AN OPEN LETTER Dear Friends at the UCSC Alumni Association and at UC: Recently you have called me to renew my contributions to UCSC. I cannot in good conscience contribute to any University of California charity while the present situation continues. I am a proud graduate of the University of California. Today some of my [...]
Dear Editor, While I greatly support holding Student Governments accountable, as was stated in the 11/17 Editorial “SUA Mismanaged Funds”, [retitled "Students Must Stay Informed About SUA Decisions"] I wanted to address a gross inaccuracy within that editorial. The ReFund California campaign is a statewide coalition of many organizations, including a number of Unions. A [...]
To the Editor: In 2003, at UCSC 90.74 percent of voting students made a monumental decision to pass Measure 7, the Campus Programs Fee, in an effort to preserve valuable student services cut by the state, students agreed to levy a tax of up to $51 per student per quarter. At the time an overwhelming [...]
Dear Editor, In response to your article “Of Porn and PETA” (6 Oct. 2011), I would like to provide some insight into the motives behind PETA’s PETA.xxx website. PETA’s job is to draw attention to animal suffering, and we have found — and, as the author noted, your article confirms — that people do pay [...]
Letters to the Editor for Volume 46 Issue 2.
Getting on The Bus Yes, there is an art to this that can speed up the entire process and get you on your way quickly. 1. If you see the bus has been fully loaded, but you are still strolling along some distance away, don’t expect the bus to wait for you. If, on [...]
In Response to: Food Systems Week at UCSC [5/19/2011] Thank you for taking the time to cover Friends of Community Agroecology Network’s (FoCAN) Food Systems Week. I was very excited to see a full page dedicated to an event that I helped coordinate this quarter with an amazing team of individuals. The quality of the [...]
Letters to the Editor for Volume 45, Issue 11 of City on a Hill Press, published 1/6/2011.
{In response to In Defense of Unabashed Testosterone (10/28/2010)} I would just like to say that your article about vanishing manliness entitled “In Defense of Unabashed Testosterone” (Oct. 28), was very well written and brings up many valid points. But I have a few thing to say to sports editor Joey Bien-Kahn. He speaks of [...]