I am writing this not in response to Corey Shoock's terrible column, in which he writes about topics clearly covered in more major newspapers and have no business being in The Spectrum, but instead the actions taken by the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Alliance.
On Wednesday morning, I realized the LGBTA had gone too far. Posters? I can understand. T-shirts? OK, no harm done. But chalking the Spine with slogans that belong on bumper stickers with rainbow backgrounds deserves, at the very least, a punishment or a fine. We, as students, pay to keep this school looking good, and we shouldn't be paying for workers to scrub chalk off the ground.
First off, I don't want to read "Get it straight, I'm not" or "Lesbians have more fun" between classes. Second, I definitely do not want to have to pay to have this act of vandalism removed. The group responsible should be fined to cover these extra cleaning expenses. Chalking, by any group, is an act of vandalism, not free speech.
Photo: Courtesy of Laron Fomby
