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[ Friday, April 6, 2001 ]

Letter to the Editor
Student deserves no glory for insult on Pa. legislator

I would like to make a comment about the article I read concerning the threat which Rep. Lawless made to Bob Pickrell, a student at Penn State.

I find it ridiculous that Bob Pickrell has already been glorified by an administrator at a Pennsylvania school district and offered a job for the mere fact that he chastised Lawless because of physical attributes.

I am no fan of Lawless; however, all that aside, the shear fact that anyone would attempt to write an educated letter to a state representative, poke fun at a deformity and not expect some type of natural repercussion is absurd. Lawless should not be able to use his authority to inflict future financial harm to Pickrell; however, I ask, how qualified is an individual as a teacher that expresses his views by criticizing a state representative because of a facial deformity, the result of a brain tumor operation? Praise should never be attached to immaturity.

Keith O'Brien
junior-secondary social studies education
 



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