Letters

Published: Thursday, February 1, 1996

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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