Colleges should be places for civil debate, not intolerance | Letters
The nonprofit group, The Foundation for Individual's Rights and Expression, recently released their rankings of colleges and universities relative to how "free speech" is tolerated on their campuses. Harvard was ranked last of the 254 colleges surveyed, where only 25% of students feel comfortable disagreeing with their professors on political issues.
Unfortunately, the University of Cincinnati was ranked 220, so perhaps the leaders there should look into the criteria FIRE used in order to see where improvement needs to occur. College is supposed to be the place for spirited but civil debate on controversial topics, not the place where intolerance is born.
Don Roseboom, Hyde Park
Liberals always take their ball and go home when they lose
Regarding, "All Supreme Court decisions should be reviewed," (Sept. 7): The writer of this guest column showed his true colors when he said the current court is "devoid of ethics, dismissive of the rights of anyone not white, male, rich, Christian or homosexual." I'd guess that he loved it when the court had a liberal bent and treated the Constitution as a "living, breathing document" and cases like Roe v. Wade were not decided on the law (Where does the Constitution say abortion is a right?) but, rather, on how the wind was blowing at the time. Liberals always take their ball and go home when the game isn't played on their terms.
Marvin Owens, Liberty Township
No decision by any court will ever be liked by everyone
Regarding, "All Supreme Court decisions should be reviewed," (Sept. 7): The article was interesting but flawed. The author wants to review Supreme Court decisions by other unelected judges in hopes that the decisions with which he disagrees will be overturned as those decisions are presumably the result of so-called conservative judges, as he put it. But what if the review by these other unelected judges overturns a prior Supreme Court decision with which he agreed? Is he then going to ask to review that decision also because he does not like it? Where does it end?
The system we have is not perfect but needs to stand, as no decision by any court will ever be liked by everyone. Believe me, I know. As an attorney, I have been there.
Peter Ulbrich, Union Township
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