Since the Thrift Shop has been in continuous operation since 1932, it is well-known in Ann Arbor and benefits from thousands of generous donations of high-quality, gently used clothing and household items each year. Resale prices average about $2 fo r a shirt and $5 for a suit.
Your next article on resale stores in Ann Arbor should include the Ann Arbor Thrift Shop.
Lorna Prescott
President, Ann Arbor Thrift Shop Association
MSA exists to represent students on campus, which includes the student groups in which many students are members. In this situation, MSA was not fulfilling its responsibilities during the summer months due to the lack of a mechanism to allocate fund s with a reduced attendance. United Asian American Organizations, the group that was attempting to make the request for funds at the time, was not even allowed to make their request. It is not an issue of whether they were going to receive the alloc ation or not. The group was not even allowed to appear before MSA. The support MSA is supposed to be giving is extremely lacking during the spring/summer terms.
This is significant considering that this constitutes one-third of the calendar year and many groups take this time to do work for the school year. This is an issue of concern for all student groups on campus.
Paolo Aquino
LSA senior
I think my roommate explained the situation best to me when he told me of his orientation experience. Some students were grumbling about affirmative action and the orientation leader explained to them that if the University only looked at personal performance, the University would be filled with mostly East Coast women. (Not that I have anything against East Coast women, in fact I would have no reservations in going to a school filled with them.)
However, getting back to my point, we should feel fortunate that we do have an ethnically diverse environment. In having quotas and whatnot, the University is not only giving minorities a better chance at a good education, but self-proclaimed "angry white males" as well.
Andrew Kim
LSA sophomore
Many of the stands that are made by people who oppose the morality of American conservatives interject their own morality into politics all of the time. Any anti-discrimination law relies on a moral principle that discrimination is wrong.
Other questions of morals in politics include welfare (and other redistributions of money), environmental protection and "animal rights." Even the Libertarian Party, a group that wants to reduce the government to almost nothing, takes a stand on mor ality; they state that the use of force in pursuing social objectives is immoral.
The bottom line is that any political question concerns what is right and what is wrong. The difference between political associations is not morality vs. amorality. The real difference is in which morality you choose to uphold.
Michael Enright
LSA first-year student
However, I am very disappointed in the way you covered the event. First, the title of the article is very false: "Discovery crew chases ailing Hubble." This is not true. The Hubble is not ailing at all. Instead, the Discovery crew is on a mission to replace some outdated instruments on the Hubble. Those instrument packages have been on the telescope since its initial launch and are being replaced with more advanced models.
Also, your last sentence states, " ... will try tomorrow to replace two of the shuttle's original scientific instruments." This may seem a bit picky, but it is the Hubble's instruments that are being replaced.
America's manned space program has gotten very little media coverage over the last couple of years. Please, when you do cover an event, be sure to get all your facts straight. I suggest you subscribe to the daily press releases from Kennedy Space Ce nter for day-to-day accurate information on the shuttle fleet.
Ed Van Cise
Engineering sophomore