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Dr. R. P. Loomba
Electrical Engineering Dept.
San Jose State University, San Jose

Dear Dr. Loomba:

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In the past few weeks it has been very  tempting to call you to again
see  if  you  have  had any  comments  on  the  material  I sent  you
concerning the content of  CIS280. I sent  the material over a  month
ago  in response  to  a complain  received by  me  through the  usual
underground  channels; I sent  a reminder  to you over  two weeks ago
asking for a response.  I understand that you may be  busy, but so am
I.

Be that as  it may, on the basis of your  lack of response, I surmise
that your opinion  is either negative  or that you  haven't read  the
material.  Neither condition would  make my particularly happy⊗↓Since
it is Christmas time I am careful to avoid disappointment.←.

It would  seem to me that if there  were differences of opinion about
the course content that such a forum would be welcomed.  However word
usually  trickles to  me  through the  underground  that %3"the  E.E.
department  is  unhappy"%*.    I  spent  two  lectures this  semester
describing in detail what was wrong with with the version of the data
structures course  outlined in the 1968  CACM; this is  the origin of
the course description advertised as CIS280. I spent an  unreasonable
amount of time preparing the document I sent you. I do not plan to do
more.

I  find this  latest flak  by Karzmark incredible.  When he  left the
course he indicated to me that the course was interesting and  he was
sorry to go.   At that time  he had received about forty percent  of the course
material  and we had covered perhaps half of  that.  On that basis he
complained to you, Dr. Dolby,  and Dean Fullerton. At no  time before
or  since has  he made  any attempt  to contact  me⊗↓I called  him at
Stanford; he was out, but I left a message for him to the effect that
if he had any comments or complaints about the course he should write
them down  and leave them in my mailbox at  the Math dept. He has not
responded.←. Indeed no representative of the E.E. department has made
any attempt  to contact me even  though the same kind  of underground
rumblings were  going on %2last%* semester.  It would seem to me that
if there are complains, comments, or criticisms about  the content of
the  course  then an  appropriate  action is  to  contact the  person
responsible for  that  content.    My  experience  has  been  that  a
different course of action is followed as San Jose State.