Ed, I read that Rutgers Prof. William Dowling was criticized for his remarks that athletic scholarships should not be given to functionally illiterate athletes to play for Rutgers. He said these scholarships should be given to intelligently brilliant students who are going to play a sport. He’s absolutely right.

Mr. Know-It-All

Perhaps the more important issue is how the school’s bonehead official called Dowling’s remark racist. Perhaps that official ought to go read the back of a cereal box instead of spouting off serious charges that someone’s a racist.— Ed. Note