I would like to comment on Mr. White's letter in the Sept. 20 issue of The Spectrum in which he accused the collective university community of having a liberal bias. Dear Mr. White and associates, welcome to New York State. The majority of all registered voters here are Democrats and a good 6 percent of all voters voted for Ralph Nader, the Green Party presidential candidate, in 2000. This means that as Republicans you are unfortunately forced to enjoy a minority status. As such, you will often encounter liberal ideas being published and mentioned in various forms around campus. It is also a known fact that educational institutions like UB tend to have a larger percentage of objective and liberal people, as this in a way is a natural result of a broad education and very well staffed departments.
Let me draw a parallel: I am not Christian and still I am bombarded by Christian propaganda around the Student Union almost every day, be that in the form of banners, flyers, informational tables or simply people that believe that there is something to be saved from. There have also been several cases of professors mentioning the Christian g-d while neglecting to mention Roman, Greek, Celtic, Hindu or Muslim gods at the same time. Yet you do not see me complaining about a Christian bias at UB. I have simply started to accept that seeing as the majority of American citizens are Christians there is bound to be a large number of them at UB, and as such it may seem that there is too much of a Christian bias to the religious matters on campus.
Complaining and reiterating subjective points of view will neither do you nor me much good. Constructive discussions and positive actions, however, would be able to lessen the gap between opposed groups. Perhaps you could, for example, follow my example and actively join the Student Association, through which perhaps you could eventually take legislative action towards a less "liberally biased" atmosphere.
Photo: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki
