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Ke$ha article displays questionable ethics
Although I do not go to your campus, I received a link to the article posted about pop singer Ke$ha (“Thieving artist Ke$ha is ruining music,” Jan. 14, 2010). After reading it, I was apalled.
The way the “journalist,” if you want to call someone as unprofessional as this writer that, speaks about Ke$ha and her listeners is just ridiculous. Yes, I understand that’s his opinion, but as a Ke$ha listener he insulted me and all the other Ke$ha fans. I understand he’s mad that Ke$ha’s rap is similar to some girl named Uffie but he still shouldn’t say things like “Her songs appeal to the lowest common denominator and are spoon-fed to the masses …”
Look, I know you’re trying to give your bratty, snobby college students a chance, but you should know what to and what not to publish. This is a college newspaper, not a random blog full of bitter people.
Get some professionalism and teach it to your students because so far, this campus disgusts me. If you published this, it only conveys you have no ethics.
Darwin Martinez
Gibson’s ideas threaten airline passengers
These days, folks, it’s a big hassle to go anywhere by airline, considering the failed underwear and shoe bombers and all the new passenger screening it has caused. And for me — and especially for those poor travelers just ahead and behind me in the screening line — it’s even worse.
I’m not proud of this, but truth be said, my dogs and the American-made New Balance 498s that keep ‘em comfy stink bad — locker room gone rancid bad. So, Michael W. Gibson and his recent opinion page tirade on women’s clothing (“Women on UMaine campus need to change their clothes,” Jan. 14, 2010) leaves me pig-biting mad, and you should be too.
Gibson, in case you didn’t read it, flatulates against the tightness of women’s clothing and the uselessness of pockets in women’s apparel. Not being a transvestite, I am a bit out of my league here, but tight clothing is precisely what we patriotic Americans need.
The very women Gibson rants against are the ones who can go through security leaving no worries whatsoever about whether they might have explosives in their underwear. Instead, Gibson’s lame brain carping only opens the way for burqa-wearing transvestite suicide bomber terrorists, not to mention longer waits beside red blooded, but stinky-footed, Americans like yours truly.
Joseph Sixpack, Jr., former student
Fraternities maligned by recent articles
Throughout the past week, the words “frat” and “out of control” have been overused in this newspaper. As a Greek, student and active reader of The Maine Campus, I am disgusted. I have never seen such judgmental reporting.
When a UMaine student died last year due to falling down a flight of stairs while drinking, students were concerned and came together to help the healing process. They did not trash talk the students involved.
I understand it was a quote from the district attorney (“Student accused of stabbing released from jail,” published online Jan. 27, 2010), but as a reporter, you should know what is tasteless. I know many Greeks who will no longer read The Maine Campus due to the content of your recent articles.
Fraternities are a safe and responsible place for students. The reason Girouard was so upset was because he was denied access to the house due to his behavior. Phi Gamma Delta is not getting any recognition for this, though. Any other group of friends could have lied, treated the situation lightly, and not called for help. As Greeks, we know how to handle such situations and I think the light The Maine Campus has cast on Greek Life is appalling.
Ashley Willis, UMaine student
TABOR-like plan could cripple UMaine
During his address to General Student Senate Tuesday, Bruce Poliquin attempted to veil the catastrophic implications for the University of Maine System of his position on TABOR II-like initiatives. Poliquin voiced that he would support such initiatives if elected to the Blaine House. In an act of self-delusion or political greed, Poliquin asserted that such a measure would not have a foreseeable impact on the funding or tuition of the University of Maine.
Effective management — accompanied by system-wide efficiency audits — and “innovation” are important to budget alleviation; however, the notion that such measures would offset the rise in tuition brought on by TABOR II-like initiatives is simply naïve. To get the facts clear, the system board of trustees is currently seeking new ways to reduce administrative cost given the massive budget shortfall in the past year.
It’s difficult to see how Poliquin’s rhetoric on effective management is more than just a red herring to cover the entrance of fringe, neo-liberal fiscal policies. Consensus amongst experts in both the Maine Republican and Democratic parties is that said policies would effectively gut the state’s universities. Taxes in Maine are unreasonably high; this fact does not justify a fiscal haymaker.
Tim Smith, student senator
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