Editor:I was scanning through the opinion section when my focus was pulled to a reader response from Frank Millward entitled, “U writers couldn’t hack it at BYU” (Nov. 31). Naturally, the title itself angered me, and reading the piece only made it worse.Millward wonders why we here at “the other school up north” hate BYU folk so much. Is it because we are trying to disguise our disappointment about being academically inferior to Provo’s best and brightest? Is it because we are crushed that we cannot be Cougars ourselves?Oh, yeah, I’m just dying to go to a school where what I look like and what I think are dictated by the administration, where every second date with a girl results in marriage. Why do we hate them so much? Maybe it’s because BYU students like Millward write things like “U writers couldn’t hack it at BYU.” What happened to turning the other cheek? If you keep stoking the flame then we are going to stay red hot. Oh, and why is “Crimson” always associated with the devil? You know, Millward, I bet if you were to cut yourself, you wouldn’t bleed dark blue, so I guess your red blood associates you with the devil, too. You know, blue can be tagged onto a number of things as well: depression, coldness, blue balls–the list goes on. Red and blue are just colors. Please leave red and blue out of this. As far as our mascot is concerned, better a chicken than a pussy?cat, that is.

Chris DammertSophomore, English