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Editor:
In response to freshman Jeff McCuen's audacious letter ("'Minorities' should just stop whining," Sept. 11), I feel compelled to critique, rather than to take the opposing argument, simply because his simplistic assertion has no merit.
As a minority, I feel it is my compelling duty to inform him and many others who share the same extreme mentality on either end that 1) we are at a university that theoretically produces professionalism, 2) arguments are to be either empirically and/or rationally supportive of one's assertions, 3) personal prerogatives dilute ones assertions and 4) thoroughly understanding both sides of an argument before taking a position will prevent a myopic understanding of an issue.
One other informational point that is directed towards the freshman history major is to continue extensively studying into history's conservative and liberal accounts (i.e. The theory behind the "Declaration of Independence" and the Constitution in contrast to the implementation of the "Manifest Destiny") because the lingering effects from the past carry on to be the issues of today.
So before he gives advice once again, I hope he takes heed of his own advice and watches his contradiction. Who is the one whining and insulting who? We are all at a good university trying to become professionals; thus, let us try to emulate a structured professionalism.
Robert R. Jimenez
sociology/history junior
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