I read with interest Ms. Cantor's column in the Sept. 18 sports section. However, since I was not drunk or even at the game, I didn't expect to be insulted by it.

The insult came in paragraph four. A drunk man is acting inappropriately because apparently "the sight of a full set of teeth on a grown woman is new to a man from a West Virginia satellite campus."

Knowing that West Virginia would not have a Penn State campus, I must assume that Ms. Cantor means a man from a West Virginia college. This is a blatant generalization of West Virginians.

I myself am proud to call myself a West Virginian, because I authoritatively know that the term means a person who is ruggedly independent, expects to work hard at all things, and has very stringent morals. I realize that Ms. Cantor probably did not intend to insult me, and is just repeating the stereotype that pervades society north of our border. My teeth, and the teeth of most people I know, are in fine shape.

If you do see a West Virginian with bad teeth, realize that if you had as little money as many West Virginians, you would have to forgo that expensive trip to the dentist, too.