Recent debate about the Common Ground Initiative has fully exposed the blatant bigotry that exists in this state.

Buttars spewed some of his slimiest rhetoric yet during a recent interview with documentary filmmaker Reed Cowan, comparing homosexuals to radical Muslims.

The Common Ground Initiative was one step toward equality. Granting human rights to LGBTQ people through legislation will not take anything away from society; it will only add to society.

There are worse things than an insubstantial tax discount, but H.B. 35 is intended to be an incentive, not a donation. If lawmakers really want to convince students to stay in Utah, they should consider a more substantial tuition tax credit. Otherwise, the money should be reinvested in primary and secondary education.

If the greek system is about to fail, let it. If the chapters are interested in increasing their presence on campus and recruiting more students, then the national organizations which govern them are welcome to empty their coffers into the effort. But the U shouldn't spend one red cent supporting a system of social networking of dubious benefit to the wider community.

Students disappointed by the apparently antisocial nature of the U would better profit from the good old-fashioned social networks. Join a club, a fraternity, a sorority, or keep yourself posted on the events on campus.

While Huntsman is running forward with Utah, the Legislature seems to be running in circles. Instead of learning from him, our lawmakers seem to be bent on showing him who's boss in Utah politics. You'd think they'd catch a hint that he isn't the problem.

Stripping undocumented students of the opportunity to educate themselves, even if it is done with a smile, doesn't stop it from being wrong. We hope the House will vote the bill down before it can even reach the Senate.

I'm sorry, but it's a revolving door of dramatics that people stopped caring about a long, long time ago. I don't know whether or not to care where my $25 worth of ASUU student fees go to anymore. We've seen and heard enough.

In reality, the fact that Phelps was stupid enough to pick up a bong during a house party in which about 90 percent of the people probably had access to some sort of camera phone, should be more of a deterrent to marijuana use than any D.A.R.E campaign could ever be. If not the rest of the country, Utah should get over it.