I can’t say enough how much I appreciated President Eisgruber’s President’s Page in the Dec. 5 issue. I had just started reading The Coddling of the American Mind, so it was great to hear President Eisgruber address the issues from that book. As a board member of a brand, Miss O & Friends, focused on helping tweenage girls better socialize and aspire to positive life choices, we have found what Chris pointed out: that girls, like all young people, benefit from not being coddled — or perhaps better said, from being exposed to all points of view and people of vastly different backgrounds and perspectives.

Randy Riley ’74
Short Hills, N.J.