Columnist Mollo provides a welcome conservative viewpoint

In response to Roberto Mendoza's scathing disapproval of Al Mollo's recent article, "Don't Buy The Hillary Hype," I have to express my disappointment. After reading Mendoza's letter, I went to the previous issue of the Wildcat to re-read Mollo's article, wondering how I missed the article's subversive efforts to use "the Wildcat to promote the GOP and trash the Democratic Party," or Mollo's "right-wing hate monger[ing]."

I read carefully but I found none of that. Neither did I notice him proselytizing for any political parties or praising Republicans, nor suggesting that all Republicans are good and all Democrats evil. In fact I did not notice any mention of the GOP, or Republicans, or Democrats at all. I found his article, instead, to be a very astute portrayal of the corrupted state of feminism in our country, and Hillary Clinton well deserving of the title feminist.

So, Mendoza, my disappointment is in your hysterical response to some imagined slight against the Democratic party. Your extreme bipartisanship and the implication that conservative opinions are not welcome in a news column are very disturbing to me when I read it in a university newspaper.

Here I thought that the academic setting was all about sharing ideas and creating a forum for intelligent discussion, not slandering opinions that you don't agree with. To Mollo, I offer thanks for the courage to present a more conservative viewpoint, especially in a less-than-conservative town like Tucson! To Mendoza, I offer the hope that he will re-read his own letter and question just who exactly is promoting a "doctrine of hatred for anything different from his point of view."

Juliette Parker
Spanish junior