Stadium name a royal mess
However justified the sentiment, Neil Garner is too late to call for "a stop to the ridiculous attempt to assign a nickname to one of the most storied facilities on campus and in the state" ("Don't rename the stadium," The Firing Line, March 31). The time to put a stop to renaming or nicknaming the stadium was when "Darrell K Royal" was stuck to the front of the "Texas Memorial Stadium." Now it's the "Darrell Royal Memorial Stadium" to half the sports writers in the nation and to ticket scalpers at www.gotickets.com and www.tickco.com. The sites www.StubHub.com, www.primeseattickets.com, www.acheapseat.com and www.abctickets.com refer to it as the "Darrell K Royal Memorial Stadium," while www.collegegridirons.com shortens it to "Royal Memorial Stadium," which implies some connection to Prince Charles.
UT's own www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com refers to it as "DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium," while the athletic department has a "DKR Memorial Stadium Diagram" on the Texas Spirit Program Web site. And the University of Texas Club is located on the sixth floor of, you guessed it, "Darrell Royal Memorial Stadium." Even The Daily Texan refers to it as the "Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium," or more insidiously, simply "DKR" - removing any reference to its original name entirely.
The stadium had a name and everyone knew what to call it back when it was the "Texas Memorial Stadium." Now it's a memorial to the Danish Krone.
Charles D. Tolliver UT alum
Planned Parenthood need not be negative
Glen McCoy's March 26 political cartoon has understandably sparked agitated response from proponents of Planned Parenthood. While I would agree that the publication of this cartoon in The Daily Texan is in bad taste, many of the rebuttals submitted in Monday's Firing Line are weakly founded, angry shouts into the wind rather than concrete defenses of this wrongly motivated organization. Even the vice chair of Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region avoids directly rejecting the cartoon's presented accusations, but instead uses excessive euphemisms to undermine the position of the "enemy."
At the end of the day, despite the colorful language and crystalline images of "women's rights" and "liberation," Planned Parenthood is too focused on suppressing dissenters rather than recognizing other loving means of propagating respect for women and sexual freedom outside of their model.
Perhaps they should reconsider what it means to be narrow-minded.
James Kleineck Architectural engineering junior
The Sarah Lacy effect?
In response to Ana McKenzie's interview with Andrew Solomon ("Solomon reflects on SG presidency," April 1). Is this really the best interview the Texan could come up with while talking to the outgoing SG president? Did he not have any thoughts or reflections on actual SG accomplishments or goals, or did the Texan just choose not to ask real questions? Why not question Solomon or the Advance assembly more about why they dropped the ball on election reform?
Geoff Geiger Students for SG Reform Founder and director Government junior
A sad day for Mitra
Dammit, stop messing around with the Sudoku (April 1). You're ruining my day right from the shuttle stop.
Mitra S. Rana Cell and molecular biology graduate student
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