(on Reverend Al “The July-September 1989 issue of Ru rm is being returned. Any magazine fat voluntarily puts Mr. Sharpton in its headlines cannot be a part of my reading material. ‘As a liberal library consultant, 1 mast respect your right to choose your subject matter for its appeal andlor Controversial effect. As a knowledg- able citizen, I nesent the time and honey that was spent covering his dis gusting presence. ‘Guonta Divenan (SCILS'85) President, The Library Co-op alison, New Jersey am ata loss as to why the cover of the July-September issue of Rutgers Magazine showed three columns of Mr. ‘Al Sharpton. Te seems to me that if the purpose of the article about Mr Shuarpton’s charade was to point out how the media was manipulated, the over did not in any way do away with this manipulation. I do not doubt that reporter Mike Taibbi did a very excel: Tent job with this topic, but I would hhave preferred to have seen another over and one that would have shown Symbols of Rutgers. The alumni maga- Ze has been coming to my home ak ost 60 years now, and I do not Dolieve that any of the past covers has sisturbed me as much as this one- "Youn C. Ecctestox (RC30) Stratford, Connecticut ‘Thanks for sending me a copy of the story [Manipulating the Media” July- September}, 1 thought you did justice tora very difficult subject, Pai Sacan News Director, WCBS-TV ‘Something to worry about In response to the article entitled “The Pesticide Alarm” in your Apriljune 1989 issue, not only was I perplexed at the indifference to the question of danger, but outraged that a suppOs cally educated person would say that the “residues are something the intelli gent person should not be worried about.” 1 consider myself an intelligent woman, [also have the responsibility ‘braising two healthy children. Frankly, tolerance levels and toxicity per fruit are not what people lke my PSE worry about; what concerns ts is the residual buildup of these chemicals tuer the years and the effects of the nteractions of these substances, espe ally in children, In our more health- Conscious society, children are eating more fruits and vegetables, and we onder what the cumulative damage Thay be. Tam chagrined that you can treat the subject so lightly ‘Cinpy Mevocrana (LC78) ‘Metuchen, New Jersey Homosexuality: a state of being In the July-September 1989 issue there was a letter from an alumnus teh isa physician in Georgia. He ‘hates that people choose obesity and homosexuality. In Philadelphia, I've heard that neither is chosen; they si- ply are Bexjanty V. P. Vexoitz, BD. (GSED75) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania More on Professor Glasser 1 became acquainted with the late Prof. Abraham Glasser when we frorked together as lawyers in the OF oe of Price Administration (OPA), the Martine price and rationing agency, 1941-1943. Ruigers has a fot to be proud of in having Abe Glasser as an alumnus. He nent from Rutgers to Princeton, where he picked up a master’s degree in his tory and was hired by Attorney Gen (on Francis Biddle to do a history of the Department of Justice. Professor Glasser never went to law school, but while at Justice he per Formed the extraordinary feat of be- Coming self-educated in the law and teing admitted to membership in the Washington, D.C. bar, and the bar of the US. Supreme Court, where he practiced with distinction a5 a consi tional lawyer “Can Rutgers take similar pride in having Walter Gordon Perry as an fumnus? T should think not, based on his leter (April-June 1989), which re flects a mind too douded by politcal bigotry to get the facts straight Professor Glasser never worked at the State Department, nor was he ever fired from there or any other place except, to its shame, from Rutgers School of Law, And since Glasser worked only at Justice and the OPA While he was in Washington it is hard {o imagine what “classified material” hhe might have had access to of any possible interest to the Soviets. ‘Mr, Perry went to law school in the dark days of the McCarthy era, His as Sertion that “We had . .. no academic freedom" no doubt bas much validity durin blaming Professor Glasser for this, he displays the ultimate in conf sion, blaming the vietim for the crime: Roper E. TREUHAFT (Harvard College ‘34 Harvard Law School '37) ‘Oakland, Californi What's the difference between Rut: gers graduate who was a vice president 1d States and a Rutgers graduate who isa vice president of Ghannel Thirteen? The VP of WNET has made it into the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni. The vice presi dent of the United States hasnt, For three years running now, the selection ‘Committee for the Hall of Distin: guished Alumni has somehow decided Bhat Garret A. Hobart, the only grad tte to go on to become vice president Of the United States, is nt yet worthy Of selection. Likewise, for the third time, the committee has passed over Joreph Bradley, the only Rutgers ‘graduate to ever sit on the United States Supreme Court. Ifthe Hall is really meant to be ® ‘Hall of Distinguished Potential Bene factors, I suppose that has a place: But 3 Roreens aca ifve of Di sirig sisi Late Bai Jol 189 and may