Letter to the Editor
Letter to the editor: Improve off-campus security
After the latest attack on a (grad) student at our prestigious university, I have to wonder when—or if—something (anything!) is going to be done about the living conditions off campus.
Mock prison camp display crossed a line
I was very offended when I read John Burns’ hyperbolic quote, “I guess the students at Washington University were in a gulag all along, and the administration proved it through their stifling of free speech.” This is highly disingenuous, considering the University allowed Young Americans for Liberty to hold the assembly and plaster multitudes of flyers around campus.
A response to Jonathan Katz on climate change
We take issue with a number of points raised by professor Jonathan Katz concerning global climate change (“Global Warming?” Oct. 28). We base our statements on data and analysis from two compilations of climate science: the IPCC’s 2007 Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) and an update to this work, the Synthesis Report from this year’s Copenhagen Climate Change Conference (CCCC). Both are available online.
Letter to the editor | Jonathan Katz
Much of Ms. Plovnick’s information is wrong, and her enthusiasm is misdirected.
There is no evidence that global warming will lead to increasing droughts or tropical storms (which make a lot of rain, the opposite of a drought).
‘Right Side’ parallels past movements
Congratulations to David Dresner on his recent confrontation with military recruiters on the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and for building an alliance between gay and non-gay constituents in the group The Right Side of History. The recent articles in Student Life on Dresner’s activities called to mind two aspects of the old civil rights and gay liberation movements of the 1960s and ’70s (both of which I was involved in) which are relevant in the struggle for GLBT equality today. Both aspects are being debated within the gay community today, just as they were in the two communities 40 years ago.
A response to Philip Christofanelli’s letter to Professor Benson
Dear Mr. Christofanelli,
I found your response to Peter Benson’s support for the University’s parenting role toward students vitriolic, hyperbolic and, ironically, utterly childish (“A response to Peter Benson,” Oct. 2). I was not able to attend the forum on the new tobacco policy, so I will take your word for it that Professor Benson was patronizing or condescending, but that does not mean that his position is entirely without merit, nor excuse the threatening tenor of your letter.
WUPD jurisdiction
Dear editorial board,
There are serious factual errors in your recent editorial entitled “Hey WUPD—We like your style.” I’d like to focus on just one. When a student leaves the Danforth Campus and chooses to live, visit or walk through a neighborhood in University City, Clayton or the City of St. Louis, the student is under [...]
Address academic facilities before athletic ones
In response to your recent Staff Editorial calling for improved athletic equipment, I call foul. I would prefer to see the facilities needed for academic achievement first. In three areas my academic life is made more difficult on a daily basis because of sub-par facilities.
An open letter to students
As the leaders of Ashoka and Dance Marathon, we wanted to let you know that this fall, Diwali and Dance Marathon will be taking place on the same weekend (Nov. 6-8). Student Life covered this situation when it occurred in 2004, and we wanted to be the first to tell you how each student group is addressing the potential concerns that could stem from this overlap.
Harold Ramis: What I forgot to say
As I neared the end of my Assembly [Series] speech last Wednesday evening, I glanced at the clock, realized I was running kind of long and tried to wrap it up quickly before everyone fell asleep or straggled out of Graham Chapel, leaving me alone at the podium talking to myself about myself. But in [...]
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