To the editor: Universities symbolize the top of human civilization, the place college students come to achieve information based mostly on the expertise of 1000’s of years of human effort, and the place school assist generate and share that information. Everybody in a studying neighborhood is there to enhance, and as a professor I’m grateful to do my half.
That being stated, I’m devastated not solely by the mass capturing on the College of Nevada, Las Vegas, on Wednesday, but additionally by what has occurred on many different campuses across the nation throughout these very harmful occasions.
With out greater training, our youngsters don’t have any future on the earth. The approaching generations have to be educated correctly in order that we don’t flip into some sort of banana republic.
I’m uninterested in how politics, anger and hatred have contaminated my world and are damaging intellectualism. I simply need my college students to give attention to studying and I simply need to give attention to educating and serving to them. Is that an excessive amount of to ask?
Let’s work collectively to make all our campuses secure havens for individuals who need to enhance society. My deepest condolences to the households of the victims in our UNLV household. They may endlessly be in my ideas and prayers.
Michael Pravica, Las Vegas
The writer is a professor of physics at UNLV.
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To the editor: Background checks, ready durations, metallic detectors – all our solutions to the gun dilemma are solely flimsy band-aids.
We do every little thing in our energy to guard our youngsters – suppose seat belts, bike helmets, driving them to and from in every single place, stranger hazard warnings, curfews and extra. But day-after-day we ship them out right into a society the place any nut with a grievance can seize a gun and immediately damage somebody.
The fitting to bear arms? The place is the correct to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? And America calls itself the best nation on the earth – actually?
Rod Lawrence, Los Angeles