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Letters to the Editor
Hometown Proud calendar
I'd like to thank the students of St. Cloud State University for their continued interest in the Hometown Proud Calendar.
In response to Jennifer Kotila's recent letter: I'm proud that myself (April) and the other 28 women featured in the calendar chose to do SOMETHING in support of our troops. I believe there is no best way to support our great troops willing to die for freedom. I am proud to have the freedom to express my gratitude to the troops through this calendar; thus utilizing the freedom they protect for us.
Jennifer, if you believe you have a better way to show your support, I hope that you act on that idea. We did. I promise not to judge your expression of support. I encourage each person to do whatever they can to show support in their own way.
And to Mr. Jeffrey Williams: First, the City of Walker didn't "approve" the calendar. Fortunately, in the United States, cities don't need to approve what things hang on our walls and count our days. If you read more deeply on www.hometownproud.org, you will find out about the wonderful things that the citizens of Walker have done to support their local soldiers, but "approving" a calendar isn't on that list.
Secondly, there are very few projects in this world (if any) that can, on their own, create world peace and make everyone happy. This isn't one of them. The calendar is an expression of support for our deployed military, nothing more. If you look closely at the copy of the calendar on your wall, you'll see that another calendar is in the works featuring male models. If you'd like to buy an additional copy for all of the groups you mentioned that we left out with this one, I welcome it.
Stacy Holland
SCTC Nursing
Hometown Proud calendar is good for morale
I recently bought a couple copies of the Hometown Proud 2004 calendar. I am thrilled to see that that there is a locally done calendar that has focused on the entertainment events that are important to this area. I am even more excited to see that this calendar is supporting our troops overseas. I am a former Marine and due to an injury, I was unable to have the privilege to fight for my country and help free the Iraqi people. I can't tell you how much even a little bit of support helps those overseas. From both myself and my friends overseas I want to thank the the people who did this and especially those that gave their time to make this calendar.
Andrew Toenjes
Cold Spring
Angered ignoramus
I too visited the presentation by John Stauber and found him far less pompous and deceitful� and far more provocative and empowering.
Through ignorance, it appears as though any accurate concept of propaganda in Kevin Kevlar's mind was thrown out and swapped for false assumptions that propagandas only context is in Nazi Germany. His assertion that Stauber compared Bush to Hitler and Nazi Germany is completely unfounded and false; he simply didn't make that claim. The idea that "Stauber should be hanged for treason" for expressing a differing political view from the president, does however, have a Nazi, fascist ring to it.
Stauber clearly stated the types of propaganda present today. PR companies desperately trying to convince us that potentially mad-cow diseased-tainted beef, which has now arrived in America because of bad policies Stauber was fighting to change, is safe and sacrificing our safety for the sake of their beef prices. Propaganda can be found in other media. CBS, for example, is taking away our constitutional freedoms by refusing to air a MoveOn.org add during the Super Bowl which informed viewers of Bush's $1-trillion deficit. Yet they aired adds from the White House, beer companies and tobacco companies.
In saying, and I hysterically quote "The Bush administration attacked Iraq only after 9/11 to prevent another 9/11 from happening if Bush did not topple Saddam's hateful regime, then chances are his weapons of mass destruction on us, with catastrophic effects" blatant and dangerous ignorance is revealed.
It appears in his political studies, which must contain heavy doses of FOX news, Kevlar missed a few key points: there aren't any WMD by Bush's own admission, and Saddam Hussein and 9/11 have absolutely no identifiable link.
Have you read a newspaper in the last two weeks!? Your blinding ignorance and lack of world perspective is frightening.
Perhaps you should lay off the substance (FOX news) that's causing you to believe lies, perpetuate lies, and support the fear-based garbage the White House is spinning. And take a few drags of whatever it was that your hippy friends and John Stauber were smoking. Perhaps this will awaken you to a world that doesn't support preemptive and fabricated war and the manipulation of people by a politically motivated media viciously fighting for your sort of lax, ignorant and passive participation in society.
Chris Heinitz
Freshman
Mass Comm.
Concerns about police tactics
I am writing to respond to the recent article, "Net leads to party bust." After reading this article, the only thing that really bothered me was the fact that a member of the St. Cloud Police Department stated, "We'd known about the party since early in the week. We had all week to plan things out and make sure we had all our bases covered."
They had the entire week to stop this party from happening and chose not to do so. There is no telling the reaction they could have received from these college students. I hate to bring this stupid subject up, but if you're looking for something to spark a riot, how about handing out 57 minor consumptions to drunken college kids?
I am in no way condoning the actions of the individuals who threw this party. They had underage people drinking at a house they rented, they passed out flyers, and it was posted on the Internet along with other illegal material. These are all very bad ideas, but when something like this massive sting by police officers can be prevented in the first place, I believe, and have been taught, that it should be. If they wanted to bust the roommates for the illegal material believed to be inside, why not do that when they found out about it, instead of bringing down 57 other students?
I also understand the importance of busting a party of this size to deter other houses from doing the same. I would just like someone to explain that to the students who now have fines to pay because as opposed to telling them not to go to the party, the police decided to let them go and drink and then give them a ticket.
Michael Gilhoi
Senior
Criminal Justice
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