You want more Republican professors? ("Welcome to Leftist University" Sept. 5, 2005) Persuade President Richard Brodhead to hire them and persuade them to teach here.
Or perhaps you'll change the views of our current faculty, with strong arguments based on facts rather than belief, truth rather than ideal. You are displeased that some students chose to support the Palestinian Solidarity Movement? Seek them out and persuade them to believe as you do. Question their beliefs, let them question yours and may the stronger argument win.
Keep writing your columns, Stephen Miller-you are fortunate enough to reside in an academic community that affords you the opportunity to do so, however "leftist" it may be. You may attempt to persuade as many people as you like that your views are truth and that views contrary to them are not. So may the professors you mention in your article. I and every other open-minded individual encourage both you and them to try.
Daniel Cook
Trinity '08
Conservatives hide nothing
Jeffrey Vaughn's letter "Court confirmation hearings matterâ_s" (Sept. 8, 2005) has reaffirmed my belief that the only value liberals hold dear is duplicity.
William Rehnquist was a man who had ideals and defended them. He was unambiguously opposed to abortion, racial preference programs, gun control laws and the most central tenets of the Democratic Party. Why are Democrats clamoring, in their classic doublespeak, to honor a man more conservative than their scapegoat George W. Bush? They have insidiously misused Rehnquist's passing to delay the confirmation of John Roberts.
Unfortunately, the realization is slowly seeping through thick liberal skulls that Roberts' only crime, in their eyes, is being pro-American. Liberals know they are in trouble when CNN is writing about his "correct grammar and spelling." Actually, Roberts graduated from Harvard with top grades in both undergraduate and law school, while co-editing the Harvard Law Review, playing football, serving on the student council, writing award-winning essays and accruing many other honors.
I suppose Ann Coulter already said it best: "The essence of being liberal: The absolute conviction that there is one set of rules for you, and another, completely different set of rules for everyone else." Once again, liberals are hoping Americans will not identify with a prominent deceased conservative, as happened with Reagan. Just in case, they have ignored the fact that Rehnquist was their philosophical antagonist, just so they can "honor" him by delaying Roberts' conformation hearing. The convenience with which liberals vacillate must be comforting.
One more point. I am glad that Vaughn called on the American public to review Roberts, even though confirmation is an executive privilege, not a privilege of Nancy Pelosi or you or me. If the American people were more scrupulous and did not embrace bland liberal platitudes about Bush's responsibility for everything from terrorist hijackers to the weather (and believe me, they do-I was at the RNC protest in New York), they will come to realize conservatism is about the people, our people, and not the French, and we would be talking about the swing states Vermont and Massachusetts, not Ohio and Florida. Conservatives have nothing to hide. Another Ruth Bader Ginsburg, however, and I would advise you to worry about the government meddling in your life.
Jeremy Marshall
Trinity '08
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