Art flap at UCLA

When I read the follow-up article about Joseph Deutch’s “Russian roulette performance art” controversy [“The ‘Shot’ Heard ‘Round UCLA,” by Mike Boehm, July 9], my thoughts were identical to those I experienced upon reading about it the first time. Not shock at students using guns as props for final exams; not revulsion over professors who themselves used violence and mayhem in their own performances; not outrage at the hypocritical resigning of officials due to this mess; but rather this simple, logical question: My tax dollars for higher education are being used to teach this?

Earl Eager Albert

Temple City