Letters to the Editor

Arts does not address local events

To the Daily:
Once again, I find disappointment. Once again, I find no satisfaction. Once again, I find a section of the University's student newspaper that is of no appeal to students.

How can you live with yourselves, knowing that only a chosen few actually care about the albums of some no-name, non-up-and-coming, crappy band that you choose to review? How can you live with yourselves, knowing that the concert you are writing about, that "oh, so great" show that you are previewing, will never be seen by most of the students on this campus, because they have no reliable form of transportation to make the trek out to Detroit to see it?

Why not make a commitment to the University for once? In my past five years here, I have tried to help the student-run arts community gain a better foothold at the University and every year, I have run up against a student-run newspaper that continues to look away, continues to give the cold shoulder. As a recent graduate, I hoped that the new staff of The Daily would make some changes for next year. Looking at the summer orientation edition - the very first edition of The Daily that incoming students will see - I see those hopes fade away. Looking at the pages of arts articles unrelated to the University, I lose my faith.

Why do I care, you ask? Why do I write this to you, when I'm not going to be around here anymore?

Because I love the University. Because I care about the University. Because I value everything that has to do with the University. Because my blood runs maize and blue and I can't live with a University community that doesn't feel the same, and I can't live with a student newspaper that says it is devoted to University students, and yet really isn't.

The sports section has made a great commitment to the University. Can the arts section do the same? Is there leadership of that magnitude under that division? From what I've seen, I doubt it. But I could be wrong ...

Surprise me.

Lyell E. Haynes
University Alumnus

Not all students support affirmative action

To the Daily:
This letter is in reference to the recent debate on campus about affirmative action. In my opinion, there is an extremely vocal group of people who strongly advocate affirmative action. Backed up by the University administration, it gives the impression that the entire campus is in support of affirmative action. This is definitely not the case.

As evidence, I would like to point out that not a single Defend Affirmative Action Party candidate won election to MSA, as reported by The Daily. The message that University students sent through these elections is that they do not support affirmative action. MSA and the University administration should take this as a direct mandate from the students to cease their pro-affirmative action efforts as these efforts do not reflect the wishes of the students as a whole.

Drew Picciafoco
LSA Junior

07-06-98

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