Editors, the Gauntlet,

Re: "Daddy's work comes first for Catherine, Sept. 28, 2000

As a proud U of C graduate, it is with shock and disgust that I write regarding the vulgar editorial your staff published concerning the Rt. Hon. Joe Clark and his daughter, Catherine.

"I'm a National Director, not a Chair," Mark Kissel said to the Students' Legislative Council on Tuesday.

Kissel, National Director of the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, was updating the University of Calgary Students' Union on CASA's plans for the upcoming months. Kissel lobbies on behalf of over 300,000 post secondary students in Canada. His one-year term as National Director began with a self-described "baptism by fire" earlier this year.

Canada's brains are being held hostage, both figuratively and literally, according to the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations. Citing high tuition, massive student debt and crumbling infrastructure as the causes of a system that traps the nation's young minds, CASA is touring a "hostage brain" across Canada to illustrate their point.

On Wednesday, the brain paid a visit to the University of Calgary.

News that Dooie Stevens is giving away a set of breast implants as a prize hit our editorial board this week like a tidal wave of milk. This may go without saying (given the tone of the preceding statement) but we didn't all resort to the knee-jerk rallying cry of "Boycott Dooie Stevens." We're much too academic for that. Instead, 12 Gauntlet editors took an hour to discuss what we thought of Dooie Stevens' latest promotion, with emotions ranging from disgust to disinterest.

In Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, we are made witness to a community bursting with racial tension--tension that eventually erupts into a mass riot where several racial groups become the targets of violence. In spite of this event, two characters from opposing races meet in the aftermath to discuss and expose their anger and bitterness towards one another. The tensions still exist but there is redemption in the characters' ability to confront them through words and reason.