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RESPONSE WAS OUT OF LINE by Stephani Ellis I want to commend M. Ethel Myers for her much-needed grievance concerning the insolent Professor J. Martin Rochester and his unacceptable comments toward the unimportance of "Queer History" as well as Mr. Bill Rolfes. It is absolutely intolerable when a "learned" man openly insults an individual of a much lower rank than himself. This, to me, was Professor Rochester's obvious attempt at self-glorification at the expense of an individual who was merely utilizing his first amendment by asserting his opinion. In his article, Mr. Rolfes did not demean the concept of education, rather, he mused on a possible reality for all students leaving any university with a piece of paper and a dream. Not everyone is as haughty, as Professor Rochester obviously is, in terms of their futures' security. It is a big, uncertain world out there - one in which even the supposed security of a degree can be obliterated with the blink of an eye. We are all at this University because we want to better ourselves and achieve a higher state of life. Yet, no one knows what securities lie beyond UM-St. Louis' seemingly nurtured sidewalks. For Professor Rochester to blatantly ignore this reality so that he may have his day in the sun, is to completely degrade their ability to teach us how to value differing opinions without undue censure, and then what would be the purpose of education? Obviously there is at least one professor on this campus who doesn't know the answer to that question. |