Letters & Follow-up

Digital Tibet

As a Virginia alum, I’d like to thank you for your fascinating cover story in the January issue on “Digital Tibet.” It is wonderful to see how the University, a well-known national institution, is fast becoming a renowned international organization. Thank you for so ably chronicling this dramatic rise!

Michael E. Roche
(College ’69, MA, Religious Studies ’74)

Crozier captures changing Charlottesville

Thanks for the article in A&S January 2004 re Prof. Crozier’s documentation of scenes in and around the University.

Hopefully he will paint Miss Betty Booker’s house. I was one of her “gentlemen roomers” in 1951. Things have changed dramatically since then. In ’51 the undergrad population was all male, all white. In ’51, shirts, ties and jackets were demanded at all times. The Honor System functioned with dispatch and with certainty. None of the rooms on/around the Lawn were air conditioned ... except Cabell which was the new building.

Kyle Coffey
(College ’59)

What’s love got to do with it?

The next time you decide to run a manuscript that has been misplaced for 50 years — as must have been the case with the recent article on marriage — it would be helpful if the editor could add a note at least acknowledging the current state of debate on the subject.

Barry Crickmer
(Foreign Affairs ’63)

Prized writers

Two alumni of the creative writing program won the Pulitzer Prize for 2004. Edward P. Jones (MFA, Creative Writing ’81), profiled in the January 2004 issue of Arts & Sciences, won in the fiction category for his novel, “The Known World.” Franz Wright, who held a Hoyns Fellowship in 1980-81, won the poetry award for his book “Walking to Martha’s Vineyard.”

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