The Letter Box

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Words by TCNJ's editorial staff

The Letter Box

Politics

I wish to address some remarks made by Class of 1987 alumna Mary C. Weingart in the online version of this letters column, accusing the faculty of pushing their political point of view on the students at TCNJ. I cannot speak for the political science or literary professors, but, as for the art department faculty, we urge and guide our students to think and develop their own points of view, regardless of what those views are. I developed the Patriot Act: The Home Version game between 2003–04, a time when I was not teaching at TCNJ. I received brief press on the game in TCNJ Magazine due to an Associated Press article that came out in March 2006. I never brought the game in to show my students, nor did I discuss it in class. I only exhibited the game at the faculty art show the following semester, and when I did participate in a political discussion on campus, I did not advertise it to my students. I teach my students how to develop the skills to give voice to their own ideas, not to parrot my own. Ask them, and they will tell you the same. I think TCNJ students are smart enough to distinguish between what is expected of them in class and what a professor publishes, creates, or, especially, how he votes.
Michael Kabbash Assistant Professor of Art

TCNJ Magazine

I’m lucky enough to live for six months each year at the Jersey Shore and six months in the piney woods of Georgia. I’ve just returned from New Jersey to find my copy of the summer edition of TCNJ Magazine waiting for me, along with a lot of other mail that the postal service had saved. I was delighted to read this issue, for it’s filled with a lot of wonderfully written articles and great photos. I am so happy to read it and to see the enormous growth of my beloved alma mater.
Eileen Olsen Fancher ’49 School of Education