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Show Letters to tHe Edfro university community can help by writing to the newspapers and to Mr. Durham himself to show their dislike for this type of attitude. Anyone wishing to late ' action can contact r support. JAMES TAfc Smaller classes Editor: I wish to express what I feel are the opinions of many if not all the students currently in graduate school or in other "splinter" majors here at the university. A recent article by the Deseret News, Tribune and Chronicle quotes G. Homer Durham, a person of considerable authority in the University community, as stating, among other things, the wish to eliminate or restrict classes of less than 20 students and limit studies which did not have a popular appeal. This is as close to heresy in a university community as I have heard during my six years at the University of Utah. I am sure that the person who believes this does not understand anything of the reason most students in a graduate or Honors situation attend the university. A moment's reflection will show that many classes and seminars now being taught would have to be eliminated by this criteria as well as few whole departments. In an age when we are so depersonalized, a supposedly educated leader advocates that we eliminate the only situations where most students have any personal contact at all with the professors. Any students wishing to help organize to oppose the spread of this type of thinking here in our |