Not all students represent ASU in the same way
Mr. Thomas asks us to correct him if he's wrong ("Intervention necessary," Nov. 10) when he asserts that student-athletes can be reprimanded for their behavior on and off campus, and therefore all students should. Well, he's wrong.
Athletes are much more high profile than the average student, [they] wear the University's logo on their chest/helmet/swimsuit and also have their entire college education paid for on top of living expenses, etc.
It's like comparing a vice president at a major company to a mailroom clerk. Just because both people work at the same company doesn't mean they represent their employer in the same way. Even that analogy isn't entirely accurate because both workers draw a salary.
The average student pays through the nose for every hour they spend on campus and goes through college without public mention. Those students don't deserve to have their personal life invaded when they are not beholden to ASU for anything (insert all perks athletes get).
--Cameron Eickmeyer
ASU alumnus
Shot at Sen. Kyl misses point
America's strength has always been as a melting pot. But that melting pot goes both ways, and Joaquin Rios' column ("French immigration problems spotlight our own," Nov. 10) seems to miss that.
Rios fails to understand that Sen. [Jon] Kyl's immigration plan encourages cultural mixing through legal immigration. Opportunities rather than dependence, stops human and drug trafficking and dissipates the ghettos of illegal [immigrants] and thus dissipates an underclass ready explode.
--Mike Jaskie
ASU student
Alito isn't an extremist
Noah Lewkowitz's column about Alito and Rosa Parks was completely tasteless ("Rosa Parks calls upon Alito," Nov. 8). An author who has to resort to comparing a Supreme Court nominee to Satan is obviously lacking any real arguments, since all he has to fall back on is childish name-calling.
Furthermore, the way Noah ignored all of the cases Alito has adjudicated except the ones that seem to prove his point just demonstrates how biased he is. Anyone who does even the smallest amount of research can see that Alito's record is a balanced one, not that of some far-right extremist.
For example, Noah cited the case where Alito denied asylum to an unmarried Chinese couple. But what about Fatin v. INS, Noah? In this ruling, Alito allowed an Iranian woman to claim asylum in this country because of the persecution she faced in Iran due to her gender, her feminist beliefs and her refusal to follow such gender-discriminating laws as the mandatory wearing of a veil.
That doesn't sound consistent with the twisted, one-sided portrait of Alito that Noah was trying to paint.
--Lauren Harmon
ASU student
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