Miriam Oh
Seattle, Wash.
I don’t think it’s very hard to wonder why so many students and faculty, at this school refer to the university student paper as, “The Daily Uni-farce.” When I say this, I refer to the most recent embarrassment to the newspaper, the front page article on Wednesday, October 1 about Terrence Harvey.
The simplest, yet the most important information was left out. I’m not asking for a street address or a phone number, but it would have been nice to know what city and, if it’s not much to ask, what state, Harvey was from, and where the heck “Victor Valley Community College” is. Especially for such an important article, and maybe the greatest breaking story the Universe will have to report on this year, it’s pretty sad that you essentially left out one of the most significant rules in journalism etiquette. The fact that Jonathan Bagley is the Sports Editor, yet, couldn’t get two simple but crucial facts into the article, is pretty pathetic. Sometimes I think some of your editors and writers imagine they are so high-up on a pedestal that they can’t handle a little criticism. I suggest you take this occurrence and suggestion into consideration and think more about the story you are writing, rather than how good your name and title will look on the front page, because one thing’s for sure, if you have a sorry article, your name isn’t going to look too pretty.
