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Letter to the Editor
Issue date: 11/4/09 Section: Opinion
This letter is in response to "Would you watch your friend get gang raped?" that was published on Oct. 28.
After the recent Richmond gang rape I really got to thinking to myself, "How could this happen in this day and age? How are people willing to sit by and let something so horrific happen to an individual and stand by and do nothing about it?" Everyone will say that if they were there they would of been the one acting on the action, but I find myself feeling this is actually false. Would those 10 individuals who stood by and let it happen of said the same thing if asked prior to the incident, I believe they would of. Perhaps the girl was dressed improper, perhaps she was "asking for it," but regardless of all of this, what happened to the girl should not be tolerated.
Evan Bader, SJSU senior, Public Relations major
This letter is in response to "Transgender students finds support at SJSU" that was published on Oct. 28.
The article called "Transgender students finds support at SJSU" simply struck me. That is the first time in my entire life that I see an article about this subject taking such a great importance in a newspaper (notably by the fact that it makes the front page). Of course, this is a sign of open-mindedness, but I also perceive it as a political act. This shows to the students how people can be different and how they can be happy when this difference is understood and accepted. This is a matter of general understanding and acceptation, it is a way to teach university's students and staff that they have to be more sensitive to people's differences. They have to learn how to get rid of stereotypes and perceive these so-called differences as being simply another way to live; this other way to live is not better or worst than any other one. This is just what they are, what we are.
By deciding to give this importance to this article, the Spartan Daily has allowed people to think about a "silent" subject, and about diversity on campus. This is how you can go further into the issue of diversity, and this should be done by every newspapers.
Hugo Fonseca, SJSU French exchange student
After the recent Richmond gang rape I really got to thinking to myself, "How could this happen in this day and age? How are people willing to sit by and let something so horrific happen to an individual and stand by and do nothing about it?" Everyone will say that if they were there they would of been the one acting on the action, but I find myself feeling this is actually false. Would those 10 individuals who stood by and let it happen of said the same thing if asked prior to the incident, I believe they would of. Perhaps the girl was dressed improper, perhaps she was "asking for it," but regardless of all of this, what happened to the girl should not be tolerated.
Evan Bader, SJSU senior, Public Relations major
This letter is in response to "Transgender students finds support at SJSU" that was published on Oct. 28.
The article called "Transgender students finds support at SJSU" simply struck me. That is the first time in my entire life that I see an article about this subject taking such a great importance in a newspaper (notably by the fact that it makes the front page). Of course, this is a sign of open-mindedness, but I also perceive it as a political act. This shows to the students how people can be different and how they can be happy when this difference is understood and accepted. This is a matter of general understanding and acceptation, it is a way to teach university's students and staff that they have to be more sensitive to people's differences. They have to learn how to get rid of stereotypes and perceive these so-called differences as being simply another way to live; this other way to live is not better or worst than any other one. This is just what they are, what we are.
By deciding to give this importance to this article, the Spartan Daily has allowed people to think about a "silent" subject, and about diversity on campus. This is how you can go further into the issue of diversity, and this should be done by every newspapers.
Hugo Fonseca, SJSU French exchange student
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