Letter: Student achievements unimportant to paper

Dear Editor,

In this season of primaries, basketball and carjackings an unusual story surfaced: Two university students are World Champions. How would anybody know about this? Not through the UDK — it’s neither sports, deferred maintenance nor politics.

The story was “run” this past Wednesday when campus dumpsters composed the The University Daily Kansan readership (save a few bars and dorms).

Here’s a revolutionary idea: print the story when campus is actually open. According to The University Daily Kansan faculty advisor: “Out of the question!”

Would The University Daily Kansan run it again? No.

Would they run it as an ad? No.

Could it be bought and given to the Journal World to run? No.

So here it is, a pathetic 200 word “letter to the editor” by a lowly faculty member struggling to get the word out that two students beat the world through their hard work. Will it rise above the endless pages describing decaying tunnels, primaries, missed and made shot on every court from here to Timbuktu?

Nah... we all know where these things rate in the “news world.” Maybe if we called it a “sport,” paper would finally report that two students won a really really special NCAA Championship, Superbowl and World Series.

Dr. Ron Barrett-Gonzalez

Associate Professor

 

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Comments

I also appreciate how the letter itself gives us no indication as to what accomplishment we supposedly "missed" on Wednesday. Only that we should feel that it is more important than sports.

Obviously this professor should just quit bitching. A newspaper is a BUSINESS. Don't forget that.

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