Holocaust Should Not be Compared to Skateboarding

To the Editor: I read Maxwell Knight '99's column ["Skating is More Than Just a Hobby," The Dartmouth, May 20] with a certain amount of amusement until the very end when he made a reference to the Holocaust, something which is becoming a trend at Dartmouth. It was bad enough when Katie Shutzer '96 compared the slaughter of the Jews to the anorexia problem in the United States, but at least anorexia is a problem worth addressing. My grandparents were Jews who escaped from Germany at the beginning of World War II.