To the Editor of Chips:

As I read the Chips article about the proposed wind turbine, I was finally able to verbalize what it is that has been bothering me about Luther College. In the article, Professor Martin-Schramm is quoted as saying, “Around that time [Philosophy professor] Jon Jensen and I took students up to the ribbon cutting of Carleton’s new wind turbine.

Coming into the role of Student Senate President is a hard thing to do. In many ways, I wish I knew then what I know now: there is an endless array of challenges the student body faces in letting their voices be effectively heard. It isn’t people that stand in our way, don’t get me wrong. President Torgerson and the entire administration are genuinely concerned with student life at Luther.

We are very pleased to have the opportunity to clarify, in general, the representation of student diversity on Student Senate.

There are six Diversity Representatives on Senate. These individuals are elected by the entire student body - they appear on the same sheet used in the elections to check mark votes for President, VP, Secretary/ Treasurer and Class Reps.

Even authority can be bootlegged. Greg Lonning and the CCAC are doing a grand job of it.

Regarding the ELCA Sexuality Statement article, published March 12, 2009, I was supremely disappointed with the analysis of PRIDE’s position on the issue. Being the interviewee, representing the student organization, I feel the need to clarify my words for the author and audience of the article.

Dear Luther College,

We’d like to make the Luther community aware of two different campus issues that seem different on the surface but have the same root cause.

Hey! We have a new president-elect that I didn’t vote for: Barack Obama. In all sincerity, I wish his administration the best of luck and congratulate all those who worked on his campaign for a fight hard fought. But, given our changing political climate and the fact that this week is Freedom Week, it’s time to be on the watch.

I would like someone to rationalize this contradiction for me: why is it that the same people who preach peace, love and tolerance also buy into this society’s strange fascination with and admiration of militant radicalism, namely, Che Guevara. Why is Che Guevara a fashion icon and a symbol of being hip and with it?

My fellow Norse,

As a Luther College Republican, I know I am in the minority. I’m not disputing that fact whatsoever. I knew that this was one of the most liberal colleges when I made the decision to come here and also when I recently joined the Luther College Republicans student group.

We are writing to alert the Luther community of several incidents that have happened over the past few months. Each of these incidents has an overtone that is unwelcoming and should concern us.

Upon reading Sam Wiles’ article I must admit I was left perplexed and intrigued. This was due to his use of arguments and words that had been cunningly fashioned to sound like they mean something, something important and compelling, but which upon careful analysis can be exposed as mere bull. With that said, I must say this article is in no way an attack on Mr. Wiles, his character or his intellect (both of which I hold in high esteem). Rather, it is an analysis of the faulty logic employed by Mr. Wiles in his article “Missing the Mark on the Markswoman”.

The front-page article printed in Chips (Vol. 130, No. 21) regarding trayless week was misleading, to say the least. Dealing with statistics often is, as it can be difficult to know what exactly your data is telling you. There are a number of issues that must be addressed to draw any sort of reasonable conclusions that this study failed to look at in any way.

To the Editor, Kate Stebbins and the Luther Community:

As members of the Residence Life staff, we would like to take this opportunity to respond to a few of the concerns that were raised in an April 10 letter to the editor.