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COLLECTOR’S ITEM
Read your January issue from cover to cover. Great list of “People to Watch” this year. But I almost didn’t make it inside the magazine. When I received my issue, I clipped off the front cover and framed the photo of Cole Hamels before reading a word. I wanted the cover for the collection of special writing-desk photos in my bedroom.
JENNY BOWMAN
LA JOLLA
LEARNING CURVE
Thanks for the great closeup look at San Diego’s major universities [“San Diego: College Town” by Marcia Manna and Julia Beeson Polloreno, January]. It’s a nice balance of academics and campus life. I was especially pleased to note that you didn’t lead with last year’s story of San Diego State University’s overblown drug bust. Sadly, drugs are a part of campus life around the world. Fortunately, they’re a small part. With all of the academic awards bestowed on SDSU in recent years——and all of the media attention it wins from national magazines——so many locals keep focusing on the “party school” image the university had back in the 1960s and ’70s. Grow up, people. The university certainly has.
MERILEE MCADAMS
SDSU CLASS OF ’74
LA HABRA
TAKING THE LEAD
Great story on San Diego’s next generation of civic leaders [“The Powers to Be” by Kelly Thornton, December]. It was a perfect fit with your story on how local celebrities give back to their community [“The Munificent Seven” by Julia Beeson Polloreno, December]. It’s a sad truth that San Diego’s leadership pool grows ever shallower. But then that’s a universal truth in major American cities. It doesn’t need to be. San Diego can set an example for the future. It’s good to learn there are some young folks coming up through the ranks who believe in giving back to the city that nurtured them. It’s also nice to see that the pool is such a lovely ethnic mix. That may be the single most important factor for the future of leadership in our country. San Diego Magazine does a terrific job of covering the real San Diego——not just the tinsel and the flash. Hope you’ll keep reminding us what depth our city has.
DARWIN HERMES
CLAIREMONT
OF THE BEHOLDER
Why does San Diego Magazine find it necessary to use images such as the one on page 18 of the January ’09 issue? For the life of me, I cannot figure out what the photo illustration of what appears to be a parade of strippers from the calf down has to do with what’s coming in the February issue. God forbid the picture has any relevance to “Fashion February,” “Hot Husbands” or “The Charity Ball at 100,” which it was supposed to be illustrating. It’s these types of unnecessary titillating images that seem to show up from time to time in your magazine, especially in fashion features (for obviously gratuitous reasons), that make me question continuing my subscription. Please just give the reader what we subscribe for: all things San Diego. Leave the titillating to other magazines where it’s expected.
PATRICIA DUFFY-RAGUINDIN
WALDORF, MD
ERRATUM
In the January issue’s “50 People to Watch” story, we incorrectly stated that UCSD professor Roger Tsien won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. Tsien is a recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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