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LETTERS No sense For more tbnn a month I have boon reading the * artoon Bob's Inferno in thi* Emerald ami have observed its superb ability to make no sense at all While examining it helps to develop extra wrinkles in my forehead, I do enjoy its occa sional use of |apan«se. Perhaps it would make more sense if it were written entirely in Japan ese. Brian Bogart Japanese Asian Studies Priorities I lore’s a letter to the Wo* York Post — Oops, I mean tin- Enter aid ah. what's the difference' As a student who has !x»en read ing this paper for the past few years 1 would like to comment on an area that needs to be improved for future readers' enjoyment Although there are many set lions that need improvement, I will only address the most important: the cartoons Hob s Inferno. Yerntck, and Small St me are horrible How about making them all small? Very small. So small, we can't see them. That would be a great improvement in itself Then maybe add Bizarro or Bloom County arid find some other students to contribute car toons. Sorry, I won’t be here next year. Also, my friend doesn't like "Street Wise" but 1 don't mind it That's all for now Dennis Gubblns Anthropology Truth Regarding the letter "Original ■Sin" [ODE. April 21); " Truth" is a word so vague ns to make it useless in an intellei - tual argument. The individual of reason is one who deals in what is relevant and factual There fore, let us apply fact to your arguments. Your letter said there was "much more intolerance on campus than anywhere else in the world " The application of reason clearly dismisses this argument {your opening premise). Perhaps I do not get out as often as I should, but I see no beheadings or hangings on campus unless, of course, you are referring to squirrels. People die every day In the name of a struggle for or against religion. You also said, "We are ali guilty ...." Ily example, I stand before you and rebuke your entire argument of guilt I fi-el no guilt in my rejection of any notion that anyone controls my "destiny" other than myself I reject the concept of destiny Every day we dm ide for our selves how we will live; we can fear or prosper. su< t eed or with er. but the choice is ours Ms very lielief in this shatters your claims of absolute feelings of guilt "Freedom or Death!" This is mankind's eternal < r\ It is also our only hope Absolute adher ence to any ideology is death death of the power of the human mind to choose, to create, to wish In short, 1 shout "Freedom or Death!" You also said, "Truth hurts Ihe truth is only painful to those who will not accept it Remember, everyone, religion teaches us that knowledge was. and still is the greatest evil Seek knowledge Den Elms English ‘Treatment’ Kurt Cobain killed himself. Now he cannot hear mean spir ited radio station managers, record store owners, therapists, angry fans, or Kush Limhaugh snap their jaws at Ihe empty air ns they deride him. This nega tivity existed before his death, so I wonder if Cobain's sensitiv ity to it encouraged his final decision. Newsweek ran an article on Cobain, with photos about oth er celebrity suicides Vincent Foster. Abbie Hoffman. Marilyn Monroe, Ernest Hemingway One common denominator of these suii ides is that em h had. just before their death, received harmful psychiatric "treatment" of some kind. Hemingway, for instance, iold a friend he was considering suicide because electros hot k had destroyed his memory, which yvas his "capi tal" as a writer It makes sense to me that neg ative expeneni es with psychia try could lie linked to suicide In the mid- 1070s I felt distressed as a college student at Harvard, and was placed briefly in a psy chiatrh institution. Instead of human warmth and closeness, I encountered laltels, solitary con finement and forced drugs 1 am concerned that Universi ty students in extreme despair will avoid seeking human sup port from u fear that may be jus tifiable. And that fear is that speaking of suicidal feelings could very well place one Into Sacred Heart General Hospital. Ont' of Sacred Hearts major treatments for depression is electroshock. including an experimental form of shot k called "Multiple Monitored (( I, in whit h several jolts are given ul each "treatment ." Let's create humane alterna lives, before it's too late David Oaks Co-Coordinator Support Coalition No witch hunts Last summer I determined that I could not graduate from the University without having taken a class from George kokis - mv experience of college would nut be i omplete without it Not onlv did kokis deliver the most prepared, interesting and well-rounded lectures and discussions of any of my profes sors. hut he handled difficult. aw k wud end emotional sltua lions among the students with egalitarian gnu diplamm v and composure unsurpassed hv any one I have ever met Never at any time did I ever feel threat ened or treated unfairly Iwt nuse I was .1 woman. Rather, 1 (eel that kokis manifests Ins unique vision of the net essity of equali ty in his daily life I continue to he outraged hv the laughable (were they not delivered so seri ously) accusations of sexual harassment which stand against him Aware of the particulars of the case which were not offered Hi the Emerald articles (April I t 15). I am offended by Devon Gray's court action which is the very thing which discredits hon est accusations of sexual harass ment The mere existence of phrasing such as "reasonable woman" makes mv blood boil, hut it seems t tear in your report ing why such distinctions are still necessary I know that there have been many people enrolled in Kokis' ( lasses who have suffered abuse at some {joint in their lives who have had the maturity to be aide to separate past experiences from present ones It seems unfair and careless to allow one's oyvn anger over past injus tices to create a situation which endangers an honest professor's career and reputation, and robs others of the joy of his uninhib ited and precious classes We don't need another witch hunt Jenifer Beckett Skjeldahl Fine and Applied Arts Study Atwood in Siena, Dtaly • Intensive study of Italian at all levels • Other liberal arts courses taught in English t • I earn more about Italy s past, present and future • Spend one. two or three terms abroad • Minimum 2.5 Gl\\ required • 1 am l'() credit 5 • I’se your financial aid AfifUiccUio+t ^headline*: fall term May 15 • Winter term Oct. 15 Spring term Jan. 15 1 . ■* .»!*>UIUI uvc plCiiw ftfoc «*( Imcrrut m «ul I Ak n a t n hAir>-<. * H)Onp >n Hull t-kv $707 r. 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