European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Art Buchwald May 1977 the stars and stripes Page 11 new York not will new York never Stop the relentless destruction of its great landmarks first it Tore Down Pennsylvania it is deter mined to destroy its hundreds of millions Are to be spent very soon to wipe out hundreds of thousands of potholes with out regard to their historic new yorkers Are proud of their pot and not Only because of the great history associated with so Many of often the feeling is i know a Man who met the woman from whom he is now divorced when they were both stranded in a pothole in the another lost his brother inlaw in a pothole on the Henry Hudson like most new i have Many favored pot my favorite is on first Avenue just North of 57th one Day in 1974 it broke the Axle of a limousine with diplomatic immunity which had just run a red Light at so Miles an hour to punish me for trying to Cross the that pothole confirms my Faith that jus Tice will ultimately it would be a pity to see it the pothole preservation association Hopes to save 250 of the cites most remarkable potholes in their present Loca among these is the famous eighth Street thought to be the oldest in the it was there that Washington Irving wrote the legend of sleepy hollow while waiting for a Mechanic to realign the front end of his Strawberry which had hit the pothole at full other historic Sites include the notorious 22nd Street in which Henry James wandered dazed and polysyllabic for three Days after suffering severe whiplash during a dash to catch the boat to of there is the still magnificent Madison Avenue pothole which Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald redecorated in the style of the Luray caverns one night on their Way to meet Rudolph Valentino at preservationists have powerful argue intents on their on a typical As a True new he has a soft spot in he heart for after it was a a boy playing in the potholes of Brooklyn that he first met Franklin Roose Roosevelt was entertaining the King and Queen of desiring to treat them to a uniquely american expert had arranged to serve them hotdogs in a Brooklyn Young Abe was there scavenging Rusty carburettors from abandoned Hup mobiles when the party and president Roosevelt Shook his introduced him to the King and Queen and asked him to serve the although the mayor loves the potholes of new he is willing to save Only a and he will have to be razed and reconstructed at Sites outside new the mayors plan Calls for disassembling a dozen of the most historic crating them and shipping them to the Adi where they would be reconstructed with Complete governor does not want them in new York his plan Calls for reconstructing them beside the re constructed Temple of Abu Simbell on the upper a he Points which would provide much happiness to Home sick new yorkers touring in but not to the egyptian ambassador to the who has been sitting for three weeks in Crosstown traffic in a car immobilized by a splendid new pothole excavation at Lexing ton has sent a Carrier Pigeon to his embassy with instructions to warn Cairo that no camels will Ever move again in Egypt if the Carey proposal is what will probably if i know new is that the big corporations moving out of town will take All the Best potholes with letters to the editor overseas courses Are no snap profit from a University but it to not True that students receive degrees on the Well motivated receive de i would like to respond to the letter criticising the overseas educational program at the University the writers arguments can be summarized the University programs operating overseas Are diploma Mills with Little academic he also believes that students in these pro Grams have been cheated by a system which operates on a quota final University graduates from these pro Grams Are functional i am in agreement with the writers con Cern for Quality placement of and the need for More student counselling and so there Are several Points in the letter which need the writer asserts that overseas courses were Quick and dirty ways to get a degree on credit courses for photog a women Drivers Send feminist to times More tourists in new i 11 Yorks potholes than in the Broadway the u p i h 6 wq11 potholes create a whole i some impression of new York for being the one place in town where a person can drop in without being subjected to pornography vendors or Massage parlor bark mayor Beame is sympathetic to the european edition Billy Larry Mert editor Elmer Senry Mew Tail my Mir l n Lor u amid forum of viol Sun it  form of n Mart melt of Tom or 5s5 sur pm news bureaus Ron building Mcmorr in or Aua Jurg circulation offices London a Maureen self styled feminist and member of Parlia has admitted that women Drivers Send me up the Wall and around the they do make the most silly mis it is about time they pulled themselves together and decided to drive More like a Laberite for was commenting on a report by the trans port and Road research Laboratory that women Drivers tended to have More Acci dents than were More easily distracted and More Likely to be she is making a formal protest that the report Cost the government for research which tells us what we already a Driver who logs thousands of Miles a year Colquhoun went on whenever i see a Little motor tooling along giving no Sig nals about turning right or i make a special Effort to see if it is a Man or a woman alas it is invariably a i absolutely regret but i cannot say other than that when 1 see a stupid mistake on the 1 always look and my heart sinks there goes another woman heavy truck Drivers ure the Best on the Colquhoun and even worse than women Are foreigners whom i would not allow into Holloway visits Yugoslavia Belgrade up James chief of naval called on defense minister Nikola Ljubic and had with him what yugoslav officials described As a Long and Friendly during his official visit to Holloway was to meet military officials and tour some of naval examples that were the writer the Reader to believe that these offerings Are typical of educational requirements leading to a if the writer turned to the University of Maryland Catalon up 23 29 he would find that facile and Quick courses do not Lead to a the courses listed in the Catalon include expository the social mathematics and other solid a second Point made by the writer was that instructors inflate their grades and water Down academic 1 cannot speak for All universities in the overseas As the writer i can Only relate my personal experience and that of close colleagues at my observation is that the poorly motivated and pre pared Are cooled out of the system before they reach the degree is True that Maryland allows any student with a High school education to attempt to get a this is healthy because it gives every student the Opportunity to put Laziest work the american welfare system has been in need of a major overhaul for some time welfare abuses have been at a Pheno Menal level for giving Lazy bodies alternative to work or buy Beer and watch to or whats in my is the double not Only do some get away with working and draw ing welfare at the same but doing it right under the caseworkers in this Day and everybody feels overworked and but a caseworkers eyes should be Well trained to the How can they be so seemingly Blind there is a great need for welfare Reform at every president Carters plan seems to Call for those who Are Able to work to work and thus More Money will be channelled to people in honest for too ladies have been Able to sit on their consuming state in some welfare provides an Ade quate plus medical and dental services and food at a reduced Price through food please Bear in mind that a state will pay its debts so the very Best medical and dental facilities Are available to those same parasites feeding off the Why should the honest poor people continue to pay taxes to provide the ladies Beer or to educate their children especially when these same children will More than Likely aspire to be just like mom and dad and try to beat the i Welcome president Carters welfare plan and forgive the inequities in his Gas guzzling it is certainly time to get Tough with the american people and make some work for possibly the first time in their withheld Germany students unwilling to meet the requirements i Grade on the basis of student some my jus try Button is skewed toward c and other the average Grade May be a if the writer received pressure from his education he should resist it is the instructors role to resist both Stu Dent and education Center pressure to reduce i have been a full time instructor in the european division of Maryland since Jan uary have taught sociology courses in Turkey and Many centers in i previously taught at the College Park Campus and the University of North students in the european division compare favourably with their stateside students in my courses receive an education in sociology comparable to what they would receive at a state University in the my senior level courses in military so sociology of personality and sociology of the family were taught in such diverse centers As Rota and in each i found the students thinking critically and performing Independent study projects at a High in 1 could cite my lower level sociology courses As examples of Quality experience with High it is True that some students were not pre pared for High level these students worked failed or the students who received credit for my courses met my the writer is Correct in asserting that there Are unique difficulties in teaching in the overseas the situation requires an imaginative approach by the instructor to overcome these but there Are also unique advantages to the overseas the students Are often Well the classes Are faculty loan libraries and Mili tary facilities can be utilized for effective for my military sociology courses in Wurzburg were enhanced by students who were chief warrant offi these students used their sociological imagination to tackle concepts such As the professional Soldier and the divergence of the military institution from the larger another example where the military set Ting can be an advantage is in the area of family and sex students in these seminars had practical experience in family human relations and social action which contributed to a very stimulating educational sex i believe the writer grossly underestimated both the students and instructors in the overseas believe it is unfair to characterize All Over seas courses As Mickey mouse and i have been Able to recommend students for graduate study at such institutions As the University of Witten Burg Seminary and the University of California at san these students did not find it necessary to reenlist for an Over seas the overseas programs could profit from More student Cou seling and so but All courses and pro Grams Are not utterly rusted Heidelberg reminder All letters to the editor must contain full name us address of the and must be unsigned letters will lot be considered for because of toe Large volume of mail ibis column receives letters that Are Brief and to the Point have a much better Chance of being