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Issues of central concern to queer-identified people in communities of color came up in your article on Spectrum (Oct. 24), and I would like to comment on some of those issues. While I understand that reporting always has to simplify in some sense, I do want to emphasize that what Spectrum intends to address is a complex issue and merits some clarification...
...clarify that Spectrum is not, in any way, separating from the BGLTSA and is, on the contrary, very much in accordance with the BGLTSA's changing outlook toward contemporary sexuality concerns. Likewise, we hope that the various racial and cultural groups on campus understand that Spectrum seeks not separation but complete cooperation in addressing the changing concerns around what it means to have a certain racial or sexual identity. We think those days are thankfully gone when one could easily essentialize what it meant to be a man or woman, straight or gay, white or colored, when, more importantly...
...page paperback. Preferring the "ethnographic" data he collects, Goodman dismisses the research conducted by his opponents. Asked if there is research from other fields that confirms his findings, he cannot think of any. His final defense is that phonics teaches the ability to recognize individual words, not to understand text, but studies confirm what common sense tells us: comprehension depends on word recognition...
...concept that Adams brought to the fore was "phonemic awareness." Phonemes are the smallest meaningful sounds in a language. English has 44 phonemes that its speakers combine to make all its words. Cat, for example, has three: "kuh-aa-tuh." Adams concluded that in order to read, one must understand that the sounds in a word can be broken up this way; it must also be understood that letters represent these sounds. Some people have phonemic awareness intuitively, but others must be taught it, which can be done with simple exercises...
...Leave? [FAMILY, Oct. 6]. Conservatives who criticize Kramer for suggesting a healthy separation of the self for fulfilling, intimate relationships would do well to read Martin Buber's I and Thou for the ultimate description of the fullest and healthiest of human and spiritual relationships. Perhaps then they would understand that viewing relationships as extensions of oneself is the ultimate in self-indulgence. VIRGINIA K. GORDON Highland Park...