LETTER: Find student issues

Editor,

Have you ever been affected by affirmative action? I haven’t. And I’ll bet big money that affirmative action has never been a big issue in the life of either point/counterpoint writer. Let’s look at what we have here: Two white males at an open-admission university in Utah – affirmative action Central (The sarcasm in my voice is not coming through here.)

Now, I enjoyed the articles. They were well-written. But maybe it would have been good to get an “ethnic minority’s” opinion on this. Or maybe, someone could have talked to a “victim” of affirmative action’s so-called reverse discrimination. I was frustrated to read so much argument about a topic so far removed from either writer. I doubt either writer was ever accepted or rejected for employment or at a university because of their race, gender, religion, etc. In how many hiring decisions is ethnicity a factor? In how many admissions decisions at USU was ethnicity a factor?

Let’s bring the opinion page to Cache Valley. Discuss issues important to us, even if they’re not interesting topics for your most recent political science essay.

Ricky Fielding