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I just want to add some thoughts to your comments about people who have been busted for D.W.I. but did not lose their job. Your article noted that a state attorney general, a state senator, a congressman the head of a nationally powerful right-wing foundation had all been arrested for D.W.I. and not lost their job. You should have mentioned two attorney generals have been arrested for this violation. Long before A.G. Peg Lautenschlaeger was arrested for D.W.I., A.G. Bronson LaFolletted was similarly arrested for D.W.I. However what is different about these individuals is that most of them were immune from the treatment which Mr. Darnell Cole received from M.A.T.C. The A.G. and the congressman and the state senator can be removed from office by the voters. The head of the foundation is responsive to the the Board that hired him and monitored his work assignments. What set Darnell Cole apart from these other people was that he had a personal service contract with M.A.T.C. which allowed for him to be fired for a D.W.I. arrest. It has happened before. A few years ago basketball coach Bob Hugins of the Univ. of Cincinnati was fired by former UW-M president Nancy Zinphear who was the president of the Univ. of Cincinnati at the time. Please do not construe my comments to be approving of Mr. Cole's firing. I have no strong opinion on the matter either way although I would probably lean to the idea that less drastic measures were in order.