Letter of the Week  Re "Mugging the Minutemen" [Nat Hentoff,
villagevoice.com, November 3]: The leftists in the institutions
of higher learning today most certainly do believe in free
speech—for them, but not for others of opposing views. It is sad
to behold. Could it be what is taught to them, and who is
teaching it? Such sorrowful antics make me glad I did not obtain
a higher-learning degree, or even a high school diploma.
Actually I am quite content, maybe even a little smug, with my
seventh-grade education—that and what I have learned since on my
own hook. As a young man back in the 1960s, I was inspired to
obtain knowledge from the life and writings of Eric Hoffer, who
believed in freedom. I fear for the future of America when such
closed-minded and totalitarian young people in today's
universities are to be tomorrow's leaders.  Roland Chambers
Topock, Arizona  Outta comptrol  Tom Robbins and Wayne Barrett
deserve a strong salute for "A Hevesi Heresy" [November 1–7].
Finally, after days of a media feedin