Letter: Life-changing class

To the editor:

The Jan. 17 Saturday Column by Dolph Simons Jr. was right on point.

I was privileged to have taken Felix Moos’ classes in 1994-95 when I returned to Kansas University to finish my degree. Ron Olin and Maynard Shelly were guest lecturers. I took, and still have, notes from their presentations and from Dr. Moos’ class. Those notes bring many of their thoughts into today’s focus. The “Violence and Terrorism” course demonstrated that cultural history and knowledge had little understanding outside the European domination of all text and thought processes. This course had such an impact on me that I, too, was a guest lecturer once I had graduated.

Dr. Moos changed my life in that I have seen how the cultural history has to have a link to the country or we will have problems in working with what used to be called “third world” countries successfully.

Through his lectures, Dr. Moos changed my life in my knowing how to really think. I know many of his past students now see the light on this topic. Yes, Dolph, this is what occurs when “lessons are not learned.” Yet, this course is still in the KU catalogue?