Letters to the Editor
Opinion pieces lack heart
I was barely able to make it through The Collegian’s Monday edition
of the opinion page before I tore the thing to shreds. The two “opinion”
articles on the page were anything but.
In “Heroes never go out of style,” the writer wasted a good
amount of ink and killed a bunch of trees to print that Mrs. Rosa Parks
was good and her parents weren’t that bad either.
A good writer might have talked about Mrs. Parks with a passion and reverence
that would have made Martin Luther King Jr. proud. Instead she states
some obvious facts and leaves us with rhetorical questions. Even worse,
she mentions George W. Bush without even a semblance of an insult.
The second article “One nation under Canada, above Mexico”
says a lot of words. I even read most of them.
But like that ass wipe who shouts from the free speech platform about
us going to hell, I didn’t hear anything worth paying attention
to.
Their articles lack any sort of enthusiasm, heart, soul, or driving passion
that has fueled the advancement of our culture for centuries.
Printed opinions are there to cause discussion, change, intelligent discourse
and improvement of our society.
Writing is an art. And the soul of art needs interaction, passion and
to provoke a reaction.
Patrick Reetz
graduate student
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