Letters
Don't attack marchers
Published on Oct 27th, 2005
0 comments In response to the essay [October 6: "Brass tax: Reasons to bring back Pep Band"], a couple of disclosures. First, like the author who admits a bias because of her former membership in the Pep Band,...
Correction: Group wrote letter
Published on Oct 20th, 2005
0 comments We greatly appreciate your coverage of the architecture debate at UVA. Unfortunately there was a critical inaccuracy in the October 13 story, "Jumpin' JPA: New Lawn architects signed." Contrary to...
Don't dot my backyard
Published on Oct 20th, 2005
0 comments In response to Justin Beights' comment that our concerns are a "non-issue" [News, "Literally: Not in my backyard," October 6, 2005], I'm sure that if dotted lines were going through his property plat...
Women owe feminism
Published on Oct 20th, 2005
0 comments I have to agree that Network of Enlightened Women's mission is not new but is reminiscent of past traditional views that have impeded women from attaining social freedoms [August 25: "NeW not NOW:...
Women owe feminism a lot
Published on Oct 20th, 2005
0 comments As a recent graduate of the University of Virginia's Studies in Women and Gender department, I feel I must respond to "NeW not NOW: Lady Hoo takes on the Left" [News, September 22]. The statements...
Women's studies welcoming
Published on Oct 20th, 2005
0 comments Though I concur with Karin Agnes that not all women feel represented by NOW ["NeW not NOW: Lady Hoo takes on the Left," News, September 22], and that some do feel unfairly scorned when they decide to...
County shortchanges teachers
Published on Oct 13th, 2005
0 comments In her article on the No Child Left Behind legislation, Sheila Pell makes a very common, but often erroneous, assumption when she writes that "Wealthier [school] districts, with their higher property...
Is 'tent' a Coran copy?
Published on Oct 13th, 2005
0 comments In a letter in your September 8 issue ["Love the new look!"], writer Amy Robertson Scripps refers to the "beautifully designed Coran Capshaw amphitheatre." On my first visit to the "beautifully...
No Child militarizes kids
Published on Oct 13th, 2005
0 comments Thank you for your article about how the No Child Left Behind federal law is affecting our local schools [September 15 cover story]. I wonder if you and your readers realize that another part of the...
No Child narrows kids
Published on Oct 13th, 2005
0 comments The problem with No Child Left Behind is not just the inadequate level of federal funding, but its promise of turning out a generation of one-dimensional kids [September 15 cover story, "No Child?...
Will leaders speak out?
Published on Oct 13th, 2005
0 comments In light of your report of the two September 25 assaults on UVA students ["4Better or Worse," September 29] by gangs of African-American men (joining similar reports from the recent past of black-on-...
Red scare: Murrow story sounds familiar
Published on Oct 13th, 2005
0 comments "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.... We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." That's not a modern-day criticism of the Patriot Act (though if the shoe fits...), but...
Fall on the knife, R.S.
Published on Oct 6th, 2005
0 comments The letter by R.S. Faris expressing a philosophical conflict with Marlene Condon's pinpoint and ecologically sound yellow jacket management technique of yellow jackets is a bit over the top [...
Fantasy women sow discord
Published on Oct 6th, 2005
0 comments Works of art are to be ogled at, women are not. [September 15: Paige's pages: Cav is Playboy's Miss October"] Made of flesh and blood, they have feelings, aspirations, and dreams. Our society...
He's gettin' plenty
Published on Oct 6th, 2005
0 comments When Jen Fariello approached me for comments about the Rolling Stones concert ["20 Questions," September 29], my reply that I "still can't get any satisfaction" referred to the state of politics in...
I'm realistic, not cruel
Published on Oct 6th, 2005
0 comments I am responding to R. S. Faris' letter about my suggestion that one use a bowl instead of pesticides to eradicate yellow jacket nests [September 22: "Condon was cruel"]. I am pleased that this letter...
Nipples rock
Published on Oct 6th, 2005
0 comments For those who objected to seeing a nipple in print [September 22 letters: "Paige's breasts too clear" and "Paige too topless"], your rationality is sexist. Had a male model been signing his Playgirl...
Courts don't define truth
Published on Sep 29th, 2005
0 comments Based on the Hook's prior interest and attention to Annie Hylton's story, I was appalled at the exploitative nature and disrespectful tone in your recent coverage of Matt Hamilton's trial [September...
Please locals first
Published on Sep 29th, 2005
0 comments Unlike Amy Robertson Scripps, who visits Charlottesville once or twice a year and writes to The Hook from California [September 8 letter "Love the new look!"], I live here. The biggest impact of the...
Condon was cruel
Published on Sep 22nd, 2005
0 comments I'm responding to "The Buzz on Bees" [Gimme Shelter column, August 18] and Marlene Condon's letter to the editor [August 25: "Bowls banish bees"]. While I strongly agree with the admonition to...
Paige too topless
Published on Sep 22nd, 2005
0 comments While reading your article [September 15 HotSeat: Paige's pages: Cav is Playboy's Miss October], I was appalled to see a picture of Amanda Paige signing her topless magazine photo. The problem: Her...
Paige's breasts too clear
Published on Sep 22nd, 2005
0 comments I feel I must write to you and let you know how appalled I am over the Hook's story about Amanda Paige [September 15 HotSeat: Paige's pages: Cav is Playboy's Miss October]. I am not upset at all over...
Cougars all over
Published on Sep 15th, 2005
0 comments We found the articles on Blue Ridge mountain lion sightings {July 28 news: "Im-paws-ible? Vet sees 'cougar' on Parkway" and several subsequent letters] very interesting. For more than 40 years we...
Scrutinize headlines
Published on Sep 15th, 2005
0 comments You cover a rape trial in which Matt Hamilton is accused of using a date rape drug to incapacitate a woman before sexually assaulting her [August 25 cover story: "Her day in court: UVA rape case goes...
Silence is deadly
Published on Sep 15th, 2005
0 comments I can't believe enlightened, cosmopolitan Charlottes-villains would consider silencing train whistles at grade crossings ["Do not disturb: City wins silence of the trams," August 11, 2005]. Here I am...
Two bad supe choices
Published on Sep 15th, 2005
0 comments It's ironic Christian Schoenewald's favorite bumper sticker is "Don't Loudoun Albemarle County," and yet his candidacy is aimed at doing just that [August 25 HotSeat: "Unknown: Schoenewald takes on...
Keep baby in bed
Published on Sep 8th, 2005
0 comments I am writing in response to the "Gimme Shelter" article ["Oh, baby: How to keep that infant safe," August 25] regarding baby proofing, which stated that parents should never share a bed with an...
Love the new look!
Published on Sep 8th, 2005
0 comments As an out-of-towner who visits Charlottesvile once or twice every year, I'm excited to see that the city is making an enduring commitment to culture. Although some of the old-school C'villers I know...
Where are the RR laws?
Published on Sep 8th, 2005
0 comments Did the 38 people charged with railroad "trespass" climb the eight-foot fence, cut the barbed wire, bag the track security cameras, cold-cock the track security guards, and remove all trespassing...
On Kelly Watt's story
Published on Sep 2nd, 2005
0 comments We received more letters about our August 11 story about the life and death of Albemarle High School graduate Kelly Watt than any other story in recent memory. The 18-year-old journalist and runner...