'Sexponent' should add best breasts of the week

Publication Date: 04/11/2007

This letter is a response to Tom Miller's "grown-up" letter ("Exponent exercises free speech with sex position") in Friday's opinion section. I don't know who you've been talking to Tom, but putting sex positions in the Sexponent doesn't make it a grown up paper. It's quite sad, actually, to see a prestigious paper like the Exponent resort to sex to gain readership.

But let me see, you said something about freedom of speech. Yes, I'm a big fan of that amendment, but where should the line be drawn in a college paper? Instead of using stick figures, should we go ahead and show actual couples in the act of sexual intercourse? How about just a "best pair of breasts of the week"? After all, we are in college and we presume to see ourselves as adults, what's the harm?

It is the responsibility of the Exponent to be a little more decent with what they put in their papers, Tom. I think even you would be surprised by how many people are upset about this but choose to ignore it and hope it goes away.

Leanne Brooks

Junior, College of Liberal Arts