Editor’s note. The following is a corrected portion of a letter published in The Northern Star on Sept. 25 from Affirmative Action Director Marilyn Monteiro who wrote in response to an editorial about the CHANCE program. Portions of the last paragraph were unintentionally omitted and might have changed the readers’ interpretation. The Star regrets the error.

“The violence (present against blacks throughout history) also was accompanied by legal and customary denial of education to minorities. Whites were very much, and some remain today, implicated in fostering both the conditions for and images of blacks as ‘illiterates.’ Luckily, today, however, we have hundreds of thousands of whites all over the country, and yes, even at this institution, who make genuine, sustained and substantial individual and collective efforts to overcome the past and promote opportunities that make a difference in the educational life and future of blacks and other minority citizens.”