If everyone blindly believed the rhetoric of Bill O'Reilly or the extreme claims of the online newspaper The Huffington Post, our country would be extremely divided and misinformed. This is why taking these pundits with a grain of salt is imperative.

While Passi has a blatant agenda, scientists have an objective view on matters, basing their decisions and understanding on data and information. Ironically, Passi is entering the field as an opponent to his own career.

We've already seen results from the Utah Indoor Clean Air Act and The Truth campaign. It is inevitable that a smoking ban on campus would produce positive results. With all of the other influences in a young person's life, smoking should not be an option.

Reservations on certain types of research and other social practices need to be taken in to account in the formulation of public policy. Because, as history has shown, the moral truths that Americans hold dear will drive political groups to call out all the louder to be heard.

So by all means, continue complaining about ASUU. But don't do it under the impression that ASUU doesn't help students. Because as crazy as they may seem, they still love U.

Now that the fee has passed, the Trustees should ensure in their next meeting that such a media council would not waste student fees or interfere with the independence of student media.

All degrees serve a purpose. However, the fine adjustment between life and real life is more fully realized in the humanities. Don't allow the popular major trends to set your course of study. Humanities majors need not live in fear.

Barack Obama reversed the U.S. stem cell policy Monday. This is just another "change" in the wrong direction. In under two months, Obama has managed to use his power to take money from my wallet and the wallet of every taxpaying American to help end the lives of living human beings.

Allow me the opportunity to correct the information published in Friday's edition of The Daily Utah Chronicle, ("Parties punished for flawed financial disclosures," March 6). It seems to me that Michael McFall was not attending the same hearing that I was, considering the information that he presented in his article.

America needs to show the world that the words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty are not mere hyperbole, but a respected manifesto of the way we as a people and as a country seek to do good in the world. At the very least we should make a greater effort to look after refugees in Utah.