Letters to the editor

By The Maroon Staff / May 6, 2002

To the Editor: The Downtown Center of the University of Chicago (the Gleacher Center) was built without windows in its classrooms, thereby shielding the Business School students from one of the finest urban vistas in this country. Since the Business School likes to isolate its students from distracting urban surroundings, should the University consider having...

Letter to the editor

By The Maroon Staff / April 22, 2002

To the Editor: After reading Andrew Brokos’s recent Viewpoints article “Courageous Candidates,” I couldn’t help but write a response. Frankly, I think it is to the MAROON’s discredit that the article was even published. It is certainly important for campus publications with a liberal leaning to represent a more conservative viewpoint, but it should be...

Letter to the editor

By The Maroon Staff / April 18, 2002

To the Editor: Students around the country are rallying support for the farm worker-called boycott of Taco Bell. Workers in Immokalee, Florida, who pick tomatoes for the Six L’s corporation, earn around seven thousand dollars annually despite poor conditions and long work days. Organization attempts have met with beatings. These tomato-pickers have decided to pressure...

The Homeless are People Too

By Letter to the Editor / April 2, 2002

In the last issue of THE CHICAGO MAROON, there appeared a rather trite condemnation of panhandling by John Lovejoy. His attitude is typical of that of the elitist, egotistical, spoiled ‘poopheads’ who are overrunning this fine campus. These people will gladly help their housemates insert live cockroaches into their own anal cavities to please Scav...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

By The Maroon Staff / February 8, 2002

To the editor: I am writing regarding the article on the theft at WHPK in the February 1 issue. We would just like to clarify a few points. First, we believe that your article gives the impression that community members are acting inappropriately by having guests on their shows and that in our investigation we...

Letters to the Editor

By The Maroon Staff / May 24, 2001

To those who do not smile Dear Ms. Niedzielski-Eichner: You may be unaware that your life is in the constant care of millions of human beings who work together to make sure your life of solitary misanthropy is both possible and comfortable. We make your shoes with which you walk down the street for no...

Letters to the Editor

By The Maroon Staff / May 21, 2001

Civility begets civility To the Editor: Why should David Horowitz be welcomed with civility when he displayed none? I don’t think Mr. Horowitz would receive the same sort of reaction if he didn’t use a rhetorical style meant to provoke people’s emotions and insult them. Nobody should be expected to sit quietly while a speaker...

Letters to the Editor

By The Maroon Staff / May 17, 2001

Seeing the controversy To the Editor: Now that the David Horowitz mess has yielded all of the predictable condemnations of those students who protested the event, it’s time to address some overlooked issues — the first being the flimsiness of Jason McCabe’s claim that the College Republicans invited Horowitz in order “to create a dialogue.”...