Beyond being proud of the Utes' performance, students, faculty and community members should be grateful for the positive national attention they earned for the U and the financial prospects they made possible.

As a gun owner and recreational shooter I take offense to Emily Rodriguez-Vargas' insinuation that owning guns and shooting them for recreation turns people into homicidal, violence-loving maniacs ("Guns shouldn't be recreational," Dec. 11).

Although these setups might seem fine and dandy for many students, a closer look will show that most of these workstations are an ergonomic nightmare, sometimes entirely unusable, and a potential health hazard for anyone who uses them.

If the legitimate purpose of a gun is to be able to defend yourself, when you are assaulted you are going to need to tap into some major aggression in order to kill the other guy before they kill you.

This holiday season, just like every year, throngs of eager shoppers are mobbing the nearest retailer with one simple intention: Buy, buy, buy.

The once-high values of America are found in the gun-loving hands of individuals seeking not to combat real problems such as war, crime and poverty, but to exercise their freedom to the fullest extent for recreation.

Once again, The Chronicle has published an inane, rambling letter written by ASUU President Patrick Reimherr ("Corequisite not a burden," Dec. 10) that serves no function other than to bore readers, toot his own horn and fill space

The required Clery statistics themselves do not accurately report the prevalent theft problem on campus.

When your children are nestled all snug in their beds and Old Saint Nick squeezes himself down your chimneys, please don't forget my brothers and sisters in arms8212;especially those who are here now, who work to help make that safety possible and give Rudolph a free place to land.

Judges who are initially selected by popular election have a much greater degree of democratic legitimacy than those who are appointed or even those appointees who have gone through a retention election.