To the editor:

If colleges and universities are required to inform parents of their students’ actions, grades, moods, etc. as suggested in Monday’s editorial, “The privacy riddle,” when will these students learn to be adults? They will leap from a guarded environment in which they have few responsibilities other than pleasing their parents to a career in the “real world” a career for which they will have not been properly trained. Students need the mixture of freedom and responsibility that college provides without worrying about what classes their parents want them to take or what activities their parents pressure them to pursue.

If parents are worried about their children, they need to work it out individually instead of using educational institutions as watchdogs. The time it takes to earn an undergraduate degree is a valuable period of learning learning not only what professors tell you, but also what you come to figure out for yourself without the instruction of parents or teachers. If the Buckley Amendment is nullified, students will be deprived of this experience. I would hate to see my or future generations let loose into the work force without ever having made any decisions solely by themselves.

Rebekah Heacock,

Lawrence