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how tocatch a football. Many students here
graduated in the top 10 percent of their
class, scored well on their SAT’s. yet re
ceived only a loan and a pat on the back.
Where’s the justice in this? I’m glad that
the NCAA has made an effort to make the
players literate. It’s about time.
Karen E. Wall
Michigan State University
East I At ns mg, Mich.
Perhaps the NCAA is correct in its belief
that freshmen athletes should sit out the
first year because of the difficulty in adjust
ing to col lege life. IfJohn Foley is a victim of
Proposition 48 and is being forced to study,
that's not all bad.
Allen Pechenik
Farmington Hilts. Mich.
Commuting Collegians
As parents of a senior commuting to a job
and a local college, we found "Be Kind to
Commuters” hilarious (my turn). But it
seems Christopher Bellitto has an imma
ture understanding of his parents’ role in
the big game of life. Nowhere do they have
an identity, unless it is in providing for his
needs. How does he plan to relate to the
real world when, in microcosm, it must
revolve around him? Coping with little
inconveniences is what living together—
in a home, a dorm or a universe—is
all about.
Patricia I. Mills
ficx'hester, Mich.
Apathy in Vienna?
It was with sadness that I read "Where
Are All the Radicals?” in your September
issue (EDUCATION). It is little wonder that
Mary Campbell Jenkins failed to uncover
politically committed students. Expecting
the open-lawn campus of the land-grant
universities, Jenkins came prejudiced with
a typically American idea of universal
higher education, whereas, in fact, the Eu
ropean school system is completely differ
ent. All over Europe, college students are
encouraged to take time off before complet
ing their university training. That’s where
these students learn political commitment,
not in the phys-ed classes that Jenkins
sought to infiltrate.
Lee Sorensen
Art Librarian. Unn'ersity Library
The University of Arizona
Tucson. Anz.
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