Disclaimer: Jessica Potter, we hope your letter was a satire portraying LS majors, but if not, we highly suggest you read this letter. As seniors, approaching the end of our liberal studies credential program, we find your letter to the editor ridiculous. We accept that there are individuals in our major who are at Cal […]
Category: Letters to the Editor
From a male liberal studies major
Jessica, my name is Brian. I and the other 450 liberal studies majors couldn’t help but read your letter. Were you serious or were you trying to be ironic? If you were being ironic or sarcastic, you need to work on your sense of irony and your sense of humor because people in our major […]
Finding passion in your career
Jessica Potter’s letter is degrading, not only to liberal studies majors, but to all women. The idea that liberal studies majors might be in it for the sole purpose of stimulating the minds of children, is apparently far too profound for her to grasp. I’d like to know who this “we” is that she refers […]
I was being sarcastic!
In response to the harsh attacks on Facebook, I would like to apologize to all of the liberal studies majors who did not get that my letter to the editor on Halloween was completely sarcastic. I was sick of two things, being called an MRS major, and the CP Salsa editorials. Jessica Potter Liberal studies […]
To my kid's future teacher
First of all, Miss Jessica Potter, you would be damn lucky to have the honor and privilege of baby-sitting one of my children. And based on your letter, I wouldn’t be surprised if that turned out to be the highlight of your life. If you and your liberal studies colleagues don’t mind being anything more […]
How to use a degree
I really hope that Jessica Potter’s letter was meant to be sarcastic. If not, it is her way of thinking that women have fought for so long and hard to change. First, why on earth would she attend a university such as Cal Poly, a university that is so highly esteemed that it can not […]
Liberal studies is not a joke
I am writing this letter in response to Jessica Potter’s letter to the editor. I completely disagree with her points that liberal studies majors belong in the home. If some women came here to find an engineer husband or plan on settling down at home in the future, fine. I think that Potter was making […]
There's nothing wrong with staying at home
I want to start off by saying there is nothing wrong with wanting to be a stay-at-home parent. And there’s nothing wrong with going to college and still deciding to be a stay at home parent. Jessica Potter has a point; some people (men included), are happiest in the home. Anyone that has done any […]
Female engineers can find men too
Please tell me you’re joking. You really think that career-driven women contribute any more to “divorce rates and broken homes” than career-driven men? Any adult who puts his or her career before family contributes to this problem. While many women are more predisposed to be the primary caregiver than their male counterparts, women who have […]
A woman's place in society does not have to be at home
Ms. Potter, I am not the type to criticize what others want to do with their degree but I am appalled by what you have said in your letter. Go ahead and earn your MRS degree if that is what you want to do, but do not under any circumstances try and tell all the […]
A letter for Jessica Potter
In case you’re living in a time warp, this is not the 1950s anymore. This may surprise you, but women can actually play a role in society besides being stuck in the house all day, which seems to be your biggest aspiration in life. Really now, in order to be this house mom that you […]

