Understanding
Issue date: 2/23/09 Section: Letters to Editor
The students in the Norton case understood this statement; however, apparently that understanding is gone. However misguided your dislike for the campus newspaper might be, if you have a problem with it, take action.
Why don't you take time out of your class and work schedule to come in and produce this paper like the current staff does?
Why don't you go in and attempt to deal with ranting students, who in most cases can't complete a coherent thought and use childish similes. Week after week I see notifications in this newspaper looking for writers, looking for ideas. Pick up an application.
All I am hearing and reading is that you want change without going through the effort of making change happen. If you can't handle the notion of making change happen, then you have no right to complain.
I would like to congratulate my fellow students at the East Tennessean for continuing to represent what was fought for. For allowing freedom of speech, however misguided it may be in some cases, from the viewing public. And also, for producing stories that are original, and that show different personalities within the campus and community.
-Justin Fields
Why don't you take time out of your class and work schedule to come in and produce this paper like the current staff does?
Why don't you go in and attempt to deal with ranting students, who in most cases can't complete a coherent thought and use childish similes. Week after week I see notifications in this newspaper looking for writers, looking for ideas. Pick up an application.
All I am hearing and reading is that you want change without going through the effort of making change happen. If you can't handle the notion of making change happen, then you have no right to complain.
I would like to congratulate my fellow students at the East Tennessean for continuing to represent what was fought for. For allowing freedom of speech, however misguided it may be in some cases, from the viewing public. And also, for producing stories that are original, and that show different personalities within the campus and community.
-Justin Fields
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