Bus saves walk to treadmill exercise

You know what really grinds my gears? The bus system, and those who ride it.

I have never understood why the University’s bus system is so extensive. I’m sure the student body could get by with just the East-West route.

I recently rode the bus for the first time this year, and lo and behold, roughly 90 percent of the riders were girls. Now this wasn’t an issue, considering it was the Milledge route, until later at Ramsey when I saw not one, but three of the same girls from the bus earlier walking on the treadmills.

Each of them walked for a minimum of 30 minutes.

Why not just walk to and from class each day? What difference is it when and where one is walking? This happens time and time again.

The female body at the University needs to re-evaluate its definition of exercise.

If attire is the excuse, a girl should reconsider why she is wearing heels and uncomfortable (read: sexy) clothing to class. It’s not a fashion show.

NICK PANETTA
Junior, Alpharetta
Landscape Architecture

Rights not based on self-sufficiency

Chelsea Toledo correctly claims in her March 27 column that, “Before [he or she] is born, a child cannot stand a chance without its [sic] birth mother.”

One is not required to take a position on the abortion debate in order to point out a serious flaw in using this fact to support abortion rights. Specifically, it assumes that self-sufficiency is a necessary criterion for the right to life.

I would submit to Ms. Toledo that few, if any, 1-year-olds, 3-year-olds or even 5-year-olds are self-sufficient in this world. Most are still completely dependent on mom and dad for survival.

I would certainly think that no one – whether pro-life or pro-choice – would cite their continuing postnatal dependency as a valid reason to exterminate them at will.

RICHARD L. SUPLITA II
Ph.D. Faculty, Winder
Department of Psychology

All religions equal: equally worthless

No religion is any better than another – they are all equally worthless.

I don’t mean to hurt anybody’s feelings. I realize practically everybody around me is religious.

In Kim Cichelli’s March 28 column, she writes about all religions being equal and about faith being a “slippery beast.”

Religion creates conflict because it is based on absolutely nothing, has no evidence and requires children to grow up believing in it with all sorts of insane threats about what happens if they don’t.

It throws reality to the wayside, diminishes science and nature and ultimately divides us and creates conflict based on things that do not now, nor ever did, exist.

Faith is a slippery beast indeed – believing in something with no reason at all.

It would be insane if I believed that the Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe. We can all agree on that, yet it is socially acceptable to think the great invisible man we all know and love called “God” put us here.

All religions are indeed equal – equally pointless and equally absurd.

We would be infinitely better off living in the real world, but unfortunately, this change will only occur generationally since once religion has a vice grip on your mind, it rarely lets go.

PHINIZY SPALDING
Junior, Decatur
Marketing