‘You have hit the nail on the head’
I read about your editorial on Trump this morning in the Bee. I think you have hit the nail on the head, and I applaud you for having the courage to call out Trump and his fascist statements. He is not only an embarrassment to Republicans but a danger to Americans – and even though you are surrounded by the right wing central valley people you had the strength to make the call. I am a proud alumni – keep practicing your right to free speech, to be bold in your editorials, and call on those around you to support you!
Best regards
Jenny Martin, Class of 1990
‘Over the top’
As journalists you know that the first amendment protects your right to free speech, and it extends to Donald Trump as well. On the campaign trail many things are said that are taken literally or out of context – but to compare him to one of the most heinous dictators of our time is over the top. His remarks about the Mexico border are true – in addition to the criminal element, it is simply a way for the Dems to increase their voter base. I’m sure job offers are pouring in for the author of the article from many liberal publications who would love to hire another uber liberal journalist – hopefully whoever wrote the article takes the job and leaves Fresno behind. That would be a win-win situation.
‘Donald Trump is a common vulgarian’
Dear Mr. Pope:
As one who had the honor of introducing Michael Moore to the American public over WTAC/WWCK in Flint back in the late ‘70’s, please accept my sincere congratulations on your courageous publication headlined “Sieg Heil” in Monday’s paper.
If anything, your position is understated.
Donald Trump is a common vulgarian and the most dangerous candidate for the American Presidency I’ve witnessed in my lifetime.
I turn 75 on September 8th, the same day as my “birth brother” — Bernie Sanders.
I take heart in the strength of your convictions and am inspired by your example and leadership.
With highest personal regards,
Peter Cavanaugh
Oakhurst, California
‘He needs to be gone’
Good for you on the Trump/Hitler business. That anyone votes for Trump is the greatest example of the failure of our educational system; nobody can think critically anymore? We don’t know the difference between “reality” and “reality TV”? Keep at him, he needs to be gone. Mark Salwasser, FSU 70
‘You do not know the laws of liable’
Attention Roy.
I want to make this really clear from the start; I don’t like Donald Trump. I won’t vote for him. If he were the only person running for President I would vote for Bobby Kennedy who has been dead since 1968 before I would vote for Donald Trump. That being said, even though I don’t like him I do not have the right to liable him and that is exactly what the Collegian did on Monday! You cannot say that he is Hitler, he is a Nazi, he will round people up and kill them. These are not provable charges and, therefore, you have opened the door for a liable suit that could go as high as 50 million dollars if we judge Tramp’s passed law suits for this very thing. You know that he sues people for much less than what the Collegian said about him and he wins these suits because people like you do not know the laws of liable.
You can’t understand why this demagogue attracts supporters ? How about the fact that the national debt is 19 trillion dollars and every family in this nation owes $152,000 to pay for it and some day we will have to pony up that money if somebody doesn’t do something about it. The Democrats have run up the National Debt. The Republicans have run up the National Debt. People are scared. There are 94 million people in this country out of the work force. This scares people The list goes on and on why people flock to this blowhard because there are no solutions to these problems and he makes promises to solve them. Can’t you figure this out?
What the Collegian did with that article on Trump was reprehensible and worthy of the cheapest yellow journalism. I can only hope that the Trump gang does not find out about this liable and decide to do something about it. If so, we are all we will be in a nightmare of trouble.
Professor Edward EmanuEl.
‘Fight the good fight’
In my experience with CSUF, I have often felt that yours was a despicable institution, rife with scum and villainy. A collection of refuse that shields professors and perpetuates the clock puncher mentality, rather than promote an environment that seeks to enable others on the pursuit of intellectual truth.
It is said that in a Free Republic, the safeguarding of the press is essential to ensuring the guarantees of Liberty.
Regardless of what disparaging remarks I have to say about the questionable ethical slants of some of your faculty, I, as a Government/Economics teacher of 26 years here in the community say unto you, do not allow the tyranny of the mob to silence your voice. The editorial whether I agree or disagree is not the issue, when the mob threatens the press with sanctions, with violence, with death itself, then the mob has proven the point that the editorial sought to enlighten the public about.
Maintain your voice. Fight the good fight and never submit to the mob. If you can show how the press can enlighten the public, then there may be hope for that cesspool of a college yet.
Joe Barron ‘94
Fresno,CA
‘Get on some medication’
It is my opinion the editor of this paper is irresponsible and does not represent all students. You are putting your opinion out there like facts about Donald Trump. If anyone’s picture should be on there representing Hitler it should be Obama. The worst about this is tax payers will pay for your newspapers stupidity. Mr. Trump could file law suit against you and win. We will see how you celebrate your ignorance then . Fresno State will also be included in this lawsuit, So who pays? TAX PAYERS Yes plain to see you like another politician that is fine , but don’t show the world how ignorant college students in Fresno are. Your newspaper represents all hatred and racism in this country in your statements. I hope all of you get counseling that you so need. I feel so sad for all involved in this hatred newspaper so sad. Trump winning so get over it maybe you can get on some medication that will prevent you from snapping and harming people.
‘Young people give me hope!’
SHARE around the World! Our CSU-Fresno College Newspaper just STOOD UP and SPOKE OUT against Trump’s racist, xenophobic, misogynists rants!
And…The Collegian won 13 awards at a California College Media Association ceremony, including first place for best website.
Our own local newspaper won’t even do that!
In my day, College Students began a Democracy revolution of doing this, including “sit-in’s”, marches… We protested against a War, not our Military… and soon our Parents voices joined us, and then came the day when we brought our Military home; we worked for Civil Rights and Women’s Equality, better working conditions.
Our local newspaper, owned by McClatchy, may be ‘de-listed’ on the stock exchange. Few of us read it anymore because they are too damn conservative because their corporate advertisers dictate and threaten to pull their advertising dollars if their ‘slant’ is not the prevailing words….and many of us feel they refuse to print opposing points of view or ‘FACTS’…. and a College News Paper has the guts to STAND UP and SPEAK OUT! Young People give me HOPE!
GO CSU-Fresno!
Brian Covert • Feb 27, 2016 at 5:10 am
Kudos to the editor and staff of the Daily Collegian for saying what needs to be said. Donald Trump is, in fact, potentially worse than Hitler since Trump’s financial reach is far more global than Hitler’s ever was. Trump must be stopped from spreading his dangerous racist tripe any further than he already has.
The Daily Collegian has come a long way since I served as editor-in-chief of the Collegian at Fresno State back in the mid-1980s. Back then, Ronald Reagan was the popular right-wing U.S. president and we had a progressive African-American student body president on campus who was very outspoken against his policies and how they harmed students like us. There was a lot of ugly racism on the Fresno State campus at the time that reflected the broader racism in U.S. society as a whole.
As Collegian editor, I too made sure that Reagan and his ilk came under fire often on the op-ed pages of the newspaper, holding him responsible in one editorial with “blood on his hands” for the hundreds of lives of U.S. soldiers and others in a 1983 suicide bombing in Lebanon. We were right about Reagan back then, and you are right about Trump today.
Keep doing what you’re doing. It makes me proud as a Fresno State journalism department grad to see my former paper, the Collegian, still doing the right thing when it comes to calling out ignorance and racism in our leaders.
Brian Covert
Kawanishi, Japan
Hannah Scott • Feb 26, 2016 at 6:15 pm
re: ‘You do not know the laws of liable’
Not to hijack the thread or distract from this whole fascinating spectacle, but this is alarming. Do we really have a professor at Fresno State who
a) thinks that this keelhaul is appropriate feedback from a professor for a student-run paper,
b) considers a public rant to be the most appropriate way to warn students
of a perceived legal liability (or should I say “libelity”),
c) honestly believes Donald Trump could possibly give enough ****s about a Fresno State student newspaper to sue them (for comparisons which he would probably appreciate if he cared enough to read them),
d) is unable to recognize glaringly obvious satire or hyperbole, and
e) doesn’t know the difference between “libel” and “liable” ?!?
I feel badly for his students. If this is the kind of behaviour that he submits for publication, I wonder what happens to the poor souls who disagree with him in the classroom where the world isn’t watching?