Letters

Christians not beholden to Old Testament

I would like to comment on the article “Bible
preaches multitude of conflicting ideas“ by Russell
Bourne (Daily Bruin, Viewpoint, Dec. 3, 2001).

Perhaps Bourne should perform a little more research before he
writes another article, especially if it pertains to Christian
theology. All of his Bible citations came from the Old Testament,
which is pre-Christian. Yes, the Old Testament is still important
to Christians, but the reason that Jesus came along (in the New
Testament) was to fix the problems we read about in the Old
Testament.

To even compare Christians to Adolf Hitler is ridiculous, but of
course, that is only my opinion. The least Bourne can do is to get
his facts straight.

Katharine L. Winter
Louisville, Ky.

ORL: PAs not a waste of money

Regardless of the Daily
Bruin’s erroneous criticism of the Office of Residential
Life for the housing office’s De Neve Plaza project, I
found paying less than $30 a year for a program assistant very
worthwhile during my years living in a residence hall. Your editors
may think that PAs simply provide ice cream and Magic Mountain
trips, but my PA helped my floor feel more like a community and
less like a place where I simply went to bed.

If UCLA housing later only guarantees housing to freshmen like
you suggest, PAs would be even more critical in helping first-year
Bruins adjust to life at UCLA.

Should the Daily Bruin wish to expose how students’ money
is being wasted, I suggest they look no further than up two flights
of stairs to the offices of USAC. For paying quarterly student
fees, I get an ineffectual body too wrapped up in its narrow
political agendas to take any actions that really serve the needs
of all students.

Instead, all I get from “my student government” are
full-page Bruin ads of USAC resolutions in 30-point font about some
political issue I’ve long forgotten.

Benjamin Kong Third-year Economics/international area
studies