X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 15:44:00 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: Notes on a campus newspaper >From Alan Spector, REVS editor: I received the following message, which I am forwarding to the e-mail list. Perhaps someone on the list can offer some help to the writer. Please feel free to respond directly to SANTI@hws.edu ------------------------------ From: SANTI@hws.edu Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 10:52:09 -0400 (EDT) To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Subject: Notes on a campus newspaper Every Thursday the main campus newspaper comes out, everytime it comes out I open it to the political commentary and view the same rhetoric from the same writer, and everwhere I look I find my brothers and sisters angered and hurt. Personally I believe the best way to make change in the newspaper is to write articles for them, thus creating a dialogue IN the paper. Unfortunetely when students of color submit articles too the paper one of two things happens: ! 1) they do not get printed 2) they come out drastically different. I have heard many years ago that the paper DID incorparate the voices of all, BUT that was MANY years ago. What the solution was been in many peoples eyes, was to start up another newspaper, the problem with this is that on a campus of 1800 you only have so many writers interested in making a difference plus we have neither the resources nor the budget to make another paper. The campus newspaper (the herald) has 10,664 dollars allocated per term (we're on the trimester) to them. My campus newspaper is allocated (664, pert per term). My argument is that if the campus newspapers are ran by students and for students, and newspapers are supposed to represent the voices of all people, and since the newspaper is allocated a budget from ALL students taxes shouldnt they be REQUIRED to equally represent everyones voice? This paper is not a profit organization and is not out to make money off of the students but is currently ripping the students off. Let me give an example of normal political commentary usually in the paper: " But what was Malcolm X's message?... Well, Malcolm X believed that whites were essentially racist and there was little point in converting them (gieb jan. 12, 96)" "The civil rights community has gone from Martin Luther King jr.s ideals to idolizing Malcolm X and rejecting King's beliefs to accepting Louis Farrakhan as a leader" -next article- "racism is ofetn given as the main reason for the problems faced by blacks today," "America is not a racist nation, and it can only get better not worse. "Blacks represent what America was, and what America can be. Blacks are the true cultural indicators of our countrys moral worth. Together, as a nation, we can live up to the ideals that America was born with," (Gieb Jan. 26th, 1996) -next article-"Next up th eapartment complexes and hotels. The only reason many people live in these places is because they are on welfare, and their housing allowance is so small they cannot afford anything else. (On the inner cities) Had enough? So please help me My request from you is to help me with any information that can prove to be u useful not necessarily fighting this paper but creating an argument against the approach they have chosen to use. Is there any information about requirements for student newspapers? Standards for journalism? On editing actual letters to the editor? I await any and all comments from the REVS group. Alexis Enrico Santi Hobart And William Smith Colleges In%"santi@hws.edu" box 3095 scandling center Geneva, New York 144566 life is a question without an answer thats what keeps us living. A.E.S.