Editor,
Anti-war protests, loud-mouthed professors, bullying legislators, and confused students. This is not a flashback to your father's or mother's 1960s, but the reality of campus life in 2001.
A university's mission at a time like this is to teach and learn.
Those who remember the 1960s will remember the "teach-in," sometimes organized by explicitly anti-war factions, sometimes staged by universities that wanted to stimulate and deepen public discourse about the war in Vietnam.
I think we need a series of such teach-ins on the UNM campus in the immediate future. I wouldn't pretend to be an expert in any of the related fields that could be covered in such events - Islam, the Arab world, Afghanistan, terrorism and counter-terrorism, for example. In fact, what I want personally from such an event is to learn.
Students, faculty and the people of New Mexico need a crash course in this awful world we have entered.
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Let those with moral certainty rant on television and stop traffic on Central Avenue.
The rest of us need to get real smart, very fast.
David Richard Jones
English and Theatre & Dance Professor
