To the editorial staff of the Mustang Daily:
It would be very easy for me to use this letter as a means of bashing you and your coworkers for your ghastly unprofessionalism and erroneous reporting, however I believe that the aforementioned facts have been made more than obvious by the level of feedback you have received for your editorial entitled, “The Mustang Daily does not want to write your obituary.
Enough is enough! I’ve had it with spam from my Cal Poly e-mail address. I was forced to have an e-mail address…
The verbal faculty to better communicate emotion does well for exhibiting passions passionately, and that’s important.
I sure hope Brian Eller’s article “Giving to homeless not so helpful” (Jan. 10) was a big joke. It was painful to read, yet valuable in that it highlights some of our society’s biggest socioeconomic problems.
Brian urges our student body to “attack the root of the problem” by yelling at the homeless from speeding automobiles.
I believe giving to beggars is wrong. Somebody previously said the homeless population is made up of alcoholics, which can’t be true. However, substance abuse is no reason to beg.
Why should we give to beggars? They didn’t earn it. When I was growing up in Salinas, I gave my sandwich to a woman “in need” with a baby and she threw it away.
Dear Brian Eller,
First off, I can’t believe that you have the balls (or lack thereof) to be able to wear a striped polo shirt and still call yourself a Republican. You are just strengthening the stereotype that West Coast Republicans are weak and are an embarassment to the right wing.
Dear Brian Eller,
It was with mounting anger that I read your hate-filled, overly judgmental letter about the homeless. Have you ever stopped to think that the vast population of homeless in this area are mentally ill? Or that maybe, some of those Vietnam veterans who fought for this country, and have been fighting for their rights as veterans, have been reduced to panhandling?
Other cities dump thier homeless here too, sending them here with a one-way bus ticket.
Brian Eller,
Your level of ignorance only pales in comparision to your selfishness. The vast majority of homeless are mentally ill. They are afflicted with disorders that require medical care, medication and often hospitalization. They aren’t capable of “getting a job.
Shameful – that is the only way to describe Mr. Eller’s soulless ramblings about how he plans on helping the homeless. Yelling “Get a job!” from your car? How about offering them help or at least treating them like a human being.
Many of the homeless have mental disabilities that alienate them from the rest of the world.
The hookah article (Dec. 6) had little real information and was extremely misleading. The majority of Shisha (tobacco) used in hookah is imported from the Middle East. Their countries of origine often require tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide content to be listed on the package.
It seems that both of the coffee vending machines on campus – in Kennedy Library and The Park – are currently “out of order.” (If there are others, please be so kind as to point me in their direction.)
This is a plea on behalf of us Cal Poly students who crave that oh-so-delicious vending machine coffee, and who can’t afford it at Julian’s.
