As part of Eastern Connecticut University’s “Alternative Restitution Program,” students committing infractions on campus may now choose their course of punishment; community service … or an opera performance. It’s hard to predict what results this program will have on its subjects, but it certainly can’t be the best way to send a positive message about the arts to young people. “This business of opera as punishment may be the worst thing to hit classical music since the Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange, which juxtaposed Beethoven with coldblooded violence.” – Philadelphia Inquirer