University of Virginia Library

Utopia

Mr. Mittleman's "Go to
Hell, David Shannon" in The
Cavalier Daily of November 19,
1971 did attract my attention.
The reasons why Mr.
Mittleman selected this
University instead of Harvard,
Michigan or Chicago, like
"freedom from crowds, from
dirt,.....from impossible
prices,.....decaying city",
show his "elitist" tendency,
with which, I am afraid, he is
still unfamiliar. In my opinion,
he is really attempting to find
an utopia of old, that no longer
exists, and is attempting to
oppose the modernization of
the University. Every person,
institution, nation and species
is modernizing these days, and
hence, there should not be a
grievance against it. I am