Letters to the Editor

Senator wants student input about having a wet stadium. Last week at the regular meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Wyoming Senate, a resolution was presented encouraging the sale of malt beverages at home football and basketball games. This isn’t a new topic on campus and a w [more]

I wanted to voice my concern and irritation with the lack of support for married students on campus. I am a married student going into my final year of my undergrad. When I got married, I assumed there would be some benefits for my spouse also. But there are not. There is no health insurance... [more]

I read an article in Wednesday’s paper that Men’s Basketball Head Coach Larry Shyatt called for attendance. I would like to remind him that as much as athletics are important to extra curricular activities, so are other programs at the university. Over the course of the last three weeks, numerou [more]

Sound system failure causes frustration

I’ve just returned from Mikhail Gorbachev’s speaking event at the Arena Auditorium. I’m back early because, after 45 minutes of not being able to hear anything, I, like many others in the outer sections, gave up on anything being done to fix the problem. Even after the crowd interrupted Mr. Go [more]

Dear Editor(s) of the Branding Iron, Please accept and publish the below as a reasonable and comprehensive response to Geoff Hiatt’s submissions. The voicing of this, or a similar, point of view is necessary to ensure a certain squeaky wheel doesn’t get an unjust serving of grease at the cost of [more]

Greetings. I am writing to the Branding Iron again because I feel that I need to respond to some of the reactions I have seen to my letter regarding the “Ask the Cowboys” segment during the Nebraska game. There has been a great deal of discussion on the subject on the BI’s website, [more]

In response to Geoff Hiatt’s letter regarding the “Ask the Cowboys Segment” at the Wyoming/Nebraska game, I must say there is some skewed exaggeration in the argument. While there is no question that rape is a horrendous act, to say the entire UW football program is somehow advocating it is ra [more]

Dear Editor, I am writing to express my dismay resulting in the chastising from the fans and students of [the] University of Wyoming against a football player for his crude comment during the “Ask the Cowboys,” “What is your best pick up line?” segment of Saturday’s game. His response, “ [more]