Even though I am usually very separated from the everyday problems which consistently concern The Daily Collegian and many of the myriad of student groups on campus, I could not help but become involved after reading the column in the Feb. 3, 1994 edition. Your editor in chief, Mike Abrams, criticized the Penn State University Veterans Organization for a bar tour that they plan to undertake. He specifically said the veterans should be ashamed of themselves because some members apparently violated a University policy and leveled charges of me-ism at the Penn State community and the veterans.

If there is one group of men and women on this campus not guilty of me-ism, it would be the veterans. These men and women made substantial sacrifices for the greater good of this country and were part of a much more honorable and prouder tradition than any other institution of which this country can boast.

When you step up to the firing line to be counted and make an effort to contribute to the common good, then you will have a right to criticize these people. Until that day comes, you can just keep your ill-informed opinions to yourself and whine about how nobody respects you to your therapist.

For the record, I am not a member of the PSUVO and I only know the basic tenets of their criticism of the Collegian. To refuse to acknowledge the prominent postions that veterans and the PSUVO hold in this community is simply unacceptable.

Any paper that has historically printed columns by Chino Wilson and publicly supported the burning of several thousand copies of The Lionhearted is in dire need of a wake-up call from its readership. As for the Collegian's support of the censorhip practiced by the perpetrators of the latter act, such an outlandish and arbitrary interpretation of our First Amendment rights is simply another insult hurled at the veterans and those who have died in defense of these freedoms.

I say Hoo-ah to the members of the PSUVO who have refused to waver under the pressure of the politically correct. Keep the faith. Above all, hold your heads high and be proud of what you are and what you have accomplished.