Online voting lacks secure setting
The editorial stance in favor of online voting for council
elections (“Council
argues over suffrage semantics,” Viewpoint, April 10)
does not adequately address voting security concerns. Online voters
do not vote in a secure environment, so they are not guaranteed
independence and secrecy in their choices. I don’t deny that
members of USAC have a vested interest in keeping voting in reach
of their campus campaigns, but online voting just isn’t the
answer. Problems with the council aside, their concern with
potential abuses of online voting can’t be dismissed by your
shrug that students will be more empowered. It’s empowering
to vote in secret and in person.
Amanda Schapel Third-year English and
history
The Bruin must give all sides to story
A reader of the front page of Tuesday’s Daily Bruin could
easily come away thinking that the simultaneous scheduling of two
programs at Meyerhoff Park (the Hillel/JSU Holocaust Memorial Day
service and an MSA rally) was nothing more than a cute
coincidence.
In fact, the Muslim Student Association’s idea to hold an
anti-Israel rally during the memorial service was a deliberately
provocative and startlingly tasteless plan; fortunately for
everyone on both sides, the MSA and the Peace and Justice Coalition
decided to reschedule their event for a more appropriate time.
Holocaust Memorial Day is an annual commemoration of and
reflection on the nearly unfathomable tragedy of the Shoah; it
would have been a cynical, callous move indeed for one group to
protest another’s solemn service with a politically-heated
rally.
The Bruin should not be afraid to identify things as what they
really are: an anti-Israel rally scheduled for the same time and
place as a completely apolitical memorial service for the six
million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. You do a
disservice to your readers when you do not think hard enough about
the news you print and the way you present it.
Rebecca Blustein Graduate student Comparative
literature