Tag: Letters

RE: Facebook fanatacism Regarding the recent hate speech brouhaha concerning a certain U of C student of Palestinian Arab ancestry, I would address a few salient points that the Gauntlet regrettably overlooked. Whether the odious comments — purportedly intended as “creative writing” — constituted hate speech or not, they definitely resulted from very poor judgment… Continue reading Letters to the editor

By Ixtapa Soros

Remi Watts manages to put all the 2012-end-of-the-world garbage in a good light in his article [“Of eschatological concern,” Jan. 11, 2012]. While he claims that good can come of the situation regardless of how silly the doomsayers are, one has to wonder if his strategy is likely to do more harm than good. Consider… Continue reading Letter: Eschatology? More like scatology

By Jason Kempton

This is in response to a previous letter “Gauntlet comic extremely offensive to Sikhs” [Nov. 24, 2011] — which was itself in response to an “offensive” meme-image displayed in the Gaunlet comic strip Network Admin [Nov. 17, 2011]. First, I’d like to thank the author of the letter for explaining the joke, as I now… Continue reading Letter: offence taken to offence being taken

By Gaganjeet Tamber

The most recent edition of the Gauntlet newspaper [Nov. 17, 2011] has an extremely offensive comic on the last page. The “Network Admin” comic depicts a man sitting in a cauldron being boiled alive and in the caption it states “I ain’t even mad.” That man is the fifth Sikh Guru, Sri Guru Arjan Dev… Continue reading Letter: Gauntlet comic extremely offensive to Sikhs

By Daniel Dunbar

Today I woke up in an undisclosed location. My neck stabs into my thoughts. I am in physical pain because I fell asleep in a chair, on a desk. It has become more apparent than ever that our university lacks the adequate spaces required for students to thrive in their health. Our education system does… Continue reading Letter: A tower of possibility

By Rinaldi Gulinao

I believe that all the issues raised by Remi Watts in “No Place to Study… One Another” [Oct. 27, 2011] are part of student life and should be treated as natural obstacles meant to be surmounted even if just for character-building. While I would not discount any of the positive aspects of healthy sexual expression… Continue reading Letter: sexual maturity

By Dr. Dru Marshall

In response to the Gauntlet’s editorial about the closure of MacKimmie Library and students’ concerns about lack of quiet study space in the Taylor Family Digital Library [Oct. 27, 2011], I would like to provide some updated information on how the University of Calgary is responding to this matter. The university is aware of students’… Continue reading Letter: study space

By Chad Saunders

Andrew Varsanyi’s article [“Education must replace the censorship of music,” Jan. 20] about the recent Dire Straits ruling leaves out key facts that would have helped readers better understand the ramifications of this decision. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council is not a government agency — it is an independent organization set up by private broadcasting… Continue reading Letter: Radio censorship

By Cameron Wilson

The article by Jeffrey Spooner [“Israel’s wrongful treatment of Palestine,” Jan. 13] fails to accept one basic fact. Israel is a state at war. It is not merely in a state of war, but it is a state at war. As such it will take action to guarantee its security, this is simply the way… Continue reading Letter: Israel at war

By Zev Barnett

Editor, the Gauntlet, In your article [“Thirsting After Sanity,” Cam Cotton-O’Brien, March 26, 2009] you argue that by extension the right to life implies that humans have a right to water. This is a gross misunderstanding of what it means for an individual to have a right. The concept, properly understood, does not refer to… Continue reading Letter – Wrong about rights