A column about campus food-service workers (Oct. 18) contained derogatory, mean-spirited and vindictive attacks against certain Sodexho dining-hall workers. While the op/ed page provides a forum for its columnists’ view points — which are sometimes at odds with those of the editorial board — this particular column, which baselessly insulted hard-working people, went over the line, and it shouldn’t have been published. Letters responding to the column appear on the op/ed page.