The Princeton Review rankings certainly are bogus, but not for the reason suggested in Wednesday's story("Parties, profs students get low marks")--the fact that only a few hundred ASU students were surveyed.
A survey's error margin isn't dependent on what percentage of the larger population is surveyed; a perfectly valid survey of ASU students could be done with only a few hundred respondents.
The real problem with the Princeton Review survey is that it wasn't a random sample of ASU students, but instead a self-selected sample. In other words, the responses only came from students who felt like responding.
As such, the reported results are meaningless.
Steve Doig
FACULTY
More than one facet to the abortion debate
Thank you for properly identifying the Students for Life group as "anti-abortion."
I hope that in future articles you will properly identify The Students for Choice group as "pro-abortion."
If the topic is abortion and one side is being identified for being against it, it only seems fair that the group on the other side be identified for being for it.
As far as I know, Students for Choice does not advocate the choices of parenting, co-parenting, marriage or adoption--simply the highly controversial procedure called abortion.
On the other hand, Students for Life promotes the many other choices women have, and holds fundraisers to support organizations such as maternity homes, adoption agencies and low-cost health clinics.
Risha Brown
NAU ALUMNA
Attack on Ginsburg unfair
To respond to Mr. Pancier's challenge (in Wednesday's State Press) to Mr. Ginsburg to "go and live there with the real Cubans," I would suggest Mr. Pancier do the closest legal thing: dedicate a couple hours of his life to read María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno's "Reyita," a "real Cuban" autobiography from the 95 year old who saw it all and lived to write about it.
I would like to ask (Mr. Pancier) what the average Cuban's life was like before the people's revolution. I am not sure that you know, Mr. Pancier, about the time when the island was more or less owned by American business interests who had all but enslaved the Cuban people.
I can comment because I have lived in three Latin American countries in separate stages of American business enslavement, the same that Castro had to overcome for his people. I have lived with "real" people who suffer from the injustices that Castro overcame.
I would like to ask him why he is writing his letter to the editor and commenting on propaganda when all he knows about Cuba is written and paid for by the capitalist Cuban lobby in Florida, who unfortunately lost their mansions and fortunes to Castro's and the people's revolution.
Bradley Grauberg
CLASS OF 2007
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