Show LETTERS TO THE EDITOR False Evaluations Dear The publicity given the recent hiring of a new football coach at a reported salary of a year and a new athletic director brings unavoidably to mind of any clear-headed person this painful We are wrong in our educational I do not mean to comment upon the personalities quite accidentally involved in these but only upon the wrong principle which lies as their It is right that a man with a bachelor degree and less than ten years teaching in a non-academic position at should be paid more for his teaching services than a man with a many times more years of teaching and head of an academic Are athletics more important than or are they less Are they more or less important than philosophy and the basic scholastic for am sure that athletics are not more important than these subjects in are very much less I think it is reasonable to suppose that President and the members of the Board of Regents feel the same way even though their decisions do not always bear out this Someone determines our policy in regard to the relative worth of Whoever they they are I would like to see one of these silent manipulators of our university life print a straightforward justification of the obvious inversion of values illustrated in this paradox of The study of academic subjects has no organized lobby to push its Athletics has a strong good ad must battle extra hard to prevent outside partisans of a particular activity from subverting the true aid of university I maintain that the true purpose of a university is Recent incidents like the which are typical of the American university tend to justify the common criticism that we are placing too much emphasis upon the insignificant parts of the curriculum at the expense of the significant It gives one the disappointed feeling that either we do not realize what a university is or else we are who do not have the guts to stand up for what we feel is Paul C. Egli Viva La Dear The recent flood of letters and idiotic opinions condemning article on religion has proven his point Alvin L. Scott Over-rated Athletics Dear In reply to the four coeds' touching defense of the school in this I Has it ever occurred to you that the majority of students in this university may be assumed to be here to obtain an and paying to be part of a robot cheering section for a mediocre team has little place in this Since you pose the does not the student body go for the team in thick or let me in turn pose the place does an ex- program have in when V N is in desperate need JT who with makes more m the president of L tha or even the governor of th Or question the place of he that more scholarship Vf money players mg than is University to all the by the graduate department It would seem that Sh mi situations can command if i support from the of this st Comments Jim Todd Let's Keep It Dear If in I t would think that LUcy service 1 a gravel anchor clank or have a sea going bell hop trying to removed a reminder of hk inter-service the Air Force Perhaps he is a member of ROTC of one of these rival If the doesn't have any room for Maybe he is too young to re member World War II in which some of us lost fathers or other in which his sore the Bell Air Cobra played an important I think the plane should and when we all pass we should pause for a moment's reverence to those who died in that great struggle to preserve our An Ex-Airman |