We're so caught up in a prior debate that we have said nothing about the shocker Jim Zwick has tried to bring to our attention. I repeat it below in violation of the Forum's protocols because it is so important. One always hopes one's judges are at least literate. But the one who wrote this ghastly opinion doesn't even recognize "trash" as a racial slur against whites. And the odd thing is that now students are to be protected against a hostile "work" environment. As a kid, I thought all school work was hostile to childhood! Maybe when my daughter complains about mathematics, I should bring suit that it creates a hostile work environment for her. Does this mean, too, that we now have to pay children for the work they do at school? How did employment law come to be applied to education? The chilling thing about this decision is that it applies, I would imagine, as well to college courses. We, too, compel our students to do certain "work" when then read certain "works." Are we creating hostile work environments? Will we be able to teach any literature of value? After all, most good literature is good because it challenges us, and most any challege could be construed as hostile by some reader. Gregg