Students should get ticket priority
This weekend, almost 4,000 students stood in line, swiped their student IDs and went home hoping and begging to get one of the only 1,500 tickets allotted to the students of LSU for the SEC Championship Game. Most woke up Tuesday morning to find out that they had not received tickets and it will be near impossible for them to go to the game.
The Ticket Office had already sold 16,000 tickets just a few days before to Season Ticket holders and top dollar contributors. Don’t get me wrong, these people are important to the success of LSU Athletic Programs, and they should be given a strong allotment of tickets. But the bottom-line is, students should be taken care of first. Without students, there is no
football team, there is no school, and there isn’t a reason to even have season ticket holders. The die-hard LSU fans of yesterday had their chances while they were in college, now let us have ours. We are in college for only a short time, and the students who want to get the most out of college, and make it to these once-in-a-lifetime experiences, should be given the chance to do so.
Kyle Wilkinson
senior
ISDS
‘Land of the free’
is for everyone
I am writing this letter in response to Jason Dore’s article in the Nov. 25, edition of The Reveille. He stated that he was speaking for the silent majority when he said that he opposed gay marriage.
He gave a Harris/CNN/Time poll as an example that most Americans disagree with gay marriage (60 percent). I wanted to take this time to point out that there was a time in American history when the majority of Americans agreed that slavery was OK, and a great way to work a plantation.
Also, there was a time when a majority of Americans felt that women shouldn’t have the right to vote.
Furthermore, for years it was considered inappropriate for members of different ethnic groups or religions to intermarry.
We then realized that such beliefs were severely infringing on the civil rights of these people. Public opinions often shift, especially in a society such as ours where we are committed to creating equal opportunities and freedoms for all people.
Currently, communities around the world are recognizing that sexual minorities are being marginalized, and members of these communities are working to correct this mistake.
Most recently, it was the decriminalization of certain private sexual acts. It is merely a matter of time before our society recognizes that homosexual citizens of this country deserve the same rights and benefits that its heterosexual citizens receive. The fact is that while marriage may have begun as an institution designed primarily for the rearing of children, it has evolved into much more.
Legally married heterosexual couples enjoy medical and insurance benefits, parenting rights, assets transfer rights and protections, social security benefits, as well as 1,049 other rights, benefits, and protections that are systematically denied to homosexual families.
This level of discrimination should not be tolerated by any citizen of this country who takes pride in calling themselves a part of the “land of the free.”
Until all citizens can embrace the opportunity for these freedoms equally, we cannot truthfully refer to ourselves as the “land of the free.”
Jake Leslie
junior
fashion merchandising
Jon Richardson
senior
general studies
No human can judge another human
I am responding to recent letters in The Reveille regarding who is going to hell. I think this is a good time to discuss what is taught by most religions.
C.S. Lewis states that there is a hell and God is so merciful that he created it for people who want to be independent of God to the bitter end. In a sense one sends oneself to hell because one does not want anything to do with God. Other Theologians have taught that no one knows how “free” any one person’s free will is. We all have to deal with compulsions and problems that are associated with our created psyche and with the environment of our upbringing. Many believe that even at the moment of death, God comes to those who have not used their free will to choose him or have not been able to have a free will choice, and gives them a final chance. Therefore, no human being can judge the heart or soul of another human being and know that the person is “hell-bound.”
Michael Keenan
associate professor
human ecology