Readers Weigh in on Western State, Wonder View Tower and Sand Creek

Alan Prendergast's latest story had everything — sex, incompetent college administrators, sex, ties to popular culture, sex. I'd rather read that godawful Fifty Shades of Grey a hundred times than go through what Keifer Johnson did. Talk about S&M!
Fred Miller
Denver

Good article. Unfortunately, this is pretty typical of college campuses. They assume all men are rapists, but then they never bother to press charges because there's no actual evidence. They just handle the matter themselves, ruin a guy's life, and call it a job well done.
Aaron Davidson
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Yes, inadequate training at the school — but it also sounds like manipulative young women are more prominent than ever.
Wyatt Lamond
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"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

Guess he should have read less Kerouac and more Congreve.Gordon Paige
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Thank you for your article on the Wonder View Tower in Westword. It brightened my day, then my father's day, and then my grandfather's day. I was very happy to share it with them. We were all born in Genoa...a ghost town now. My great-grandfather's house, the one I was born in, is long forgotten except for the weeds.

Distant family still own and operate our homestead wheat farm. The two-headed cow was born about one mile from my grandfather's farm, and my father remembers it well. My dad and uncles have great stories about the tower. I played in that tower as a child, and was sad to see it shut down.

I do hope that Lincoln County decides to take this facility up and turn it into a museum; that would be lovely. It would be very sad to see the tower end up like the Genoa school building. Your article was respectful, enjoyable, and appreciated. Of course, this is the fate of most rural life around the world now. Thank you for a walk down memory lane.
Alicia K. Andersen-Shyam
Denver

I want to commend Patricia Calhoun for her ongoing coverage of the Sand Creek Massacre and the upcoming 150th anniversary, including last week's story on poet laureate Joe Hutchison. This is indeed "a dark chapter in Colorado's past," and one I believe that the powers-that-be would rather ignore.

But Calhoun clearly subscribes to the words of George Santayana — "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" — and we would all do well to listen.
Tyler Hanson
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Maybe the former town of Chivington should be renamed Soule. Heard some want a (hopefully major) street (here in Denver) named after Soule — and not just one of those honorary renames where they are not renaming. Soule deserves a national presence for his decency and extreme courage. He did not just speak up for his own people; he was a voice that helped to redirect the society of his time, and Denver owes his memory like very few others.
Alice I. Hallam
Denver

Thank you for sharing this information about Joe Hutchison, Silas Soule and the Sand Creek Massacre. The profundity of what happened at Sand Creek 150 years ago and Silas Soule's refusal to unlimber his cannon there, as well as placing his men and himself between the attacking troops and the Cheyenne and Arapaho, is clearly expressed in Hutchison's poem.
Dan Vasicek
Denver