Show v i I j oJ A 14 SouL Sod To the Editor I dont don't think that you will print this letter because I think that you have a great feeling for or the students that pay pay- their way I have often disagreed with some of your statements and many times became angry but now I am swinging toward to to- toward w ward rd your viewpoints I had an experience last week that really shook me up Let me tell you first that I Iam Iam Iam am one of those bad people that you talk about the ones on CETA WINN etc You claim that you are paying your way My boy I Iam Iam Iam am fifty plus years old and have always worked and paid my way Now I find that I wanted to get help and maybe start a new field Now that may sound ridiculous to you because according to the pi picture ture of you you are a comparative youngster and maybe angry and arid upset at anyone over the age of twenty Be that as as' it may Let Lets me tell you about my t t- t experience As you kno know some some of the federally funded programs here at Trade Tech have help programs ie i.e. clothing glasses etc When one of our instructors found out that some students were getting these clothes to get a ajob ajob ajob job they made remarks that I thought w were re unfounded like why cant can't you get your own clothes Why cant can't you get your own teeth fixed Why cant can't you get your own glasses For gods sake if the kids could do that they would In the first place these people were instructed when they cameto came to this government government government gov gov- funded college that they would be allowed to get these th e things This was told ina in ina ina a m meeting ting that I attended Now I am not talking about students making these statements statements state state- m ments but that's the only way I can describe them not teachers Th There re is a difference I dont don't think that we have many good teachers on this cam cam- pus If they were fully capable capable capable cap cap- able they would be teaching teaching teaching teach teach- ing at a higher level At least that thatis is what they are always saying they could do much better If so then they must be here for a purpose That Thatis is their want and need to help others Why dont don't they If the instructors and students students stu stu- stu- stu dents of this organization do donot donot not want the federally funded funded funded fund fund- ed students here and wish to treat them as second rate students then that is their right but it is also necessary that they vote on this Remember Remember Remember Re Re- member each of us has one vote in inE the running of our country and if people feel that way they should vote as they feel r I sound like a r radical and perhaps I being a law-abiding law citizen for these past forty years I sometimes wonder whether it pays I dont don't think that any of these so called instructors could survive in the business world I dont don't think that you have havethe havethe havethe the guts to print this but I Iam Iam Iam am sending it to you any any- way Name withheld by request |