LETTER: Not Silent

To the Editor: In 1989, when a flagburning exercise I conducted in an undergraduate free speech class created a public furor, Alan Kors responded with unflinching public support. Representatives of women's groups at Penn were silent on that subject, though women's interests have often revolved around the rights and powers of women to speak, and women have often been vilified when they did speak. I believe Kors demonstrated an expansive understanding of the interests of both women and citizens in his public posture then, and I am confident this understanding will inform his judgments at NEH. CAROLYN MARVIN Associate Professor Annenberg School