LETTERS: Acting on student concerns

To the Editor: I write, too, to correct a comment that has been taken out of context. I did receive the list of concerns submitted to my office by Latino students in April. Subsequently, I also was informed by representatives of Penn's Latino community that a proposal was being prepared that would supersede the April list of concerns. That proposal -- for La Casa Latina -- was delivered to my office on October 30, just as I was leaving for China, where I traveled for the first two weeks of November on the University's behalf. While I was abroad, my office acknowledged receipt of the proposal and promised that I would review it as quickly as possible after my return. And I will do so now, with the thought and care that the proposal deserves. Judith Rodin University President Raucous Palestra rocks To the Editor: I would like to thank Andrew Exum for extolling the virtues of college basketball ("Perilous Orthodoxy: Basketball to be proud of," The Daily Pennsylvanian, 11/24/98). For the past nine seasons, I have attended basketball games in Tulane's sweaty, small, loud, on-campus Fogelman Arena. Now I find myself sweating at the raucous Palestra. While the Palestra is nearly three times larger, this is what college basketball is all about: wild fans and anything-can-happen basketball. Additionally, what would college basketball be without pep bands driving the crowd? My only complaint of Penn basketball so far is that the band is stuck up in the Palestra's rafters. Put the Penn Band courtside where it can be heard by all. Ben Koch College 2002 Four score and seven To the Editor: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived or so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived or so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived or so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Adam Mark College senior