| Show LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I Bit 0 Stuff is Appalling Unoriginal i J 1 To The Editor I am a student at the University of Utah but I occasionally pick up a copy of the Horizon There are some excellent excel excel- excellent lent writers on the Horizon staff and I enjoy the majority of its content However I was struck once again last week by the disconcerting lack of creativity on the part of the Perhaps the Horizon doesn't have the money or the renown to attract a full staff of qualified writers M More re likely though the just do not belong on the staff of a college paper Let me explain I am personally aware of two columns authored by the You know its it's baseball if and You know youre you're a physics major if both of which were simply pilfered from the internet How much thought i and work could possibly go into this Anyone can author a column with another's ideas If I 1 wanted to know if I were a physics major I could have found out myself Also appalling is the recent article about baseball which appeared in Bit 0 O Stuff It is obvious from the column that the have absolutely no knowledge of the game of baseball This attack on baseball was not only ignorant ignorant ignorant igno igno- rant it was insulting I am willing to bet that the dont don't know the first thing about baseball yet they are willing to pirate material from the Internet in a futile attempt to show the fallacies of baseball like it was their then own No one can make such uneducated claims about the gr greatest game on the face of the earth and not suffer some reproach One On problem with society today is that people arent aren't willing to think for themselves Creativity lies at the root oot of progression Creativity also seems to be a rare commodity today If we can get through the muddy water on someone else's back well we'll do it Allen AUen Blackburn L. L J 19 B. B Business Adm Administration ration mIS r 9 1 f f. f J University of Utah |
