Letter: You should go to the International Dinner
Shagufta Sami, IC Columnist
March 18, 2015
Filed under Letters, Opinion
The International Student Association invites all students, staff and faculty to the 39th-annual International Dinner gala on March 21 in the Student Union Auditorium at 7 p.m. The great thing about college is that everybody is different. Each individual creates a diversity that exposes you to cultures... Read more »
Letter: UTDivest
Students for Justice in Palestine
March 5, 2015
Filed under Letters, Opinion
We at #UTDivest have overcome much adversity in bringing our divestment resolution to the student body. Though our movement has been misrepresented and slandered as aggressive and discriminatory, we simply are here to promote ethical investments by the University of Toledo. As students, we have a right... Read more »
Letter: ‘Truth-Telling Weekend’ in Ferguson
Carla J. Pattin
March 4, 2015
Filed under Letters, Opinion
As a graduate student in Theory and Social Foundations Program, I want to invite all UT students, faculty, and staff to “Truth Telling Weekend” in Ferguson and downtown St. Louis, Missouri. The dates are March 13-15, 2015. My classmates and I encourage our UT family to use this alternative spring... Read more »
Letter: The new hiring plan will lead to excess work for lecturers
Linda Rouillard
February 4, 2015
Filed under Letters, Opinion
To the editor: I wish to add to the comments I made to the IC last week ("UT Plans for Loss of about 100 Professors"). While I appreciate some characteristics of Provost Barrett's hiring plan, I remain concerned about other aspects, namely the consequences of potentially replacing too many tenure-track... Read more »
Letter: The university should review policies after terrorism
Douglas Oliver
January 14, 2015
Filed under Letters, Opinion
Many in USA and Europe are mourning the deaths of the French cartoonists who were assassinated by radical Isalmists. The cartoonist's offenses were creating cartoons that offended the assassin's Islamic sensibilities. Both American and French citizens and institutions reacted by affirming the necessity... Read more »
Letter: Transgender Day of Remembrance for support and solidarity
Jack Alferio
November 19, 2014
Filed under Letters, Opinion
The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is a day set aside to remember transgender individuals who were murdered throughout the year. The people being remembered were murdered because of their status as a transgender person. Being a transgender individual is just now coming into the mainstream world,... Read more »
Letter: Tips for students planing on going abroad
Jeremy Holloway
November 19, 2014
Filed under Letters, Opinion
As the days of International Week at the University of Toledo approaches, many students are getting interested in other cultures’ food, clothing and language. If you ask students why they desire to travel, they will say to “learn another language,” “expand one’s world view,” “enhance one’s... Read more »
Letter to the editor: Is Palestine completely blameless?
November 5, 2014
Filed under Letters, Opinion
This reader of The Independent Collegian found last week’s article on Students for Justice in Palestine dishonest, whether it was intentionally so or not. While I do not deny atrocities and injustices have been met on the Palestinian people by Israel, who has been unilaterally protected from reprimand... Read more »
Letter to the editor: Why extend library hours?
Gianfranco Giuseppe Rolando
October 29, 2014
Filed under Letters, Opinion
This letter is in response to the article “Hours need to be added,” published on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014 in The Independent Collegian. This article attempts to persuade its readers as to why the library should be open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Its key argument is that “Dorms... Read more »
Letter to the editor: Alcohol-free tailgate — a logical way to tailgate
Jessica Sloan
October 29, 2014
Filed under Letters, Opinion
Editor’s note: This letter to the editor is in response to the editorial “Alcohol-free tailgating illogical” published in the Independent Collegian on Oct. 1. Life is full of choices, some easier than others. You can choose to view the cup half full or half empty, either way, it’s a choice... Read more »
Letter to the editor: Solidarity for human rights
UT Students for Justice in Palestine and UT Student African American Brotherhood
September 16, 2014
Filed under Letters, Opinion
On August 9, 2014, a Ferguson police officer gunned down 18-year-old Michael Brown, shooting him at least six times. In the wake of his murder the city of Ferguson, Missouri erupted into a mass uprising against police violence sustained for over two weeks, the likes of which the United States has not... Read more »