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- LETTERS, Page 9Straight Shooter
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- I enjoyed your piece on Boston University President John
- Silber and his new book, Straight Shooting (EDUCATION, Aug. 28).
- As a student at the University of Texas in 1969, I observed a
- debate between Silber and an "activist" professor and was struck
- by the contrast of Silber's incisive intellect with the visceral
- responses of his opponent. From the similar tone of the comments
- of B.U.'s Freda Rebelsky Camp, who accuses Silber of running a
- "sleazy, fascist regime," it appears that intellectual poverty
- remains alive and well in academia, yet another argument for the
- educational reforms advocated by Silber.
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- Neil Norquest Edinburg, Texas
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