Despite Peter Borchers’ lackluster attempt to humor his readers by thrashing our beloved Lake LaVerne, he does prove a few things.

Yes, the university abuses it’s power and is very misleading but thanks to Borchers, we also know how desperate for opinion articles the Daily has become.

I know that central Iowa cannot compare with the many lakes of Minnesota.

By the hints of Borcher’s extreme hostility toward the term “lake,” only bodies of water the size of Lake Michigan need apply for the category.

So we rename it hole-with-some-rain-left-over LaVerne.

Than we reconsider all the lakes in Minnesota and decide to rename it the land of 10,000 ponds, swimming pools, hot tubs and outhouses.

I guess I question the concern over LAKE LaVerne’s name.

If it’s such a pressing issue among a lot of ISU students, I’ll be more than happy to change my opinion and be the first member of the Oct. 5th Movement to try to get the classification of LaVerne degraded from Lake to Plugged Hole.

Now that’s an issue.

I can take pride in Lake LaVerne. Sure it was cooler when it was bright green, but I still think it is humorous to see all the life that does survive in Lake LaVerne even if an over zealous ISU student cannot.

Adam Dickinson

Senior

Electrical engineering