In response to the editorial in Monday's The State Press, only four football players were at fault for the loss against UA. I applaud head coach Dirk Koetter for penalizing the four players who broke the rules before Friday's game. He has shown a precedent that all players will know to follow or else...
Those four players should be ashamed of themselves for letting their coach, teammates, fans and themselves down in one of the most important games of the season.
Don't point fingers at Koetter, Miller or anyone else on the team; only four are responsible and they should apologize to everyone who was affected.
--Mike Hofferman
ASU student
ASU wrongs CLS
I agree that ASU's policy is discriminatory to the Christian Legal Society. As I see it, the policy is forcing its code of ethics on the CLS's beliefs. In other words, a state-run institution is telling a religious institution how it should believe. That in my opinion is a violation of separation of church and state.
This is exactly why the Constitution was written the way it was: to protect religions from persecution and oppression.
I don't think their policy is taking anyone's rights away. People are still allowed to believe what they want; the CLS isn't forcing anyone to believe the way they do. But the current policy is.
--Sebastian Patterson
asu student
ASU no place for religious segregation
My dear friends from the CLS:
You have the full right to handpick your own members and to remove any gay person and any other form of "infidel" from your group. For all I care, you can even start burning crosses -- while you stay off campus.
Maybe you have not realized it, but this is a public institution. Personally I agree that this is a free country and you have the right to create all kinds of clubs, but since I do not care about Jesus or the Bible, I do not wish for my tuition payments to support such a group.
So you do have the freedom to select your members, and do whatever you want as long as it does not harm anyone else, but you have to accept the fact that this state university is not responsible to give you any monetary support, and personally I think they should not even give you any rooms to meet on campus.
I believe in a strict separation of church, mosque, synagogue and forest huts for Wicca meetings from the government -- including state-sponsored universities, public offices, etc.
God and government do not mix, nor do God and education. We have seen what happens under those circumstances in Afghanistan with the Taliban and back in the day during the Spanish Inquisition. Our education system should be fully secularized, and if you have issues with that, go to Grand Canyon University; they are church sponsored, and they might even let you build your own church on campus.
Just stay away from here unless you are ready to educate everyone regardless of race, sex, religion, sexuality and whatever other hobbies wannabe members might have.
--Edhem Sadikovic
ASU Student
Isn't it ironic?
Am I the only person who finds it ironic that a Christian group is suing because they feel ASU's anti-discrimination policy discriminates against their right to discriminate against homosexuals? Wait, W.W.J.D. (What Would Jesus Do?)
--Samuel Burke
ASU student
Campus housing not for all students
Messner makes very good points in her column about not living on campus. What I find ironic is that you are more protected by the government when you live off campus than when you live on their property.
For example, when living in any normal rental situation, you are protected by the Arizona Landlord and Tenant Act, which is extremely beneficial to tenants (when they know their rights). But when you live on campus and are renting from the state, you have few rights whatsoever.
Also, if you are underage and get caught by the police with a beer at your own apartment or house, you get a ticket.
...Plus, Residential Life's image is becoming more and more negative. At this rate, ASU is going to go from a waiting list to having to beg people to live on campus. Or, they'll just make it mandatory for freshmen and they'll lose their students altogether.
Raising tuition plus forcing people to live on campus plus strict rules equals no students.
It all ads up, and Crow probably won't realize it until it is too late.
--Matthew Moellering
ASU student
