Why does Campbell need costly cameras on students?

Why does Campbell needcostly cameras on students?
EDITOR:
I'm not from Campbell but have noted many times over the last 50 years the remarkable number of physicians, attorneys and other outstanding professional leaders who were raised and educated in that fine city. This fact indicates the high standards set by Campbell families and teachers.
Your June 2, 2003, news story on the new Campbell High School building extols a "state of the art" security system in this school. Thirty-two motion-activated video cameras monitor/spy on pupils in most internal and external areas. The inside cameras are hidden. Images are stored for 30 days. Monitors in the office of the principal allow him to spy on the students in "real time" or at some later time. For this, he is paid $70,000 or so per year.
Have those who made decisions to purchase, install and use this type system ever read the novels "1984," "Brave New World" and similar precautionary tales?
Do you folks at The Vindicator, who are our first line of defense in exposing challenges to basic liberties, feel any need to present a thoughtful editorial opinion on excesses of this kind? I look forward to a careful analysis in your/our paper in the near future.
WILLIAM R. CLARK
Hubbard
If you missed Idora show,you missed a Valley miracle
EDITOR:
During the Memorial Day weekend, Youngstown witnessed a miracle. A woman came back to town after a 27-year absence. With no help from any theatrical organization, playwright Angela V. Woodhull managed to attract more than 175 cast members for the May 23-25 production of "Remember Idora" at Powers Auditorium. She and her husband, Ira Philpot, second mortgaged their Florida home to make this show possible. This was a grand gesture toward our town on their parts.
The Idora show was phenomenal. Hopefully, future runs of this show will embrace the Powers Auditorium stage. Attending this show was an experience that will be talked about for years.
DAVID H. HANSEN
Boardman
Speaking of idiots, Sowellneeds to look in the mirror
EDITOR:
Why is it that political pundits try to force their interpretation of history upon the rest of us?
Take Thomas Sowell (PLEASE!) His commentary of May 23 regarding a book titled "Useful Idiots" was indeed comical. How many of you out there noticed the lack of "useful idiots" who could have been included in Sanctimonious Sowell's sojourn into absurdity? Most of his article centered on Cuba and Fidel Castro.
How about the possible "useful idiots" in 1959 who may have facilitated Fidel by not countering the revolution? President Dwight Eisenhower? Vice President Richard NIxon? Secretary of Defense Thomas Gates? Secretary of State John Foster Dulles? Attorney General William Rogers?
That administration applauded the overthrow of the Battista regime in Cuba. It would be asinine to paint them with the brush of "useful idiot" because they lauded the overthrow of a tyrant.
The real "useful idiots" omitted by Sowell are the legislators in the Congress who facilitate policies through legislation that are driving a dismal economy into potential bankruptcy.
Hmmm. I wonder if the White House considers Sowell to be a "useful idiot?"
JOHN ZORDICH
Youngstown