The claim made by College Republican Aine Murphy Lewis in last week’s letter to the editor that conservative activism will begin on college campuses nationwide can best be summarized as ridiculous and absurd. She must have confused these hopes and dreams with the last sips of bubbly that fizzled and burst on election night. It is ludicrous and delusional for her to make a connection between students signing a petition in support of VCU recognizing Veterans Day as an official holiday (which would also mean no class) and students taking yellow ribbons as conservative activism. Surely, what student wouldn’t sign a petition that would give them another day off from class? And who wouldn’t take a yellow ribbon in support of our troops? Liberals, Democrats, independents and others who don’t call or label themselves as conservatives or Republicans support the troops, too. We support bringing them home, not sacrificing them in Bush’s “War Of Terror”!
-Sara Duke,
VCU Women’s Leadership Forum