John Lawless asserted Monday that PSU's submission to his demands last spring was the result of administrators seeing the "merit" of his views. Perhaps he has forgotten that his demands came with a threat to cut Penn State's funding if his backward views were not incorporated into university policy.

To apply his reckless assumption to an analagous situation, if my boss tells me to stop wearing political T-shirts to work or suffer a pay cut, and I comply, does this imply that I must have seen the merit of my boss's postition? One who is being honest with oneself would acknowledge that I had been forced to choose between compromising my self-expression and compromising my income, as was the university, and that my actions could in no way be attributed to agreement with my boss's position.