--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip] > > So you are the product of MUM's writing department huh? I'd say the > university has bigger problems than Haglein banging the student body. [snip] I went to MIU at the same time as Curtis. There is someone whom we both went to MIU with who then became a well- known militant ex-TMer who was virtually illiterate when he first came to MIU as a teenager for our freshman class. He could not correctly spell any word larger than three letters nor put together a sentence on paper. And that's not hype, that's fact. Yet to his credit (alot of hard work, determination, and persistence) he overcame his handicap...to the point where he was literate enough that he became a writer of sorts: HE DOCUMENTED THROUGH HIS WRITING HIS HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE WITH THE TM "CULT". Yet it was MIU that enabled him to become literate. This individual didn't overcome his illiteracy by himself. Because it was the staff and faculty of MIU that worked with him so that he overcame his illiteracy. Funny, isn't it; MIU provided the very education and skills that enabled this person to have the very petard he most eagerly and willingly employed against MIU, Maharishi, and the TMO. Fine. Free speech and all; he's entitled to express his opinions and views against the Movement. But I'd like to see him at the same time give MIU credit for giving him a chance in the first place by accepting an obviously unqualified person as a student as well as then working with him so that he became literate. And please don't anyone counter by saying that MIU did it for their own interests because they were desperately in need of students and would have accepted anyone. This person enrolled in the fall of 1975, the year that MIU had over 350 students enrolled and, if anything, they couldn't keep up with the overflow.
