Letters to the Editor

Government should stay out of sex ed

I agree with Katie Strickland that the government should stay
out of funding sexual education.

But to claim that the Bush administration is unjustly catering
to its base with its abstinence education policies is hypocritical
and absurd.

The government spends an estimated $144.1 million dollars
annually on abstinence education, while it spends $1.73 billion
dollars annually on contraception promotion and at least $330
million annually on funding abortions.

This means that spending on non-abstinence education and
resources outnumbers abstinence-education spending at a rate of
over 14 to 1.

Yet Strickland says that the religious right is abusing its
power and forcing its ideology on others?

Educating children and young adults about sex is not the job of
the government and neither is it the government’s job to
prevent young people from having sex.

It duty of parents and guardians duty to educate their children
on such matters.

The government should not be butting in from either side.

Gregory Moeck Fourth-year, computer science Chairman,
Bruin Republicans

Chalk graffiti ugly, disrespectful

Recently, our campus was the victim of a series of
“chalkings.”

From Campbell Hall to the Court of Sciences, many of our
beautiful buildings were suddenly covered in scrawled chalk letters
announcing the time and location of this week’s UC Regents
meeting.

Students were mostly annoyed by the ugly marks. Some, including
myself, were hurt that Bruins could disrespect our university
enough to graffiti it.

I overheard visitors saying they didn’t understand the
point of the chalkings, mistakenly thinking that our campus always
looks like this.

Student groups work diligently to come up with imaginative ways
of advertising their events; our 800 organizations thrive without
resorting to vandalism.

And who gets to clean up this mess?

Our custodial staff, who already work so hard to keep our
university clean; they will spend days scrubbing the walls.

The students responsible may not realize how disrespectful and
inconsiderate this action was, but I encourage all Bruins to take
more pride in our school in the future.

Marwa Kaisey Third-year, neuroscience President,
Undergraduate Students Association Council

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