Suggests Professors Should Be Educated

Last summer I was studying at a mid-western university; one of my courses was The Family, taught by Prof. E. M. In the course he discussed alcoholism. We were in the habit of handing in questions to be discussed. I took the opportunity one day of handing in an anonymous note suggesting that since he was a sociologist and that alcoholism was a social problem which had been handled best, to date, by A.A. that he look into A.A. To which he replied in class that he had heard of A.A., that it was some sort of evangelist group, but that, after all, it doesn't take a drunk to cure a drunk. The class laughed. Being the daughter of an A.A., I know that it is no laughing matter.