To the editor:

You know, I have lived in Lawrence for many years, but this town still never ceases to slay me. So the Chamber of Commerce wants business leaders to donate their basketball tickets so we can impress some consultants. These consultants, presumably, will be so thrilled with the shrieking in Allen Fieldhouse that they will giddily recommend that their clients move their businesses here.

This is all well and good for the potential business owners, for they may be able to afford to donate a gabillion dollars to the Williams Fund for season tickets, but I hope they realize that it is unlikely even one of their employees will ever attend a basketball game. Ordinary Lawrencian folk who aren’t students can’t afford to go.

Just ask all the old folk, fans of long standing, who recently lost their prime seats because they can’t or won’t donate their life savings to a bloated athletic department that already rakes in more money than God for wearing shoes with a swoosh. I’m not even going to mention the fact that these companies that we wish to attract through unrealistic hoop dreams will undoubtedly pay their employees too little to even afford a movie ticket more than once a month. Oops. I mentioned it.

Jane Hoyland,

Lawrence