FREE TO SPEAK, NOT TO DRINK

Isn't it amazing how the University of Wisconsin System can charge
each student $600 to fund speakers like Michael Moore and Ward
Churchill, justifying it with the need for the students to hear
diverse views and exercise "public freedom" and at the same time be
trying to control what students do off campus in the privacy of their
own homes.

The university and community leaders are concerned that students are
drinking. But we should not be concerned and are expected to be proud
of recent administrations that had marijuana marches openly around the
state Capitol? We should take in stride that some state and local
"leaders" are using illegal drugs, driving drunk or may have been
involved in similar activities during the many years they spent at our
facilities of higher learning. The hypocrisy is appalling.

As a taxpaying resident, I am less concerned with brain cells the
students are destroying in the privacy of their own homes and more
concerned with the garbage being flushed into their heads in the name
of education.

Jerry Johnson

Sun Prairie