Assessment mean-spirited
Re: “Setting a flashy precedent — Cultural district at UT Dallas is already off monitor with new satellite tv for pc Crow Museum,” by Mark Lamster, Sunday Arts & Life column.
This can be a response to the mean-spirited evaluate of the brand new O’Donnell Athenaeum/Crow Museum constructing on the College of Texas at Dallas.
Lamster begins by lamenting the refusal of the UT Dallas directors to heed the “groundswell of help” for saving the previous “Artwork Barn” (which he describes as an unsightly, short-term constructing) so as to protect its “unpretentious allure.” As two people who find themselves concerned with UT Dallas, serving on an advisory committee, we weren’t conscious of this supposed help. The foresight and prescience of the college administration to maneuver ahead is obvious on this beautiful new house for the humanities. It’s a important addition to tradition in North Texas.
We really feel that Rick Brettell, whom Lamster portrays as one who would really feel his imaginative and prescient was ignored or misdirected, would as an alternative be very happy with this new construction, positioned conveniently for guests on the entrance to the college. He would endorse the tone it units as an all-encompassing visible and performing arts venue. It will likely be the neighborhood gathering place Brettell had hoped for.
With its progressive design and execution, this Athenaeum complicated elevates UT Dallas’ standing as a contemporary college with a daring new imaginative and prescient, seeking to the long run. A younger college, UT Dallas will forge its personal identification, maybe changing into the “Harvard of the South.”
Slightly than being what Lamster labels “a misplaced alternative,” it’s a dream realized, setting a precedent in idea and design. It nurtures a cultural neighborhood, integrates the humanities and invitations all company to share in its area. It’s the fruits of an eclectic imaginative and prescient delivered to fruition by those that consider in a spot devoted to the “creativity which connects the thinkers and the makers.”
Maybe we should always learn a Lamster evaluate of the Guggenheim at Balboa “starchitecture” for higher perception into his idea of flashy.
Dr. Maroba Zoeller and Jerry Comer, Richardson
Obituary appreciated
Re: “Robert Bernstein: Father championed homosexual rights,” Wednesday Metro & Enterprise obituary.
I’m so glad that The Dallas Morning Information printed such a poignant and shifting story on the lifetime of Robert Bernstein. As a champion of human rights, this man was an instance of pure love for household and neighborhood.
Being in what’s known as “the buckle of the Bible Belt” and with the influences of so many megachurches, this uplifting story was fairly a shock. As a proud and out homosexual man who has seen and lived the persecution of my LGBTQ+ neighborhood, it’s refreshing to know that there are such a lot of allies to our wrestle and are with us in help.
With the present social atmosphere in conservative Texas, and sure elected politicians making an attempt all the things potential to decrease the LGBTQ+ neighborhood’s value, the world wants extra Robert Bernsteins.
Clark Mitchell, Northwest Dallas
Voters all the time have a say
Re: “Why is abortion not up for vote? State doesn’t permit any type of voter-led measures on the poll,” Tuesday information story.
I learn with curiosity this story about abortion not being up for a vote in Texas. It states that “voters in 10 states … will determine whether or not to enshrine some abortion rights of their state constitutions.” However “[w]sick Texas …be given the identical alternative? Not Possible.”
That’s not solely correct. Each two years, each Texas voter has the chance to elect one in all 150 state legislators and each two or 4 years, (relying on a lottery,) one in all 31 senators. We additionally decide a governor each 4 years.
Whereas it’s true Texas doesn’t permit for poll referendums (and I think many metropolis of Dallas officers want propositions S, T and U weren’t being put on to the voters), we do have a say in what turns into regulation.
So, whether or not you might be pro-choice or pro-life, the following time you go to the polls, earlier than you make your choice, bear in mind you’ve got each a selection and a voice.
Saul Friedman, Coppell
Voting for future generations
With hurricanes Helene and Milton simply barely within the rearview mirror and communities nonetheless struggling to acquire fundamental requirements within the aftermath, it’s a reminder that local weather change is a disaster that’s solely getting worse. I’ve all the time cared about defending the Earth for future generations, however after changing into a grandparent, it actually hit house. Future generations deserve a livable planet. We should get critical now about stopping local weather change.
On this election, local weather change is one in all many essential points at stake. I’m an impartial voter and a gun proprietor who grew up in a conservative household. And it’s clear to me that as somebody who deeply cares about freedom for our youngsters, I’ve to vote for Democrats up and down the poll on this 12 months’s election.
It’s not nearly turning the tide on local weather change, it’s additionally about guaranteeing ladies are free to make their very own choices about their our bodies and their well being care. It’s about getting cash out of politics and placing common individuals — not MAGA politicians and judges funded by billionaires — within the driver’s seat of our authorities. For me, the selection is evident: defending freedom and a sustainable future rely upon stopping MAGA.
Andrea Christgau, Keller
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