GROWING INTO OUR OWN
(In response to Isabelle Novak’s Feb. 17 column, “School in the city.”)
I ask that you keep something in mind about the Downtown campus: We are a new and growing campus. We have not been fully established yet.
Secondly, if there are no diverse clubs, have you started one?
If you go around the Tempe campus on the weekends, you will see about 100 students in the Memorial Union and about 20 crows roaming the campus.
This campus is still growing. We are getting ready to start expansions to different buildings downtown to grow with us.
You act as if Tempe is in another state. It takes 30 minutes on the Light Rail, 15 if you have your car to get there. And let’s face it, the reason most students really want to go to Tempe is to party! I go to Tempe to have fun as well, but I also stay downtown.
I urge you and your other staff at The State Press, especially whatever editor allowed you to publish this, to explore YOUR downtown campus and the city around it. There is definitely a lot of things to do around here.
Marcus Jones II
Staetpress.com reader
A WELL THOUGHT-OUT PLAN
(In response to David Colthart’s Feb. 16 column, “Ron Paul’s dangerous pacifism.”)
In fact Dr. Paul has thought through the consequences of non-interventionism very well and thoroughly.
Considering that every bad thing that happened to America in foreign policy has been “blowback” from interventionism, I think it’s safe to say the results would be universally good or very close to it.
Non-intervention would, for instance, lower petrol prices, reduce hostility to America — and even to Israel — in the Middle East, reduce the power of Islamists and the danger of their taking over Pakistan. It’s all good.
Mick Price
Statepress.com reader
