European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes wednesday june 18,1986 co Juiris the pleasure is in the knowing today s crossword by Eugene Sheffer Brandy Honey i be just stopped to Check the difference Between graduation and  there does t Stem to be much difference according to the dictionaries even though the word graduation slugger to an end to something and commencement indicates a begin Ning. The Only advice any of my books gives is not 10 say she was graduated from College. Say she graduated from  i like this distinction because it suggests Somei Ninghe graduate accomplished instead of an act by the College administration. She did it. Graduation Day is one of he most abrupt interruptions in life s activities for the graduate there Are very few limes in anyone Fife so bittersweet As thai final Day at High school or College. Graduates Are glad it s Over but they re sad r i Over too and they re scare about their future. Don l look for any soothing words from me either graduates. It s a Jungle out Here. Considering How much hostility and suspicion there toward any really educated person by almost every one with Lesi than a High school education we re Lucky so Many Youn a people recon new what a Good thing a higher education u and want to go to College an graduate school. Some people consider it almost a badge of Honor not to have gone to High school. If they be been sue pcs soul Ai Al or even if they Haven to they brag about How i Hue education they be had just As if their Igno Rance had helped. They Don t consider anything a col lege glad uric does for a i iving As real work. Last weekend i was joking with a Friend of min who works As a plumber electrician and All purpose Handyman. "1 been working All Day he said. You probably in t done a decent Day s work in your life. Real work. I  he was kidding but Only ton of. The fact that i Getup at 5 37 every morning and Don t come Home until 6 30 thai evening does t impress him at All. He does t know How i spend my time hut he s not willing to concede it s work because i Wear a Necktie an Don t lift anything. Suppose the resentment the uneducated have to Ward the educated is natural enough. One of the Sim ple pleasures of life is to feel Superior to someone else i does t have to be a mean feeling. Everyone needs o feel Superior about something and there arc lot of people who manage to feel Superior about some funny things. If i know now to change the Oil in my car and you Don to i feel Superior o you in this one regard even though you May be a nuclear physicist. All i have to do to gel my kicks is to think about what i know and ignore what you know that i Don t. The argument that will never be resolved in Educa lion is How much the process should be directed to Ward leaching practical subjects that will help student make a living and How much education should be pure academic work the Only practical end to which is the pleasure of knowing. There in t much Money in just knowing things Asan out of work College professor can Tell you but i Hope we never give up on education or its own  though there in t any great commercial demand for philosophers shakespearean scholars or experts on the works of Byron Keats and Shelley i Hope we continue to have students who devote their education no these m4 tiers. If i have a septic tank problem i la still Call my proud know nothing Friend but the world would be a sad place without Young people who go to the trouble of suspending their lives for four years while they Al lend College to expand their k now Lodge of our world. Pc Tribune Media Summ sorry new York i m Long gone by Russell bake new York dear Tim Sullivan As Deputy county clerk at the new York count court House you arc professionally disinclined i sup pose 10 Lake my word for it if 21 no longer reside inner York and am hence ineligible for jury duty. This nevertheless is the Ruth of he Mailer and Iam prepared to so depose with hand on he gospels if you or someone properly certified As your represent a live will come to my House and take my statement. 1 make this offer out of gratitude for the 11 Goodyear i enjoyed in new York. People whose experience of the City was less Happy might be insulted by you suggestion that they would he about heir place of residence o avoid jury duly but not i. In fad i would be altered to have you reaching out for me across so Many slate lines if 1 did t know from previous experience How desperate you Are for jurors. Yes Tim i am on to your strategy. I know thai in All Manhattan Here Are fewer nan47 persons unable to Muster the feeble excuses required to escape jury duty. I know that the loss of any one of those 47 is a severe blow 10 new York Justice. I know that upon learning i had moved away you did not assemble the judges heir clerks and the bail Ilia ind say Lei a All have a moment of Oyez Oyez Oyez for the Fine and Public spirited Public citizen who has been driven from our midst by the real estate  no Tim what you said was said through gnashed Leeti another juror done gone now we be got Only 46,and thai dreadful supreme court says it s unconstitutional to have juries composed of illegal aliens press ganged while crossing he Rio Grande. I suppose it was in this understandably sour spirit that you rejected the Graceful note i sent in response Coyour latest summons to jury duty a note explaining thai i have not resided in new York slate since More than a year ago a Nole which you have sen Back to me crumpled and covered with angry fingerprints. Thai s the Courtesy you return for my Courtesy i giving you my new address 250 Miles and four stale lines away from the new York Border. And with it you enclose this cold impersonal form demanding thai i stale a valid reason for claiming exemption from jury duly and asking How f d like to end up in Attica for lying about my place of residence. As noted above gratitude for those Good years inner York compels me to Overlook the insult implicit Here. However there is some abuse i will not Lake. When your instructions order me to Complete in inform and have it notarized before sending it Back i hear my blood saying just a minute now Tim Sulli Van and who do you think you Are with this notarize ing Husi Nesst the Gall of it 1 think i la go on being polite. 1 will fill out an return the insulting form and i will even buy the 21 cell stamp Tim Sullivan failed to put on the self addressed envelope. Finding and paying notary to put his stamp on the paper however is an unfair demand 10 which i will not accede despite my affection for the old new Yorkshat existed before the real estate knee cappers took Over. So Tim Sullivan i offer a bargain you Leorae Tome i la have the gospels ready and shall take your oath without offence. Afterwards i will buy a celebratory drink or two to Justice and new York. A Tim you can Tell i be been a Long Lime gone from thereat City can t you