SPEAK OUT

Not exactly neutral

UNDER THE guise of writing a column on redistricting, David Broder, the liberal-elitist columnist for The Washington Post, literally trashed Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He is peeved that O'Connor is usually the swing vote on the court in those cases where Broder does not like the outcome. It is obvious Broder has lost the very neutrality that he likes to piously and pompously hold other journalists to.

Rude treatment

I GRADUATED from Southeast Missouri State University three years ago. I was older than the other students. I had occasion to deal with every office up there except for housing. What you're describing about the housing office is nothing unusual. That's how the younger students are treated all the time. I would stand in line behind younger students and watch them be treated with absolute disrespect and hatefulness by employee after employee. Then I would get up there in the same line, and they would be nice to me because it was obvious I was older. I even commented about it to the president's office. I was given to one of the vice presidents, and I talked to him on several occasions, and gave him concrete examples. What this gentleman did was basically give me platitudes about how they were "really working on customer service." Well, they're not. The only place where I didn't see students treated in a rude manner was the book store.

No student price

I'M A student at Southeast Missouri State University. I went to purchase tickets to see Bob Dylan at the time of the concert. As a student, I should have been able to get in for $10. I was told by the ticket office that the computer was down and they couldn't sell me $10 student tickets, but they could sell me a $30 general admission ticket. I had my student ID with me. I think someone should look into why students couldn't get in for student prices.

Truth is in Bible

EYE FOR an eye, tooth for a tooth. I agree that many laws predate the Bible. The Speak Out caller's statement about the Bible being "just suggestions" is mistaken. The Old Testament is a series of books recording Jewish history. Here are many laws, including the antiquated sacrifice and ritual cleansing. These predate your 2,000-year-old reference. The New Testament is the new covenant of God, which is extended to all people. As to its application in modern society, whether you look at it or not, the truth still holds.

Teach Us

If SEMO profs

would teach their classes

then we would not

get on their -- uh -- cases.

Every project costs

IN RESPONSE to the Speak Out comment about the Girl Scout's project for Make a Difference Day: I agree to a certain extent. But my daughter participated, and we delivered both of our cards ourselves. We felt it was important that she deliver in person. But you're right, probably a whole bunch of those cards were mailed, and that was a lot of postage. However, almost all projects cost some kind of money. For example, people who collect clothes for the needy drive around and collect those clothes, and gasoline is expensive. My concern with the Girl Scout project was this wasn't something the girls came up with themselves. It would have been far better for each individual troop to make an impact in its own way by doing the things the girls felt committed to. That would have been a lot better.

Bible authority

SOMEONE SAID the Bible is less than 2,000 years old and indicated its teachings are outdated. The 10 Commandments were given by God through Moses about 4,000 years ago. Before that, there was Bible history and the moral content of the commandments. I wonder what this person would think if the 10 Commandments were not followed in our civil laws. As for the Old Testament's dietary laws, many of these were lifted in Christ's New Testament era by the authority of the apostles.