Board of Regents right to scrutinize

I'm thankful the Board of Regents is finally scrutinizing operations at our 'Athens in the Cornfields.”

As a taxpayer attending the 50th anniversary of the Iowa Writer's Workshop in about 1986 in response to an invitation in The Gazette, which stated 'the public is welcome,” I was kicked out of the food tent because, I was told, the food tent 'was only for invited guests,” leading me to suspect the University of Iowa was counting every bean and hot dog.

Yet, being forced to return to the morning's meeting room to nibble on stiffened leftover rolls and suicidal melon balls drowning in their own juice, I had leisure to notice many of the draperies in that huge room were dipping in places where their hooks were missing.

I already had reported earlier to authorities that two of the toilets in the women's restroom were gushing non-stop, but both were still gushing wildly in late afternoon when I left, as if nobody cared.

Hire more janitors, I say, or at least more competent ones if it's really true that universities hire back many of their postgraduate creative writing students as janitors.

Hope Sankot-Rogers

Vinton