Applied Ethics?

To the Editors of The Crimson:

I note with interest the establishment of a new program to prepare scholars to teach "applied ethics." I do not doubt that something like it is much needed. But I always thought that human life itself was supposed to be applied ethics.

What we are really being told about the place of ethics in the way we conduct ourselves in our everyday affairs, professional and private? Are we now to have "ethics" and "applied ethics" over on the one side and "life" and "applied life" over on the other? I worry. David Sacks, Ph.D. '77