| Show Writer explains drivel Dear Editor No you shouldn't resign from the Horizon staff and you shouldn't be fired by bythe bythe bythe the Student Senate either That's what being required resign to-resign to resign would amount to You write some of the worst drivel Ive I've ever read read even even f for r a college newspaper where low quality and faulty faulty faulty faul faul- ty arguments are prevalent prevalent but but you also write some very perceptive articles Occasionally your column exhibits not only good writing form but reasonably accurate logic Those are talents t to be e cultivated not suppressed by crucifying ing the author for a single lapse of judgement judge judge- ment or ment-or or even several of them Dont Don't assume any guilt over Enid Greenes Greene's defeat Youre You're not that good Losing candidates and th their ir supporters often seek scapegoats to explain the voters voters' supposedly defective choice Nothing you or anyone else said or wrote significantly affected the second district Congre Congressional rac race race Miss Greene lost be because ause more people preferred her Democratic opponent Karen Shepherd If they were deceived by either side in inthe inthe inthe the selection process which I doubt it was through their ignorance of the issues is issues issues is- is sues not your statements whether true or false concerning them Permit me to take a little more weight off your shoulders Every good writ writer r has written written and and sometimes published pub pub- real real junk Every honorable ethical person has failed at least once to perceive the correct course to pursue in a heated political atmosphere When disaster follows its it's easy to see what you should or shouldn't have done Knowing Knowing Know Know- Knowing ing in advance isn't so easy Ive I've written letters and articles which I thought were fair accurate and truthful only to learn that readers found them deliberately deceptive extremely mely offensive and downright libelous in ways I never im- im Ill I'll be glad to share copies with you as a means of demonstrating that you achieved nothing unique by putting putting putting put- put ting both your pen and your foot in your you mouth I believe your statement that you were trying to prom promote te a readership of the newspaper and had no intent to harm anyone You just didn't look closely enough at the peripheral ramifications of your actions Im I'm equally equal- equal ly certain you now know better and it wasn wasn't t so great an offense that you should be tarr tarred d and feathered for it To quote your favorite moralist moralist and and mine Neither mine Neither do I condemn thee G Go thou and sin no more So pick the thorns out of your backside backside back- back side and keep writing The Wo wounds ds are re painful but not fatal and your future accomplishments accomplishments accomplishments ac ac- ac- ac can easily atone for your past mistakes Q Quentin entin T. T Wells Program Innovation Department |
