Keep Ads, Articles Separate

To the editors:

Your article on the Trilogy computer company (Business, Nov. 16) convinced me that the frequent student gripes about your credibility are more than valid. A constant barrage of advertisements for consulting and international banking firms ordinarily crowd your pages--I had learned to ignore the ads, reading only at the stories.

However, on the Business page, I found an advertisement in the guise of an objective piece of journalism. An article on the fantastic future of a software developer? Please. I just wonder what they paid you for it. Nov. 18, 1998