Most readers of John Leo’s column, reprinted in Tuesday’s Argus, are aware that the man is woefully ignorant as to the true character of our campus. Let us ignore for a moment that he has no real understanding of daily life here. Let us also disregard that his brilliant daughter (my former roommate), the one so concerned about the Democrats’ ability to reach out to the heartland, once told me that, being from Tucson, Ariz., I had no real comprehension of culture. “Arizona doesn’t have any,” she explained, with not a trace of irony. Let us get to the really pertinent question, if we may.
John, my friend; what reason do you have for dedicating an entire column of U.S. News and World Report to bashing this school? Who appointed you ambassador of the “32 percent of students” who are afraid to speak their minds? It certainly doesn’t stem from your daughter’s time here. Everyone who lived in our neighborhood knew exactly what she was thinking the moment she thought it. With the mounting costs of the Iraqi occupation, the horrific damage of the tsunami disaster, and the global implications of the fall in value of the U.S. dollar, you chose to break the story that five years ago there was a hippie in WestCo who liked to take his pants off? That column reeked of a self-righteous, cultural conservative searching desperately for a target.
I have an idea for your next column; Jerry Falwell is claiming that the purple Teletubbie is gay. You should look into it.
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