Editor:

I am responding to Peter Cook’s Opinions Article, "Major Parties Prove Indistinguishable, Confining." Being an average, liberal-minded student, I tend to disagree with idea that the average liberal minded student wants everyone in the world to have two cars and a house in the suburbs...

I don’t mean to be nitpicky; however, I feel that suburbs and owning two cars is a wasteful way of living. Any liberal with as much forethought as Peter Cook deems Pomona students to have would realize right away that there are only enough resources in this world for the one percent who already do live in suburbs and own two cars to have such luxuries. Rather, would it not be more reasonable for everyone in this world to have the one vehicle they need and live in a more manageable space than a suburb? Suburbs are not only facilitators of unequal resources, they also tear apart the community atmosphere of a city by allowing those who have the means to move away from those people who do not have the means. This is one of the primary reasons why so many inner cities are in the bad shape they are in, because those households that are better off move out and take with them the resources needed to give the community vitality.

Sincerely,

Andrew Cvitanovich ’02