Why not name the new pub in Wilson Commons after heroic alumni Jeremy Glick? Glick was on one of the doomed flights taken over by hijackers on Sept. 11, 2001. Media reports suggest that cell phone calls from the airplane indicate strongly that Glick and a few other passengers may have intentionally crashed the plane to prevent it from crashing into a target such as the White House or US Capitol Building.

The University of Rochester has produced men and women of significant achievement in nearly every field of endeavor one could imagine. Can there be any question that Jeremy Glick has taken his place among them?

Name the new pub after Jeremy Glick.

Brad MillerClass of 92



Blindspots: Dick Cheney is still a war criminal

The Iraq war was a mistake, which killed almost a million people, and the people who zealously ginned the U.S. into that conflict should be made into pariahs, not platformed and commended by presidential contenders.

Norah O’Donnell’s take on life: The quality of relationships

She recently landed an interview with Pope Francis by writing him several personal letters over the course of 10 years.

The surprising thing I learned when I was invited into UR’s Free Palestine encampment

It was the fact that these students were here at all, on this quad, in this camp, acting in solidarity with the several hundred thousand Palestinians refugees who, because of the war, were now forced to live in tents. This didn’t feel like a UR thing.