While I regard the embryonic
efforts of budding journalists to be
necessary if this country is to have
a corps of professional journalists
that are worth anything to the mass
media, I find these efforts of The
Cavalier Daily to be so inept that
after four years at this university I
must, at least, level a note of sanity
at this publication.
From the first year I spent at
this university I have watched the
caliber of this newspaper drop from
that of a news oriented publication
to an editorial scandal sheet, to an
issue concerned only with filling
the column space with whatever is
available for print. (In this sense I
will be somewhat chagrined if this
letter appears.) Articles that appear
on the "news pages" of the paper
often ring suspiciously with the
tone of the editorial. Why are not
these on the editorial page or noted
so that they may be clearly seen as
opinions of other than expert
persons?
Yours editor's reply to a recent
letter from a graduate of this
university now residing in Texas
does not answer the questions
raised nor dies it deal with the
content of the letter in any
intelligent manner. To merely call
someone a liar does not prove or
demonstrate the point. It serves
only to degrade the editor and the
paper as a whole, and put it in the
category of those of the Teddy
Roosevelt era.
While I realize that a school
without a newspaper is, in a sense,
incomplete, I do expect more of
value from a paper than the correct
date printed at the top of the first
page.
If this is printed I am sure that
the readers will gleen much pleasure
from the sort of editorial response
that will be issued in an attempt at
wit or half-witted reply.
Steven G. Wilbur
College 4
