Demand a local Mexican driver's license. This will afford other legal rights and will go far to legitimize your unauthorized, illegal, presence in Mexico.
Sound ridiculous? Well it's happening right here, in the land of the naive. We need to take back our country.
Justin Kunzelmann
UA alumnus
UA football uniforms boring, lack style
The football team's uniforms are boring. The uniforms have been dated for about 12 years now. It took seven years for the appearance to slow down recruiting. The poor recruiting of the past five years resulted as much from lack of style as failures on the part of the coaching staffs of the time. The failure to realize the importance emblazoned banners of heraldry play in ritualized warfare has cost our football team recruits.
Oregon and Cal stayed with the trends of the times, building first-class programs with first-class recruits and trendy uniforms with both toughness and class. The expression of toughness and class are important in the eyes of potential recruits. I hope coach Stoops realizes the significance of having class. True enough, he introduced "tough" looking uniforms. But they are also dull. They lack imagination. They lack class. Oregon and Cal have proved uniforms can be both. Personally, I would like to see sage green and silver reintroduced to go with the red and blue. While this may seem ludicrous and gaudy at first glance, it does not take much imagination to see the Wildcats with classy silver helmets without stripes. The shirts could remain blue or red. A slight splash or two of teal could subtly be added under the guise of sage green with the excuse being "what is sage green anyway?" Think about it Mike, but if you change, whatever you do, hire artists who understand what appeals to teenagers today.
Keith Deem
junior majoring in English and creative writing
UA meals cost us more, satisfy less
The best $4.21 you can spend on campus is at Cafe Sonora. For $4.21 you can get a Chicken Taco Salad that is about 95 percent lettuce, 1 percent chicken, 1 percent crappy tomatoes and 3 percent undersized shell. Yes, the taco salads have a lot of lettuce. Why? Because it's cheap.
In all seriousness, I have become increasingly disappointed with the on-campus meal choices this year. Portions are getting smaller, but becoming more expensive. Quality has been inexcusable.
The university is trying to draw more students to the on-campus restaurants, especially with the possibility of a required meal plan for freshman. Well it isn't working on me.
Next year, I won't be buying a meal plan unless I see some serious improvements.
Dan Parmelee
management information systems/operations management sophomore
Protest against Bush raises questions
After reading about the protest the day of President Bush's inauguration, it made me ponder many things. First of all I respect all views, but do the ones who were protesting realize that before we liberated Iraq, the people had no right to protest and if they did they were tortured or killed? Also, do they realize that women have no authority or any right to get an education? Are the protesters aware that men and women their age and younger have died for generations protecting their right to free speech and other rights that many in the world do not have? Finally my last question to all the protesters against Bush is: How many of you actually got out on Nov. 2?
Gabriel M. Bustamante
family studies junior
Kidz Korner not helping parents
How can a student-parent actually watch their children and study at the same time at Kidz Korner? Taking proper care of children requires parents' full and undivided attention. Proper studying requires a students' full and undivided attention. Just exactly how is Kidz Korner helping student-parents?
Lisa Barnes
former graduate student
Political protest legal, part of U.S. culture
People who think people protesting Bush need to get over it need to get over it. In America, political protest is both legally protected and part of the political culture. If you don't like political protest, you're free to leave. But I suppose you just want to take advantage of all the benefits of living in America, even though you hate all the political protest.
But, on second thought, I guess I need to get over it too. If I don't like a nation where fools can write in letters to the editor complaining about people complaining about Bush, I'm free to leave. I suppose I just want to take advantage of all the benefits of living in America, even though I hate the complaint and meta-complaint (and so on ad infinitum).
Cole Mitchell
philosophy graduate student
Bush protesters show courage to speak out
This letter is in response to Dan Parmelee's letter "Bush protesters need to get over it." In this letter, Mr. Parmelee refers to Bush protesters as sore losers and immediately refers to liberals as beggars. These arguments are completely unfounded as well as un-American. At no point is there any sort of relevant or logical argument, just a short rant on how protesters are wasting their time because their side lost and how democratic protesters leech off of the American system. Comments like these have been thrown around as an attempt to disparage the work of those who protest; however they are just small insults. What he clearly fails to realize is who the protesters are. They are all Americans. We are all Americans; we all do our part to keep the system running.
The truth is the protesters are not sore losers; they are upset because the man who was elected to the office of president, George W. Bush, is not fit to hold office. His actions in his first term showed his character to be a warmongering radical that denies use of strategy and logic and fights his own personal war. His dealings in Iraq were not concordant with fighting the man who attacked America, which should have been the number one priority. He did not act in the best interests of America. His re-election, and therefore his inauguration, represent a beginning of a second four-year era of ineptitude in the commander-in-chief. People who protest are not wasting their time by any means. They are using their First Amendment rights for free speech to tell people that they disagree. It is not about being mad because they lost; it is about never stopping the fight against Bush's ludicrous presidency. It is about peacefully fighting a man who considers himself a war president. Don't refer to protesters as a drain on society; see them as the only ones with the courage to speak their mind.
Alan Fullmer
journalism sophomore