Author Archive for Readers
Letters to the Editor: UC I Vote…UC I Am Disappointed
Partisan Event Encourages Uninformed Votes
Letters to the Editor
A History Lesson: Gramm and McCain Partly to Blame; Sallie Mae: Discontinued Student Loans Won’t Affect UCI Students; Obama’s Connection to Ayers Should Not Be Ignored
Letters to the Editor: UC Irvine Dining Services Does the Right Thing
Student and professor laud UCI Dining for switch to organic eggs.
Letters to the Editor
UC Irvine Peace Flag Project Completes the Circle
Letters to the Editor
OCR Investigation
Exonerates Free Speech
I am relieved that the Office of Civil Rights investigation cleared the UC Irvine administration of anti-Semitism allegations. It is a comforting reiteration of the fact that UCI is not hostile to any group. More importantly, it is a welcome exoneration of free speech on our campus.
Our constitutionally-protected freedom of expression is [...]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
For Smiles and Joy, Put the Christ in Christmas
I’m writing in response to ‘Christmas: Really a Religious Holiday?’ by Eric Brunner because I believe that article slanders the Christian faith by misrepresenting Christian philosophy. I fear that by doing so, Brunner would remove that part of Christmas that makes ‘smiles, joy and happiness [...]
Letters To The Editor
Why Would Students Give Up Voting?
My name is Cody Brown and I hail from New York University. I was a student in the class you mentioned ['Why Students Choose Tuition Over Voting,' Nov. 19] and the one who initially proposed the survey about whether you would trade your vote for tuition money.
I thought your editorial [...]
Why Students Choose Tuition Over Voting
In a recent survey of 3,000 New York University students, 20 percent said they would exchange their right to vote in the 2008 presidential election for an iPod Touch, and half of the students polled said they would give up their voting rights forever for $1 million. But most interestingly, an astonishing 66 percent said [...]
Letters To The Editor
I’m writing to sarcastically applaud adjunct professor Gary Fouse (Letters to the Editor, Oct. 29) for standing up and saying what only the war profiteers who are running this country have had the paychecks to say: What we need to do is think about how terrible Islamic fascists are. Mind you, he’s not talking about [...]
