Letters to the Editor
Letter to the editor
As the Director of the University of Houston’s Women’s Resource Center, I was disappointed to read the editorial Fraternities receive too much scrutiny (June 15, 2011) by Marcus Smith. Smith wrote that when Yale...
Campus carry rights protect students
Zoe Wales’ March 21 op-ed (“Guns on-campus don’t make any sense”) demonstrates a lack of knowledge of Texas law.Wales suggests, “Who’s to say that student A would or would not pull out their ...
Letters to the editor
Attacks on church are a misguided effortIt is said, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”As a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, I condemn al-Qaeda’s massacre of 60 worshippers assembled...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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