THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, April 3, 1995 TAG: 9503310012
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A4 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 26 lines
Recently you ran one of the most utterly chilling pieces of commentary I have seen in your paper. A special correspondent wrote a short essay about a parking dispute near Norfolk State University. She blithely recounted that if either party had carried a gun, the outcome might have been different; and she ended by suggesting that a new parking garage would provide the solution to such standoffs.
I would suggest that the solution lies not in providing more parking spaces but in teaching students how to handle such petty and inevitable frustrations in a noncombative manner. Patience, self-control and respect for the individual can be taught and must be. Until they are, more and more people will consider it acceptable to solve their minor problems in drastic, violent ways.
PRUE SALASKY
Norfolk, March 26, 1995 by CNB