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To the editor: Thank you for your coverage of KU Chancellor Douglas Girod’s edict forbidding employees from using personal pronouns in email signatures. As your reporting has shown, there was no penalty attached to the Legislature’s restriction of pronoun use on campus. This is a classic ...
To the editor: I don’t understand. Donald Trump opened his 2016 campaign with “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best ... They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists….” [Mexico doesn’t “send”any immigrants.] On July 5, the ...
To the editor: Last Sunday’s edition allowing our City Commission candidates to articulate their views on good government was helpful and informative. The candidates have a great deal of high-fashion ideas about improving our town’s fortunes and governance. As part of the discovery ...
To the editor: I am a professor at KU, and I have removed my pronouns (she/her) from the signature block on my KU email account as Chancellor Girod directed. Why do I include my pronouns in my signature block? I do it to tell my most marginalized students — my LGBTQIA and nonbinary ...
To the editor: The recent, untimely death of “The Cosby Show’s” Malcolm- Jamal Warner reminded me of advice I have given to students in my KU campus courses and during marine biology field courses to the Caribbean. I have explained in my classes that a common phenomenon on beaches is ...
To the editor: In a recent opinion piece, Froma Harrop asked “Can American democracy rebuild?” I fear it might not and we are on the verge of autocracy. She concludes that Donald Trump does not like America and that his actions seem tied to his stated need for “vengeance.” I feel ...