Article: Letter to the editor

I read with interest the Palladium-Item cover story on March 6, 2006 "Does this woman look DANGEROUS to you?" I had already received my copy of David Horowitz’s book "The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America" from the publisher and scheduled David to be our guest on "The Dickson/Chappell Report" on April 15. This will make his fourth appearance on our radio program.
I am concerned that the article never addressed Horowitz’s claims that Caroline Higgins does not have the necessary credentials to hold her position at any college, or that Marxist/Leninist theories are visited upon her students without allowing a balanced view. I would welcome these concerns being addressed. Higgin’s only argument appears to be that Horowitz has never visited the Earlham Campus. Ann Coulter and Bill Kristol have, and we saw the reception they got! Besides, I don’t have to go swimming in shark infested waters to know that I might be eaten by sharks.
The article also mentioned George Wolfe of Ball State. His only qualifications are that he is a music professor with primary expertise in saxophone. How does this qualify him as a professor of peace studies?
But let’s go back to the headline itself. The article implies that dangerous people look dangerous. Nothing could be further from the truth. There are a lot of people in the world whom society would deem as handsome or beautiful who have committed atrocities such as killing, torturing and raping innocent people. So now you have to look dangerous to be dangerous? What kind of qualification is that?
Chris Dickson