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Write a letter instead of stealing the newspapers

TO THE DAILY:

I'm tired of hearing the word racism brought up every time the Daily prints an unfavorable article about someone or something that just happens to be minority- related. Enough is enough. For weeks, we have been reading letters written to the Daily in protest of something that cartoonist Jim Lasser has created. One can barely go a day without reading charges of racism against him and the Daily.

I'd like to remind people that Lasser is a satirist -- he pokes fun at everything and everybody without exception. That is a satirist's job. If you read the Daily every day, as I do, then you would know that Lasser makes fun of anything that's recently been deemed newsworthy: women, men, minorities, majorities, government, politicians, the University and, occasionally, himself. He portrays one point of view one day, and another point of view another day. People need to stop being so sensitive.

Instead of taking offense if a group you are associated with happens to be the target of his witty pen one day, maybe you should take notice that the cartoon is saying, "Hey, there are people who feel this way about you. Maybe you should do something and try to change their opinions." Writing a letter to the paper, as many did in their displeasure with Lasser's caricatures, is one way of doing this. Stealing half of the papers in circulation is not.

Yesterday, I picked up the Daily to again see charges of racism against the Daily splashed across the front page. I would like to ask the people charging the paper with racism why they think that the press has only the right to print favorable articles when the subject is a minority, because that is what their actions are saying to me. Please try and change my opinion. Thanks.

JEN JUBENVILLE

LSA JUNIOR