Wildcat should be cognizant of terms; show deaf culture

When I saw the Monday article on "Hearing irregularities," I read it with hope that it would at the very least say something about the unique dynamics of deaf culture, but when I read through it, I was sorely disappointed. There is one major problem and one minor problem with the article. The minor problem being that the term hearing-impaired used in the article is considered inappropriate by the deaf community even though it is considered politically correct in academic circles. It should be made known that the term is not politically correct around deaf people because it implies that hearing people are deaf-impaired.

The major problem is that it only involved one viewpoint of a person who is physically deaf but no viewpoints of a person who is culturally deaf, which means that the students use American Sign Language as their preferred language of usage. I challenge the Wildcat to do an article showing the culturally deaf viewpoints since this article was very narrow considering that it only involved the physiological definition of deafness and not the sociolinguistic definition of deafness.

Thomas Davis
creative writing junior

Students don't take morning classes due to their laziness

This is a response to Laura Tarris' Monday letter regarding class availability. I will agree with her in that many students won't take an early morning class because they are lazy. However, I think it is important, not to mention commendable, that Ms. Duda saw fit to write a letter to the editor last Friday complaining about class availability. It is a problem that shouldn't be swept under the rug.

Based on the part of your letter where you admonish her for complaining, tell her that "We've all been there" and she should "Suck it up", why don't we just double or triple tuition and cut more classes? Perhaps we could change orientation to something akin to boot camp, with a 5 a.m. wake-up call each day and screaming drill instructors? Would that be tough enough?

Andrew Tuohy
political science junior

New Zona Zoo plan a Īdumb idea and a waste of money'

The new Zona Zoo plan needs to go. I agree completely that the ticket lottery is a much safer and fair way to distribute men's basketball tickets, but as Justin St. Germain pointed out in his Monday column, the small sports fans are the ones getting screwed while we all end up forking out more money for this school. I have yet to actually get tickets to men's basketball, but at least with a lottery I don't have to worry about sustaining injuries just to get half a season's worth of tickets.

We should all realize that until the media

ultimately focuses on college baseball or volleyball, only the true dedicated fans to those sports will go to their games. Seeing as how we are all college students and really creative at finding ways to get around the rules, students can just buy the stupid Zona Zoo pass for $35 and get in free to already free games of sports they probably won't actually go watch, get a dumb newsletter everyone will just throw away, and hope to get better seats to the men's basketball games. Who is to say we are actually going to get tickets for sure? At this school you never know. Also, when the point system is implemented, wouldn't it still work if a student just shows up to the volleyball game for example, and leaves after it is documented with their CatCard that they were there? Not every student here has the time or the money to go to all the other sports' games just to earn points to go to men's basketball games. Some students actually work and study. Another dumb idea and waste of money for all students all the way around.

Ask yourself this, when you watch a Duke basketball game, do you wish you were a student there? Yes, but not because of the school, but because the students at the games look like they are having an awesome time. Why don't we have something like that? Well, because we are so concerned with money here that most of the tickets go to the high paying old people who sit during the whole game instead of the students who actually care; and then they charge students $35 for a pass just to charge them more money for tickets they probably won't get. We need to figure out a way that will work and is worth trying.

Julie Thrush
pre-nursing sophomore

Mainstream media missed the company with a charter to kill

Recently, a company calling itself Licensed to Kill, Inc., was given a corporate charter by the Commonwealth of Virginia. This company's expressed purpose is the manufacturing and marketing of tobacco products in a way that generates profits for investors, while each year killing more than 400,000 Americans and 4.5 million other persons worldwide. These statements were made in the actual charter of the company, yet the company was still allowed to incorporate in the state of Virginia. I'm not too big on keeping up with the news, but I do turn on the television every once in a while, and I certainly don't remember the mainstream media mentioning anything about this happening. I don't know about anyone else, but I find it just a little bit disturbing that a company was allowed to have in its charter that it plans to kill people, yet the media made barely a mention of its existence. For anyone who doesn't believe this, you can visit this company's Web site at http://www.licensedtokill.biz.

Aaron Ostrovsky
psychology freshman

Allegations that industry drives war are not too unreasonable

Congratulations to Bill Wetzel on a well written Monday column regarding the new Bush imperialism. The reductions in our civil liberties, the obvious financial motivations for the invasion of Iraq, and a sudden inability to find any of the numerous WMDs that Iraq was accused of possessing all scream "conspiracy." Mr. Wetzel mentions that our leaders had evidence of the Sept. 11 attacks before they happened and yet did nothing. That's a pretty harsh accusation, especially with little direct proof. Their evidence available is definitely not enough to back up an accusation, but it sure casts some doubt on the honesty of our administration. Gore Vidal's piece, "The Enemy Within," conducts an in-depth investigation of the Bush administration's actions. In exploring a possible motive for allowing Sept. 11 to occur, he writes: Afghanistan "was made safe not only for democracy but for Union Oil of California whose proposed pipeline from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan to Pakistan and the Indian Ocean port of Karachi, had been abandoned under the Taliban's chaotic regime. Currently, the pipeline is a go-project thanks to the junta's installation of a Unocal employee (John J. Maresca) as U.S. envoy to the newly born democracy whose president, Hamid Karzai, is also, according to Le Monde, a former employee of a Unocal subsidiary."

Given the administration's strong ties to the oil industry, and the enormous amount of money at stake in that pipeline, this accusation cannot be discounted. Discussing this may seem un-patriotic, and even disrespectful to the dead. Perhaps it is, but bear in mind that posing the idea of a conspiracy in JFK's assassination shortly after it occurred was equally frowned upon. It's now obvious to any rational person that the government's account of the assassination is a lie. In time, the truth regarding Sept. 11 will come to light, whether it be verification of the government's story, or solid evidence to the contrary.

If you want to check my facts, here's a link to Gore Vidal's work: http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/EnemyWithin.html.

Kris Brown
electrical engineering senior

UA should re-assess its focus on athletics

As a concerned student, I have to ask all my fellow students and the administration: where is the priority at the University of Arizona? From what I see, the emphasis at the university lies in sports. Budget cuts and "Focused Excellence" are all appropriate in a time of recession.

However, as a non-resident student, I tend to feel a fair amount of the pinch. The average UA professor salary is what? What does the football coach make? The basketball coach? $800,000?

A salary cut of even $100,000 could potentially reduce the amount of cut programs by a fair amount. Mergers, reduced freshman admission, increased tuition costs · I think UA and the Arizona Board of Regents quickly need to ask themselves once more where their priorities lie. Is this the UA that was once a powerful force in education? Or is it turning into the Arizona College for the Athletically Gifted? President Likins should rethink his "Focused Excellence" spin and determine where the pinch should really be felt.

David Clark
optical sciences senior

Politics led to recent downfall of Old Man

The Old Man died because New Hampshire is no longer free. New Hampshire lives under the tyranny of the influence of external parties. Social autocrats closed his forests. The arboreal, evergreen cloak of the Old Man, though harvested for hundreds of years, grew thick and strong after each cutting. This was a way of life for the Gran Bois du Nord. But the treachery of liberal foreigners declared the wilderness not the property of the people living under his profile.

So sad was he when the trails and ancient pathways of the Presidential Range became the income machine of the central

government. How he cried when they charged indigenous families of six, eight, and 10 generations to park on the highways built with their own sweat, blood, and broken backs. The agony of the foreign lawyers trampling on the New Hampshire constitution during the Claremont lawsuits stole the Old Man's confidence. Taxes are for New Hampshire's education, and few taxes we have to use. The jealousy of residents of over-taxed states meant to bring New Hampshire to share in their misery. They meant to damn the Old Man and his household.

His eagles survived for hundreds of years without federal intervention in the northern lakes. Those magnificent icons of patriotic idealism chose to remain nested, despite the loss of their privacy from tourists and local boatmen, and despite their brothers decline in the West. But somehow, the Old Man's eagles needed a management plan; a bureaucracy for birds.

Granite crumbles and paper disintegrates. Realizing the eventual socialist state and caught in a whirlwind of perpetual depression, the Old Man considered his motto and leapt. And here we are, his people, left with only the possibility of facial reconstruction. If it is done, all we will have is a symbolic representation of what once was natural; his profile symbolic only, just as his motto. Goodbye freedom's symbol.

Christopher Marcum
sociology junior