ENOUGH IS enough! Shepard Fairey is a joke without a punch line, so why does the Globe continue to spend so much time on him?
Instead of editorializing about him (“Copyright: Fairey’s unfair use,’’ Oct. 20), why not write about the thousands of artists who work day in and day out perfecting their craft with little or no hope for reward? Why not write about how tax laws place an unfair burden on artists, or why health insurance is harder for most artists to obtain than the average person?
And don’t give us articles on artists painting pretty pictures on utility boxes (“Painting outside the box,’’ Page A1, Oct. 15); it’s demeaning, and does not give your readership a true picture of artists.
Fairey and his Obama poster are only the tip of the iceberg where it regards “fair use.’’ The artist’s ability to control his or her images is under constant attack by those looking to get around copyright laws.
Get over your Shepard Fairey fixation and move on. There is much more in the art world and elsewhere to write about.
Chuck Lathrop
Pembroke
WE APPRECIATE Derrick Z. Jackson’s calling attention to the fact that too often student athletes are sent back to the field when they are not fully healed from head trauma (“It’s time to sideline players with head injuries,’’ Op-ed, Oct. 13). According to Jackson, brain injury researchers from Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, estimate the rate of high school athletes who play too soon after a concussion to be very high - 40.5 percent. While the numbers likely vary in different school districts, we at the Lexington Education Foundation recognize that it is vital to ensure that student athletes are fully cured before they are allowed to return to play.
We have funded a program through the Lexington High School athletic department that assesses every one of the school’s student athletes who participate in an impact sport, and establishes a protocol for recovery from head injury. Concussion screening and baseline tests are used to determine safer return-to-play decisions, allowing students to return to normal performance levels both in the classroom and on the playing field.
We hope that this pilot program becomes a permanent part of the sports program in our town, and encourage other towns to enact such programs. Caring for our youth, on and off the field, must be a priority of every community.
Elisabeth Donahue
Deborah Rourke
Lexington
The writers are copresidents of the Lexington Education Foundation. 
