IRONY

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Your editorials and correspondence have me almost convinced that my desire to hear both sides on such sensitive issues as Vietnam is unreasonable and indicative of moral callousness. But with the best of will I still find it difficult to accept the principle enunciated by Professor Warner Berthoff that "the right to shout down speakers is embraced by the same principle of freedom of speech and expression as protects the speakers in their efforts to make themselves heard." Consistently applied, the statement would mean that the right to kill is covered by the same principle as the right to live. Since I do not believe that anyone would seriously advance such a proposition. I suspect that Professor Berthoff has speaking ironically, possibly in an effort to expose the absurdity of extreme radical rhetoric. After all, his letter appeared in the April Fools' issue!