IMPERFECTIONS

Students, faculty and alumni might be surprised to learn that the campus in the San Fernando Valley is UC Northridge. This is how you identified the former home of the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival (Theater Notes, July 16). Lawmakers wrangling over the state budget might also be interested, so they make sure they give the money to the right state university system.

JEFF SCOTT

Van Nuys

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In the July 16 Puzzler, the clue for 56 Down is “N. Orleans campus.” The answer, which is three letters, was “LSU.” LSU is the abbreviation for Louisiana State University, which is located in Baton Rouge, not New Orleans!

BERNIE SINGER

Fresno

You are correct, sir . Webster’s New Geographic Dictionary is not.

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In her letter last Sunday, Megan Willis Goldberg mentioned “the anemic, incomplete creativ we all have come to accept.” I for one certainly have not come to accept it--and won’t until I find out what it is. Sounds like something you might stuff and mount over your fireplace--or preserve in a jar for display.

JOHN W. JONES

Glendale

Creativ was the creation of the creative two-fingered typist who compiles these missives.