The Merit of a Meritocracy

I would like to thank Amanda Rosenblum '07 for her positive, negative and abstract feedback on the SEC slate for class marshals, historians and orator ("Gratitude and Curiosity," May 8). I have to, however, respectfully disagree with her close-minded approach to the holistic process and penchant to destroy entire traditions that have been around for hundreds of years in one fell swoop. Though it is nice to see that the system is continually questioned, its ultimate destruction is not the solution and Rosenblum's suggestion of such raises a greater issue that affects Dartmouth and even the United States.