LETTERS
Music history lesson The winter Scope article about ethno- musicologist Lei Ouyang Bryant was fas- cinating. During a recent trip to China, I visited a park in Bejiing just outside the Temple of Heaven. There dozens of people gathered regularly to sing the propaganda songs from Mao’s era. I was fortunate to observe several songs being sung with accompaniment by a band. Most participants were in their 50s or older, but several had children or grand- children with them. The songs were sung with real emotion and some in- cluded hand motions or clapping. Pro- fessor Bryant’s article helped me to un- derstand what I witnessed.
Gingi Harris Rothman ’80 Maumee, Ohio
Climate kudos and critique
I’m an old-timer and not very con- nected to Skidmore anymore. But the winter issue of Scope was the very best I have seen over the years. You touched on issues that should be in every per- son’s mind, and you also told what Skidmore was doing to address these issues. Bravo and congratulations!
Mary Rattray ’49 Concord, Calif.
While entertaining, the winter Scope articles on climate change miss the mark. It’s not about convincing people that climate change exists, but there’s an obvious branding problem. Stop
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using the words “global warming” and start using the language of “change or be changed,” because if there’s no re- versing climate change (after all, you’d have to stop the Chinese first), then people will have to change their ways of life, where they live, what they eat, how they get potable water, etc. Some 70% of the US population lacks
a four-year college degree. Unless you show how climate change will affect everyone on a personal level, all the academic wrangling and public policy debate will be for naught.
And as for the article about the to-
bacco industry, Professor Prasad is ap- parently unaware that one dollar invest- ed in tobacco stocks back in 1900 was worth $6.3 million by 2010—165 times greater than the average industry invest- ment. Stockholders in cigarette company Altria’s predecessors have seen the high- est return of any company to date, beat- ing Apple, Google, Berkshire Hathaway, or anyone else!
Vinny Catalano ’83 Sacramento, Calif.
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