Pom reject repugnant
I feel bad for the girl with the armpit hair who wrote the article describing the Pom Squad as a talentless spirit organization that chooses girls based on “90 percent” looks because she has been constantly living in the shadow of better, prettier girls ever since she became the captain of her second-rate high school dance team that nobody paid any attention to (“Confessions of a would-be Pom Girl,” May 1).
What kind of criteria should these girls really be judged on? Who has spent the most time helping homeless children? Who can’t really dance but still manages to give it 110 percent? Who’s smile really shouts out, “I may be ugly, but I’ll pretend to be proud of it”?
While you’re busy contemplating these questions, I’ll be holding a football tryout. I’m looking for a bunch of 5’6’ guys who are nearsighted and barely weigh more than 120 pounds. I’m sure they would make for a winning team.
Instead of putting down spirit organizations for which the members volunteer and dedicate themselves to representing our university with class and pride, you should try trimming some of your famed armpit hair and donating it to Locks of Love so you can do something positive.
Shane Grodin
Economics sophomore
Alleged assumption
In Audrey Campbell’s May 7 editorial “Dishonest Lifestyles” regarding an upcoming documentary that examines allegedly closeted Republican politicians that oppose gay rights, she wrote “Each politician represented in the film exhibits conservative bias and discriminates against the gay community. Sometimes the discrimination even extends to the closeted gay conservative politicians themselves,” and then Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and California Rep. David Dreier are given as examples.
As I read it, she implied that Charlie Crist and David Dreier are closeted homosexuals.
These are claims the documentary (which I have not seen) makes, and while they certainly may be true, I do not think they are established facts, and they should not be presented as such. Next time around it might be a good idea to plug in the word “alleged” somewhere in there.
Also — regarding the May 6 article “For Atheletes, a Different Kind of Test,” the Major League Baseball season is 162 games long (not 160), and if a team makes it to the World Series, the maximum number of games it could play would be 162 + 5 (max division series length) + 7 (max LCS length) + 7 (max world series length) = 181 (not 196).
John Barry
Computer sciences senior
