Letters to the Editor

9/16/10 7:00pm

To the Editor:

In his article (9/11 families need to stop being coddled, Sept. 10), Eric Harrison wonders why no one questions the absurd notion that the World Trade Center site is somehow sacred. He also asserts that Ground Zero is, "in fact, little more than an unsightly ditch in the middle of lower Manhattan." Indeed, how absurd that people might regard the site where almost 3,000 people died as sacred, or even as just a tiny bit more special than your standard New York City hole in the ground. I'm really quite shocked. I eagerly anticipate more probing questions from Eric in the future issues of the Rice Thresher.Claire O'Connor

Hanszen '11

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Online Comments of the Week

It is one thing to lose a family member to an illness such as cancer, a sometimes incurable disease that is out of everybody's control. It is quite another to lose a loved one in a premeditated act of terror in which thousands were murdered. I think it is incredibly naive and insensitive to compare losing a family member in 9/11 to losing a family member to cancer

Ryan

I am a young alum and remember when the Brochstein Pavilion was being built. A lot of students were all up in arms because it would be competing with the student-run Coffeehouse. They complained that it would run Coffeehouse out of business and that the administration was terrible, oh so terrible. Now students (and the Thresher) are complaining that the Pavilion's hours aren't long enough??? I guess no matter what happens, people will find something to complain about. Walk to the RMC, dudes.

Anonymous

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