THE COPS' LESSON

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

I think it is a mistaken but logical reaction to be upset that the University administration called outside police on campus. Everything else we are taught here fosters the myth that the University and its members should be a privileged enclave set apart from ordinary society. (It is precisely this myth that allows unjust practices such as the blithe displacement of the less well-educated people unfortunate enough to live in areas where the University wants to expand; or that makes it OK to send our guys who couldn't stomach high school to Vietnam as cannon fodder, while deferring those who were able to sit quietly in class or had better spelling.)

But now that the administration called the police, they gave us the chance to have a taste of what outside society (might we call it the "real world"?) is like; we had a slight exposure to the suffering that black men, or coal miners, or striking factory workers, or draftees face every day. Rather than condemn the University administration, I think we should actually be grateful to them for giving us perhaps the most valid educational experience we could have had during all our years here. Barbara Brandt   Research assistant,   Graduate School of Design