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Editor:
I can only assume Lisa Heller was trying to be funny when she defined "second" in the recent story about the latest U.S. News and World Report ranking of universities ("UA misses magazine's list of top 50 schools," Sept. 9). Surely she intended sarcasm when after reporting that the UA placed in the second tier she helpfully added that the second tier ranked "below the top," but "above...three and four."
One can only imagine the corresponding story in student papers of lower ranked schools. Perhaps in tier three schools the article contained helpful diagrams and used the word "level" instead of "tier." Maybe tier four schools used colorful pictures, large print and rhyming sentences to describe the rankings.
Though we are toiling away at a second tier school, I hazard to guess that most Wildcat readers have a pretty good grasp on what the word "second" means. You could probably drop the definition in future articles containing ordinal numbers.
Todd McKay
second year law student
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