Certainly Entertaining, Sometimes Informative

About Richard Hoffer’s article, “Own a Piece of USC for a Mere $250,000” (Dec. 29), many of us believe it’s great that a private university continues to fund its own expenses, and not grovel for public (yours included) tax funds. The tenor of his writing, though, is so snide one would think it is wrong to help thyself.

Why so snide? Is it because your paper finds it so fashionable to demean USC every chance? Is it because his editor delights in putting it to us? Or is it simply because he is stuck in the smart-aleck school of journalism?

Whatever, he is certainly entertaining, and sometimes informative. However, don’t keep up the good work. Good and work are obviously just more of his prejudices.

ROY ROUDINE

Los Alamitos