Faculty’s offensive language cost K-State two ‘A’ students
To the Editor: I read with interest the article in last Sunday’s paper “KSU cites tougher standards as enrollment falls to 24,146.”
It would be interesting to see reasons students left Kansas State University or chose other institutions. Both of my daughters left KSU for other institutions after one semester (and with all A’s) due to excessive use of profanity and sexually explicit comments by professors.
When I expressed my concern to a KSU vice president at freshman orientation, she told me firmly, “Our faculty have freedom to say whatever they want, and your daughter can go elsewhere.”
I seldom, if ever, hear profanity and obscenities at my workplace, at my professional society meetings or at businesses I frequent. It is unfortunate that an institution that should be known for being “conservative” and in a part of the country that claims to be largely Christian would allow and encourage this type of behavior.
KSU faculty and administrators should be encouraging students to be moral and ethical members of our society, and not conveying that the routine use of profanity and obscenities is acceptable. Perhaps enrollment would increase if that happened. Floyd Dowell 3310 Germann Drive
