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Investment Opportunity The letters to the editor about Sam Petersen's comic strip in the past edition of Chips baffled me. Contrary to what Professor Guy Nave believes, that "the issue is not about "political correctness." Mr. Nave is incorrect, because that is exactly what this is whole issue with racism concerning Chips staff member, Sam Petersen, and his comic is all about. This campus lives and breathes political correctness.

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Banc Of America Investment Does anyone on the Luther College campus honestly believe that Chips would devote two full pages out of their Homecoming issue to letters to the editor that were accusing a staff member or student of intolerance towards a person with Christian fundamentalist views rather than the subject of racial insensitivity? I am sorry, but that just would not happen.

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Banking Investment Another letter written by Krissy Haltinner, in response to one of the black comic book character's addressing another black character as "brother" is just plain over the top. Ms. Haltinner claims, "This sort of address indicates to me a belief in the right of the white student to enter the social world of the African American student." She goes on to explain her disgust with white people calling black people and other white people "brother" at various bars. Well many on this campus may like to restrict or even end free speech, but hopefully they will just leave their crusade to the campus of Luther College instead of the surrounding community and its drinking establishments.

I could go on forever about online comics. The idea of digital distribution has been percolating for a long, long time (interested parties should check out the work of comics scholar Scott McCloud .) Comic books, graphic novels, and especially comic strips (of the newspaper variety) served by traditional distribution systems for so long, it's criminal. Everyone agrees on the problem, but no one has yet come up with a broadly popular way to disseminate comics online in a format amenable to all.

Investment Solution Strategic Students and faculty also decided to make suggestions and demands upon the Luther Chips staff in their letters. Ms. Danai Mupotsa wrote a letter to the editor where she said, "An admission of responsibility and apology to all those offended, across race, class, gender, sexuality and religious boundaries is requested." Well Ms. Mupotsa, I am one of the hundreds of students on this campus who do NOT request an apology from Mr. Petersen or the Luther Chips staff.

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Investment Banking Services In fact, the only apology deserved here is to Mr. Petersen by Mr. Nave for accusing him of "thinking that all black men are "niggers." That sort of rhetoric is unbecoming itself and an accusation of its sort warrants apology. The assault on free speech and free thought on this campus has gone on long enough and I am sick and tired of a few people trying to tell me how I have to think and what I can say.

Bank Investment Whether these individuals are students or members of the staff, I find that this sort of behavior flies right in the face of what the college experience should be about. I hope that college life will return to what it is supposed to be about : the fluid exchange of ideas between people without constant concern for what they say.

Alternative Investment But, if this mini-escapade regarding a comic strip, of all things, is taken so out of proportion, then who knows if Luther College can ever become the type of institution that it is supposed to be again?

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