Letters to the Editor

Eileen Schell Interview As an aspiring nonagenarian, I object to Eileen Schell’s patronizing remark, “my oldest student is currently 90 years young” (Interview with Eileen Shell, January/February 2004). Attempting to praise old people by calling them young is as illogical and basically bigoted as attempting to praise black people by calling them white, attempting to praise a woman by saying she thinks like a man, or attempting to praise an adjunct by saying he thinks like a tenured professor. Felicia Nimue Ackerman Providence, RI Fulbright Winners Thanks so much for printing the long list of Fulbright Scholar Award winners (January/February […]