Maybe Writers Need to Keep It Clean

In Monday’s article on the NCAA eligibility scandal, the man accused of paying money to players, Myron Piggie, was described as “a former janitor and a convicted crack dealer.”

I could understand if being a janitor is how he met the players, or was relevant to the case in some other way, but there was nothing else in the story about janitorial work. Am I the only one who found it strange that an essential, honest job and a despicable, illegal practice are mentioned together in the same sentence? Clearly, being a convicted crack dealer casts a very negative light on this man; is being a former janitor supposed to be a negative too?

Maybe The Times should have its staffers clean the bathrooms and take out their own garbage for a week. It might be a good experience for them.

JEFF VAUGHN

Encino