Letter to the Editor: Iraqi deaths matter

By Andrew Bredeson

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

After reading, and rereading Thursday’s edition of The University Daily Kansan, I was faced with the startling realization that 183 people were murdered the previous day and the paper didn’t even mention it. Granted these people were Iraqi, and granted it seems that every day another bomb blows up and kills some number of people, but this is definitely newsworthy.

It is newsworthy because it is a significant loss of human life, people who have families and who deserve to live just as much as we do. It’s newsworthy because we invaded their country and we still have troops fighting there. These are troops who are mostly the same age as the majority of us who attend the University of Kansas.

Instead of printing this we were informed about a local philanthropist coffee roaster. We saw a picture of some old ladies in funny red hats and we got to read pleas from one person who wants more gun control and one who wants less so that all students would be free to bring guns to class.

Certainly the printing of the above-mentioned things can be justified, as they all apply to us in some way. I simply wish that there would have been at least a short little article from the Associated Press about the tragedy in Iraq. It’s important that KU students be informed about what is happening outside of Kansas, and it’s our newspaper’s job to make sure that this happens.

Andrew Bredeson

Minnetonka, Minn. sophomore

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