I write to comment on your choice of letters in Monday's issue (March 26). The first was from a senior who had been called a "fag" at a nightclub. The next was from a freshman who believed that "homosexuality is wrong." These two letters, presumably, were included in the interests of balance, commenting as they both did on Rene Portland's decision to resign as basketball coach. The next letter is from a student who had racial epithets shouted at her from a car. My question is where the balancing contribution to this letter was. In the interests of balance, shouldn't the Klan really have been heard?

The Collegian would never print such racist drivel, and certainly not during Black History Month. By printing Jesse Mowry's narrow-minded, homophobic letter at the start of Penn State's Pride Week, you have achieved a similar result. Race is not a "debate" where there are two respectable opinions in opposition, and neither should sexuality be. If we are to cast it as such, let us at least label each view for what it is -- tolerance and bigotry.