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...understatement to say that I found David B. Lat's editorial, "Pro-Choice: Abortion to Go?"(Feb. 18, 1994), rather amusing, However, after my initial round of chuckles, I found myself more amazed than anything at the uninformed and childish tone of the entire piece...
...Lat to then spend five inches of copy on what he imagines the students for Choice elections to have been like is, to be honest, rather idiotic, considering he did not attend the election nor, for that matter, does he have any idea as who I am or what my personality is like...
...Lat claims that AFARM "responds to the legitimate concerns of AALARM, the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality, not with open and smart discussion but with lame posters and infantile humor." The fruits of AALARM'S "legitimate concerns" include putting their (anti-pink triangle) blue square symbol at the base of the Widener steps the night before National Holocaust Remembrance Day. This was done so that it would be in full view when the names of those who died in the concentration camps were read. Protesting the memorial for gays who died in the and Holocaust...
...Lat goes on to take issue with the fact that AFARM has received funding from the Office for the Arts and the Undergraduate Council. Whether or not AFARM is highly politicized is irrelevant; both the Perspective and the Salient, two political publications, received Council funding as fledgling organizations. Also, Lat's question, "Should a group whose idea of 'art' is a really bad play script about gay rights receive money from the Office for the Arts?" is strange. I assume he is referring to AFARM's piece in HQ, "Sugar Daddy Memoirs From the Association for the Absence of Rabid...
...overwhelming lack of humor regarding this whole matter, Sure, AFARM's posters and its members' comments are pretty silly. However, to think that AFARM's actions aren't somewhat amusing shows a complete lack of a sense of humor. I think that is quite obvious in the way Lat scrutinizes AFARM. He thinks naming their official positions after character in the Marquis de Sad's 120 Days of Sodom is "highly offensive." But is Lat any better after his pirates an obscure quote from the movie "Ferris, Bueller's Day Off," changing it to become his choice for AFARM...