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Letter to the editor: Several takeaways from last week

Letter to the editor: Several takeaways from last week

[email protected] December 3, 2015

Regarding the Clock Tower Accords: Apply a simple test. Ask if each of the initiatives would make a noticeable difference to a poor African-American teen, north of Delmar. For items that fail that test,...

Professor Paul Bracher: Letter to the Editor

[email protected] October 2, 2014

Re: A Letter to the Editor Regarding an Article from Your Sept. 25th Issue    Dear Editor,    Being physically disabled, I read your September 25th story on the Allies of Inclusion...

Letter to the Editor: Greek Response

Letter to the Editor: Greek Response

[email protected] September 18, 2014

After reading the Opinion article in last week’s paper, I feel a responsibility to respond. I have been noticing on social media, mostly on Facebook, that many within the SLU community are disrespectfully...

Response to The Oriflamme revolution

[email protected] September 11, 2014

Personally, I feel as if the message portrayed in the Sept. 4 article gave a sincere misrepresentation of the purpose of Oriflamme. Oriflamme members are more than happy to give of themselves freely for...

A response to the mandatory sexual assault talk for the Greek community

[email protected] January 30, 2014

By Becky Killian, Junior, Urban Affairs major in College of Arts and Sciences   Presentations concerning sexual assault frustrate me. The audience at these “dialogues” is always defensive...

Jesuit discloses letter criticizing Biondi

[email protected] May 2, 2013

On July 4, 2010, I sent a letter to the Jesuit leadership of the Missouri Province of the Society of Jesus regarding my experience as a faculty member in SLU's Department of History and as a Jesuit living...

Unfairly overlooking big business, despite its benefits

[email protected] May 2, 2013

Despite the common misconception that large businesses only have negative effects on small businesses, they actually do tremendous amounts of good. Creating a large quantity of jobs and selling products...

A plea for civil discourse amid leadership crisis at SLU

[email protected] April 25, 2013

I’d like to make a plea to those most engaged with the debate over the leadership crisis at SLU. Perhaps in some instances over the last several months, those advancing criticisms of the upper administration...

Drilling practices pose danger to nation’s health

[email protected] April 25, 2013

I am very concerned with our government’s current, lax regulations on certain natural gas-drilling practices, especially hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The fracking industry has repeatedly received...

SGA president emeritus sets record straight

[email protected] April 18, 2013

In his April 11 commentary (“Fr. Veltrie responds to Dr. Parker”), Fr. Jim Veltrie, SJ, a family friend, mentioned me as representative of people who have moved on from the no-confidence vote in 1999...

Jesuits seek to transform University in spirit of Gospels

[email protected] April 11, 2013

In “Biondi No ‘Scrooge on Christmas’” (April 4 issue of The University News), Prof. Ken Parker understandably invites Jesuits to take a clear public stand during the present situation. We are...

Foreign aid benefits US and recipients alike

[email protected] April 11, 2013

As the dreaded “sequestration” word continues bouncing around the halls of Congress and down the streets of America, we should remember that just as it takes a buck to make a buck, it may very well...

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