| Show LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I Cloud Or Clarify Dear I was very much interested by the letters from Joseph H. Jeppson and Norman E. Farb appearing in Monday's and Tuesday's Chronicle FARB contended that Jeppson did not explore all the but found himself committing the same He instead the gnawing fact that every every and every group of homo sapiens has either invented or adopted some He uses this to prove the that man has the ability to a common Might he not also be able to admit that this very persistence on the part of mankind to create religions speaks strongly in favor of the supposition that there actually is a Why would man so consistently strive to recognize something that doesn't Does the study of psychology and philosophy strive to cloud the issues or clarify A. ERIC EASTMAN Still No Texts Dear I am the author of a letter which appeared in the April 24 issue of the Chronicle under the heading in which I revealed the difficulty which students of the language department have in getting text books through the ON MAY my letter was honored with a reply by the University G. J. Miller referred to my letter as by a that is more dangerous than the problem it attacks because fact that we have graduate students who write for publication without first ascertaining the facts reflects on the scholarship of the The body of this reply is a list of my complete schedule of classes for the year with a statement of what he considers the about the text in IT IS an old trick in politics to attack the person instead of the issue I will shortly point out a couple of glaring errors in Miller's I suppose this would give me license to refer to his letter as an unscholarly diatribe and a poor reflection on the however since I am sure both he and I are seeking the I will forego the personal aspect of this discussion in order to return to the real IT IS ALSO an old trick to bury a shaky argument in a pile of unessential With one my letter dealt with my language yet Miller generously published my whole 1 requires no My music classes cither had ample texts in the require no or require printed music with is usually purchased through down town stores since they are much more efficient in supplying The one exception is Music 1 and I find that 1 was wrong in this In checking again with the instructor 1 find that he failed to include copies for auditing students in his My apologies to the As to my language I stand corrected on one point I stated that for 10 hours of language classes only one text was actually there were those for Span ish and Miller states that texts were available for Spanish and Obviously he didn't try to buy DURING first week of the quarter the bookstore advised the language department that texts for these classes were not I put in a special order for one of and after several trips to the was told that it was out of At this point we ordered the books directly from the we received them within five This can be verified with the language the or the students The published record of speaks for 15 texts for 45 but only 15 additional copies were An insufficient number of texts for Spanish arrived in the bookstore last week with less than five weeks remaining in the PERHAPS some readers will think this is some sort of private feud 1 have with the The truth is that 1 desire nothing but the betterment of the and many of my fellow have lost much valuable time and many hours of instruction for want of This is a very serious I will quote the reactions of several members of the language department staff to this thought your article was just right I've been here a number of years and we have always had the same the past three years 1 have had only one text ordered from an oversea 's publisher arrive by the beginning of the I ORDER a book from a foreign publisher il gets here in about half the time that it would if I were to order through the my they just don't know that it certainly irritates me when they constant 1 cut my ONE OF THE more pessimistic must be the reason every spring some student gets fed up after gome all year without and writes a letter to the You won't get anywhere the bookstore is the pet of the University you're just wasting your I hope this isn't It seems to me that there is a problem here than can and ought to be I SUGGEST THAT it would be to the benefit of the as well as to the students and to improve the service of the If the bookstore were rather than to meet the estimated needs of the if a method were found to have the books for all classes available on the first day of the and if there were a good stock of enrichment materials in every the bookstore would make more immediate and would eventually regain the business it now This would necessarily result in improved good and N. HENRI R Deai- 1 read Norman E. Farb's reply to letter of the previous day and came across a statement of fact which interest me very He at least Huguenots lost their lives and heads in a few days in Would Farb be kind enough to give us the exact source of this Cordially EMIL LUCK I |
