Dear editor:
Quite possibly the most important primary of our lifetimes took place on Super Tuesday. America is in peril, and voters from all walks of life and all political orientations across 22 states took to the polls to show their preference for the next leader of the free world.
Who can repair a damaged economy? Who can get us out and redeem us from an unpopular war? Who can find a suitable answer to the immigration issue?
Regardless of one’s opinions on these pressing matters, I think everyone can agree on one thing: this stuff is important. Everyone except The Daily Collegian that is.
On Wednesday, the front page of The Daily Collegian had no pictures of Hillary Clinton or John McCain, no Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, no Mike Huckabee and certainly no Ron Paul. Oh no, that was relegated to the second page, behind two separate articles and pictures of two much more important and influential people: the President and Vice President of the UMass Republican Club.
Before I proceed, I must make it clear, that this is not an article knocking Republicans. You have just as much a right to exist and disseminate your views as much as the Communist Party, the KKK, the Democratic Party or anyone else for that matter.
Similarly, I have the right to say that I am sick of reading about you everyday in The Collegian. So to the editors, I ask why so many articles on the UMRC?
I know that The Collegian has been having some financial difficulties so I am willing to give you all the benefit of the doubt. However, I think it is time that you told the good students of UMass why you’ve been publishing such blatant smut recently, and if you can’t do it, I’ll have to do it for you.
OK everyone, brace yourself. Over winter break, The Collegian went bankrupt and was picked up by none other than Rupert Murdoch and now every issue of The Collegian must have at least two articles and pictures about the Republican Club.
That’s the only way to explain the front page article entitled “Republican Club Holds First Meeting.” Lots of clubs hold their first meetings. In fact, they have to hold their first meeting in order to hold a second one. Who cares? That’s not news! And it certainly shouldn’t be front page news under another article about the Republican Club on the day after Super-Tuesday.
I admit that the Republican Club scandal was juicy for one day. It had all sorts of sex, betrayal, and treason of values that the Republican Party on every level claims to be against, but inevitably succumbs to. But I for one, really don’t care what happens to them now. I don’t care if they quit the Massachusetts Republican group, I don’t care about the sexcapades of some moron with a lousy haircut, and I don’t care if some power hungry opportunist with an inferiority complex wants to become President of a group that has as much influence as a glass of water on a forest fire.
What I do care about is that when I read your paper, I will be informed with stories that might affect me on some level whatsoever. If I want smut, I will read the Boston Herald or the National Enquirer while I watch FOX News butt-naked, wrapped in an American flag.
Unfortunately, I have to wear clothes when I come to college, so the least you can do for me is publish things worth reading. So thank you for all your articles and keep writing more. My house is cold and no matter what I think of your paper, my wood stove still thinks you’re great.
Eric Greene UMass student
