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Show Letters To. The Editor Past Masters Of Evasion Dear Editor ADDarently the writer of the editorial, "CoA Must" Nov. 16, 1964, is unacquainted un-acquainted with the cultural events of the fas't thirty years and is st.ll Jiving m the ninteenth century, as far as his attitudes are concerned. Apparently, he believes that that Promment Naborml Magazine which suggested that : half ' of the students in college do not belong there, should be considered as a reputable reput-able source of social comment. Perhaps he does'nt realize that that magazine has been losing money for several years now and will publish almost any type of scare article to frighten parents and attract buyers, or risk any libel suit to sell copies. I would recommend instead that you try reading C. Wright Mills, or Jacques Barzun or any of the other commentators upon contemporary America. As to ' our university being a paragon of intellectual intellect-ual industry, let is consider what John Kenneth Galbraith says in his book, The Affluent Society," chapter VIII, VI, "Indeed "In-deed it is possible that the ancient art of-evading of-evading work has been carried in our time to its highest level of sophistication, not to say elegance. . . Apart from the universities where its practice ( has the standing of a scholarly rite. . . With today's higher income and better distribution of wealth, it is only natural that parents who can now afford a Chrysler convertible or a Steinway in the living .room would be able to afford a "college education" for their children and would consider it to be desirable to have one even though they themselves may never have needed higher education, nor are their children motivated to intellectual intell-ectual endeavor. Alden Crosby And I Quote Dear Editor, Surely William Shakespeare will forgive for-give me for quoting out of context, but in Macbeth, Act. V, Sc. 5, Line 24, he wrote the perfect commentary to the review of the Eileen Farrell appearance B. Piacere wrote for the Chronicle of Tuesday, Nov. 17: ". . .it is a tale Told by an idiot, fidl of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." WILLIAM T. BOYACK More On Athletes Dear Athletes I was immensely pleased at the sagacity exhibited when you published . a letter so clearly outlining the enormity of our ignorance by relating the cogent facts concerning your culinary idiosyn-cracies. idiosyn-cracies. I cannot begin to convey to you my extreme ecstacy upon discovering that only 47 seats are occupied by the paragons of masculinity in our post meridian mer-idian house of cuisine. I was, nevertheless, somewhat aback upon discovering a mlscalcuwtI1 in your scholarship allotement stat 1 Great was my grief upon recalcS'1 your figures and finding that the fZ? player receives' a "salary" Snm i paramount to th e86c per hr Gm ed. Indeed, the sum is more nmLV' the astronomical figure of $2 46 v My enlightenment began to extn5 I found that the leviathans of the? receive stipends ammounting to ton per hr. Which leads me to believe nut justifiably, that you have grossly' JS? terpreted the lexicography of the tZ university. While being a mere 6 feet i inch, 175 pound (male; lest any n,V understanding be kindled) homo-saDiZ I have come to think of a college as 7' institution of intellectual broadenb? Perhaps this is why I fail to grasp 1 reasoning in stating that you serve th, University remuneration should be Z tributed in the areas cogent to a unl versity's function. . ' While a suffragate stab at atheletfc iconoclasm is not my objective, I m point out that a training table for athe-letes athe-letes does bear at least a verisimilitude to "leeching the welfare funds" as you , so aptly phrased it, or perhaps, as an analogy, "sucking the already anemic 1 blood of the Utah Student body." s Robert Dyer ' Van Hardy c Jack Dashaway Steve Krantz John Daniels 1 . a P And More f Editor-Due Editor-Due to further ignorance concerning pre-game meals, the athletes must once again inform the "cafeteria crowd" of the facts. To begin with we would like to defend our observance of the genetic difference dif-ference between boys and girls. Further, it is very apparent that you're complaining about a subjct of which you have no knowledge. To quote, "Every home game about 60 chairs are reserved in the cafeteria for the football team from 9:30 a.m. to about 12:30 p.m." What in inane statement! Our home games are played on Saturday. We eat in room 203 at 9 a.m. and have toast and raisins at 11 a.m. in the same room. We play the game and go our separate ways. This whole situation began because the freshman football team ate one meal in the cafeteria. Now is this every home game? The precise reason that the fresh' men did eat in the cafeteria is that no other room was available. The question of finance has long beet a target for dissent against athletes. We maintain that every penny is earned-I not repaid double to the University. The University makes more money from football foot-ball than from any other sport TOM HAWKES (Editor's Note: Thus endeth the controversy over the athletic training table.) |