Editor,
Richard Berthold's column about Coach Fran and President Gordon is consistently myopic, in that he cannot see past himself.
The theme running through his recent column reminds me of a song I heard in church the other week ... "It's all about You." I'll bet if Berthold happened to wander into the service - which could certainly help him - that he'd think everyone was singing about him! Cutting through the facade of his concern about UNM, we can see the gaping wounds left by the recent disciplinary actions taken by the president and regents.
The shroud of "free speech" rhetoric is just that: pretentious, insincere, and intellectually vacuous. It's not that Berthold hasn't touched on a measure of truth in some of what he said regarding the priorities of UNM and the community, but I'm often interested in understanding why people say and do what they say and do.
His particular comments of Gordon not protecting the free speech of academia from the community and hiring Bobby Knight to beat the faculty into submission are particularly telling of the axe that he grinds and grinds and grinds.
When listening to demagogues like Berthold address any issue, I subscribe to the philosophy of "chewing the meat and spitting out the bones." However, the meat on Berthold's bones would starve a Chihuahua. Please stop all the incessant crying about being censored and retire already. There is nothing revelatory about Coach Fran making more money than you or the president. Grind, grind, grind.
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Cali D. Garcia
UNM alumnus
