August 2, 2002

Virtual Courses Through a Consortium

To the Editor:

We are responding to the essay by David L. Kirp and Jonathan VanAntwerpen about our consortial "virtual classics" program, called Sunoikisis ("Academic E-Collaborations and Old-School Rivalries," The Review, June 28). While we have no doubt that the authors' intent was to do justice to the challenges facing our endeavor and others like it, we were dismayed by their fundamental lack of understanding of the mission of the Associated Colleges of the South and how our