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...Essay "Why Montana Is Turning Blue" [April 25], Walter Kirn suggested that Montana's shift from Republican red to Democratic blue is the result of the influx of people like him who moved to the state 10 to 15 years ago. My wife and I have lived in Montana for most of our 60-plus years. We don't snowboard, raft or eat sushi, but, by golly, we've been to the Big Apple, and we like New York City. Montana, though, will always be our home. Nowhere in the world are the skies so big and blue. Our state...
...Montanan, I found it inspiring to read Kirn's Essay. Yes, it's true, we pulled up our bootstraps and elected a Democratic Governor, got rid of saloon smoke, said "Git" to toxic-mining lobbyists and decided that drinking when driving just isn't very American after all. But lest anyone think we're going soft on personal freedoms, Montanans oppose the Patriot Act. We can smell a rat a mile away, and we don't take kindly to the government sneaking things past our good ole red-white-and-blue U.S. Constitution...
Kate C. Gluckman ’07, a student in the course, said her teaching fellow told her that two students recently submitted the same essay that had been turned in by a student in a previous year...
...Perry G. Barlow ’07, another student in the course, said that the department should just change the essay questions instead going through all the effort compiling archives of students’ work...
...student John P. Chambers ’07 agreed that the essay questions should be changed from year to year...