St. Louis offers education to young men of various backgrounds in an effort to give them an opportunity to succeed in life. This is central to the Catholic tradition. Tamotu Tagoai has been at St. Louis for almost two years. He has a 3.67 grade point average and had no disciplinary problems prior to the alleged incident of Feb. 8. We ask that the public reserve judgment regarding his guilt or innocence until the facts emerge through the legal process.
Every citizen deserves that right.
To forget their problems, they all get drunk as skunks on Saturday nights. He should stick to domestic affairs and leave Realpolitik to grown men like Henry Kissinger. I'll take Richard Nixon over this president any day. John M. Shubert Chandler's department needs more support Regarding the reappointment of Susan Chandler to head the Department of Human Services, perhaps she and her people could do more about investigating allegations of abuse and monitoring cases if we gave them the tools needed to do the job, such as better funding and laws. We could explore a citizen's committee to review cases and make recommendations on whether an abused child should be returned to an abusive caregiver.