Letters

Letters

Ode to basketball

UCLA basketball team:

This is Maxie writing to you! I’m an almost 80-year-old alumnus
who likes to write letters to our team. (I’ve done so for the past
couple of years.)

I like the way you have been playing except for the times you
lose! You are now starting the last part of your season. Please be
more careful with how you play. I believe you can go all the way to
win the NCAA Championship again! You are a very good team!

And remember, even though the teams you are going to play
against may be losing, or not up to par, and it’s looking like an
easy win for you – don’t relax your efforts; beat them!! Play hard
against them all – even U$¢.

You can win against both Oregon teams. Show those upstarts from
Arizona that you are the best team in the Pac-10 and in the United
States (or the world). I know you can!!

Please, do it for me!!

Maxie Sonnenschein

Alumnus

Class of 1942

Reflect on this!

Editor:

I would like this opportunity to commend the Daily Bruin for
attracting, for seemingly the first time, someone worthy of the
title "writer."

In Mike Osman’s article Monday, ("Self-centered morality," Jan.
29), he shows not only a brilliant, but very thoughtful style;
relying much more than most of your other "writers" on deductive
reflection rather than impulsive emotional response.

Admirable is Osman’s persistence in reminding us of what
actually occurred so recently in places like Iraq or Rwanda (was it
the Who-tus fighting the Twho-tsis) in a time of such non-news
stories like the O.J. Simpson trial.

Are we really so vain as to think the injustices done to perhaps
one man are more important than those done daily to millions
worldwide? Maybe our society is really so schadenfrendlich as to
believe that tragedy is stubbing our fingernails, whereas comedy is
someone else falling off a building and dying.

Maybe with a bit more Osmandesque self-reflection a more moral
medium could be reached.

Eric Passchier

Third-year

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