Student Opinions

I love reading the student opinion section in the daily universe. These days with the elections and controversial ballot initiatives the opinions seem especially polarized. I love that even at BYU there is a forum that people with opposing ideas and ideals can express them. Then I can read the agitated response by the person who took offense to the original comments. There is usually about a week long feud between these agitated journalists and then the editor decides to give someone else some column time. It may just be me but it seems the BYU democrats assume that there will be some outrageous backlash to their opinions so they include some of the responses before they get any feedback. I haven't seen such bold stances in the three years that I have been a student here. I think it is the candidate that they support that gives them courage. While I must say I enjoy the political banter much more than arguments over babies and laptops, I think that people forget that they are still on the same side in things that really do still matter. I've got to say that you've got to be pretty brave to sign your name to those entries unless you enjoy going in the ring for a round or two with very opinionated people. I personally like playing devil's advocate, unless it for things that aren't correct and then I only like advocating it if it will make my wife scoff.