Letters to the Editor
OUCA Seltzer
Dear Sir,
My office has been keeping me fully informed of the despicable developments at the Oxford University Conservative Association. I have never encountered such disgracefully overt fraud, and the situation is made all the worse by the apparent inability of the authorities to prosecute anyone. In light of these recent events, I feel it would be a severe dereliction of my duty if I did not make sure that Mssrs.
Steel and Clarke joined the office of the Deputy Prime Minister with responsibility for local government and the regions.
Signed, “A.C.L. Blair (BA Oxon)”
Anatole W. Pang
Euro Tunnel-Vision
Dear Sir,
It’s good that you clarify the claims that Chavez is going to be honored by Oxford in the story by Jessica Goodman.
Who are the people that initiated this? Are they so blind? What interest underlay with the fascination with Chavez of many Europeans? Are they so nearsighted that they only value the romantic picturesque character that Chavez cunningly displays? Chavez is a dreadful reality for us in Venezuela, he is the personification of the worst of Latin American corrupt military autocrats, trying to consolidate power, riding over the hopes of millions of poor in Latin Americans; promoting the worst model of government with dramatic results to support this. Europeans should come and see our slums, hospitals, schools and jails, after nearly eight years of government, and then rethink the distinction to this unworthy character. I’m sure that in the near future this action will be remembered as the doctorate of the despot given by the nearsighted.
Sooner than later you will be studying and analyzing how this exotic character pushed a rich nation into social and economic turmoil, of which we are only experiencing a fraction of what is to be: violence, poverty, discrimination, exclusion, humiliation, pain, and death. Why do so many Europeans not see this? Has history not shown you the maladies that such a character can produce? When did the European governments act upon Hitler’s threat? You know the answer.
Best Regards,
Name and address witheld
Caracas Venezuela
Harsher sentencing
Dear Sir,
I do appreciate the efforts of the Oxford Student in bringing to light the late changes to our exam regulations (as mentioned in ‘Finalists angered by late exam change’, in the May 11 edition). I do not appreciate being misquoted or being made to look like an inarticulate fool.
“If it were not for the fact that the people doing Theology in my college forwarding me emails” is complete gibberish and, more importantly, not what I said. I have no great eloquence and thus cherish what little semblance of it I am able to muster. Please do not cut this letter “for length and clarity”, as this is obviously not your forte.
Yours, Alex Keenan
Keble College.
18th May 2006