Responsible hunters don't present a hazard in Poland

Responsible hunters don't present a hazard in Poland
EDITOR:
This letter is in rebuttal to "Poland Township, where the living can be hazardous." My property line runs right up against the farmland to which the letter writer referred. The loud noise that she had to endure may have been a half-dozen shots. My house never trembled, and I live closer.
I have to say watching them picking the dead geese up was a little more than I would have liked to watch, but I just looked away. This is what they do and I found it rather interesting to watch how they would set everything up early in the morning and wait lying on their backs patiently in a position that was completely facing AWAY from the residents and toward the wooded area, making sure that they would not cause any harm. They were very responsible and in fact my own children did build a snowman that very day in the FRONT of my house. We simply told our children stay out of the backyard till they left.
We also have a groundhog problem here and would like to exercise the right to eliminate them as we choose to without people coming in and telling us that we cannot. Maybe she is right that some people should live in the Village if they can't accept their neighbors' rights. I do not know a lot about Ohio's laws and codes but I am happy where I live and feel the need to voice my opinion. It is a shame that last week's writer has chosen to move because this is a beautiful area to live and raise children.
COLLEEN M. WALKER
Struthers
Where is YSU choosingto spend tuition money?
EDITOR:
In light of continuing decline of state funding for higher education and increasing tuition, students at YSU and their families may want to know where some of their tuition dollars go. Expenditures created by the attitude of the present administration toward its employees, particularly those that originate from the offices of John Habat, vice president for administration and finance, and Hugh Chatman, executive director of human resource, are unreasonable and irresponsible.
Here is a short list with a very high amount. Over the past four years, YSU has paid out to lawyers approximately $2 million for a range of legal services including contract negotiations. Presently, there are 34 grievances that Habat and Chatman are unwilling to settle internally and consequently are going to arbitration. The cost per grievance is between $7,000 and $10,000, for a total between $238,000 and $340,000.
Additionally, the cost of the retirement program Mr. Habat presented to ACE in negotiations, and which did not have the approval of the board of trustees, is between $8.1 million and $10 million. Put these sums together for an approximate total between $10 million and $12 million. There are, of course, very many smaller expenditures (e.g., an administrator in the Metro College who spends $83,000 for his office furniture, while most of us are quite content with a metal desk and a few bookcases), but together add up to a very significant sum.
Not one of those dollars spent is essential to the proper functioning of the university or to the education of our students. Rather they were produced by an arrogant and intransigent administration unwilling to solve problems.
As the board of trustees is ultimately responsible for the university, why have they permitted these exorbitant expenditures? Student and their families deserve an answer.
GABRIEL PALMER-FERNANDEZ, Ph.D.
Youngstown
The writer is director of the Dr. James Dale Ethics Center and a professor of philosophy and religious studies at YSU.
What's the question?
EDITOR:
It's a red herring. Everyone - media, writers, analysts, every political office holder in the country it seems - is fastening on to the question, "Is wiretapping OK under the circumstances?"
That is not the question. There is no question. The president broke the law(s) of this country and should be impeached. Period.
EMILY W. SCHAFF
Youngstown