GOP doesn’t want differing perspectives

The quote (Dec. 28, page 7A) from freshman honors student Reese Olsen is also the rationale for teaching (requiring) poetry, literature, reading, writing courses for all students regardless of their major or area of emphasis.

"Now, looking back at any of her [Taylor Swift] songs or anyone else's music or just writing in general [emphasis mine], I'm kind of looking at it in a different way — being able to have a perspective that I really didn't have before learning about writing techniques."

Olsen is a biology major.

Mind control proponents — book banners; the Republican-controlled Iowa Legislature — would disagree with me. "Having a perspective that I really didn't have before" is dangerous for anyone hell-bent on squeezing us into constricted (exclusionary monoculture) spaces.

Gretchen Reeh-Robinson

Mount Vernon