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Letters to the Editor
Ludacris doesn't condone violence
When I first heard that Ludacris was coming to St. Cloud, I thought that it was one of the best things I would experience at St. Cloud State. I would like to commend the people who brought him because they finally brought some diversity to this campus. I can count the number of minority artists on one hand that have been here in the last five years.
To say that Ludacris promotes violence against women is "ludacris" in itself. He has never said to rape women. Nor has he ever said to hit or kill women. The only thing he has ever talked about is having sex with women. Before people get mad and complain about something just to complain they should actually listen to the words.
I think that it is sad to see that SCSU has one black artist come and there is so much controversy.
Kwame Johnson
Senior
Philosophy
Show up and speak your mind
In response to the article "Diversity is inherently self-limiting," I must say that if you feel that you are not getting what you want to go out and search for it. If you are feeling that you have not been represented during sexual assault awareness month, go out there and be a voice.
There are thousands of men in the United States that have been the victims of rape and abuse. Although many displays about sexual assault are primarily based around women, men are represented and if you feel that they are not represented then I invite you to go to Take Back the Night on April 30 and say "Hey, I am a man and I do not want this to no longer affect me, my family, and any woman or man." Let's stop sitting on the couch and take back the many nights that have robbed the innocence of many. I will be there. Will you?
Serafina Scholl
Graduate Student
Social Responsibility
Thank you sir; may I have another?
SCSU is very careful (and might I say restrictive?) about who they allow to speak about political, social, or ideological ideas in the public space on campus. This seems understandable; we don't want people being inconvenienced or, God forbid, offended.
However, the school seems to have no problem at all about letting people use the same space to sell us crap. Looking out the window, I can see a giant corporate-sponsored eyesore of some sort or other filling the open space between Stewart Hall and the Atwood Memorial Center, and as the weather keeps getting better I'm sure that we will be subjected to radio station after radio station parking their vans in that same space, blaring their commercialized empty pop music.
Commercials for soda pop will float in through open windows of our classrooms, and this intrusion into the halls of knowledge seems almost symbolic. God forbid that a student is handed a photocopied pamphlet by some earnest activist. But if instead of a pamphlet, it's a glossy brochure, and if the call to action is instead just a call to consumption, bring it on!
And if the school gets a kickback, all the better; the more to spend on unnecessary and ugly expansions on buildings which we thought couldn't get uglier. All I want to know is when the college campus went from being a marketplace of ideas to just being a plain old marketplace.
Hunter Elenbaas
Sophomore
Political Science
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