Editor, Times-Union: Welcome to Warsaw - I'm guessing that the letter I'm responding to had to do with the rejection of Meijer. I don't think you quite get the point of this rejection. It's not a no to Meijer. It's a no to where Meijer wants to build. I live in Timber Ridge. I'm quite concerned over the noise & safety of this situation. I moved here for peace and quiet. I think the best use for this land would be for a nice residential area. How about a nice park and middle class homes? New additions are popping up everywhere outside the city. Let's put some inside it. As for Meijer ... Why can't they find another site for their project? I have two opinions. What about the southwest corner of 15 & 30. There are a couple businesses there, but I'm sure Meijer could afford to buy them out for this site, which would have much more traffic. My second choice would be out of town at the corner of CR 200W & U.S. 30. This would help growth in that direction and perhaps that would help stop people from blowing that light. While I'm on the subject of ways to help Warsaw, I think something needs to be done with the traffic downtown when there is a train. Traffic can back up quite a way. Is there a way to put a viaduct under Center, Market, & Winona Ave?
Will Baker Warsaw via e-mail
WCHS Administration
Editor, Times-Union: For two years I've sat back quietly and watched my school, WCHS, take advantage and exploit their power they have over the many young adults who attend the Warsaw Community High School.Ê
I'm not taking aim at the teachers by all means, because they are the best thing going for that school. The majority of the teachers do their job very well, and I am proud of them all. I have decided to take aim more at the administration of WCHS.
I've heard so much talk about the administration, but what I want to be known is that most of the talk is negative. They appear to be trying to help the students at the school, but they are only thinking about a portion of the students. The other portion of students is left out and their high school experience becomes bad.
They applaud creativity and uniqueness in students, but they punish and ridicule students who take such action. Of course they are going to label students who are different and don't fit in the crowd. I'm very glad the administration decided to allow colored hair. Geesh, that's the least they could do. From restricting their students, and putting blame on them it's surprising how students have actually made it through the school system.
A good example of pointing someone out of a crowd is when a certain male student decided to wear a dress to school. Now it wasn't some skimpy dress, but long and proper. Then a few female students decided to dress in male clothing. The female students didn't receive any punishment, but the male student who wore the dress to show his difference from "the crowd" was kicked out. I remember a certain Supreme Court ruling that says, "students' rights don't stop at the school room door." The administration said it was a distraction, but the only reason it was a distraction is because they MADE it a distraction. It wasn't like the male student was making a ruckus and attracting attention to himself.
It's 2000, you begin to accept and take these sorts of things with a light heart. Also by punishing this student, they are saying that homosexuality is not permitted at WCHS. Last time I checked, people were free to make their own choices about things like that. They shouldn't just change their life around because of a few people who have a problem with it because they can't look past things like that.
The letter Justin Butts wrote to the editor about being oppressed had a lot of truth to it. I know of a certain student who wore a T-shirt that said "Bad Religion" and had a cross that was marked out on the T-shirt. It wasn't attention getting, and didn't cause a distraction either. That student was ordered to remove that shirt, and was sent home. If he wasn't oppressed and cheated out of his rights, then what do you call it? People can wear shirts that go against the devil, and are for Christianity. Although, if you wear something going against Christianity, you do get oppressed!
What it comes down to is this. The administration are hypocrites, and they don't do a very good job at singling out what needs to be noticed. They need to wake up and realize that not everyone is the same. The biggest distraction in WCHS is the administration allowing trivial, unimportant issues to jeopardize a percentile of students' educations. A kid with green hair is just as intelligent as a basketball player, if not more.
Whitt Huffer Warsaw via e-mail
Pagans
Editor, Times-Union: True, we "non-Christian pagans" have had a bit of "persecution" from today's "CHRIST-ians" (fists to the head, kicks to the chest, spit in the face, death threats and other obscenities). But, try to imagine what life was like for "non-Christian pagans" during the time of the Crusades, the Inquisition or even the Holocaust! Shouldn't we thank God that "CHRIST-ians" no longer have that kind of love for "non-Christian pagans?"
