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Pinball wasn’t all the time
so welcoming
Re: “Pinball league tilts steadiness of energy by variety” (Web page A1, Sept. 26).
I merely needed to share a narrative as a result of in 1957, once I was 8, I performed pinball for a short while at a nook retailer named “Sy’s” that was two blocks from my home.
Nook shops again within the day, at the very least so far as I knew, didn’t promote liquor. Sy’s had one pinball machine, the place we may play for a nickel. It additionally had a small counter the place we sat on stools and drank sodas, additionally a nickel. (My favourite was vanilla Coke.) Anyway, someday, the proprietor, Sy, got here as much as me and stated, “Little women shouldn’t play pinball, so it’s a must to depart.” I didn’t perceive why, however I accepted the finality of it. I used to be damage, confused and indignant, however there have been no phrases. And it saddened and pissed off me for a very long time.
Thanks for writing about girls and pinball.
Julie Dobkin
Oakland
Underfunding colleges
is an injustice to youngsters
Re: “The hidden price ticket of California’s public colleges” (Web page A1, Sept. 17).
Public training is meant to be a free training. It’s outrageous that exterior of taxes dad and mom are anticipated to fund extracurriculars for his or her youngsters when it’s not their monetary duty. Colleges needs to be funded sufficient to help their athletic departments and extra pupil actions. It’s unfair to count on that each mother or father is ready to financially help extra charges for his or her youngsters to take part absolutely at school. The system is backward, and it straight targets low-income college students and other people of shade.
The training system has all the time been a system of oppression from the Jim Crow period till at the moment, particularly in California since Proposition 13. The unjust observe of underfunding colleges is outdated and inexcusable after we now have higher and extra equitable choices like taxing massive companies. It’s time to reform our training system and promote a extra equitable and simply means of studying and of funding our public colleges.
Arin Haas
Berkeley
Mother and father shouldn’t be on
hook for public colleges
Re: “The hidden price ticket of California’s public colleges” (Web page A1, Sept. 17).
Even within the richest state in the US, colleges aren’t capable of obtain sufficient funding for his or her college students.
Just some years in the past once I went to highschool right here in California, all of the funding for the theater program was paid for by dad and mom and any supporters of my highschool theater. I keep in mind having to purchase all my costumes and pay dues out of my dad and mom’ pocket when my college ought to have helped to fund the theater program. I didn’t go to personal highschool as a result of it was an excessive amount of cash.
It shouldn’t be the duty of fogeys to pay for his or her youngsters’s training when it needs to be lined already.
Jules Pizano
Berkeley
Story sensationalizes
officers’ pay on depart
Re: “Cops on depart earned $1.8 million” (Web page A1, Sept. 26).
The article is prejudicial and the greenback quantity is sensationally out of context.
First, persons are harmless till confirmed responsible, and the tone is clearly towards the six police. Second, for six individuals suspended for 20 months, $1.8 million works out to $180K per 12 months per particular person, according to the nationwide common of $193K per 12 months for law enforcement officials.
Since they’re legally harmless, shouldn’t they be paid? If suspended, how would the three reporters need to be handled?
Richard Kruger
Fremont
MLB ought to help
minor league gamers
Main League Baseball is as worthwhile as ever with the common crew worth at present sitting at north of $2 billion. With stars like Shohei Ohtani and Ronald Acuña Jr. setting information, marketability is at an all-time excessive. Even after gamers and house owners agreed to a brand new collective bargaining settlement that required golf equipment to extend salaries and housing, there must be extra achieved to help gamers and their households.
