Letters to the Editor

By Letters from Readers / May 2, 2005

SG election coverage I’m writing in response to the Maroon’s lack of response to Robert Hubbard and Phil Caruso’s incredible immaturity about the relationship between the student government and the student press. Two-thirds of the SG Executive Slate elect has decided not to speak with the Maroon because the Maroon endorsed their slate only unenthusiastically....

Letters to the Editor

By Letter to the Editor / April 28, 2005

Barney Keller’s Article In response to Barney Keller’s article of 4/25 (“The Pope’s Election and His Views Are Archaic”), I don’t think that the ludicrous assertion, that no one takes the Pope’s ideas seriously, even merits a response. However, Keller should recognize that his own statistic of “more than 1.1 billion Catholics,” presumably all self-proclaimed,...

Letters to the Editor

By Letter to the Editor / April 21, 2005

Asian demographics As a member of the Asian and Asian-American community, I am highly disappointed, but not surprised, by the letter (4/19) sent by Mr. T. R. Stratton in response to the article, “Asians are an Invisible Minority on Campus” (4/15). It is marred by misconceptions of Asian Americans in this country and at the...

Letters to the Editor

By Letter to the Editor / April 18, 2005

Asian affirmative action In “Asians Are an Invisible Minority” (4/15), the authors argued that “Asian Pacific Americans” should be treated as a minority in admissions and inferred that they should receive treatment similar to African-American and Hispanic applicants. The authors conflate Asians and Pacific Islanders (who are separate groups), but as the series is about...

WRC and Professor Sanderson

By Letter to the Editor / April 14, 2005

Workers’ Rights Consortium If a student newspaper like the Maroon can, perhaps, be pardoned, Professor Allen Sanderson probably can not for his remarks (“Administration Decides to Affiliate with WRC,” 4/12/05) on the efforts of the Workers’ Rights Consortium to improve conditions in the factories that supply official school apparel. In contradiction to many similar advocacy...

Letters to the Editor

By Letter to the Editor / April 7, 2005

Katie Pomerantz did an excellent job of news reporting and fact-finding to put together the story that ran on April 5, (“Anti-circumcision activist on campus discusses his past”). I write only to add another angle that she, as a student in the College, could only add if she had given birth here at University of...

Letter to the Editor

By Letter to the Editor / April 3, 2005

SGFC Funding At the end of last quarter the MAROON ran an article that I found very disingenuous concerning the Student Government Finance Committee. The above-the-fold, front page headline claimed that SGFC had “run out” of funding and “[came] up short” this year. Most of the article made it seem like no money was being...

Letters to the Editor

By Letters from Readers / February 25, 2005

U of C guilt It’s way past time for University of Chicago students to abandon their guilt trip. The University is an elite, pricey educational institution. To be admitted, students need to be smart, and to remain, they need well-to-do parents, or a good aid package and/or work-study. There is nothing wrong with taking advantage...

Letters to the Editor

By Letters from Readers / February 22, 2005

Muslim resistance Laura Hamilton’s article, “Arguing for engagement over appeasement,” is rife with common assumptions that ignore the incredible complexities involved in foreign policy. Her claim that the end goal among the radical Muslim terrorists is to “install a theocratic dictatorship in each country worldwide” is case in point. However, Jason Burke, writing in the...

Letters to the Editor

By Letters from Readers / February 18, 2005

Calvert House In the Chicago Maroon story on Calvert House and the resignation of Father Michael Yakaitis, your reporter states that “David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) noted that this is not the first time [Cardinal] George [of Chicago] has violated the U.S. bishops guidelines on abuse”...

Letters to the Editor

By Letters from Readers / February 14, 2005

Free speech In his most recent column, Barney Keller describes a grotesque statement that the University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill made about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (“Protecting Free Speech, One Idiot at a Time,” 2/10/05). Keller makes it clear that he “absolutely defend[s] [Churchill’s] right to say these cutting and hurtful...

Letters to the Editor

By Letters from Readers / February 3, 2005

Radio Frequency Identifiers I give my thanks to the Maroon for its coverage of Radio Frequency Identifiers (“RFIDs Offer New Technology for Access, Monitoring,” 2/1/05). I covered the worldwide unveiling of RFIDs for the Chicago Independent Media Center in September 2003. The unveiling took place here in Chicago at a symposium at McCormick Place, and...