The purpose of this letter is to say that despite the recent Simpson-Defense-Team style public whining by certain law school faculty members, it is safe to say that the faculty (and even the administration) are mostly a sane bunch over here, as far as law people go at least. Besides an occasional bomb threat, harassment or other petty criminal charge against a law student, we students are a relatively sane bunch too at least I think.

So with only 80 or soon days left until I graduate from this oh-so-peculiar place (that is, if I’m not crucified for writing this), even though I find myself muttering over and over the words tolerance … tolerance and counting backward from 10 a lot, I would like to remind my fellow dawgs of the positives of the SIU School of Law, such as:n Small class sizes

n One of the top student/faculty ratios in the nation

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n One of the most inexpensive law schools in the nation

n High-quality library and overall facilities

n Excellent moot court and legal writing programs

n Yes, even positive race relations

Prospective law students:(to borrow a line from one of my favorite hymns) Be not afraid, come follow me … to our mostly sane, mostly high-quality law school. It is not at all like the silliness of what you might be reading in this newspaper.