Editor,
I was extremely disappointed to open the May 28, 2025 edition of the Clinton Chronicle and find no mention of the Clinton Middle School and Clinton High School Science Olympiad teams traveling to Lincoln, Nebraska for the national tournament. Instead, the Clinton High School football team was featured on the front page yet again.
Don’t get me wrong, the Clinton community is very proud of the football team for winning the state championship in 2024. But I would hope that the community is also proud of the hard-working young scientists who qualified for a national competition yet again! I’ve lost count of how many times. Everyone enjoys sports and is proud of our athletes, but it seems a shame to hold multiple celebrations for one football championship while pretty much ignoring multiple state championships in an academic competition. Clinton, let’s do better and show our young scientists that we’re proud of them, too!
Sincerely, Sarah M. Leckie, proud mother and grandmother of science olympians
Archives and Technical Services Librarian, James H. Thomason Library
Presbyterian College
503 South Broad St.
Clinton, SC 29325
Editor,
I just had occasion to read your piece titled “I am Not” (The Chronicle, May 28). To position your viewpoint as some post Weimar coward witnessing an approaching holocaust is as vile as it is dripping in the righteous indignation and moral relativism of a twelve year old.
I won’t address each of your line items. There is no room to attempt to argue the finer points of natural law and human nature in 300 words or less. I do wonder where it would go.
That being said, I certainly believe in your right to your opinion and your right to express it. Even if you choose to rely more on platitude than substance. Suffice it to say, we see the world a bit differently.
I do wonder where the moral authority to ignore or subvert the law comes from? Regarding immigration Bill Clinton once said, “ We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.”
I suppose his idea is no longer relevant. Maybe we’ve just evolved so much in the last 30 years. Or, maybe it just no longer fits the narrative.
The naive individual derives, or is delivered, a moral mandate from the conditioning of the afore mentioned moral relevancy.
What one does not realize in this endless search for self- gratification; is that the individual does not have the power to “save” another culture or society, or crisis du jour. However, one does have the power to destroy one’s own.
Respectfully,
Brian West, Easley
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