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Letters to the Editor
Send in the Fun Police
Regarding the negative sentiment in your paper towards the new 0200 bar closing time in St. Cloud I must question the fun police. Why don't we just turn back the closing time to about 0930. Then everyone would be able to get home and get a good night's sleep. There would be no trouble, no noise, no problems at all. We could all hold hands in our newfound piety. Or...we could all grow up and either learn how to hold our liquor and quit when necessary or take those who roll too far and punish them. Has anyone ever heard of jail? In El Salvador they take drunk drivers out and shoot them. While that may be a little extreme, I'm sure there is very little drunk driving down there. Those who drink too much will pay eventually in their own right. However, this is a free country. I should be able to stay out drinking at the bar all night long if I want to.
Zachary Spoehr
Junior
A harsh reminder
The death of a college student Monday night should remind each one of us to think about the great opportunity that each student at St. Cloud State University has. Even though each student leads their own life, there is the same common goal of bettering themselves and embracing the knowledge of the classroom. Even though I never met Alex Marah, I'm sure he was here to obtain the skills he needed to take on the world and live it to his fullest. In his absence, there will be a loss to this world. For you, the reader, I ask that next time class gets a little hard, or you have too many papers to write and only six hours to complete them in, to ask yourself what can you do to complete this world and without you, how would that world be different.
Serafina Scholl
Graduate Student
Social Responsibility
Sex offenders get what they deserve
I recently had a conversation with a coworker about punishments regarding sex offenders. He feels that it is a violation of a person's civil liberties when the government sends out informational flyers to neighborhoods regarding the relocation of sex offenders to their area. He stated that the offenders have served their time and deserve to start a new life. He believes that it is impossible for that to happen if the entire town knows about the sex offender and his or her past.
All I can say is "Bulls-." The minute that a person decides to rape or molest someone is the minute when they lose every decent fiber in their body. Being raped is the worst thing that could possibly happen to a person. It is the ultimate violation. Victims suffer for the rest of their lives, so why shouldn't their attackers suffer as well?
Sex offenders have the worst rehabilitation rate of any other criminal category. Basically, once a sex offender crosses that line, they are more likely to cross it again in the future no matter what kind of therapy they receive.
My personal view is that once a sex offender is convicted beyond a doubt, he or she should be burned at the stake or subjected to some other form of painful torture. However, all of the people huggers (as opposed to bunny huggers) think that sex offenders should just be sent to jail where they can watch cable television, have access to a free college education, and have three square meals a day. Has anyone else noticed that this is more than decent, law-abiding poor people get?
I do not know about the rest of America, but I want to know if there is a rapist or pedophile moving into my neighborhood. The sex offender chose to hurt an innocent person who had no idea what was coming. They should never be allowed to do that to anyone ever again.
What I am trying to say is that once a person commits a horrendous crime such as rape, they lose their humanity. They lose their privileges to mix and mingle with the rest of decent society. How dare they be allowed to keep the same rights as their victims? I once saw a video game commercial that stated, "Civilization is only skin deep." Well, if that is true, sex offenders threw the civilized part of themselves to the way side when they decided to abuse someone. They should therefore be treated like the animals that they reduced themselves too. The victims should not be the ones who have to hide their faces in shame, it should be their attackers. As Frances Bacon once said, "If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us."
Sandra Johnson
CJS Graduate Student
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