To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

There are those of us who can only deplore the University's latest flaunting of the rights of minority groups. I refer, of course, to the latest examination schedule, which my friends tell me is printed in two colors, red and black.

I, like many other American citizens, am suffering from protonopia, a condition which makes it impossible for me to distinguish the color red. The more common, if inaccurate, term for this is color-blindness. I have had my condition since birth and have never found it a handicap (I am a licensed automobile operator) but when I faced the new exam schedule I found it composed entirely of indistinguishable blobs of lighter and darker gray.

What makes the University's high-handed adoption of a multi-colored schedule especially irritating is that it will not only affect me but four percent of the College--that is if Harvard men reflect the national average of protonopia. This means, simply, that instead of a handful of men sleeping through exams now four percent will. Furthermore, the University obviously ignored the fact that protonopia is a sex-linked disease, ten times more common in men than in women. There might be some justification for the move in a co-ed school. There's no possible justification in a man's College like Harvard. Constant Reader