Are Bruins Really a Bunch of Softies?

Giving soccer scholarships to softball players is deliberate cheating. Using a ringer such as Tanya Harding compounds the crime. What a lesson for the students. Taxpayers have unwillingly supported this perverted style of teaching and deserve a refund.

From Sam Gilbert to Angelo Mazzone to Judith Holland, UCLA has shamelessly acted with a crazed lust for power in college sports. They have nearly forfeited their right to compete, and the NCAA has acted correctly. Let this lesson take hold.

ROY ROUDINE

Los Alamitos

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With UCLA one infraction away from a possible NCAA “death penalty,” thanks to the grossly unethical conduct of the women’s softball program, the man at the top, Athletic Director Pete Dalis, must be held accountable.

Either Dalis was aware of the nonsense being pulled by the softball team and did nothing to stop it, or he was asleep at the wheel and permitted his underlings to tarnish the great name of UCLA. In either scenario, Dalis has proven himself unfit to be the athletic director.

JOHN NG

Los Angeles

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What I don’t get is this: Why aren’t heads rolling down Hilgard Street today? Do Mr. Dalis’ ethical standards apply only to coaches in his doghouse? If Coach Harrick deserved the ax for lying white, Dalis deserves the ax for cheating big. Anything else is pure hypocrisy.

Thanks for 1995, Coach Harrick. At least we still have that title.

E. BIN

Sherman Oaks

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UCLA is stripped of a national title and the entire athletic department is put on probation and you bury it on Page 3 of the sports section. Had that been USC, you not only would have put it on Page 1, you probably would have taken out an ad in the Washington Post to make sure the East Coast was aware of it. Your bias is obvious, your journalistic integrity is not.

GREG HATFIELD

San Dimas

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Apparently the Bruin athletic department attended all those classes Michael Milken taught at UCLA.

TEX WALL

Burbank