In a letter to the editor, a Houghton area resident objects to Michigan Tech's decision to spend a half-million dollars to construct a child day-care center on campus. He claim's the university's stated reason, to make the university more competitive with other universities, is "fatuous nonsense." The writer mentions Wayne State, U-M and Michigan State as universities that have day-care centers, and he notes that "those are all large urban universities where high-quality day care may not be available near the campus," as he says it is in Houghton.