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What is it about lazy editorials that brings out the worst in everyone?
Students and faculty members wearing "I am TB free!" T-shirts lined the front portico at the K-State Alumni Center on Friday afternoon prior to the State of the University address.
About 50 protesters showed their outrage against a Collegian column that ran Tuesday.
Students, faculty and staff members had a meeting Friday morning concerning the column, "Illegal immigrants bring diseases into States," and its line art from Sept. 11. Several protesters approached President Jon Wefald and Provost Duane Nellis prior to their address to inform them of the opinion column. Wefald told them he had no prior knowledge of the column and thanked them for the information.
...Paz said she would like the Collegian staff to censor its content a bit and also provide minority communities more space in the paper.
Okay, that statement is either a horrible paraphrase or an idiotic viewpoint. Editing is not censoring. Having standards is not censoring. Internally vetting content is not censoring. If Paz actually said the word "censor" or any derivation thereof, I'd be surprised. If Paz did say it, she's an idiot; if that's something that someone edited into the story, that someone should get fired for intentionally loading a source's language.
Since there's no link in the story, here's the original column. Also note that there's no caption for the picture, and the front-page at the bottom left hasn't worked for months now, and they've apparently already done the paper for next Wednesday already. That worries me more than an underclass poli-sci major's ranting.
Students and faculty members wearing "I am TB free!" T-shirts lined the front portico at the K-State Alumni Center on Friday afternoon prior to the State of the University address.
About 50 protesters showed their outrage against a Collegian column that ran Tuesday.
Students, faculty and staff members had a meeting Friday morning concerning the column, "Illegal immigrants bring diseases into States," and its line art from Sept. 11. Several protesters approached President Jon Wefald and Provost Duane Nellis prior to their address to inform them of the opinion column. Wefald told them he had no prior knowledge of the column and thanked them for the information.
...Paz said she would like the Collegian staff to censor its content a bit and also provide minority communities more space in the paper.
Okay, that statement is either a horrible paraphrase or an idiotic viewpoint. Editing is not censoring. Having standards is not censoring. Internally vetting content is not censoring. If Paz actually said the word "censor" or any derivation thereof, I'd be surprised. If Paz did say it, she's an idiot; if that's something that someone edited into the story, that someone should get fired for intentionally loading a source's language.
Since there's no link in the story, here's the original column. Also note that there's no caption for the picture, and the front-page at the bottom left hasn't worked for months now, and they've apparently already done the paper for next Wednesday already. That worries me more than an underclass poli-sci major's ranting.
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