Prof Lorraine Lavorata wrote: > call me old fashioned and silly but if young people > listened to music like Duran Duran and watched old fashioned romantic > comedies, studied the culture of France, were a bit more conservative, stayed > way from drugs and alcohol, were a bit more spiritual, abstained from young > sex and other such behaviors and just studied, maybe they would be better > students. But doesn't this ideology reflect the mindset that led to the '68 riots in France? Students behaving like we do doesn't necessarily make them better students; it makes them more like us, and therefore easier to teach, because they share our belief and behavior systems. Kurt Bouman University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown