[NU Sports] RE: nwu-sports Digest, Vol 4, Issue 340

[Dennis W. Brandt]

> It used to be about a shared experience and a love of NU sports.

And what we don't like about it, too.  And your use of "used to be" has no 
basis in reality.
>
> It now appears that at least some would like it to become another front in
> the culture wars.

There isn't 1% of the posts here that ever mention politics.

> What has been special about this list is the respect and tolerance that 
> most
> of the folks have had for those who didn't share their point of view.

So, if I disagree with you, I am intolerant?  Gee, that's a tolerant 
attitude.
>
> I'm posting this message because I still have hope, but I'm growing tired 
> of
> wading through the political dreck and personal attacks to get to what I
> originally joined this list more than ten years ago to read.

You still have hope?  For what?  This is a message board on one university's 
sports teams.  Keep it in perspective.  What dreck?  What personal attacks? 
I have never read a single post here that contained a visceral attack such 
as is routinely seen on other opinion exchange sites.  We state opinions. 
As I recall, they all have been stated with respect.  Respect is not, 
however, defined as fawning acceptance.  Sometimes politics IS a factor, as 
in the attitude of the Northwestern administration toward their sports 
programs.  Sometimes it's just interesting to exchange ideas with others who 
have a brain, which is not always the case elsewhere.