Final word on Sex Workshop
To the editor,
I am confused about this uproar surrounding the sex workshop. Ms. Sharon Platt must not have attended the workshop, because if she had, she would know that Ms. Sloane spent a significant amount of time speaking extensively on how to have safe sex. She even believed protection should be used in married couples.
I believe that while Ms. Sloane did talk about how to improve sex, she in no way perpetuated unsafe sex. Those individuals who find themselves unexpectedly pregnant or carrying an STD probably do so due to a lack of communication and protection. If anything, Sloane's workshop helped to prevent situations such as these.
In addition, it is foolish for us to believe that students are not sexually active, regardless of whether or not they should be. This workshop taught participating students how to have great and immensely safe sex. I cannot see how this is inappropriate at a public university. Ms. Sloane's workshop hurt nobody, and we hope to bring her again.
KeriAnn Wells
Women's Resource Center co-director
Campaign Arizona not about money
To the editor,
I am writing in response to your editorial last week about Campaign Arizona. My experience with the whole event was wonderful. I was able to meet many people and press upon them the importance of their support. I was proud to be a representative of the university and show the guests that night that they are helping out many students and that we greatly appreciated it.
Campaign Arizona is not about money, or political issues. It is about the future. We are the students now and will soon become the caretakers of this country. We are not able to do this without the help of others who have been in our place. Without their support, we wouldn't even have the great education we are getting now at the University of Arizona.
The kickoff for Campaign Arizona was a great night, and students were involved with every part of the evening. It helped everyone (students, alumni, friends) to realize the importance of our campus life. This campaign was made possible by many a great people who will not benefit from it. Those who will benefit are the students.
Hollidae Meyer
Education senior
Life binds us together
To the editor,
Being both a Democrat and pro-life always places me in an awkward position with regards to the abortion issue. Valuing personal freedom and opposing abortion would seem incongruous, right? Listening to and reading the ongoing abortion debate, which has just received a spark following the approval of RU-486, I am convinced that people on both sides of the debate are confused with the matter at stake.
Those members of the "pro-life" community who engage in physical acts against doctors and clinics where abortions are performed are obviously misguided, and undermine the very issue that they purport to fight for and do more harm to the cause than good.
But most of my frustration lies in the fact that it seems most of my peers fail to see what is at the crux of the abortion issue. As citizens of this country, we are guaranteed certain "inalienable rights," and life is the very first mentioned. And while abortion advocates claim to protect personal freedom - the freedom of a child to a life, is ignored. As a visually-stimulated society, we have lost contact with that which lies beyond our direct vision. We've succeeded in disregarding life in the womb, because at times it is socially and personally inconvenient.
Thousands of years of evolution have marked change on the human landscape, the human mind and the human body. As a species we are always developing. And if we are connected in no other way, our personal development binds us to a common ancestry.
Mark Lundy
English and creative writing junior
