To the Editor:

Re: “A Disappearing Haven for Humanists” and “Looking Beyond Our Own Bums,” Opinion, March 4

I’ll be clear. It is more exciting for me to talk to someone who mentions Keats without stammering than someone who starts a conversation effusive about stock splits, but do I really think that because someone would rather study AEM than art history they are somehow destined for a life of emotional bankruptcy in an expensive apartment?