To the editor:
The following is an updated version of a letter the egoistic maniacs at The Spectrum refused to publish.
As a famous man once said: There you go again...Since all you Spectrum "writers" seem to know how to best run SA year after year, here's an idea: Have your editor in chief and managing editors run for SA e-board and prove you can do better.
You have the right to free speech just as much as SA Vice President Leslie Meister does, but unfortunately also have to be balanced and use facts on top of that.
Not only do you never fail to praise at least a few of the least experienced candidates every year, but you also manage to libel the office holders without fault. It also seems peculiar that Spectrum editors are allowed to be students not held to professional standards while the members of the SA e-board are somehow expected to be the perfect executives right from the start and far beyond their time in office.
I hate to sound like a broken record (look in The Spectrum archives if you're too young to remember), but how about politely asking SA executives about their perceived flaws before attacking them with falsehoods and rumors? Take for example the allegedly overly expensive TV in their office. Has it ever occurred to you that maybe they're trying to make it easier for people to get involved? Seriously, don't be so thick!
So how about you lot run for office yourselves and upon winning with your impeccable set of policy recommendations subject yourselves to a board of former executives and alumni to be set straight when you screw up yet again. I'd campaign for you.
Fabio Albertin
Graduate Student
Fab,
Come on, buddy, everybody knows Spectrum editors don’t run for e-board positions, they just apply for SA jobs after they endorse their employers in print. But thanks for caring.
Peter Scheck
Almost Gone
Charles Wiff,
Hey nice letter; I feel the exact same way. Every time I go to the UB2020 website I can’t figure out what in the world is going on. Not to mention that student input seems to be zero and that housing has been an issue for years. I don’t know, the longer I stay here the more I’m convinced that UB is a disaster in some respects.
Chris Willett
Editor:
Hello! I have a suggestion for The Spectrum that I was unsure of whom I should send it to and you seemed the most likely candidate. I was never a reader of any newspaper or magazine, and neither were many of my friends, until we came across a newspaper from Seattle that has an excellent sex advice column. The column is extremely blunt and is not censored to the point of becoming a children’s book about the birds and the bees, and what are most college student’s main concerns in life? (Sex, drugs, and alcohol for many) I think that your newspaper wouldbenefit from something similar because not only would it increase the number of people who read the newspaper, but by doing so it may create more sway and budget for you since more people actually pick it up andgo to the events and such listed in its pages. If you would like to know more about the newspaper in Seattle that i am speaking about take a look at http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove.
Carolyn V. Pilgrom
Student
Howdy Pilgrom,
Thank you for looking out for our financial well-being. I can understand the pressures associated with reading Generation, and respect you for never having explored our pages before. If you had, perhaps you’d know we already have an advice column on page 12. And ours isn’t written by a 17-year-old dork, though it’s equally awful.
Thnx 4 teh help!
Peter Scheck
