NEWSPAPER OWES GODDARD AN APOLOGY
I was profoundly disappointed and disgusted with your snide,
shoddy, thoroughly ignorant and unprofessional
editorial, "Anarchy 101" (April
23rd, 1996). You owe an apology to Goddard College staff
and students who happened to be dedicated, outstanding citizens
of central Vermont: your "serpentine" schemers volunteer at your
public libraries, your kids ballgames, your local animal shelters
and free rabies clinics. They've been known to clean up illegal
dumpsites in your community, support recycling efforts, practice
ecological agriculture, explore renewable unsustainable resources.
You owe an apology to single super-moms who have transcended
welfare dependency through a Goddard education and/or job. You
owe an apology to staffers who go home after a full day at Goddard
to run a family farm. You furthermore owe an apology to your own
staff reporters, whose professional work has been compromised by
your grossly uninformed stereotyping of a central Vermont institution.
Our household has hitherto enjoyed sitting down to The Times Argus
at the end of the busy day and mulling over the affairs of our
community. By your blatant display of error-ridden, amateurish
subjectivity -- in addition to your annoying telemarketing tactics
that, I now presume, you so cherish -- threatens to cast said
enjoyment and reliance into the "cancel my subscription" pile.
Kiko Nobusawa
The author is campus program coordinator for the Office of the Dean
for Academic Affairs.
Goddard College
