Dear CHPAC,
Linked and pasted below is an item that appeared in today’s
Daily Tarheel.
Best,
Steve
Daily Tar Heel Letters To The Editor
- Transit workers are fully
deserving of monument I am having trouble figuring out (the editorial board's)
feelings toward the Chapel Hill Transit system.
At the beginning of the year, you
called them out for buying buses to solve "chronic problems," yet now
you say it is one of the "best (systems) in the country, hand down."
This I can deal with.
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TO THE EDITOR:
I am having trouble figuring out (the editorial board's) feelings toward the
Chapel Hill Transit system.
At the beginning of the year, you called them out for buying buses to solve
"chronic problems," yet now you say it is one of the "best
(systems) in the country, hand down." This I can deal with.
However, to say that people who earn $25,000 to $40,000 don't deserve a
monument that costs $420,000 is ridiculous. By this logic, soldiers of the
Vietnam War, the Korean War and World Wars I and II do not deserve any such
monument because they did not make enough money to merit such honors.
Also, I don't think art comes to mind when I think of soldiers, either, so do
they still not deserve a monument?
How dare the edit board be so self-centered as to say that a subsidy on
textbook purchases, or even worse, a name change of an academic building after
the patron saint of beer would be more important than honoring those who work
for our community each and every day.
Last time I checked, being honored was irrelevant to one's salary and
occupation, but rather, one's service toward others.
Adrian Randall
Junior
Chemistry