Letter to the Editor

Impartial,

I don't believe that we need full articles, but a tiny box; a score. So that people can see scores somewhere. And it wouldn't be twice a semester; these teams compete every weekend. No one knows how they do because that information is not available, perhaps not because no one would care to see it.

I attached my name to my letter. I was also polite. I'm afraid the same cannot be said for you. So yeah, I'm a sophomore who thinks he deserves some respect...more respect that an anonymous troll deserves, anyway.

Alum, thank you. I'm hoping to work with the Daily to start helping the student body have access to this kind of information, and to help foster more of a sense of Jumbo pride. If anyone you know is interested in helping, by all means.

Cheers.

I guess you don't know much about newspapers. I can't hold it against you for wishing you received more coverage so that Mock Trial and Ballroom dancing get the cred they deserve, but I can hold it against you for not being very thoughtful here. First of all, there is a sports section in the newspaper. Articles are written about the sports teams and are published in the sports section. Don't try to compare Mock Trial to a sports team. It just doesn't work. So the next question is what section your once or twice-a-semester Mock Trial or Ballroom article would go. Well, in a small daily newspaper, there is not much space. Generally the Arts and Features section publish non-time-sensitive pieces, so I think your best bet would be the news section. Well, a lot of stuff happens on a weekend, so to ask that an article about your team's weekend performance--which has undeniably succeeded--be placed in the Monday paper is surely a misguided hope. Maybe later in the week. But typically the Daily has to make some choices about what to put in Monday's paper, and I'd bet they usually choose the pieces that will get read. Hate to break it to you, but the Jumbo community barely supports its sports teams, and they have an entire section in the paper. The only people that are going to read or care about an article about Mock Trial or Ballroom are the people on those teams. So I think most of your letter to the editor is more about narcissism/validation of your accomplishments by seeing it in the paper. In reality, if you want exposure to the Jumbo community, your best bet would not be to ask for a Monday news article about your specific performance that weekend (again, nobody would read) but instead to talk to the Daily about writing some big feature in the Features (!) section about your team, its history, its recent successes, etc where it could be spun into something more interesting then "Mock Trial Team Wins Mock Trial Invitational."

I guess my larger point here is, STFU and stop whining, there are tons of groups on campus that feel they are underappreciated and under-covered in the Daily. I was friends with a lot of the Daily kids and know that it's not easy to accomodate the requests of all the overzealous sophomores who think they deserve some respect.