To the editors:
Nevertheless, I must say that I was a little taken aback when I read their remarks about John’s painting exhibit here on campus a couple of years ago. While it may be appropriate to refer to Manitowoc as a “conservative town” and while that may fit the metropolitan stereotype of a smaller Wisconsin town, their cheap shot was extremely disconcerting. If anything, they should have lauded the “Manitowoc branch of the University of Wisconsin” for its actions relative to his exhibit. Indeed, “self-appointed guardians of the public morality” did not “rip their work from the walls” as was indicated. The principles of academic freedom and freedom of expression were maintained here, in fact, just as they would have been at a “university in a larger city.” Perhaps they have forgotten some of the details in this matter in their desire to impress your readers with their efforts to be guardians of the fine arts in this (by their standards perhaps) “culturally desolate area.”
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Campus Dean
I’m sorry that the paragraph in question was taken as a snipe at the University of Wisconsin at Manitowoc. It wasn’t my intention to degrade the school, or the town for that matter.
