LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Conspicuous Consumption on the Campus

To the Editor:

Mark Edmundson draws a chilling and, on the whole, accurate portrait of university students today ("Dwelling in Possibilities," The Chronicle Review, March 14). He is wrong, though, to say that students have "a spectacular hunger for life." What they hunger for is all the goodies of the consumer culture. They have fallen for...

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