Letters to the Editor

Thursday, November 4, 2010

California’s Prop 19 just first step toward legalization of marijuana

The University of Houston was awash in marijuana when I got my MA (Sociology) in the ’70s. It largely replaced alcohol among grad students — also at St. Thomas later. Hope grew after...

Monday, October 18, 2010

Vaughn’s Tea Party accusations are unsubstantiated

I’m by no means a fan of the Tea Party, but Austn Vaughin’s letter to the editor contribution published last Wednesday horribly misrepresents the Tea Party. While trying to make the Tea...

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Tea Party movement relies on lies to create fear

For those of you who have occasionally seen students on our campus with pictures of President Obama altered with a Hitler mustache, those are members of the Tea Party, a racist group that will...

Friday, September 24, 2010

Justice for Children organization poisons youth

Readers of the Cougar were recently invited to attend the art exhibit at Winter Street studios where the theme of "Parallel Universes" was portrayed in art works. A portion of the proceeds of...

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Sweatshops are anything but trivial

I read The Daily Cougar’s editorial entitled, “Progress in fight against sweatshops trivial.” In this article, the journalist writes about how Knights Apparel has made great strides in raising salaries for ...

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Daily Cougar doesn’t understand church

This commentary is a response to a staff editorial titled “Church’s continued silence sending wrong message,” which ran in The Daily Cougar on Wednesday. The Daily Cougar editorial board clearly has no idea what excommunication...

Friday, April 23, 2010

Daily Cougar misrepresents truth about SSDP

This commentary is a response to a feature photo with the headline “Helping or hurting the cause?” which ran in The Daily Cougar on Wednesday. As the faculty advisor for the Students for Sensible Drug...

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Individuality not good for military

Since this debate has been going on, I have not heard anyone explain why the military is opposed to gays serving openly in the military. When I went through basic training, the drill sergeants thoroughly...