The Cavalier Daily

Administrative gaffes

"I'm a senior at the University of Maryland, College Park. Having read President C.D. Mote's comments in The Diamondback and the responses to these comments in your paper ('De-Moted,' Oct. 28), I have to ask your student body to forgive U.Md. Over the past ten years, the incoming freshman GPA has risen from 3.0 to 3.87. We have gone from having zero top-25 programs to 68. Having been here for four years and seen the improvements that have occurred, I believe U.Md. is a very strong school that can compete with the very best schools. Yet, time and time again President Mote makes comments and initiates policies that seem backwards and confusing. I hope that we can all agree that U.Va. and U.Md. are both very good, if not great, schools. I also think rankings are fairly arbitrary and that is it ultimately impossible to say that one school is better than another. So say what you want about President Mote, but please don't think poorly of U.Md. just because of his comments. After all, we think he's an idiot too.

Kevin Conroy
College Park, Maryland"