Cursing at College Sports Events

Re “Why Teens Curse at Games,” Voices, March 11: The passive, totally self-involved attitudes of the college students interviewed is depressing. To say they lack even the earliest stages of a worldview that includes personal responsibility and consequences would be an understatement.

However, there is hope. Three of the four interviewees are freshmen. Perhaps three more years at two of our finest undergraduate institutions will propel them forward into the first stages of adolescence.

TONY BARNARD

San Pedro

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Shame on The Times and the college students. So foul language is “cool” to these college students. So according to them “it is fun” and college people never complain about profanity, even if it is in front of little kids. It is attitudes like those of these young men (or should I say kids) that allow men to become abusive later on.

When I was younger and in college, it was cool to be a gentleman. One never swore in front of women, let alone in public. If this swearing in public is a reflection of school spirit, maybe we should see just what is being taught in our schools and universities. Obviously nothing about good taste and manners.

Oh, well, what can we expect from a generation that thinks it is “cool” to use foul language in movies, newspapers that glorify poor taste and to have a president who has an affair right in the Oval Office of the White House.

DAN BOWMAN

San Clemente