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The question is not whether we can afford to have liberal arts graduates but whether we can afford not to have them.
Peter Adler New York City
My husband is a Yale cum laude meat cutter, and he loves it. He was previously rejected for a similar job in Connecticut and was labeled overeducated.
Unbutton your button-downs, you Ph.D.s who want jobs, and try some manual labor. You may love it.
Alice R. Brown Manchester, Vt.
I could not help noticing that your article did not include any sob stories from engineering graduates. Engineering graduates at Georgia Tech are having no trouble finding jobs.
You can tell those who majored in liberal arts and now have no jobs that after playing for four years, they would benefit greatly from hard work.
Stephen W. Fox Atlanta
P.O.W. Patty
It is plain that neither Judge Carter
nor anyone on the Patricia Hearst jury
[March 29] was ever a prisoner of war.
George F. Schmalzried
Conneautville, Pa.
I was a Japanese prisoner of war, caught on Bataan during the defense of the Philippines. I feel that for the most part collaboration stems from a desire to attain reward from the captors rather than from fear of punishment. I do not believe that people can be "brainwashed" against their will.
Generally our conduct as prisoners was governed by our own free will. Evidently the jury felt that Miss Hearst did the same.
Daniel N. Weitzner Leominster, Mass.
I can't go along with the verdict. Our instinct to survive is so strong that we can conceive of killing another human, even eating human flesh, but not becoming a rebel, robbing a bank and shooting at a store as means to survival.
Tessie Clements Bardstown, Ky.
Is it too naive to assume that rather than being a case of "Where the Defense Went Wrong", as your title indicates, the outcome of the Hearst trial demonstrates simply that Patty was guilty?
Barbara Sullivan Newport, R.I.
The defense went wrong when the Hearsts fired San Francisco Lawyer Terrence Hallinan and imported Bailey from Boston. He underestimated the San Francisco level of sophistication when he adopted the line about the poor little blonde and the big bad black in the deep dark closet.
Catherine Sang Menlo Park, Calif.
As an alternate on the Hearst jury, I wish to go on record as one who totally disagrees with the verdict of my colleagues. I heard all the evidence and firmly believe there was more than a reasonable doubt that the defendant participated in the crime willingly.
Mary Nietnan Pleasant Hill, Calif.
Carol, Gerald and Henry
Displaying the charms of Model Carol Gustafson on the cover [March 22] of a magazine that has in the past presented such noble visages as Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger is ... is ... delightful!
(The Rev.) Frank L. Faust Metairie, La.
It is apparent that modern fashion decrees that breasts are in—when they are out.
Tobias M. Feder Lauderhill, Fla.
From Little Acorns
In "Aiming at the Stars" [March 29] you recounted the billions upon billions of dollars spent by NASA on the space program based on Dr. Goddard's experiments but you neglected to mention that he did all of his work on $25,000 which was annually contributed by the Guggenheim Foundation.