Columnist's end does not justify means
Regarding ‘How to beat "Weathervane McCain,"' (Monday, Feb. 20, 2008):
Jason Sheltzer '08's article begins, "The only road to a Democratic victory in 2008 leads straight through the mud." Regardless of which side of ...(back to the article)
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Thomas Lipp's letter above strikes me as very unfair and unnecessarily nitpicky. More importantly, the main claim is false: the title for the LGBT event was "From Top to Bottom: Everything You Want to Know about Gay Sex." The *official description* blurb beneath the title calls this event a "provocative presentation on the joys and toys of gay and lesbian sex." This phrase was on the poster for the event, and it is obviously not invented by detractors. The poster describes the event as a how-to presentation, *not* a talk about "safe sex." I find it strange that Lipp would find this very small misquote on McGinley's part to be so egregious. If this error is so important, does this mean Lipp agrees with the rest of McGinley's article? Even more bizarre is the sweeping conclusion Lipp draws from the error: that McGinley and others have an obsession with the issue of gay sex. This just simply doesn't follow. The minor error doesn't prove anything about people's obsessions or lack of them. There are valid reasons for questioning the University's sponsorship of an event designed to tell people how to have sex...it doesn't seem to have much to do with the mission of the University. That's the main point here.
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