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Letter writer displays 'glaring ignorance'

To the editor,

Though the glaring ignorance and conspicuous hatred in Mr. Simoneaux's letter "Harm in agreeing with Dave" should speak for itself, the record needs to be set straight.

Unlike what Mr. Simoneaux asserts, Campus Crusade for Christ has no membership rules, brainwashing rituals, huge amounts of money or meeting locations enveloped in secrecy. I think he has Crusade confused with ASUA.

I am not affiliated with, nor have been to one Crusade meeting this year, but know meetings are at Harvill 150 at 7 p.m. on Thursdays this semester. Furthermore, no group is making any sort of profit over the shirts. The shirts were funded by some student shelling out thousands of his own dollars, knowing he'd probably not see that money again. There are easier ways to make money then $5 for a butt-ugly shirt. Ninety-nine percent of Christian groups on campus are as poor as church mice. They use most of what they have for scholarships, missions, charity and to offset costs.

The actions described by Mr. Simoneaux such as the bike raffle, church association (Crusade is interdenominational and endorses no one church) and repetitive calls are connotated with another organization not directly affiliated with Dave Week at all. For the record, the only Christian organizations directly promoting "Dave Week" are Campus Crusade for Christ, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and Baptist Student Union.

So before anyone makes wild accusations of Dave and labels all Christian clubs as cults, I'd challenge them to dialogue with a "Dave shirt" with no prior prejudices. They aren't mall preachers, and contrary to popular belief, they don't rant and rave about hell. The idea behind the Dave shirts is that people approach them with questions, not vice-versa. Or how about attending a meeting of one of the previously mentioned groups, before slandering them for things they have not done? The only crimes they've ever committed is having faith in Jesus as the Only Way, and for standing up for their beliefs.

Andrew Jaw

Materials science and engineering junior