The ability to edit written material is a difficult task. This I already understand. The ability, however, to destroy an article is much more challenging.

I commend The Daily Collegian with its article on the personality of Dr. O. Richard Bundy, associate director of bands. As a Blue Band member for four years I have developed a great deal of respect for Dr. Bundy and the Blue Band staff. I must, however, criticize the editor of the article. As I read through the article, I followed along closely. That is until I got to the paragraph which reads: "His enthusiasm for his job is reflected in how he interacts with the students, reasons. But this time, the band was right in with the action in Pasadena, Calif., including parades and pep rallies." What kind of nonsense is that? What does the word reasons have to do with the first sentence? How can you allow a paragraph of two sentences when they don't go together?

I thought to myself, well, maybe it was late and they had to cut down the article. Maybe that's true, maybe it's not. But I read on. I got to the fourth to the last paragraph, and read: "When the football team first played in the Rose Bowl in 1923, the Blue Band was forced to stay behind for logistical that he is a great guy to work with." What is that nonsense? It isn't a sentence, it isn't a phrase, it's just a series of words, strung together. While I will openly admit I am not an English major, by any stretch of the imagination, I believe I can tell when a group of words is not a sentence.

Then it dawned on me. My guess is, orginally the passages read: 1) "When the football team first played in the Rose Bowl in 1923, the Blue Band was forced to stay behind for logistical reasons. But this time, the band was right in with the action in Pasadena, Calif., including parades and pep rallies." 2) "His enthusiasm for his job is reflected in how he interacts with the students." As far as the tag -- "that he is a great guy to work with," I have no clue where it goes in the story, except that I know it definitely attaches the article to Dr. Bundy.

In my five years at this wonderful institution of higher learning we all call Penn State, I have noticed two significant things which have remained fairly consistent. First, the underrepresentation of the Penn State Blue Band. Second, the inability of the Collegian staff to write, edit and publish a newspaper that is gramatically correct. These two features have once again surfaced in this article. In their attempt to give Dr. Bundy some much deserved recognition, they obliterated it by their inability to write and edit a proper English sentence.

Concluding, I do not take responsibility for the final form in which this letter is printed. As this letter has passed through the hands of the Collegian staff, it was no doubt improperly edited for "space limitations."