In Lucia Bill's [Jan. 31] article, she attacked the new wave of "faux-charity" bracelets flooding the market today. Indeed, that is a little silly.
However, she made a glaring mistake that I think needs rectification. The LIVE WRONG bracelet that she knocked is indeed a valid charity item, with proceeds going to Flagstaff Biking, which is working on cycling issues in Flag and Coconino County in general.
While you run a fine ship when it comes to journalism, SP, it is obvious you don't know much about cycling.
--Carl Blackstone
education graduate student
Expanding on Davis' message
In his editorial arguing against combat roles for women, Christopher Davis remarks: "As the female body count rises, America will realize it is now a country willing to sacrifice its daughters as well as its sons on an altar of ideals and greed."
Call it sexist, cruel or otherwise pessimistic if you like, but perhaps the idea of hundreds of young American females in body bags is exactly the sort of horrific imagery this nation needs in order to realize that it's time for an end to our dangerously simplistic "democratize-or-else" foreign policy.
--Ernest Souhrada
mathematics and political science senior
