March 2003			The Play's the Thing America's Bandstand The World Turned Upside Down	E Line Sports Q&A Books Alumni Passages Classes From the Field First-Person Letters Huskiana
		Guessing wrong As a fellow sociologist and “media person” also contacted by the press during the Washington sniper case, I feel my colleague Jack Levin’s remarks [Q&A, January] were a bit disingenuous. Every expert in the field was wrong about the sniper. They all thought he was some kind of Timothy McVeigh character. Not one thought he could be a black man working with a younger “son.” It shows that, in the future, we must discard all stereotypes of what we think a serial killer should look like. Jack Nusan Porter Adjunct Sociology Professor University of Massachusetts, Lowell Simple profundity A few words from Byron Hurt’s “First-Person” [January] should be reprinted: “And when I was really being honest with myself, I knew that my office belonged to someone who hungered for the job. I felt like a fraud, standing in the way of someone else’s dream, because I was afraid of embracing my own.” I’m certain many people, possibly even the author himself, missed the power of those few simple words. Christopher Spiewak, UC’99 Boston, Massachusetts What a long pride it’s been I am enjoying the website produced by the university. I also enjoy the magazine. As you might guess from my class year, I am now ninety-six years old. And I’m just as proud of my Northeastern sheepskin as I was when I received it on a June 19 many years ago. Everett Williston, E’29 Bradenton, Florida