An academic degree does not a wise man make -- nor, for that matter, a knick-knack collection. I've met plenty of twerps in academia. To be fair, I've met some of the finest people in my life here, too. The man exhibits, of course, the sin of anachronism in all it's bold face, but the real damage here is the fuel this supplies to the politically correct nincompoops who want to ban one of America's finest novels from our public schools. Ken Burchell