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Ken Starr should use a different rationale

TO THE EDITOR:

I’m writing in response to the Oct. 5 article, Panel stresses morals in class.

So, to use Mr. Starr’s reasoning of a comparison to George Washington — that “classical” education was good enough for him — I assume that means that if slavery, white supremacy, voting rights for all but landed white males, as well as no “rights” for anyone else, were good enough for George Washington, they should still be good enough for the rest of us today. Including you, Mr. Starr?

And you are president of what kind of a university with a long-standing Baptist tradition?

Doesn’t say much for the Baptists, does it?

April Torrington ’90
Chapel Hill

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