Letters

Bruin football a disgrace

To the UCLA Football Team:
Gutless. Spineless. Embarrassing.

Congratulations, Bruin football on a humiliating finish
to the season. Losing four straight games
and getting outplayed and out-hustled in all four was
bad. Getting destroyed by USC, a team you had
the talent to beat easily, was even worse. 

But on top of all that, between NCAA benefits violations
and DUI convictions (but no suspensions, of course), you managed to
not only embarrass yourselves, but the entire UCLA
community as well. What’s next? Maybe some more
handicapped parking permits?

So far, the legacy of UCLA football in the Bob
Toledo era can be summed up in two phrases: Mentally
weak and morally suspect. As a blue-and-gold-bleeding alumnus,
that makes me very disappointed.

How long till basketball season?

Bryan Peebler

Alumnus

Class of 1993

Cass doesn’t get conservatives

It is clear that Cody Cass has neither a clear understanding of
Christianity nor a clear understanding of conservatism. He confuses
compassion and tolerance with handouts and outright endorsement
(“Conservative
leaders misappropriate Christian values,” Viewpoint,
Daily Bruin, Nov. 16).

Being tolerant of someone because they are homosexual does not
mean endorsing and supporting, through the mechanism of the state,
homosexual relationships.

While being tolerant of others should be seen as laudable, it
does not mean that one must support policies that are conductive to
beliefs and societal norms contrary to one’s own.

And if you believe that the state should generally support your
morality, then how can you complain when someone wants their own
morality supported?

Probably even more laughable is that not supporting welfare is
un-Christian, and therefore all Republicans (who obviously must fit
the “religious-right” stereotype) are hypocritical for
not caring for the poor.

Didn’t the same Bible that Cass talks about say that if
you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach a
man to fish, you’ve fed him for a lifetime?

Simply throwing money and services at the poor only subsidizes
their poverty.

Daniel B. Rego

Alumnus

Class of 2000