Posted on 22 April 2012. Tags: editor, letter, letter to the editor, opinions, Religion, stereotype
I am extremely concerned with the April 9 editorial entitled, “Don’t associate a religion with those who abuse it”. The Chronicle’s Managing Editor applies stereotypes to a 2012 Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) flyer and uses it to call into question Students for Free Palestine (SFP), and the other six co-sponsored student organizations.
To claim that the image of the woman on the poster is a “Jewish woman, in traditional head-covering placing what is presumably a member of the Palestinian army in front of a tank” demonstrates the very need for the IAW; raising awareness and decreasing ignorance. The woman is not dressed in “traditional Jewish head covering” and Palestinians do not own tanks; Israel does. The woman is Palestinian and “holding” an IDF solider. My interpretation is that the artist wanted to symbolize the empowerment of Palestinians.
Read the full story
Posted in Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Posted on 18 March 2012.
Dear Editor,
As a student at St. Cloud State University, the 2011 budget impasse had myself and many students in Minnesota alarmed. The fact is that a stalled MnSCU system would put many lives on hold, including my own. So, this situation has me curious: What would happen to the MnSCU system during a future shutdown?
Read the full story
Posted in Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Posted on 26 February 2012.
The recent passing of Professor Fran Voelker gives us the opportunity to honor his contributions (and those of his wife Mil) to the university, the community, the English and mass communications programs and diversity.
I respectfully suggest renaming building 51B the VEC: The Voelker Educational Complex.
Michael Vadnie
Professor
Permanent link to this post (51 words, estimated 12 secs reading time)
Read the full story
Posted in Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Posted on 22 January 2012.
It surprises me that when temperatures outside are as low as they are this morning we don’t get school off or delayed.
Today is one of those days that you can throw a glass of boiling water outside and it will freeze before it hits the ground. I feel so bad for those kids in elementary and high school who have to wait outside for their buses this morning, and I feel bad for myself and others who have to wait outside Wick this afternoon and evening for the Husky Shuttle to pick us up.
Read the full story
Posted in Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Posted on 22 January 2012.
I returned to my alma mater this past weekend for the Winter Celebrate! St. Cloud State Weekend, eager to revisit my college days.
Among the things I wanted to do was visit the new Welcome Center on Fifth Avenue. This was not to be. I was brusquely ejected because a “private party” was being held. There were no signs or other indications that the Welcome Center would be anything other than welcoming.
After all the bellyaching coming out of the University this past year about alumni not participating in anything, I would think the Welcome Center of all places would be an excellent place to re-introduce alums to the campus community. This apparently is not the case.
Read the full story
Posted in Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Posted on 06 November 2011.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to get out of Washington and talk with folks across the country about how we can create jobs and get our economy growing faster.
This is a tough time for a lot of Americans – especially young people. You’ve come of age at a time of profound change. The world has gotten more connected, but it’s also gotten more competitive. And for decades, too many of our institutions – from Washington to Wall Street – failed to adapt, culminating in the worst financial crisis and recession since the Great Depression.
Read the full story
Posted in Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Posted on 23 October 2011.
Abortion has always been a big issue in this country since the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade in 1973. People on the side for abortion argue that an unborn baby is not alive. However, being alive is not something that magically happens at birth. Within weeks they begin performing body functions that all of us do, like having a heartbeat. At seven months into a pregnancy a baby could survive if prematurely born but yet pro-choice activists hold onto the notion that they are not alive till they are born and therefore are not afforded the rights that we all share as American citizens. An extreme example of this is partial birth abortion where all that separates an unborn baby from rights as an American citizen is one push from the mother or even the hand of the abortion provider holding the baby in.
Read the full story
Posted in Letters to the Editor
Posted on 23 October 2011.
Campus community,
I am writing this in response to President Potter’s email to our campus, dated Oct. 12, as the President’s Office has refused the Faculty and Staff of Color Caucus the opportunity to respond via email.
When we heard Dr. Mahmoud Saffari, Associate Vice President of Enrollment Management, had his contract terminated (effective Dec. 20), we had a meeting with Dr. Potter to discuss the circumstances of his dismissal. We knew that Dr. Saffari was told to leave campus immediately, not to come back to his office, not to utilize campus resources and to work on a project unrelated to his area of expertise at his residence. Dr. Potter did not refute these facts. This was a dehumanizing experience for Dr. Mahmoud, and it is not the way in which other administrators leave the campus.
Read the full story
Posted in Letters to the Editor
Posted on 23 October 2011.
Regarding the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would transport oil from the tar-sands of Canada to oil refineries in the US, James Hansen, a leading NASA climate scientist has stated that if the pipeline is constructed, its operation would soon cause “game-over” for Earth’s climate (Source: The Canadian Press. CBC News).
I became very concerned when I began reading about this, especially when I read that the environmental impact statement for the project was performed by a company with financial ties to TransCanada, which is the company behind the project (Source: Rosenthal, Elizabeth and Dan Frosch. New York Times).
Read the full story
Posted in Letters to the Editor
Posted on 09 October 2011.
The writer is obviously critical of the protesters who belong to the group Occupy Wall Street. She makes a fantastical leap, describing the group’s ideology as equivalent to Communism (and also rewrites history, wrongly claiming that Germany was Communist). Strangely, the writer never explains how she was able to make such a connection. This Glenn Beck-esque leap of logic demonstrates the writer’s prejudice and highlights the fact that she did little or no research before composing this column.
Read the full story
Posted in Letters to the Editor
