Your editorial of March 10 'Enough already' calls for an end to the controversy over the naming of a building for Jim Bob Moffett on the UT campus.

Your claim that only a small number of students oppose the name is unbelievably uninformed: not only did the UT student government overwhelmingly condemn the naming by resolution in May 1995, but well over three thousand have since signed a petition asking for another name. Can you recall a UT petition that has ever garnered more signatures?

How peculiarly-timed your editorial was, coming as it did the Sunday before UT's spring break. Was your editorial actually aimed at appeasing an altogether different audience of influential people, while the faculty and students were out of town?

Even more poorly timed were the days of destructive rioting following your editorial by thousands of indigenous people who live near Freeport's mine in New Guinea, protesting Freeport's damaging presence. Why don't you write a similarly futile editorial asking those out-of-town rioters to cut it out? Perhaps after you persuade those indigenous people to stop being so negative on Freeport, then UT students and faculty will heed your advice to drop what you term an 'unmomentous issue'.

I wonder if you would call it a 'small matter' if three of your reporters had been threatened with suit by Freeport.

Robert S. Boyer, 614 W. 32nd St., Austin, TX 78705, 467-0182