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Show 3 If STEGGER'S CORNER By Dan Steggell "Dear Darrell and Staff," the letter began. . . ' Yes, that's right, it was another complaint. A group had come to the )i Chronicle with its list of grievances, a line of criticisms. And it was signed by Nevin Limburg (of LDSSA fame) and his "com-mittee "com-mittee of twelve." 5 With poll results (determined by a group of business students), Limburg revealed that 85 percent of the students said the "Chronicle did not trepresent their views." 't Even the Huddle came out with a 39 to 20 vote saying the student press did not relate to them personally. jfr"We object, most of all, with the literary content of the paper," Lim-,t Lim-,t burg declared. "It is a voice of itself, not of the students." A Perhaps Nevin is right in this respect. The Chronicle is not a voice of all students, nor does it propose to be. Why should it? True, the Chronicle may not be the bulletin board that it has been in the past. True, LDSSA may not be getting the share of the front page that it used to. But also true is the fact that the Chronicle is students. It's not coerced by the administration to print what they tell. nd the faculty has no controlling hand either. Students run and put out the Chronicle that's what is important. igiObviously, Mr. Limburg feels that the Chronicle doesn't represent his own viewpoint. However, no one has ever attempted to suppress his lotiews when he wanted them viewed. And if he applied for a job, he eir.vouldn't be turned down. 'There are other opinions and viewpoints on campus other than that of ne Nevin Limburg (and apparently, some of those have been expressed ex-pressed in this year's Chrony). i pr;-T the Chronicle had to be a "public relations" bureau for every facet of rjl Jniversity life, complications could (and would) occur. ei"he Department of Athletics would demand that the front page be n heirs. Opposition to mandatory athletic funding would have to cease. 'tudent government, just across the hall, would want the front page, s nd tales of officers in their times of bungling bureaucracy and sneaky .mderhandedness would be hidden in an obscure file. he Creeks, the dorms and the ROTC people would all have to have neir say in the front page layout and their opinion in the editorial. he editorial page would come out much like our downtown papers JJI'Ying to please everyone, yet pleasing no one. ut the Chronicle is not a "PR rag" for every Tom, Dick and Nevin on ampus . . ind then there is the cry of "irresponsible journalism" that was funded by none other than the Department of Journalism. A story of a roposed merger between journalism and speech was printed the other ay. Certain individuals called the printing "irresponsible" because it flt.ad been released too early. I 'ew weeks beforehand, I was sitting in my Journalism 517 class listening to Prof Lorry Rytting tell me all about how someone had re-J re-J "ased the Pentagon Papers without President Nixon's go ahead (it was bf'iQ early) but then again that was described as "freedom of the ,0lrress." erij irrings are numerous when it comes to The Daily Utah Chronicle. iciitJ a subcommittee meeting on higher education, an elected jjiiPresentative named Stan Darger said, that "The one thing that hurts erss'6 University worse than anything is the Chronicle. It was criticized of :ing the worst kind of "public relations." ne can imagine what would happen if people like Darger had a say in w the student-runned school paper is run. a. jvefl lklng it one more step, one can imagine what would happen if tli(jderltS had no PaPer te run at al1 (People like Nevin Limburg would de into oblivion without his "letters to the editor"). qh ( . fe Paul Cracroft, director of lectures and concerts for the University, id Monday: "Heaven help the Chronicle with all its problems, but I'm m3' id we've got it." 'd so am I. |