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Show P Letters To The Editor f N. J. Protein For U Spirit! Dear Editor: Recently the University received a contract to attend the Liberty Bowl in which the University was promised a m'iiimum of $75,000 and possibly several thousand more. True, the record of the University's football team won them the honor to play in the nation's first indoor major bowl game, but part of the magic of a bowl game is its halftime shows in which the two universities participating send their bands. These bands get about $200,000 free advertising time on national television televi-sion for each of the public relations departments. de-partments. However, our University, headed by it wise and conservative board of regents, decided that it would be more economic to let our band stay home (probably an unprecedented move) and hire a high school from the New Jersey area to represent repre-sent the University marching band both on and off the field. The University band could have been transported to and from the Liberty Bowl, fed and housed for $28,000. The football team hardly can use more than this amount for their expenses even if they eat steaks and throw a beer party. I'm sure that the Liberty Bowl committee com-mittee issued the $75,000 to pay the way of the football team, the band and a few other University dignitaries, not to have a $48,000 surplus probably to be used by our University to paint, and make even more fireproof, the Annex. I bow to our illustrious board of regents re-gents (you get a truer view of them that v,ay) for throwing away all that free television tele-vision time, for doing our band the n-justice n-justice that they don't deserve and for relying on po-dunk high to represent our Why Can't The English Dear Editor: Lately in all our newspapers there have been articles on the deplorable state of the teaching of English and of writing among college students and graduates. As a writer of fiction, and former English teacher, I would like to comment. A few years ago Sinclair Lewis treated our problem eloquently in an essay called "The American Fear of Literature." In it he said that Americans want their writers very cold and very deadthat, above all, a writer must not wear ordinary clothes and eat ordinary food and walk the streets today. When I studied English in college and high school, that was true. Every September Septem-ber we were hit at once with the wet towel of "Beowulf" and Shakespeare. We were catapulted from what was important to us, the present, into a meaningless, hence dull, Elizabethan world, or worse. In American studies it was all backwards. We were supposed to get excited about Washington Irving or Cotton Mather. How much better teaching literary appreciation appre-ciation would work if we began in literature litera-ture at some point like Ninth East and South Temple and worked through Ashe-ville, Ashe-ville, Sauk Centre, and New York. Then, after the student has seen himself as a potential "ingredient" of literature, blend into the past and the far-away iy I see the here and now as ,;', e- tion. 8 st fo't:; However, the purpose of the K class is not to make a WiHa qJ" , James Farrell of everybody anv 'I than every "P.E." student J Maris, Mays, or Mantle. It js to age the verbally adept, and to 1 those who, are not, the same kind!?- ! cipline exacted in "P.E." of theu We" all must walk and run. So also f must communicate. m ls0,:fWte TSt et the stain off , I words 'fiction" and "writer" and i that quality fiction is an art, asmKt as any of the other arts. Fiction i ! tion and feeling, written. We nl emotion and feeling into first place f C classroom, and weed out all the bad lii ile, "busy," cart-before-the-horse Fv' ,iri teaching. lie As for "grammar," I observe the rt reason Johnny can't write is that h( exposed to vile example everywhere h high school senior-English classroor fid saw on the board, in the teacher's ir w questions, the word "persue." Frequej- W in the business world incorrect usage "official" and mandatory. Some perV W cals do not distinguish between the ust" ' quotation marks and italics. Exam N abound. The principal had been addre ifte ing the class on the importance of m school records in securing jobs late n After tracing a specific pupil's record, ce told the class the principal did-ft -"Tom's record shows he did real good." Sincerely, KEITH MOORE |