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MEAN AND NASTY?
What a mean, nasty and inaccurate portrait of Crawford High School appeared in your pages [“Failed Expectations” by s.d. liddick, October]. Could you have found a more biased and bitter writer?
I spent 13 wonderful years at Crawford and left only when I disagreed with the idea that it should be broken into four campuses. I loved the students and the faculty, and honestly, I have yet to have the quality of experience in a school “north of 8” that I did at Crawford in City Heights.
There certainly is a frightening and ugly side to that neighborhood, and some of those issues affect the campus. But the focus and language of the article were ugly slanders against the neighborhood, the school, its students and teachers.
RICHARD V. LAWHEAD
EL CAJON
OR RIGHT ON?
Regarding your story “Failed Expectations,” about the troubles at Crawford High School. I’m a recently retired teacher, and I suggest you have a reporter go next door to Horace Mann Middle School. You’ll find exactly the same tragic scenario you found at Crawford. If Horace Mann could maybe be helped a little, Crawford wouldn’t be in such a bad situation.
Many of the teachers believe your article was right on, tragically.
J. PETERS
SAN DIEGO
THE CHURCH LADY
I read your Profile piece on Jane Via [by Eilene Zimmerman, October], and it just made me cringe. If she feels the Roman Catholic Church is intolerant, then why doesn’t she leave and start her own religion? If she feels that Catholic ministry is based on “status, authority, power and money” rather than “service,” no one is forcing her to stay.
Jane Via portrays herself as someone who wants to serve, but she wants the Catholic Church to serve her. And that is not right. Jesus chose 12 men; He could have chosen women, but He didn’t. She needs to get over it.
I’m a Catholic woman, and I serve my church happily without pulling antics like Jane’s in order to bring attention to myself. The Catholic Church is beautiful the way it is . . . we don’t need a wolf in sheep’s clothing to try and change anything just because someone needs attention.
A piece like this should be balanced with a piece from a true Catholic perspective. This piece paints a very negative picture of our church. It seems it is open season on the Catholic Church when it comes to the media. I would appreciate some balance.
CHERRY LORENZANA
CATHOLIC ANSWERS
SEMINAR COORDINATOR
SENSE AND SENSITIVITY
As a female patient and a woman physician, I was offended by some images taken by Gary Payne that appeared in your magazine’s October issue [“Top Doctors”].
The cover photo, showing expensive clothing, including lingerie, draped over a chair, was voyeuristic in nature. Because it implied, in a suggestive manner, that an unclothed woman was in the room nearby, it made me uncomfortable. Surely the nurses and doctors who take care of women patients do not focus on their disrobed state in the examination room. They are present to listen to us, examine us, treat us and reassure us as human beings. Never mind our clothes!
The photo on page 115 presumably depicts a fashionable designer doctor’s bag, along with flashy jewelry on the female physician’s hand. I have never met a doctor who uses such a bag to work with! Most doctors are compassionate, hard-working people who devote themselves to taking care of all sorts of patients. And many of them do not make very much money when you consider how many hours they work and how many years of training they have undergone.
Please use more sensitivity and common sense in the future when you decide how to market your magazine.
JILL ELLIS, M.D.
ENCINITAS
OOPS!
I received my lovely November issue today and began to read from the inside cover, as usual, until I got to Tom Blair’s Dialogue with Rudy Johnson. I turned to the jump on page 48 and read down to Mr. Johnson’s first answer on that page and, to my surprise, found he received pubic outcries regarding the under-enrollment in the Head Start Program! Gee, I hope mine never does that!
I think one of the proofreaders blinked just a teensy bit!
Some years ago, while working for a nonprofit organization, I was preparing a proposal draft for the president, and subsequently found I had made the same error. However, the error was caught before printing and mailing. I hope it’s not contagious!
San Diego Magazine is always edgy, glamorous and informative. At least you know I read the articles!
LOIS STEWART-MORSE
SAN DIEGO
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