Do Daily Collegian columnists have to pass through editors? I only wonder, because I would hope that an editor would have noticed when a writer spends four-fifths of a column decrying Valentine's Day for its crass commercialism and supposedly strange historical origins ("Celebrate love on V-day, break free from Hallmark's holiday shackles," Feb. 13), only to spin around at the last moment, asking her readers to essentially "remember the real meaning of Valentine's Day."

May I ask what is wrong with buying a nice card or gift for someone that we love? I only ask because Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice fails to state the reason why she hates it so much. While she and some others may consider the idea of crass corporate affection as indisputable as the laws of gravity, most of us do not. It's true that some of us will give a gift this Valentine's Day without much thought, but not all. Some of us will spend time and money (two valuable things that we sacrifice as a gesture of our affection) in choosing a particular gift that we think our valentine will love.

While we may need help in picking the perfect gift, what we don't need is cranks like Andrews-Rice writing in The Daily Collegian the day before Valentine's Day that we're a bunch of fools.