From sj-approval Tue May 30 17:19:18 1995 Return-Path: Received: by world.std.com (5.65c/Spike-2.0) id AA09546; Tue, 30 May 1995 23:19:24 -0400 Received: from audumla.students.wisc.edu (students.wisc.edu) by world.std.com (5.65c/Spike-2.0) id AA09527; Tue, 30 May 1995 23:19:21 -0400 Received: from F182-115.net.wisc.edu by audumla.students.wisc.edu; id WAA35551; 8.6.9W/42; Tue, 30 May 1995 22:19:18 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 22:19:18 -0500 Message-Id: <199505310319.WAA35551@audumla.students.wisc.edu> X-Sender: jedelman@students.wisc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: sj@world.std.com From: jedelman@students.wisc.edu (Josh Edelman) Subject: Re: Cadence Funding X-Mailer: Sender: sj-approval@world.std.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sj Noah of Cadence writes: >Perhaps the best way of describing the differences between us and the >school-funded paper is this anecdote: Recently one of our sports reporters >wrote a negative, but completely accurate, article on the baseball team. The >coach responded in two ways: >1. Assaulting our reporter >2. Writing an article for the Sagamore about how our paper didn't support >school spirit. I've always thought there were two types of people who read student papers -- those who read everything except the sports, and those who read nothing but the sports. That latter half knows exactly what they're looking for, and they get rather upset if they don't see it. Out of sheer neccesity, our sports articles are generally written by members of the team they're about. This is hideously biased reporting, and would never be acceptable in a news section. But if we didn't do it, we'd never find anyone willing to write sports articles. A liitle story: Our football team is bad. Really bad. They went 2-9 (or something like that) last season. The games are on Friday nights, and we always come out on Wednesdays, so we normally are almost done with layout by the time the game is over. One month, we couldn't find anyone to write that last-minuite football article, so we just left it out. As fate would have it, this was one of the very few games the team won all year. Well, the day after we published, we started seeing our mastead, torn out of the paper, taped up all over the school with some writing on it. It said, "The Independent SUCKS!!! We win and they don't print!!!!!" The football coach here can't stand our paper anyway. He has this thing for praying with his players before games, and we have this thing for catching him and calling the Freedom From Religion Foundation (yes, it's real). We've done it twice. Photos, too. God forbid a paper wouldn't support school spirit! Such a treasonous crime! :) -Josh ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Josh Edelman jedelman@students.wisc.edu The Independent Indepen@aol.com "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" -Shakespere ~~~~~~~~~~~~