This is part of the American success story and we must not allow it to be endangered in any way. Peter A. Giessel is a senior engineering student and also serves the Calvin Community as chairman of the College Republicans. While I'm not sure anyone will even notice, or care, I think that this is an important change. Too often, we believe that there are only two sides to political issues. In reality, however, issues are rarely two-sided.
Issues are usually complex.
Take, for example, the discussion on this page about U.S. immigration policy. The two sides don't neccessarily contradict. They intersect and go different directions at various points. Perhaps they are, in many respects, compatible views.