At 11:38 PM 12/16/96 -0400, Mike Machnik wrote: >At 10:44 AM -0500 12/16/96, Robert Svec wrote: >> This is the first time I felt compelled to write to The Maine Hockey >> Discussion List. The immature call by the sports editor of the BDN for >> Shawn Walsh to be fired and the continuous flow of anti-Maine editorials is >> beyond belief. > >Was this something different that I didn't see? The column posted last >week didn't say anything about firing Walsh. Mr. Svec could be referring to any number of editorials written since July about Walsh.. there have been plenty, and I am quite sure Mr. McLaughlin has written one. The Maine media has not exactly been supportive of the decision to allow Walsh back. >I don't know Art Mayo or anything about him, but I wouldn't be so quick to >dismiss everything said by people who think Walsh should not return. >Better to understand the reasons why and then challenge those. As an >outsider, I can see reasons why he should return and reasons why he should >not. Call it walking the fence, but I'm just glad the decision was not >mine to make. I don't think the real question regarding Mayo's proposal is whether or not he has a case, but whether or not the legislature should even spend their time on a matter that they have little or no say on, and spend tax dollars to do it. Furthermore, in light of the fact that the legislature has gutted funding for the University of Maine in recent years, is it two-faced for a legislator to try and influence university policy? Especially when many problems at the university -- non-NCAA primarily, but neverless detrimental to the educational value Mayo is trying to preserve at Maine -- are a direct result of lack of funding from Augusta, it seems ridiculous to expect the university to waste its time listening to this. If the legislature wants to help UMaine, stop cutting the funding so the university doesn't have to make hard cutbacks that further depleat what used to be broad educational opportunities at UMaine. The problems that UMaine is experiencing, from a legislative standpoint, run far deeper than a hockey coach. --- Deron Treadwell ([log in to unmask])