Establishment of New University

* Re “CSUCI Rushes Toward Reality but What Are We Really Getting?” Ventura County Perspective, Sept. 6.

As a recent article in the newspaper stated: Lawyers are running this country. Now, if Mr. Stanislaus Pulle has his way, they will also run the education community.

Mr. Pulle states, “Important questions about standards--and whether the country needs this university at all--remain to be answered.”

These, of course, are Mr. Pulle’s self-generated (with the help of a staff member at Thomas Aquinas College) “important questions.” The rest of us already know the answer. Yes, Mr. Pulle, the county does need this university, very badly.

Mr. Pulle, in his obviously elitist thinking, has listed a number of private colleges and universities with the mistaken belief that all students can afford the enormous cost of such paragons of higher education. He also questions whether the already established colleges and universities are not enough.

Obviously Mr. Pulle has not kept up with “reality.” If he had, he would realize that the number of college-age students increases dramatically each year. Also, in an effort to alleviate the crowding of our highways, not to mention the addition of more pollutants to our air, it is far better to have our colleges and universities in close proximity to the students.

Mr. Pulle thinks things are moving just too fast. Ventura County has been working toward a university for 30 years. Maybe the reason the court system in the United States is so overburdened and overcrowded is because of that particular “lawyer mentality” of slower is better.

R. ELLIS SMITH

Ventura