Lumetta’s article vague, unsupportedMr. Lumetta, your most recent opinion article lacks focus, to put it lightly.  It’s nothing more than a blob of unsubstantiated and ambiguous statements.First, you call abortion a nonissue.  You then spend the rest of the article discussing sex and politics in America, going even so far as to call Obama “out of touch on abortion.”  You also write that Biden’s being a pro-choice Catholic is “out of touch.”  You never say what qualifies their views as out of touch though.  Does the fact that they’re pro-life mean they’re out of touch?  With whom are they out of touch?  What are you trying to say?  Do you have any polls or statistics to support your claim?  Didn’t you say that there’s no shortage of opinions on the topic?As for the parts of your blob pertaining to education, you say that birth control and STD prevention are for the “curious and irresponsible masses.”  Yet, in a contrived effort to appear moderate, you blame conservative policy for not providing “prevention for lifestyles that don’t fit the ideal model for abstinence.”  What does that mean?  I thought the ideal model for abstinence was abstinence; it’s a pretty linear concept.  Are you talking about laws preventing sexual intercourse?   Finally, you arrive at your lofty, vague conclusion: “America is, thanks to the Palin family, closer to a rational outlook on sex.”  You never clarify what a rational outlook is, though, or how it differs from the current outlook.  Should I wear a condom, not have sex, or choose any of a host of other options I have?  You simultaneously mock and support all sides. Although more can be said about the extremely amateurish way your article was written (not to mention the actual issues), you already have your hands full.  Shame on you and your editors for letting this abomination make it to print.  I sincerely hope you’re not a product of the Manship School of Mass Communication.Brian Stacymass communication sophomoreStudent body not all lazy hippiesAs I thumbed through my new Gumbo, I was quickly disappointed. If anyone else ever looks at this year’s edition, they will think University students are a group of pot smoking, sleeping on the parade grounds, bunch of no good hippies. I realize we are in college, but were the drugs really necessary? It just feels like this was just not a real representation of the general student body. You know on my side of the campus, we don’t just sleep and do drugs all day. We have to walk uphill in the snow, to and from class with no shoes on. Instead of someone with a hoodie over their face, you could have taken a picture of the Tiger Racing Team or the Concrete Canoe Team. Come on Gumbo, keep it classy.Paul Duhonmechanical engineering seniorMeeks uses offensive reference to N.O.Without even seeing the Gumbo, I would tend to agree with your assessment of this years edition.  HOWEVER, your reference to the “shanty town under I-10 in New Orleans” is pathetic and just as embarrassing to LSU as the poor oversight of the Gumbo.  It really takes a big man to make fun of homeless people (many handicap and disease-ridden) living under an overpass in the aftermath of the biggest disaster of our lifetime.  I would encourage you to visit the place and meet some of those people before you make any more sorry attempts at humor.  I, for one, have been there to pass out fresh fruit and it was a life-changing experience.  I hope you find your heart in the near future and put your excellent writing skills to use to represent this great university!Andrew N. HunterUniversity alumnus—-Contact The Daily Reveille’s opinion staff at [email protected]