tant in any engineering solution to a prob- lem, the thinking typified by "We can't have any pollution" will eventually lead to the downfall of our civilization. JOHN P. DENSLER Boston University Boston, Mass. It's wonderful to know that I'm not alone! I spent three years in the chemical-engi- neering program taking humanities class- es on the side. I left engineering last year to pursue a dual degree in chemistry and Eng- lish. The synthesis of these diametrically opposed ways of thinking is important and people who can do that will, I'm sure, be indispensable in uniting the factions of our society. MICHELLE SERREYN Wayne State University Detroit, Mich. Dorm Update In your March issue, John S. Davis stated that the term "dormitory" is outdated (THE MAIL). I beg to differ. When you share a room smaller than a $10-a-night hotel room, the correct term is "dormitory," not "residence hall." DAVE WAGNER, "Dormie" University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wis. Turf Management The grass seems greener just over the neighbor's fence (CAREERS). Although turf- grass management may seem an ideal col- lege major, low salaries, long hours and health risks due to pesticide exposure are three major negatives students should con- sider before deciding on this career. JAMES W. MARQUART Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio A New Course of Study? I read your March cover story, "Colleges Chart a New Course of Study," with dis- tressing interest (EDUCATION). What the editors had promised would be "a discus- sion of some of the great issues facing high- er education and college students today" was but a patronizing and cursory treat- ment of a subject that deserves better. No wonder the man on your cover appears to be undergoing a frontal lobotomy! JOSEPH C. SMITH Jr., Staff Columnist Yale Daily News Yale University New Haven, Conn. Quality education is not just a variety of subjects-it is equally necessary to have quality professors. What is the good of a prestigious school and a varied curriculum if the teacher can't teach? AMBROCIO P. BALDONADO University of Southern California Los Angeles, Calif You state, "Despite Allan Bloom's fond- est wish, we cannot stop time or freeze knowledge." I'm sure that Professor Bloom wishes to do neither. Rather, he wishes to see our finest thinkers (college graduates) exposed to the great thinkers ("Plato. Shakespeare. Rousseau. Etc."). How can we hope for any but technological progress if our collegesproducegraduates who are fun- damentally ignorant ofthe past?Thesurest way to "freeze knowledge" is to throw out what has already been learned in the cold. CLAY BRIDGES University ofAlabama Tuscaloosa, Ala. Your charge that Bloom's is a "Eurocen- tric, male-centered, antidemocratic per- spective" is itself the product of a shallow perspective, ignorant of the Western intel- lectual heritage and wedded to superficial- ly examined dogmas. To brush off history's most profound thinkers as "Etc." and the truths they discovered as "reactionary"- that, not Bloom's, is the "constricted viewpoint." MARK PUNDURS Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Ill. * 0 0 Judging from what we have seen as stu- dents and teachers at a large public univer- sity, Professor Bloom is all too correct in believing that modern students do not care about a liberal education. We simply can- not imagine hearing any of our undergrad- uates using the words "passion" and "edu- cation" in the same sentence, let alone voluntarily meeting to discuss an intellec- tual juggernaut such as Professor Bloom's book. As for the "chronological snobbery" of your conclusion that although the past can speak to us, "we must consider the present and the future," we'd like to ask why permanence should carry with it a connotation of stagnation in the modern mind? Is the new automatically superior to the old? KEVIN B. WEINRICH MICHAEL J. 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