Letters to the editor

Students should get the majors they want

In last week's article, "Business cutting enrollment," Paul Fitzgerald's, S.J., suggestion that "they (Santa Clara) need to be recruiting more environmental scientists or philosophers" is ridiculous. The university should recruit the best and brightest students to be part of its freshman classes, and then provide them with an education in the course of study that they find most valuable. If those majors aren't in demand, funds should be re-appropriated to departments with high demand for their classes.

Brian Ross

Finance '08

Homosexuality only an aspect of one's identity

While reading The Santa Clara, as is usual for me to do on Thursdays, I came across an article titled "Coming out against hate speech."

I thought the article was wonderful overall. However, I did have one small reservation about the diction/word choice in regard to the paragraph that begins, "You may not agree with the gay lifestyle..."

The term "gay lifestyle" is somewhat misleading. Oftentimes anti-gay groups use the term "gay lifestyle" to stereotype GLBT persons. Really there is no such thing as "the gay lifestyle," just as there is no such thing as "the black lifestyle" or "the straight lifestyle."

Gay, lesbian, bi, and transgendered are simply one facet of a person's identity, and these terms do not necessarily indicate or suggest any certain "lifestyle."

Nick Sanchez English '09