I am writing these words in regard to the letter sent yesterday, by Mr. Brad Lozan.

Before I start, Mr. Lozan, I hope this doesn’t seem like a personal attack. It is just a different side of an issue.

In the letter you sent to the editor yesterday (Apr. 16), you asked Mr. Bernstein to “address your concerns to the people who you are discussing by name rather than by insinuating it is an entire race of people who do useless things with their time.” Well, Mr. Lozan, what is your definition of useless?

History has sited many examples of individuals who didn’t agree with the way they were being treated. Time and time again, they realized that even though “Machiavelli” felt that the majority would always dictate the norms, they didn’t have to sit down and take it. Change in society has occurred due to the millions who had the guts to change it.

I disagree with how you feel that the “Beardshear Eight” isn’t called the “Beardshear 12,” or even the “Beardshear 100,” due to the fact that there aren’t really that many people that care. I think the number is so small, because, there are not enough individuals (including myself), that have the inner drive to step out of their comfort zone and demand change.

I ask you, what would be an issue that you would stand up for? What would be an issue that wouldn’t seem to be trivial? The needs of the handicapped? The state of the school system in America? The continued inequality of the woman in the workplace? I ask you, when do you suggest would be a good time to address these issues? After you’ve graduated? After your children are put through school?

You recently ran to be president of the GSB. If you won, you would then be the voice of those who did not get a chance to speak. I ask you, whose concerns would you have addressed? If any?

I disagree with your Smurf-like-happy-happy-joy-joy view of this university. Yes, I am getting a quality education. But, there are ways that this university handles issues that really bother me. If it isn’t the “Beardshear Eight” trials, it is the way the university put on their blinders in regard to Kenny Pratt; the way they chose to lallygag around the slaying of Harold Sellers, an “individual incident,” by the way. These are injustices that occur, that I, as a human being, will not just ignore. I know I am not alone with this view. Minority or not.

In the future, Mr. Lozan, you do not have to feel it necessary to speak for us. Injustices tend to speak for themselves.

Jacob Varghese

Sophomore

Early Childhood Education