To the editor:

At the end of a week in which the bipartisan presidential commission reported that the U.S. intelligence community was “dead wrong” about “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, it is odd that the April 2 Saturday Column — in the newspaper that reported in detail the commission’s findings — should be advocating the support of universities for U.S. wars.

I believe that a much better role for the university is as a watchdog over administration policy to try to prevent another war based on information which we soon enough discover was “dead wrong.”

From the commission’s findings it’s clear that the administration needs careful watching, not blind support.

Brian Daldorph,

Lawrence