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Viewpoints
Letters to the Editor
Are we learning the right things?
Yes, we’re funding both sides of the war on
terror. Global warming is real. Our economy
and society are experiencing socioeconomic
decline. Our court systems are overfilled with
domestic violence cases.
But are there realistic solutions to these
problems? Is there something we might be
learning, discussing, or “God Forbid,” actu
ally doing to solve these problems? The
answer to all of these questions is yes. But
why aren’t we, as students, being taught about
these solutions?
The renowned philosopher and psycholo
gist Jean Piaget once noted, “...the process of
education should compel individuals to create
new futures, not merely reproduce the past.”
Ask yourself, after all of this supposed educa
tion you’re receiving, “Do 1 feel compelled to
create anew? Am I being taught how?”
1 would argue that the answer to both is
“no.” First: because of what must be taught.
In order to receive accreditation and keep
Seahawks on par with other students nation
ally, “chapters 1-12 must be covered,” leaving
almost no time to discuss creative solutions.
Sorry, that’s just the way it goes.
But the second reason why the answer is
“no” is something you can address. It involves
parental/intuitional/Fox News political cor
rectness, and the desire to shield and protect
you from dangerous people - broadly defined
as anyone who might challenge the status quo,
or blind reproduction of the past.
In today’s PC world, these people exist
as the pair of antithesis, the ends of the bell
curve. The anti-get-along types who look at
the world as it is and say, “We can do better.”
Dangerous people yes, why? Is it because
they seek to teach you how to create anew?
Diversity means DI-VERS-ITY. We should be
wary of those who seek only to protect us, by
really asking ourselves “From what?”
Christopher Faust
Wilmington
Immoral ideas
dominate talk of
tolerance, diversity
Proponents of diversity have to be the
most intolerant people on this earth. “Accept
our views about every issue or be punished.”
The use of Jesus in your article, “Alpha Iota
Omega forgets central tenets of Christianity,”
was downright low. Yes, he did walk among
the immoral, but he stated clearly that unless
they changed their ways, they would be no
part of his kingdom. Nice of you to leave that
important part out.
Clearly you are pushing your agenda of
no morality. Maybe they should be required
to also allow people who believe in molest
ing children, people who believe that rape is
perfectly normal, and Nazi lovers who still
want all Jewish people dead, and those people
should be able to vote and hold office in
the organization and determine its direction.
Diversity has blinded you and makes you
seem like an idiot.
cowleyj@msn.com
Varsity athletics
should trump IM
I am an avid reader of the Seahawk and
have never really had a problem with what
you choose to publish until now. The question
I want to ask is this; when was the last time
you published anything about the swimming
and diving team that didn’t involve the haz
ing incident? I know it has been at least three
issues.
Did you publish anything about the swim
team when both the men’s and women’s
team beat ACC team Duke University, which
was also the senior meet? Did you publish
anything about their tough loss to ECU?
No, nothing was published for either meet.
What was published in its place? Intramural
basketball.
I would have dismissed this as a minor
problem; however, you again failed to publish
anything on the teams’ largest meet of the
year, the CAA championships. Nothing was
published about the men’s team winning its
fourth consecutive CAA title. More impor
tantly, despite everything they went through
this year, the women’s team missed winning
Seahawk Staff Opinion
Discrimination
still not okay
Last week, we printed an editorial about
UNC-CH’s controversial Christian frater
nity, Alpha Iota Omega. It might seem that
we just wanted to fill our editorial inbox with
hate mail, but that’s not the case.
The letter printed to the lower left echoes
the opinion of UNCW’s own Dr. Mike Ad
ams. Adams regularly publishes a column on
townhall.com.
Last week, Adams took issue with our
staff editorial. This is nothing new. (In fact,
it might make good policy that if we haven’t
drawn Adams’ ire with our Op/Ed page at
least once per semester, we’re not doing our
job. He kind of throws his ire around.)
Adams asserts that we believe that “stu
dents who believe that rape and pedophilia
are good must be allowed to join, vote, and
hold office in a Christian fraternity.”
Our earth-shaking answer: They should.
The one incontrovertible legal point at
the center of the Alpha Iota Omega debate is
that AIO is an official student organization,
funded by student fees. And, thank God-no
pun intended - it’s University policy that or
ganizations funded by student fees should be
open to all students, without discrimination
of any kind. End of story.
But more importantly, why bar non-
Christians? What are Christians doing in this
fraternity that others shouldn’t be privy to?
The bigger question: How paranoid do
you have to be to believe that a group of neo-
Nazis is going to take over your Christian
fraternity? Clearly, if the university allows
any student to join AIO, it will soon be over
run by baby-eating street thugs who vote out
the Christian leadership.
It’s this kind of us-versus-them mental
ity that polarizes so much of the nation into
quibbling idiots, certain that theif “side” is
right and is the target of a vast conspiracy
(see townhallcom). The fact of the matter is
that the overwhelming number of students
who might want to join a Christian fraternity
would likely want to do so for noble reasons.
And the use of Jesus’ example in our pre
vious editorial was hardly low. Nobody as
serts that said baby-eating sfreet thugs would
be a “part of [Jesus’] kingdom,” But Chris
tians are called to spread the Word and reach
out to non-Christians, AIO forgets that when
they close their doors to non-Christians,
see LETTER page 5