2008 Woodie Awards
Letter to the Editor
Ronen Peled
Issue date: 4/13/07 Section: Opinion
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Letter to the Editor
In reading the Stute this morning, I was astounded to see the headline this morning of "Three Stevens students arrested in drug raid". When I read the first sentences of the names of the students, I was crushed and felt so sad.
How can the paper of a school publicly humiliate and embarrass the lives and families of three individuals, one of them, a former colleague and editor-in-chief of the Stute, the very same paper that brought these terrible facts to light?
Is the Stute that In need of a front page headline that it has to tarnish the image of fellow students and friends of others in the school? I thought the tradition of a college newspaper was that it informs students about the changes of the school and what is going on around them that have to pertain to them. I thought the school paper had something to do with contributing to the pride of the school and respectability of it. ...
What's further more insulting is the name usage within the article. To use the name of the fraternity and the fraternity member's girlfriend, plus the names of all three arrested is just tasteless. Are they not going through enough grief as it is for what has transpired? Does the Stute need to send the image that it is glad to contribute more to the grief the families are going through? Please keep in mind that I am not just talking about families by blood, but I also talk about families by brotherhood as in Chi Phi. Using Chi Phi, the girlfriend of one of the arrested, etc, was absolutely insulting to see. ...
I also would like to welcome comments by the faculty and the university on this sensitive matter and how they allowed for such a sensitive article to be published without any admonishment along the way. I believe that an open forum should be held to get the concerns out from fellow students, fraternity members, friends of the arrested, etc, on the reputation of the Stute and what type of content supervision is needed to make sure such blatant publication errors and misconceptions about what professional journalism really is. I know I am not a professional journalist in any way, shape or form. However, I do know what my heart tells me, and my heart tells me that to be so selfish as to publicize the name of the former Editor-in-Chief in such a tasteless matter, it says a lot of bad things about the current Editor-in-Chief about his views on professional relationships with colleagues. Out of respect for his former colleague, would it not have been proper for the Editor in Chief to have simply kept shut.
After this article, I think the Stute staff should agree that Sometimes,
silence is golden.
Respectfully yours,
Ronen Peled
SGA
Publicity Committee
In reading the Stute this morning, I was astounded to see the headline this morning of "Three Stevens students arrested in drug raid". When I read the first sentences of the names of the students, I was crushed and felt so sad.
How can the paper of a school publicly humiliate and embarrass the lives and families of three individuals, one of them, a former colleague and editor-in-chief of the Stute, the very same paper that brought these terrible facts to light?
Is the Stute that In need of a front page headline that it has to tarnish the image of fellow students and friends of others in the school? I thought the tradition of a college newspaper was that it informs students about the changes of the school and what is going on around them that have to pertain to them. I thought the school paper had something to do with contributing to the pride of the school and respectability of it. ...
What's further more insulting is the name usage within the article. To use the name of the fraternity and the fraternity member's girlfriend, plus the names of all three arrested is just tasteless. Are they not going through enough grief as it is for what has transpired? Does the Stute need to send the image that it is glad to contribute more to the grief the families are going through? Please keep in mind that I am not just talking about families by blood, but I also talk about families by brotherhood as in Chi Phi. Using Chi Phi, the girlfriend of one of the arrested, etc, was absolutely insulting to see. ...
I also would like to welcome comments by the faculty and the university on this sensitive matter and how they allowed for such a sensitive article to be published without any admonishment along the way. I believe that an open forum should be held to get the concerns out from fellow students, fraternity members, friends of the arrested, etc, on the reputation of the Stute and what type of content supervision is needed to make sure such blatant publication errors and misconceptions about what professional journalism really is. I know I am not a professional journalist in any way, shape or form. However, I do know what my heart tells me, and my heart tells me that to be so selfish as to publicize the name of the former Editor-in-Chief in such a tasteless matter, it says a lot of bad things about the current Editor-in-Chief about his views on professional relationships with colleagues. Out of respect for his former colleague, would it not have been proper for the Editor in Chief to have simply kept shut.
After this article, I think the Stute staff should agree that Sometimes,
silence is golden.
Respectfully yours,
Ronen Peled
SGA
Publicity Committee
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Taylor Fowler
posted 4/14/07 @ 11:05 AM EST
INDEED!
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