We do not disagree that there are problems regarding the hiring and existence of visiting professors at Wesleyan and in academia generally. We do, however, take issue with The Argus’s conflation of visiting professors in general with the specific case of Visiting Associate Professor in the African American Studies Program Professor Annemarie Bean (“Visiting professor turnover questioned after Bean’s dismissal,” April 11, 2008, Volume CXLIII, Number 39).