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NEW MAGAZINE
APPEALING
The fall Lafayette Alumni News is most appealing! There’s a wide range of pertinent subjects covered, with excellent photos and artwork, and lots of
boxes and takeouts to invite
the reader in. I like the calm look, rather than our former MTV look. And I like the confident-rather-than-chest-beating headlines. It seems we’ve made it to a level and are no longer a wannabee. I like what President Dan Weiss says “to become a premiere small college that is academically distinctive and international” and I think the Alumni News reflects that. My one concern
is that there might be too
much in the issue, that it
might be too formidable at
176 pages for the reader.
At any rate, it is an excellent
job, and a vast improvement.
My congratulations!
—Peter Hanson ’61
GENOCIDE
IN DARFUR
As much as I deplore what
is taking place in Darfur (see
“Lafayette Condemns Genocide in Dafur” on page 85), I believe it is more appropriate for Lafayette to state its position on issues closer to home—namely the homeless in America, the woeful lack of health insurance and health care for all Americans, the exporting of American jobs to foreign countries and on and on. Let’s take a stand to help America and Americans.
—Ronald McCullough ’54
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OUTSTANDING EVENT,
IMPRESSIVE STUDENTS
I visited Lafayette to participle in a pre-law panel and
dinner with students interested in pursuing careers in law. The event was truly outstanding. Associate Dean Karen Clemence put on a well-organized and lovely event, and
your students were very impressive.
The law school representatives who visited Lafayette were treated like royalty—very differently from the treatment we typically receive at other institutions. Your students were polite, serious, and mature. Lafayette is real a class act.
What struck me most about my visit was how engaged Dean Clemence appears to be with each and every student Your law-school bound students are very lucky to have an adviser who is so committed to helping each and every one of them achieve his or her goals.
I hope to visit Lafayette College again often to recruit more and more of your outstanding students to GW Law.
—Anne M. Richard, Associate Dean
The George Washington University Law School
DISAPPOINTED IN
ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIPS
I was disappointed to read in the latest issue of the
Lafayette Alumni News that Lafayette will start offering “athletic scholarships” (an oxymoron). The article,
“Patriot Games,” provided the rationale, which is unconvincing. There are at least 40 small colleges of high academic standing that do not offer athletic scholarships. The group includes such well-known schools as Goucher, Antioch, Earlham, St. John’s, and Reed plus 35 others scattered across the country. My source for this statement is Loren Pope’s recent book, Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges.
Starting out in four sports, the scholarships will
spread like a virus. Each sport will be demanding its share. President Daniel Weiss will see control of athletics slide over from the president to the athletic director. In time, Lafayette will have a two-tier student body: athletes and students.
In a remark attributed to Carolyn Schlie Femovich, executive director of the Patriot League, “Colleges have to respond to the realities of the marketplace.” Not so. The 40 colleges and many others manage quite well without athletic hired hands in the student body.
—David S. Arnold ’42
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