I’ve been a thorough reader of Scroll since I started school three years ago, and the quality has never been great, but I was very disappointed this semester to see a lot of bad reporting and very bad writing.
Last week the Halloween Concert, which sells out all five concerts in the first day tickets open, got a miniscule article that wrote more about the dancer’s slumber party than the quality music and effort the Music Department puts into creating a great show for Halloween.
This week the Harp Ensemble, which is fun to listen to but not a sold-out social event, had an article that was twice the size of a more significant event. But it doesn’t end here. This week the articles were poorly written with grammatical errors and terrible flow throughout the article.
Most articles have random ideas with little or no transition between them, and some ended on with [sic] a new thought.
That’s enough to make any educated writer cringe and send English majors fleeing campus. So Scroll, please send you [sic] writers back to Eng. 111, or stop writing at all.

Grace Rindlisbacher
senior
Anaheim Hills, Calif.

Once again I am appalled at the disrespect and narrow-mindedness of some students here on campus, especially in a letter to the editor last week.
I still don’t understand where some people get the notion that they can throw these “cure all” doctrinal quotes out to other students because they feel that these quotes apply to every individual in every situation.
The brethren clearly state that childbirth and other personal decisions are between a couple and the Lord—not a student’s own personal ideologies.
In response to Chris West’s supposed question about students not populating the earth according to his timeframe: Mind your own business!

Jay Omanson
junior
Parker, Colorado

Aaron Benson’s article on Rexburg being the reddest place in the United States brought up a good point: many people don’t know the differences in
political parties.
I thought Benson exemplified this well. The reason most Mormons are Republicans is that Republicans generally favor those issues that the Church values — they’re both against abortion, gay marriage, drug legalization and doctor-assisted suicide, to name a few. In fact, though the church rarely supports political issues, those it has supported have been Republican issues.
Not to say that Democrats are godless heathen — they just prefer to keep government out of these issues. At any rate, that should explain Rexburg’s voting habits.

Greg Fetterman
senior
Aloha, Oregon