Che chafes some
Felipe Maya's choice of Ernesto Rafael "Che" Guevara ("The clothes make the Marxist," Sept. 28) as an emblem is an insult to almost every section of society that IU seeks to include. \nMr. Guevara's face on T-shirts has been adopted as an emblem simply because it is eye-catching and out of historical ignorance. Unfortunately, the movie titled "The Motorcycle Diaries" does not help. It is a terrible adaptation of a journal written by Che Guevara while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s. In his memoirs, Mr. Guevara wrote of "the indolent and fanciful blacks" as "magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing" while traveling in South America's Caribbean coast in 1952.\nCan the Indiana Daily Student really justify adopting as an emblem a man whose philosophy included the belief that "we all must keep our hatred alive. Hate that can push a human beyond his natural limits and make him a cold, violent, selective and effective killing-machine." This is a man whose revolution has caused division, suffering and death in Latin American countries. \nThis mocks all IU's sincere efforts to promote equality, tolerance and widen access.
Santiago Schnell\nAssociate director of the Biocomplexity Institute
Clean up your own mess
The big orange signs (that have faded to the point that they are no longer orange) INPIRG taped to sidewalks all over campus (using environment-damaging, non-recyclable, petroleum-based plastic tape) to advertise its Sept. 15 callout meeting are still around. How do the members of INPIRG think that it can clean up the environment if it can't even pick up their own trash after themselves? What exactly did all those $5 INPIRG pledges go toward?
Stephan Jerabek\nJunior
