Letter to the Editor

Some articles are a waste of space

Monday’s issue of The Collegian did little to support its assertion that it deserves funding in the form of fee increases.

I’m a strong supporter of The Collegian as a source of information independent of the administration. Goodness knows I don’t trust them to let me know if I’ll graduate before graduation day, much less to protect my rights guaranteed by the California State Constitution (see “Group Protest Police Surveillance” article last Friday).

That being said, I don’t understand why The Collegian would argue that it deserves my financial support while it wastes as much valuable space on the opinion page as was squandered by Monday’s “Pandora’s Box” article.

I have to say that, of the articles I have read by Misses Nielsen and Karkazian (and I skipped the second because of the first) this most recent attempt to fill white space with black text has me reminiscing of my days working on the Computech Junior High Newspaper.

If The Collegian wishes to misuse its time and resources printing pick-up lines that no one in their right mind would ever speak aloud, I would suggest that it save money by printing on legal paper like we did in middle school and let us keep our $1.50 for something more useful, like anti-stick tape.

I would however, gladly give up $1.50+ to read articles written by women that do more than imply that the women reading their column need advice on how to handle lines comparing them to fat-saturated, low-quality hamburgers.

—Patrick Moyle
Senior, natural science