Letters & Opinion
Letters to the Editor
To the students of UW-SP:
I am writing this letter to the editor to inform UW-SP students who may not know about the involvement of the SGA vice presidential candidate Kelly Krumsee with the Pointers for Life Cemetery of Innocents cross demonstration last spring. On May 1, 2008, Krumsee was involved in the vandalism of this memorial while serving as a representative of the students at UW-SP (vice president of the Residence Hall Association). The vandalism witnessed and videotaped consisted of pulling the crosses out of the ground and tossing them aside (this can be witnessed in the first 30 seconds of the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5NeLyMZUYM ). This letter is not intended to bring up any debate over the abortion issue or the other parties involved in the vandalism. This letter is about the claims of a vice presidential candidate to be supportive of student organizations and her opposite record with the Pointers for Life. It is tremendously important for the elected student leaders to be able to express viewpoint neutrality and respect for all points of view regardless of their own. This is clearly not the history that Kelly Krumsee has had with this UW-SP student organization. No apology was ever received from Kelly Krumsee to the Pointers for Life. I urge you, as a student, to elect student representatives that can tolerate conflicting ideas and accept diversity on this campus.
-Matt Peeters
