkash’s errant critique of Israel’s recent actions against Hamas (“Israel cannot afford to alienate Hamas,” 2/21/06). What perplexes me most is Farkash’s doublethink on Hamas, conceding that it has committed horrible atrocities while seamlessly placing it on an equal footing with Israel and arguing it should...

Letters to the Editor

By Letters from Readers / February 21, 2006

Forrest Claypool The column run on February 7 by Andrew Hammond (“Claypool Is Just What Cook County Needs”) on the Stroger vs. Claypool contest for the presidency of the Cook County Board was divorced from reality. Hammond presents it as a fight between a reformer and an old-line machine politician. In reality, it is just...

Letters to the Editor

By Letters from Readers / February 17, 2006

Hallowed Grounds While you (oh faceless editorial one) are, of course, entitled to your opinion regarding the change of the name of Uncle Joe’s to Hallowed Grounds (“Say Uncle,” 2/14/06), there are a few facts you sought fit to have no understanding of before printing them. We were forced to start charging for pool because...

Letter to the Editor

By Letters from Readers / February 7, 2006

SG mid-year review For two weeks now, the discussion of Student Government in the Maroon has centered primarily on the recently installed LCD screen in the Reynolds Club foyer. Make no mistake, this monitor will prove invaluable in communicating to the student body information on transportation and campus events, and it is a substantial investment...

Letters to the Editor

By Letters from Readers / February 2, 2006

Sexual Assault Policy I applaud NOW’s initiative to pressure the U of C to form a sexual assault policy. When I was assaulted midway through last quarter, there was nothing I could do: I hadn’t been “harassed,” nor had I been officially “raped,” but without giving details of what happened, I can say that I...