Playing the environmental game

To the editor:I remember my first encounter with tax-funded leftist academics experimenting with the new cloak of environmentalism to obscure their agendas. While pursuing my first bachelor of science degree in a techno-managerial field in Arizona during the 1970s, I had to suffer some useless environmental courses because, gee, Earth was about to freeze. Sound familiar? One course occasionally allowed relief from the snore-inducing classroom to contemplate rocks, bugs or even marvel at the enviro-habitats of local tribes, including their gas-guzzling Cadillacs outside of their air-conditioned huts, of course.

A semester project loomed, which I put off until the night before it was due. So I used my courses in architecture, surveying, topographical drafting, electronics and even meteorology to crank out an overnight wonder. Basically, it was a terrain-incorporated sod house complete with solar panels and a stream running through it for a water generator. I even included a windmill, after eradicating a bunch of trees for it, but it massacred a flock of birds. Anyway, the professor's heart fluttered over the project. I got an A. A similar scheme worked at Southeast Missouri State University. Ah, what happy memories.

JOE MARTIN, Jackson