THE DAILY REVEILLE
Opinion
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OUR VIEW
Friday, November 20, 2009
If you’re heading to Ole Miss, don’t engage the Klan The Ku Klux Klan will be in full force Saturday on the Ole Miss campus. While The Daily Reveille is in no way supportive of this hate group, we implore all LSU fans not to engage or converse with the robed ones. The controversy sparked when Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones
removed “From Dixie with Love” from the Ole Miss band’s selection. The traditional gameday song has a spot reserved for the Ole Miss student section to scream “The South will rise again,” becoming a staple of Rebel football for years. A resolution to replace the scream with the apparently less controversial “to hell with LSU” was never enacted.
The decision to ban the song arose the ire of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, whose grand titan Shane Tate, explained to The Daily Reveille by e-mail that they don’t mean to cause any problems. “Trouble has already been caused by a handful at Ole Miss, including the black student body
president, who wants to shape Ole Miss into yet another liberal sodomite college,” Tate said. However backward the Klan’s ideology is, we cannot stress how important it is for Tiger fans to represent the University with class and integrity. Our fans need not sink to this level, and we again implore our fans not to give Ole Miss a chance
to argue that the Klan is classier than LSU fans. Please act with dignity, and don’t give Ole Miss a reason to denigrate our own liberal, sodomite college.
help to clean up Facebook a little — users will simply dislike a posting rather than trash-talking it’s author. I personally admire the true grassroots effort to create the dislike button, and I am a firm supporter of it. After all, that’s how you get things done.” -Ben
able to go to any of her school activities. He also can’t accompany our daughter trick or treating or wear a hoodie on his head. My husband’s crime? Her met a girl in a bar, exchanged e-mails with her and she sent him nude photos of
herself. She was 16. He served his time and 5 years down the road he’s got a wife, a kid and a baby on the way. We are all being punished because some girl snuck into a bar.” -sexoffenderswife
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WEB COMMENTS As usual, readers on our Web site, lsureveille.com, had a lot to say about the columns appearing in the Opinion section this week. Readers had this to say about opinion editor Matthew Albright’s column, “Holding prisoners in America a scary but necessary task”: “I don’t think you are seeing the whole story. It’s not just an emotional reaction to holding these prisoners in the USA, but if there is a mistrial or if they are acquitted, they are legally free to walk into the US populace. Deportation takes time because they did not enter illegally, as the [government] actually brought them here.” -Sorcha Clary Readers had this to say about columnist Eric Freeman’s column, “Farewell to Mayor Wonka and the Chocolate City,”: “I was also appalled when I read Blakely’s interview. I don’t know if I felt angrier at him for taking the position or at Nagin for wasting our time and money hiring him. Perhaps as Nagin tours the Mayan ruins, he’ll come up with a new plan. Because, honestly, they have a better chance of being revitalized than New Orleans under the leadership of Ray Nagin.” -Renee Crowe Powers Readers had this to say about columnist Jack Johnson’s column, “Facebook’s ‘Dislike’ button is ridiculous proposition”: “First of all, stop complaining about the fall of journalism, because you’re only contributing to it by writing an article like this. Like the above poster said, you did a better job of arguing for your opposition then arguing your own point! You describe the dislike button as if it will lead to the end of the world, when it won’t. The dislike button is simply the opposite of the like button, and nothing more. It may even
“Where’s the dislike button for this article?” -GOB Readers had this to say about opinion editor Matthew Albright’s column, “Catholic Church’s objections to same-sex bill complex”: “Matthew, I think your article hit the nail on the head. I am Catholic and I understand your compromise and think its a good one. Lets hope the powers that be from both sides can see it as well. Although I am not surprised at the reactions to the issue, I do find it quite annoying when people condemn the Church for holding fast to a prime teaching but are willing to take the services offered. I find it amusing that the Church is the “evil empire” yet is the largest provider of charity. People have claimed that the Church has no business in secular affairs, as if faith and everyday life do not mix. But as soon as the funding is removed from the secular arena then its shame on the Church. Who’s being the hypocrite now?” -Dave J But readers aren’t only watching the Opinion section. Readers had this to say about the news article “Jindal proposes laws against sex offenders”: “My husband is a sex offender. We are lucky that our landlord lets us rent our house or we would be homeless. He lost his job over being a “sex offender” (he was a courier for flowers) and now I have to find a job to support us. Did I mention I’m 3 months pregnant? My husband can’t go to the park with our daughter or when she starts school he won’t be
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Roger Zelazny American writer May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995